The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-11-26
Fort ADAMS, Nov. 18th, 1850

TORT ADAMS, NOV. IAln, lou
Cor HoLT-Deqr Sir. On ooking over
the Wilkinson Wing of the 8th inst, | was
much surprised to see in an editorial article
of that paper headed Compromise, Fugi-
tive Slaves the paragraph quoted below
Let every true Southern man read and re-
fleet upon the recklessness with which such
statements are made in our midst to uphold
the North in her unjust crusade against our
rights. The paragraph alluded to in the
Wing reads thus: "THe operation Of the
Fugitive Stare Law has been more tram
q~I than couId haze been expected. The
indications Show that the State Govern
mentS intend 10 sustain 1t. True indiUid-
uaIS and MODS resist it," The Fugitive
Slave Law has been more tranquil than the
Wing could have been expected Why,
surely, he nus have expected bloody resis-
lance to it at the North Immediately on its
promulgation, for we all know that it has
come very near that point there. The
Northern people, with but few exceptions
are highly excited against the law, and are
in almost every manner, combining to ell
feet its repeal. They are using every means
in their power to prevent its execution and
to protect the runaway negro from reclama-
ton under its provision, and still the Wing
cries out, "more tranquil than could have
been expected" The Wing further says:
"Few individuals and MoBs resist it." |
would respectfully ask, in this connection,
who or what the Wing meant by "mobs ?"
Is it the general synod of one of the larg-
est and most respectable Christian churches
in America 1.-THE old school Presbyterians)
which lately assembled at Pittsburgh? Is
it the great Congregational Association re-
Gently assembled at Poughkeepsie, in the
State of New York, which solemnlv resolv.
ed, THAT ii coutd not recognize the Fugi-
the Stare LaV as Of ann binding force
upon the cataeens of oar country" and fur.
Their resolved, That ue hhe association ad.
use all persons to render epery ncedful aid
and comfort TO fugitive slaues, 5uSt the
Same as IF there 1pere no laao in the land
.forbiding a." Or is it the Annual Con.
v%ention of the Unitarians, (the most numer-
Gus Christian denomination in the Northern
States) which lately met at Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, and adopted similar resolutions
70 those Of the Congregational Church at
Poughkeepsie? Does the Wing intend to
designate the Baptist Convention of New
York, which met at Brookport on the 9th
ult, a mob Does it intend to call the
great conventions Of its o,cn party lately
held, the one in Massachusetts and the other
N New York, 1obs? They both resol we'd
and declared against the fugitive slave law.
Again, the Wing tells us that, The indi-
cations show that the State governments in.
tend to sustain it + vet not one Of the most
distinguished Ieading men in Massachusetts,
t'he venerable Josiah Quincy, of Boston,
IN reply to a letter inviting him to attend
the great a~nti.fugitive slave Iaw meeting at
old Faneuil Hail in Boston, thus writes in
reference to the fugitive slave laws passed
by Congress; Il have been intimately ac.
quainted with and a close observer of the
character OF that people for sixty years, and
| do not believe their has been a moment in
which, within any ~populous district of this
State Massachusetts the law of 1898 could
have been openly enforced. And without
any preiension to the spirit of prophecy, [
JoreteH thai The same wiH6c the fall ef The