The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-08
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WILL THE GOVERNOR CONVOEE THE
LEGISLATURE OF NJ. M.SSISSlPPlf


now assumed To be dc(uuct--is being ce,c.
bmIcd IN the North by festival, bonfire,
rocket a1l lanuon u oar supposed 'rath
struggle, soiHtat,0as gf brotherho0a under
,ic Ns,c Union qt a Central Despotism are
being pronounced in thousand tribunes to
mock us; aud in the temples Of the Most
High. thanks are being offered fol the vcio.
ry achieved 10y national fraud, corruption,
spoiauon and treason! The good old con
sututian is at last trodden down.
There Is Something that is still more un.
enduabIe, because more at home At this
our most Illuminating day, we meet a
towusman, ncighbor, and sometimes even
a planter, with joy depicted ON his visage
at the Infamous adjustment! With open
mouth AID 3!steuded ear, he listens to the
readings of the iuol passage OF the SuJmiS-
sim LtllS, aud stoops to catch from the
( North the boom Of abolition triumph!
Yet possibly the South--thouIh betrayed
aud deirauded-despoiied aud doomed TO
speedy waste--is not dead. Possibly the
spri! of Sevcnty-Six is not extinct.
rgma-eNer opposed to any form or DC
gree OF central despolsm-in lS47 and 1919,
resolved aud re-sesoIvcd that she would not
submit to the expulsion of her people and of
the South from the vast territorial empire
acquired from Mexico mainly by their b.ood
aud herosm, Sevcn-tculhs OF the price Of
which, counted at l40miiiions, remained to
be levied on their products Whoever sup.
poses gnorantly, that those solemn move
ments of the glorious Old Dominion were
mrcuded tor mere buster, and HAT her peo-
pie will truckle, is to be plied for his igno-
rance. Such submission by Virginia is not
to be supposed.
Aud Is Mississippi to submit =?
Mississippi has answered 70 the call of Vir.
gnia, and to the appeals drawn by Calhoun
aud Berrien. Her people, in primary meet
1ngs aud in convention, have asserted their
constitutional rights; and without obtru.
ling any platform, have urged their breth-
cn of the assailed States to meet them in
,pcn consuItation--not to dissolve the I'm
oL-Dutil possible, to preserve an Union
under the semblance of the constitution tnat
created it.
Notwithstanding the cIamor and libels of
the NJrtIl-discord meetings in the South,
and the adjustment scheme OF Henry Clay
the arch betrayer Of the South--alI with
intent to ma!ign aud defeat it, Southern
Convention was held, It's proceedings aud
resolves have met the scrutiny of the civi.
.ized word, and will pass on, cheered, cher
i,hrd and elernised among the votarics of
constitutional government. 1t is to be
hoped, thar Diriae Py0cGicncc will open the
inlnd~ of men and warm their hearts in the
cause OF patriotism and humanity, aud per.
mil that convention to rea,sembe with a full
and renewed delegation from the betrayed
ana doomed South.
Now, il ever, Is the time for action
To the everlasting reproach of the Amer
lean Congress, the facts are recorded, that
Oh the 4th of This month, the bill to bribe
Texas with ten millions to sell herself-lhe
opening wedge for the California felony
was rejected in the House by 46 votes on
the next day it was re-cohsidered, but again
rejected, bat by on y s votes; without fur.
ther argument or tight, but by. y.solne latent
agency Of potent effect, some 38 were con.
veneG anI on the 9th the bill was once
more fesurrected by the help Of more con-
verts, and passed by a majority of 10! On
the passage Of this bill the go.d-covered Cal.
liornla and the entire outrage depended and
accordingly on the 9Th California was EN-.
braced, aud SC the Wilmot proviso sarctiou-
cd actually and potentially in the applca-
ton not only to j2G,67S square miles of the
soil which malny the South conquered, but
enough of disinembered Texas TO form two
slates-enough in all to form fifteen States.
This is the outrage; but, our counlrymen,
the appliances to effect it were the greatest
outrage. Fair, open, honest legislation, un-
der constitutional warrant, is ever 10 be sub
miued to-bUt fraud aud bribery never. II
our constitution authorised a majority in
Congrcs' to expeI one-haif Of the con.edera.
ted states from the common territory, we
coud not call it bribery or fraud, but it
would rest upon Ihe people of the expelled
states TO find remedy But this enornity,
greater than the sale Of Texas in 1919, ten.
io.d greater than the surrender by Clay OF