The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-11-12
LIE NEw ORLEANS RaEss

49,
We gave SON time SINCE he happy h'N''
NJ the hold stand taken By the New Orleans
Delta. in favor Of Southern Rights This pa
pef came out nobly from the rest. We gave
i.., week an article from the old and miuen-
tal Bee. showing It's new Southern position
We are happy now t. announce a recent and
most unlocked for change in the Louisiana
Courier. 90 long conducted by Col Wagner, a
drmocmt hut of Northern cast Of sentiment
Ills views not suiting the %proprietors Of the
journal he left them, and as an evidence OF
the present tone ofthe paper, see the following F.:
NORTHERN VIoLENcE.-The people Of
the South have but to look to the North to
satisfy them OF the excitement aud ultimate
disaster which must result from the passage
Of the Fugitive Slave bill. 1t does not re-
quire a prophet to foretell the coming OF
the storm which is likely to be attended
with all manner of strife and bloodshed.
Upon the passage of this bill various and
cIashing opinions will be entertained and
expressed as to its efficacy aud permanently,
There were men at the time irreconcilably
hostile to It, and with the leading free-soil-
ers and abolitionists, that class of them who
have hitherto been the ring leaders and
prime movers of all manner of rebellion, it
was manifest that they would war to the
'bitter end, and never cease 10 demonstrate
until the law was repealed by Congress, fully
and entirely.
There was another class, rather more SUBJ
dued in the tone of its opposition, who while
equally bitter in their hostility, Geared to be
avowedlyU so, because public sentiment was
not fully understood, or if understood, it was
considered polite to Withhold their opposition
uutil the press could be heard and the lines
drawn between the friends and opponents Of
the bill. But little time was required to do
this. The telegraphic announcement of the
passage of the Bill by Congress Q the sig.
nal for war. In the States of Massachus-
etts and Vermont public meetings were held
and the most inhammatory and urgent APP
peals made to the Northern representation
in Congress and threats proclaimed to re-
move every member tberefrom who would
not pledge himself to a repeal of the law.
In the State of New York the same thun-
ders were heard, and the tocsin of alarm
sounded by that prince of insurrcctionists,
WtIl'aae II. Serard. Negro meetings
were called and held in the open face of day
and the whites passing by the houses in
which these assemblies were gathered, were
threatened with death by the sword and
bowie-knife if they dared enforce the law.
This was tolerated and peaceably endur-
ed and the assent of the leading journals of
the city given, some tacitiy, Others avow-
eddy.
The truth is that niinetY-niRc hundye1thS
OF the population are ripe for the repeal of
the law tomorrow, upon the ground that
'there is a higher law to which they w
greater allegiance than to the States"
If there was difference of opinion at first
as to the propriety of endurance and submits
sion, based upon a conviction that the South
had endured themultiplied grievances which
had been visited upon her, long enough, that
feeling no longer exists. The majority have
spoken in unmistakeable language, and the
marshals and other sentinels of the law,
where duty it is to enforce it at all hazards,
stand with folded arms trembling with the
Apprehension OF being mobbed and but to
death. This is no over-Wrought picture.
1t may be said, in truth, that unauimitv of
sentiment prevails from Mason and Dixon's
line to the extreme northern boundary. The
blacks are fleeing no longer to the Canadas
Tor protection. Mobocracy has thrown a.
round them its crew,iron panoply. Resist
anee to the law, fierce aud determined, is
the watchword, and the hall of the House
OF Representatives is to be the theatre "of
relief and repeal" The negroes of the city
OF Boston, where Mr.. Webster's influence
has been. said to be all-powerful, are in arms
as may be seen from the following despatch
to the Picayune;