The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-18
From the .Nississippian.
Will the Southern States submit!

Will the Southern States submit
/ We have ventured to assert that Virginia vii
not
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisi-
ana, Outside Of New Orleans,) are calling on us
to take the lead They are proud of our move
ment of last year. and are courteous to us. The
noble Clingman could not muster the one-fifth
to defend the breach in the last entertainment
but North Carolina yswith us.
South Carolina-Ientitled to the very frs
honors which history can awards silent, bu
prepared. The scotf at her is her crown! Amids
the twelve hundred millions of the earth, tn,
South Carolinians have no equals in their knowl
edge of their rights, and in their spirit to dctenC
them Yet South Carolina did not cause the
Mississippi movement. Not at all. But she ap
proved it. Misunderstood and traduced, she
with becoming composure, awaits the action OF
| the South
VIII the South submit,
If we do submit to this third and greatest rob-
berry, it will impress on ourselves the stigma
of recreancy-we will rivet the chain so long in
preparation to bind us, and devote ourselves and
our children to vassalage and a catastrophe that
in less than ten years must come. Hencefor.
ward, before mankind the Southerner will be
pointed at as a blr,sterer. Can he lift an indie.
pendent head :! To him will be left that shadow
vi Which, tilC WliShCIcu SOCldl oulldW
assumes. And this braggart bearing will soon
sink into the fires that are to consume us
We rejoice to learn that Texas has Cover
nor who has the sense, the virtue and the firm.
ness to rescue her people from the bribery bill
Intelligence, virtue and spirit still to be found
in the South
And now, in view Of these amazing facts,
when each of the Southern members of the
Confederacy is looki lg to the others for counsel
or example, we turr, to JOHN A. QUITMAN to
take some step that lis to lead us out of infamy,
bondage, and Impending ruin.
1t seems that Miss issippi is looked to to take
the advance. We meet QUITMAN--on his hon.
ored brow humiliation and scorn, sorrow and re-
solve, are so mixed up that we cannot certainly
say what he intends.
The resolutions of the last Legislature are
before him. The resolutions of the numerous
meetings eontirmatory of the resolves Of the
Southern Convention, are before him. The late
him. The old honored Constitution is scattered
to the winds before him. central despotism,
working by bribery, is before him.
We trust he will convoke the Legislature, to
act on the crisis.
If he shall convene the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of Mississippi, we trust each one will
remember that he is to respond to his constitu-
EMS and that the Southern people are gathered
for immolation and sacrifice, and are to depend
on themselves.
Wo to the bastard that shall not heed this ad.
monition.
In the South there are nine millions of free
white men, women and children. They, and the
dependents whom they amply protect, clothe
and feed the North and much Of Europe. They
have noc no enemies but in the North.
Since writing the above, the Governor has
sent for publication his proclamation convoking
the Legislature,