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

caHiefrurrs and a4pauir chufch'f - irii'i'
ia opposition b. b by the prominent leuainf
member Of society and parties iueh as Josiai
Quincy. Of Boston. and Washington Hunt o
New York the nominee Of the wings iof Gov.
einof by fcsoiunons Of a powerful party lth,
whirsl Ia New York and Massachusetts raising
the standard oi repeal Or modification.
Yet the wilkinson Whig attempts 20 delude
the people. by the assertion that, 'the operation
Of the fugitive slave bill has been more tran.
quil than could have been expected
Has it come 10 pass that the editor Of
newspaper published in the midst Of a slave
holding community, thinks we have 50 little
Justice on our side, that demonstrations Of the
most un~equivocally hostile and even bloody
character, in opposition 10 a law passed, in con-
fomity with clear aud express constitutional
provision. for the protection of the slave owner
in his property, and that too on the part OF the
law.loving and law-abiding people OF New
England, is nothing more than could have been
eXpectedl
Again the Wing State Convention Of Mas
sachusetis nave gone further. II has been re-
commended that officers be appointed to aid
mgiivcs from labor, or slaves, in defending
themselves against the claim Of their masters.
Massachusetts, is under the same obligations
to Virginia, South Carolina and other slave
holding States, that they owe to each other.
What would be thought Of a proposition in Mis-
sisippi to appoint officers in each county to aid
the runaway slaves from Louisiana in contest
ing the right Of their masters to reclaim them !
Suppose Wilkinson county was publicly to
aver that every slave who could escape from
West Feliciana, should be aided by our officers
in ~disputing the right of his master to take him
out OF jsil, and carry him home! Undoubted-
ly, il would create disafIection among the
~slaves-they would desert their masters in
crowds, and the attempt, on our part, to aid
and abet them would produce civil war. But
no one would dare mske such a proposition in
Wilkinson county-it would ensure him a coat
of tar and feathers. Yet, the Wilkinson Wing,
speaking Of the anti-slavery resolutions of the
Wing State Convention of Massachusetts, says
again, the resolutions Of the Wing State Con-
vention Of Massachusetts, recommend that off
GERS be appointed in each county, whose duty
il should be to afford to all slaves arrested un-
der the laws of Congress, the advantages of
counsel and law. And this has been denoun-
ced. But where is the injustice or the wrong ~
Verify, the whig organ Of Wilkinson county
plays a strange tune for Southern audience.
1t is lamentable to perceive the studied at
tempt, on the part of the federal press to con-
ceal and gloss over the alarming state of pub
lie opinion and feeling North on the subject of
slavery.
Every man who reads the newspapers knows
that the passage of the fugitive slave law. so
far from being a peace measure, has renewed
the anti-slavery agitation with ten fold violence
at the North. 1t is a fact that not only MODS
OF runaway negroes, but religionists and poll
ticians are arrayed in open hostility to the law
at the North, and that the standard of repeal
has been raised. There is no peace. and new.
er will be, for us, so long as the South is divided
and submits to Northern oppression.
The non-slaveholding States rob us at an av-
erage rate of 1910 slaves, or S693, 900 per an
nun, and refuse to permit efficient laws to be
enforced for the restoration of our property.
They have robbed MS of a share in the public
domain-they have placed the seal of i[nferiori-
ty upon us; and yet men are found, even in
our midst ready to become their apolopists.
and ready to denounce those who would resist
outrage and oppression, as traitors. What BEN
eft can we expect from a Union which bears
such fruit? Truly, we are a patient people.
But the day of retribution will come, and woe,
then, to the uniaithful sentinel who cried,
Peace! Peace !! Ais well! when the enemy
were at the threshold. G