The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-11-13
COL. HILLS SPEECH AT BENTON.

Col. HIS approach to the stan was greeted,
10y long and loud applause. He stated,
that he was in feeble health, bu; in times
like the present, he felt it to be the duty of
every citizen, to lay aside al considera-
tons Of self, and hold himself in read;'
ness to discharge every duty, which his
neighbors and fellow citizens generally
may impose upon HIM.
AT the commencement Of the last
session o. Congress he saw the South uni.
ted in council and firm in action; and be-.
fore it Northern fanatcism quailed. But
by faulty, as unaccountable as it was un-
fortunate, the demon OF discord introduced
himself in our midst, disracting our coun-
ellis and gripping our action. So where I'm
ion and harmony before abounded and fra
terna! greeting alone had been heard was
confusion and elimination: this evil moment
our common enemy chose 20 perpetrate the
iou'est wrong, and pave the way for still
greater; to plan some mode Of redress for
the wrongs already inflicted and to an
ticipate coming evil had called the peo-
pie Of Mississippi and the Southern States
III council Some action must be had, if we
do not wish to be political inferiors"-he
had seen enough to satisfy him, that the
people of Yazoo County would "spurn
such condition.
He commented at some length upon
the Irregularities which attended the ad-
mission of California--she was not State.
as she had failed to observe those forms, or
or to possess those qualifications necessary
to render her such, and Congress by admit
ting her did in fact pass the Wilmot Pro-
He contended if she had come before Con-
gress, asking for admission without the
Wilmot Proviso in her constitution, she
would have been promptly rejected. Her
admission therefore was solely upon the
ground Of her having extended her bounda.
~ over an immense territory suitable for
slave labor and by her constitution exclud-
cd slavery from it.
We have not room or time to give his
arguments upon other wrongs inflicted up
on the South, and so pass TO his remarks
upon the Fugitive Slave Law" He had
observed a resolution of a meeting held in
Yazoo City by the so called Union men,
which stated tina: a repeal o: materia!
modification Ct the Bill would be good
cause for dissolution lie did not think it
would be at all changed by the next Con-
gress, we had not we'll digested the pills al
ready .ndministered nor did he think it
worth while fol Congress to interrupt the
law, to render it inopperative. The evil
dences of public opinion at the North ag
ainst itsIexecution were too manifest TO in
Aulge hope that it would be much res
pected. Three fugitives had been reclaim
ed under it, and the utmost excitement pre-
vailed and the fugitives had to be conveyed
away clandestinely and she masters, to keep
themselves concealed, in order TO escape |
the violence Of the mob. II not repealed, it |
would soon become dead letter. It was
furthermore a right to which We were enti-
tied under the constitution and was no con-
cession by the North. If however, It had
been voted for by the North and shoHld be
faithfully executed, it would be an evidence
Of returning sense Of justice and Of agOod
state Of feeling. As it is. L operates as a
marc dslasioa. anass.psed as an excuse 70