The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-10-26
PUBLIC sPgARIvG LAST MONDAY.

- A0Ls UIHN LILLE A4NG 0GHNH EgG4 Zee
To- pursuance Of previous appointment, Col
Melville addressed the citizens Of this county
: on Monday las, at this place, He commenced
his address with the assumption that his course
in CONGRESS had met with the approval Of his
constituency, aud he, Of %courso, would not
make a defence Of his confessional pctings,
&c. THIS Was to his ultra friends, Of whom he
supposes his constituency composed-as be
! stated he was esteemedlone Of the uiiras, upon
5 the questions now agitating the South IN Other
words he was termed a Secessionist.
His speech was a long one. We have neither
the time nor the inclination to follow him
through his rambling and d%esultory remarks,
nor the room 10 set them out, with the COM
menis we would wish to make upon them. We
will notice a few, however. lie attempted to
show that the whole Northern people were OPP
posed to the South, and stated that "Congress
was a great Abolition Society"
That " Texas was dismembered to pie Sc the
North, to make more free soil" He forgot 10
state that this bill was framed by a Southern
Senutor-Mr. Pearce, OF Maryland. He assert
ed that the President was hostile to the South;
because he had signed the adjustment bills,
we suppose. He gave no other reasons.
lie Immediately after stated that the Wing
Free'Soll, Abolition, or Seward party, in New
York, at the late convention at Syracuse, voted
down tha Admin;sro,;,n - M ~
Soil party is the party inimicaI to the South and
her ms %itutions, and if ;hey voted down this
other portioa of the Wing party, we are COM
PEELED to the conclusion that the Administra.
ton party is in favor of the S nth. The Col.
proves it SO, or why should they condemn the
Administration in the resolution adopted bv
the Convention? We leave it to the Col. to
reconcile these statements; he very clearly did
not intend to prove that the Administration
party was in favor Of the South-any thing
else.
He maintained that the Fugitive Slave Bill
would do no good; that it would be repealed.
lie could not certainly mean tina, i. would be
repealed during the present Administration
II President Fillmore was opposed to the bill.
why did he not veto it? |
lie disclaimed being ia Disunionist. Der 80 r
that she loved the Union as a means for an $
ends" tor the preservation and Trotection Of '
his property and his liberty, &c. He failed to '
show, we think, where his property or his lib d
critics had been interfered with or touched bv h
the late acts of Congress. He did not saw TINT
the passage of the California bill, the territorial
bills, the fugitive slave bill, the Texas bounda.
ry bill, or the bill abolishing The slave trade in Il
the District of Columbia, were sufficient causes ="
for disuhion or secession, but he labored hard 5
to show what an outrage had been inflicted i
upon the South by the passage of these bills, T.
Or, rather, of a part of them. G
The most of his speech was but i reiterotion pl
'f the ultra doctrines and disupion sentimop,s nj
and advocated by the party with at
which 4le is acting. IN
Ills concluding remarks " ere intended to in. de
luence the public mind, and to keen I'M Thai, III
brought about by his ultra friends. m
he drew terrible pictures of our present griev. eS
inces, and depicted horrors for the future TINT "
10 man with a less brilliant Imagination than in
49, could conceived of. He said no man should co
onslder 1t a loss to shed his blood for his conn. at
ry' and exclaimed that she would let his tn
cad roll from his body down the stems from thu
'hlch he was speaking, if by that he could re-. th'
tore his country to what she ought to bp - Tie
C"r'"''l-These Felf-sacrifcing declarations so
al a most profound and exhilaratiuq effect $50
pom his ultra friends, They did not see = hi, fro
t Bunkum in thom. he
Inc 'lme was coming (he give US ten yco,s. VIC
. 'hlnk,) when the "~Ueriest spbmiss,onj,i, an
'ould have to arm himself for the prote c,ion ., Nc
IS property and frcside-he called upon them nag
10 arm now "-that " Their fears and coward,ee geI
ou'u not save them"-thal they mould hare 10 me
5@|" II we misstale his remarks in This ~ In
ould be pleased to be corrected. OF course. he'
Su'0alSs'onists "-ash he pleased to term The the
IN the south who are in favor of the pres. shC
''on OF this glorious Union, and who see no
use for secession in Tho ran.~ 60 =" :" A
III tiG puSShgo OF the late
Ju'fne"t biilsby Congress,-are actuated bv not
GU Je3fs and cowardice, and all the bravery. fa!i
'0"'fy' and patriotism, is to be found only min
long the Secessionists. This was a protui- IN
Us SANDER upon the Union party. lie well ait
o"s mat there is as much true bravery and no
n'ncning courage to be found in that party, It's
exists among his set or faction Of ultraisIs. OF
'un'onIsts, socessionisls, or any other name sP'
" see proper to call themselves. th'
tie was for taking " no step backward "--he "a
d an old sword, that he had used in the war an
1872 which, if his services were needed, he M
'uid use again" Quite patriotic. We believe dle
Col' Oouh fght-but cannot agree with him
his belief that it will ever be necessary 10 tar
Nv our swords against our brethren Of the &c
nth. tru
whole tendency of Col. McWillie,s re. 81