The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-09-21


Legislature Is to be convened, if the
%counsels Of the agitators should prevail
TO deliberate upon the subject of seces
sion and revolution, in consequence Of
the admission Of California, we recon.
mend the following article, which we
copy from the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer.
one of the leading papere in that State,
to the attentive perusal of our readers,
Had the article been written at Jackson.
and intended for the eyes of Mississip.
plans exclusively, 1t cauld scarcely have
been more applicable at this time:
The COnventiOh-Secession, sc.
The issue is now distinctly rendered, and
we take it up whefe we find it. There is now
no blinking the question, no mincihg the mat
ter-it is openly and unhesitatingly avowed
by the two papers that represent The ultraism
Of this section that If California is admitted
as a State, q Convention shall be called, and
that Georgia shall be severed from her sister
States by such a Convention. In d word sEcEs4
SION Is TO BE THE REMEDY! Why do they not
say at once, that, in the contingency alluded
to, the Union shall be dissolvedg Their rene
dy amounts to the same thing, and must lead
to the same results, But words are some.
times things, and it may be that our cote ntpo-
raries have discovered that the people do not
regard the horrors of disunion with the same
indifference that they do. The remedy there
Tore must be secession-a kind of drawing
off from the other States and setting up for
ourselves. Admitting that such n posi- ton is
desirable, is it expected that it can be assumed
without drawing after it all the horrors and
strlEes and desolation that are insepprable
from reVolutionS2 We are tolds however, that
we will secede in peace, disunite in good hu-
NOR, and if difficulties follow, others will be
responsible for thea. 1t matters little where
the responsibility may rcst-the ruin will be
the same, When the land Of our birth is des.
olaied by civil Wars, when the laws ard the
Constitution Of the States are sllenced amid
the cltngor Of arms, aud the peace and
property Of our fellow citizens perisbi it may
be in the lawless and unrestroined power of
military misrule, it would be no consolation to
the houseless widow and iatherless child to be
told that their present pretended Ericnds meant
to bring upon them no such dire calamity!
We will not stop here to affirm or deny the
right OF a state to secede and break up the
Union-for such a course could result in moth,
ing else-our business is to meet this issue so
reckIessly rendered. If Ca %ifornia is admit.
ted, a convention is to be called. What for?
Not to compel Congress to repeal tho law BY
which she is admitted, but to take this
good old Commonwealth-one of the oriqipal
thirteen States-and separate her from the bal.
anCe. This is the plain Englisa of the whole
matter. We have closely watched the Efforts
OF designing men to prepare the public mind
for the avowal that is now made. But is the
public mind yet prepared for the move which
is recommended! Is the cause sufficient to
authorize the Convention, If it assemblies, TO
array the people Of Georgia against the res, of
tho contederacy, and drag them away into a
feeble, Isolated and contemplate political ex-
istence! There may have been irregularities
in the formation OF the government of Cali
iornlai her boundaries may be too extensive
but the question is, has not Congress The con-
stltuttonal right to admit her de she is? We
should have liked for her to have tolerated
slavery by her organic law, but the people there
have decided against this wish. We would
have preferred that the whole country should
have been left open tn the introduction of
slavery, but the people there in the formation
OF their constitution have differed with u.s.
Tn the supposition that the State will be too
IaTge, it is proposed to divide it BY a certain
line. The policy OF this course may be well
doubted, for il can result in nothing but tho
Tact that there would, in such an event. be INN
Tree States instead OF one. This 8 certainly
not very desirable to the people Of the South,
This brings us TO the question, will the ad.
mission OF California be a sufi Glen cause for
a dissolution Of the Union, and will the han
pening of such an event authorize a Conven.
lion OF the State to unloose the bonds which
Plnd Us to our sister States! Does not tbs
question startle every true friend Of the Southq
Are we indeed 50 near the end of that great
race Of freedom which has SO signalIy mark ed
the glorious career Of our country? IL the
hour SO near at hand when the work Of our
ancestors IS to be torn down, and its brok en-
fragments scattered abroad over the vida eortb
to make mirlh for the tyrarts that have prom.
ecled its destruction? Its an issue which or
contemporaries say must now be met. It is he
nouf' they assert, when Georgia must take the
iead' and through her convention tear from
under the mighty fabric one strong pillar that
susialns and supports it. We assert again, If
'ne convention is called for tho purposey indi.
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