The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-11-16
ERN MESSAGE.

Gentlemen Of Me Senate and House Of Repre-,
senlatiUsS Of The Legislature Of Mississippi, ii
extraordinary session assembled:
You have been convened by me to consult
upon grievances and provide remedies Tor The
dangerous evils imposed upon US, by the late
United States Of America, through the Sena.
tors and Representatives Of that defunct gov
eminent. Ihave convened you in accordance
with your natural rights, to Judge Of TIC ex-
tent Of the evil, and the mode and measure Of
redress. have called yon together under cir
cumstances without example in your history or
mine. A rotten national government has x.
PRED. Its corrupt tyranny has ceased by its
own act. And you arc met to construct, from
natural elements, a conventional government
entirely new laying the firm foundation OF hu-
man prosperity upon those %salutary elements
Of justice and equality which will transmit it
down to the last Of our race who shall live on
the earth, pure and interrupted. You have
the sagacity to DO il; and if you have not |
will always, most cheerfully, leud any needed
assistance. The gaze Of Posterity is fixed
anxiously upon us; it does not, for a moment T.,
doubt our capacity to %foresee, and our inlegri-
ty now to provide for all its wants, as in the
exigencies Of age and coming centuries
these wants may develop themselves. Poster,
ity only doubts our courage, thus at present, to
legislate for all its cycles Of necessities.
With the eyes of hundreds of generations
steadily gazing in your faces, ! cannot doubt
but that your courage will be equal to the
widest contingencies which l may suggest. /
need not warn you that p%osterity will contem-
plate all government, in some measure, as on
evil. This the authors OF the Declaration of
Independence, which was the basis of the
late Government Of the United States, had no,
the sagaciiy to perceive. The men who were
the authors Of the declaration were unused to
arms, and carnage, and war; hence they were
tImid, and cautious in experimenting upon hu-
man happiness, by providing safeguards for its
security as we are about to do. They were
men OF age and large experience, and hence
they had too much distEGst in their own abili-
ties. They merely complained of grievances
which were present, and under which they suf-
tered. Their patriotism was not of a sublime,
sentimental, .transcendental or ETHEREAL kind.
They did not dream Of resisting at once, by
their might and persons, evils which there was
some reason TO suspect might be possible, as
actual existences in generations which should
come after them. The ability to provide
against possible aud imaginary evils did not be-
long to that age. 1t is the Characteristic OF the
present; and have called you together to ad-
just this characteristic power to all future ext.
gencies which may arise in the human family,
here or elsewhere. In order to do this success
fully, you must steer wide Of the faults Of the
authors Of the Declaration. They complained
OF, and tried TO remedy, existing sensual evils.
A reference to the several wrongs Of which
they complained, will show this to be- lamen,a.
bly, true. You are not called upon to remedy
existing and sensual wrongs. Abstract and
seminal rights are now to be asserted. in n
stern spirit Of transcendental philosophy. Ii
we were TO wait for the sensual wrongs com.
planned Of by those who are ~culledby some Gina
spirit Of I" spperstitious reverence'O our fathers.
y is evident we would have to regard the late
Government of the United States as sill exist.
ing, Tor som purposes. Whoever will consid.
er that government was not connected with
any King Of Great Britain, will see that this is
beyond a doubt. And as Great Britain is not
ruled BY a King, but a youthful Queen, the
fact is as plain as that man is not woman, that
we are without remedy for future generations,
merely actual evils can be remedied BY us.
Some among us with lame submission argue
from the statements of fact in the Declaration
Of independence, that The old D. States ought