The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-11-30


iniedl portiss, ID the ely and 10 tie country
Waisa R~oaDimiiy Shich I have never before
seeTAoR any 9th ( subject. Aud yet we are
It'd no people 81 Mississippi take an entire
d~iaersas view 81 lie aabieeI, and lhaA many Of
h%Frss'e anfn, her orators and her press are
{ actively engaged in opposing il, with a zeal,
ihdee@S It tie very s~alvaIi3n of the South
dePesle Ion their success. confess cannot
Hhdass I'D 4 is; there ia a mistake Somewhere.
i%scae9ol belteye, till | see y, that Mississippi
"Afsa eide against the adip stlnent. Why
'Sh7u'd she do il, what bstter could she expect?
we nave b. tie adius' ,neut destroyed the
Wimo Preyiso, We have destroyed The project
disOs fishing slavery ia the District Of CoIam-
usa, y 9 leading objects of the abOliIiopisis fOr
cyeats pas, which were the source Of oil the
.sexcl ement and dangers Of the slavery qnes-
=tion We have settled the Texas boundary
.f&ioY and hoaorp'ly TO her and to the soath.
IAJ hive obtI led q fugitive slave law, which
Ssdis A. f~ay1EaF.le 10 US as any reasonable South
s7siD man desitee, and which has already proved
Uss .dcacy. Fhe admission Of California was
~oply carrying out The Democratic doctri9e, IN
the language If Mr.. Calhoun in his celebrated
resolutions Of l847, s'Tlata people IN framing
reconstruction HAYS the unconditional night 20
form and adopt the government which they
NAV Ihink hest calculated to secure their llber-
", prosperity and aIpiness"
The abolition Of the slave trade in the DIS
trict Of Columbia is a municipal legislation;
such as many Of the slave States have adopted
Tor themselves, and is II matter Of little conse'
ouence, when we know there are now only atew
hundred slaves in the District, and that the
number is diminishing every year.
These measures, taken collectively, were APP
proved by a majority Of S,uHIerl members u
both Houses Of Congress, and resisted by a ma
~iorityfo( N0rthern members and all he Free
soliers. They are approved by a minority Of
The Southern States. What reason then have
YOU in Mississippi u be dissatisfied with ID N,
orhow do you expect to do better y you are!
Accuse not The friends Of the adjustment OF
dividing the South. Wesure in the majority,
and when IT was unfortunately fonnd out that
we differed, our opp, nents ought to hive come
TO US and not have expected US to 90 to them,
and if they had dune SO, no body knows better
than your own Senators that we might have OBJ
tanned better terms-that the limits OF Calitor-
mia might have been restricted,
Respectfully, &c., s. ". DOWNS,
Messrs. Adams, Pickett, Jennings and Harper.
,0&t ,lg.at
DETROIT, Nov. LIST, 1850.
sGESrLEmES:-While thanking you for the
invitation you have been good enough to give
me, 10 attend the Mass Meeting TO be held at
JacksOn BY the friends Of the Union, am yet
obliged 10 decline il. cannot be with you
upon that occasion, though no one feels a
deeper interest in the result Of its proceedings
than | do, nor is any one more anxious than ]
am, that its voice should speak loudly and
firmly for that Union which has given us all
a people can desire; which was the work Of
our Fatherq, and has been crowned by the
blessings Of our Fathers God. How strange
is the spectacle we now exhibit to the world!
Possessed Of a greater measure Of freedom
than ever before fell to the lat Of a nation, en-.
IOying u~nextmpled public and private prosperi-
~ through the vast region committed by
Providence to our government, and with a fu-
ture where We have nothing to fear but our
own crimes and fOlliss and the just judgment
Of God, still society is stirred from its founda.
ton, the elements Of trouble are everywhere
in ppeFalion, and men begin to talk as lightly
Of dividing this Confederation, as they talk Of
dividing a county or a township in those por-
tons of the country where settlements are
rapidly extending. And in two States Of the
Union, representative bodies legally c%onstitu.
ted, arc about to convene, with the aVowed
pnEpose Of deciding upon propositions to be
submitted 70 the people for the abandonment
Of This COnlsderacy, and for the establishment
Of another. For Others | might well say, FOL
who can tell what new COMPUTATIONS will
ariae, should this work Of destruction 60 on
OrintO howmany fragments, hostile in feelings
2 aadinseTesis, this glorious Union may be bro
ksn2 He, who undertakes TO manage the polit
ioai1 future, and to designate the boundaries o
Independents communities, which are TO arisi
y OatOf this contest, Would be mare wisely EN-
PloYed in building a. wall Of sand to resist tn
waves Of the ocean, when the tempest is thl
6ercest There is but one thing certain Il
such a future, and that is as certain as any
thing in The past--the States to be estahIishe
would Be always rivals, often enemies, and "
may read their history in the history Of tn
world from the earliest period down to u
very moment wo are setting at naught II
fearful lessons Of experience.
And what Is all this for? What section
grievance exists to awaken sectional ieelin
and aeiion? TIE great question which agi1
ted Va, AL The power Of Congress 70 act up