The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-11-28
The Gorcrnor,s NIcsgng &c.

OF the meeting to which ii Jeff RS.
The Governors Message.
We present TO our readers, this week,
the message of Gov. Quitmau, and trust
il will receive that deliberate considera-
lion, which its importance demands. The
occasion, which has called it forth, is no
ordinary one; and the Executive, who
now addresses his fellow citizens of Mis-
81 sippi, presents the very highest claims
to a favorable hearing. His elevated char
acter and commanding talents-his emin'
ent services to the State and nation in the
cabinet and the feld-his pure patriotism
and selt-sacrifcing devotion to the coun-
try-place his motives above suspicion,
and claim for his opinions the respected
all. No man, who properly appreciates
the duties ola citizen, or cherishes a due
| respect for the virtues Of a statesman, will
refuse this message a lair reading and a
candid examination. We stthat no one
will permit his mind 10 be so PIE occupied
by party prejudices, as to close his eyes to
the truth, and TO the dangers, which sur
round him.
The message is written with distinguish
ed ability, and is worthy Of the occasion,
to which it owes its birth. 1t presents a
brief and lucid statement Of the several
questions involved in the slavery contro-
I versy and exhibits a series Of wrongs and
aggressions on the part Of our Northern as
s%ociates, calculated TO awake feeling oil
resistance in every manly heart. VIZ see
ourselves excluded from all the vast terri
tory, which was secured to the Union
chiefly by the expenditure Of Southern
blood and TIE asure-excluded with insult
ing disregard Of the p~lainest principles Of
justice and equity. Not only this; but the
Federal Government, with the sword in
one hand and a ten Million bride in the
other, has succeeded in dismembering
s%iave-holding Texas, and has thus secured
for 'free soil purposes" enough territory 10
form two new States.
In addition to these aggressions, Con-
gres has at length consummated a long
cherished object of the free-soilers, in a
polishing the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia-a measure once considered so
pertentous Of evil to our institutions, that
the Southern members left the House in a
body, when it was first introduced-an act
so iraught with danger to the South, that
the Legislature of Virginia, at W success
iye'sessions, almost unanimously asserted
that it would Justify resistance at all haz-
ards and TO the last extremity"
Such is the view, which the message
presents of Northern aggressions upon
Southern rights, showing that we have been
fraudalently excluded from all California,
in palpable violation of the provisions of
the Federal ConsituIion-that the public
money has been wastfully appropriated,
without preceden ID the history Of the Gov
ernment, to buy a large portion Of South
efn State, to be subsequently, converted
into free soil-that, by the act abolishing
the slave trade in the District OF Colum-
bia, principles have been asserted, which
will hereafter authorize Congress to abol.
ish slavery itself. And the message goes
on to show, that although the North has
thus triumphed over US yet "theie is
nothing TO encourage the hope that there
will be any respite from aggression. New
er has hostility to slavery been more dis
tinctly marked or more openly asserted
Shades Of difference in opinion may dis
tinguish Northern statesmen, but all unite
in stern opposition to the extension of slave
ry and in declarations of their fixed de-
termination toconine tito its p~resentlimits
and forever to close the public territory a.
galnst US"
In view Of this state Of l~hings--seeing
that the Federal government is hostile to
the Institution Of slavery and will IN fu-
ture exert its power to prevent It's expan-
sion to other regions-the Governor does
not hesitate TO express his solemn convic-
ton, that "the Union Of these states has
been SO gTossly from its origin
al proposes, as to render its further
continuance incompatible With the honor,