The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-11-02
From he Southern Christian .4drocate.
LETTER FROM BISHOP ANDREW
SOUTHERN TNDEPENDENCE.

not going to preach treason or rebellion, or any
thing OF that sort; nor am going to enlist un.
der the whig or democratic banner. Nor. in
deed, would that be an easy task, for it would
be somewhat puzzling in the present state of
parties, to define with any very great precision
the confession of faith which either would
adopt. My creed is simple and short. 90
for my country, my whole country, as repre-
sented by the indissolubIe Union Of all the
States OF our great confederacy; and go for
the maintenance Of the rights and immunities
OF each separate State or territory. repudi-
ate war at any time, if It can be avoided; and
especially all civil war between brethren of the
same political household 1t is an easy mat-
ter to talk Of II; and there may be no shudder-
ing when we hear Of it; but the realization
will bring blood and ruin and heart>breaking
and agony, widowhood and orphanage such as
neither we nor our fathers have ever dreamed
or heard of. Ruthless demagogues, either
North or South, may talk OF it in strains Of
flaming eloquence, because they hope by this
means to mount into power or TO maintain pow,
er already acquired; but it becomes the sub
stantial yeomanry Of the country, upon whom
the burdens OF such thing must fall, the peo.
pie from whose hearts anc purses the blood
and treasure must flow, by which such con-
test is to be maintained, it becomes them to
ponder this matter seriously; to look we'll to
the cost Of such struggle and to its issues and
to its gains. At any rate, let US resolve, as
southern men, to proceed calmly, deliberately,
justly, patiently, in our resistance, to what we
; deem the unjust aggressions Of our Northern
} brethren. Let US exhaust every other argu.
ment, and try every other means TO redress be-
fore we indulge for moment the idea Of dis
solving the Union of these States; and when
this catastrophe comes, if come it must, let it
find US at the last ditch, having tried every
peaceable remedy, ready with arm and heart to
defend ourselves.
Well, here is my creed; and perhaps owe
> to you and your readers an apology for obtrud-
ing upon you and them any thing which might
seem to SAVIOUR of politics. Indeed, | have,
during ministry Of nearly forty years, careful
ly obstained from medding with the political
srifes: but | am not sure but the present crsi:
in our national affairs demands that the minis
ters Of God depart little from their usual eau
tious policy; and while it is,true that ne mes
!, sengers of peace they should avoid as far as
5 possible all meddling with mere party strife
I yet in momentous crisis, like that which il
> now upon us, know not why the ministers o
God, who have as deep an interest in the wea
y Of the nation as any other class of citizens
) should not be at liberty to give utterance fully
and freely TO their convictions and feelings
By ference to the papers Vest and East, W,
find the Methodist preachers excrting them
selves might and main to prevent any compro
mise with the South, and not content with pass
: ing resolutions in their ecclesiastical assem-
: blages, they have been recommended to ad
dress personal communications to members o
y Congress, demanding that no compromise b
made by Congress with "the saveocracy;" an
the advice has been followed, and no doub
: : with success. Perhaps it was at least consls
!" tent that the men who have been SO greatly in
. strumentaI in producing the popular excitemen
and fanaticism which SCOTS alike at the teach
: ings Of the Bible and the Constitution, and VIII
J in their chief ecclesiastical assemblages hav
=" sanctioned stupendous scheme ofrepudatior
: should, true to their native instincts, NOV
= heaven and earth against any action OF the MT
. tiUna legislature which might, even remotel,
:. contemplate the peace and prosperity of tf
:, Southern portion of the republic.
O But enough of this. What about Souther
If independence? Very we'll, we shall get to
s. quickly. In the first place, then, we desire
see the South independent on the subject {
education. Tine was in the memory Of OIL
young men, even, when our wealthy SoutheT
men sent their sons and daughters to Norther
= schools and colleges; and even now, whe
. there is no longer any excuse rit, many soutl
ern aristocrats send their sons aud especial
n their daughters Northward, to be polished; an
% man who, perhaps, would think you mad,
q you urged him to subscribe $500 to southel
"a institution sends his daughter to a ashionab
st boarding school in some northern city to sPeI
Is $1,000 per annum, whom for one hall the sn
he could have obtained more solid educatlC
er at home. And yet, possibly this same m'
re- would rise up in Congress and thunder ven
g mently against the northern notion OF southe
n. infeiotity. A few years ago, if Protes'o
H. ship in college or rectorshipin in an acaden
D. was to be filled, graduate from q northe
Ne college was almost uniformly preferred; az
orI in tho annual announcement Of the literary !
~ stitutions of the country,it was uniformly ne
,s- aided as the highest recommendation, that
was to be under the charge Of A. B., gradua
of a northern college. Ttis notorious iact' tn
on in many instances southern men, greatly sup