The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-10-26
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h The Slavery Question-Party Lines
d They deceive themselves who suppose tia
y party lines are oBliteruied on this question, ant
that therefore patriotism demandslhem to com
u in and make common cause with old p%olirica
foes. grantff a proper cause existed, i ther'
were actual oppression, not constructed op
preston, that all could feel, and not mere alb
s%traciion, which none can feel, patriotism woulc
so dictate. But I deny that there exists sucf
oppression and such intolerable grievances anC
so denying, ] contend there is no demand up
on us to make the sacrifice of party ~predilec.
tions. II those who claim to be such peculiar
friends Of the South, and who profess to be.
lieve in the reality and e%norinity Of onr griev'
ances, would practice what they preach
they might establish their claim to sim
ceritY. But who isso blind as not to see, that
at the same time that they wish you to make
common cause with them, they are the bitter
and incorporating p%artizan opponents Of the
Wing administration, and Of every thing good
or bad, that emanates from it. 1t is a rick to
deceive The unwary, by exciting warm and en-
thusiastic feelings against the Union and in IA
vor OF the Soulh Jas tho' they were Ontagonistic
to each other; to instll a deep hostility in their
hearts against ,hose whose duty it is TO admin
ister" the government. 1t IS all appeal TO the
warm and excitable spirits of the wing party,
with the hope that the strength Of that party
may be thereby weakened and des royed, and
rendered Of no effect in future contests.
But how happens it that our opponents, who
claim to be defenders OF the South, are really
any deayer friends to it than the Wings? What
proof have they given? What evidence can
they adduCe? Have they dissolved the band
which united them together? Have they come
out from old political ties, and turned their
backs upon cd political friends? Have they,
by forming this new issue, abandoned their old
prejudices, and given them to the winds? Not
at all-not at all. They are as much our OPP
p~oneHts on those old ISSUES as ever, as much
opposed to the preservation Of the Union as
ever, and this new light which is now wor-
shipped as their bright particular Star, there
IS too much reason to fear, is only a new phase,
a new gniao under which the anne party wish
cs 10 co querfor party purposes. We kno"them
to be restless and even active, and they must
change their nature and conduct before | can
place full and imp jclt confidence in the SINGER
ity OF their new teaching in reference to the
common causes.
But this teaching is not altogether new,
Many Of the teachers in our State, as well MS in
other States, were old Nullifers. What pri-
vate griels they have had | know not-but it
has appeared to me tllat the nullifers, who
50 efectnally frustrated by the man Of
ron will, but most patriotic heart, Andrew
Jackson, have never been fully satisfied with
he government Of the United States. have
10 doubt but that many of them to this day
eel sore on the subject, and that many of them
eel that their hopes of~pre(erme ant under il
we're blasted by that overthrow. Hence You
ind most, if not nearly all, of them ready to
y - 80 IN " IA" SVuIldl S'NciH1 nBIt even
lpan slight and %trlnciegt causes. They
magnify the evils Of the day, assume that The
is degraded-is insulted-is stamped up.
rouse a feeling ia the people akin to
heir o"n-and when You ask them to point to I
hese things, instead OF show ing their existence :
n the conduct of the g1vernmen', or the laws /
Congress, they refer you to tie silly and in y
luilous rawlings OF a handful Of abolitionists.
.hesa are evils to be sure, but so long as con- r
ned to mere words, they should not disturb 7
ur equanimity; and | latter myself that the ,
of notification Will meet with no better
ate now, no matter what new face it NAV wear. r
nan it did in 1882.
charge that instead of being friends Of the p
outh, in a peculiar degree, hiatt the ultras have
liied to show II, to the satisfaction of The peo. r
lie OF the South. Why slept that peculiar c
]tcndshi', if it was ever ENJOYED, when thew te
lIed to provide for the peace, the equal OF
y and the justice of the South, at tho te
OF the treaty of Gnadaloupe Iii.
hlsr' Then was the proper time--.tLe time c,
all timesi bHt it was not embraced bv the
'u'lern democrats in the Senate. They were
by the natural allies Of the S nth.
tlelr northern friends, Wilmot and King.
ii others were dainty termed, that the vii
OF pFovlso should be offered to every terrific :,
al Dill, Tor the new possessions. tt was no ~
Ie threat-but they showed right good viii an
carrying it through the house. Many South. D
n wings voted against the treaty, and il the s.
'ofhion democrats, or a small portion of them n
I'd voted against it, it would have failed i,
hey had the power in their own hands then :.
vlndlcate and establish the equality If the 10,
'nth' by such a compromise as wonId have 4.
'lled The slavery question. But they slept on Il,
cir posts. %he South was not provided for. 4,
I'd BY a destiny unahunable, our power Is ~,
ne. Then was the time to have fixed it for. w
.er, or to have defoated the treaty. Betterb, :.