The Yazoo Democrat., 1850-10-03
MIsCELANEoUs.
An Unanswerable Argument,

"The largest shareholders in the county of !
Adams are in favor Of admitting California,
and of Mr. Clay S adjustment-and as they
have the greatest interest, their opinions
are entitled to more weight than those |
who have no such interest"
So discoursed one of those fawning syco- |
plants to wealth, i'll response to gentle |
man who was conterding agninst the de-
structive effects of yielding to Free-soi ex-
actions now made by the North against
the South. This sentiment, base as il is,
is too generally entertained, or expressed
by that class of our population, who come
here to make money, with the intent of re.
turning to the North to spend it-and is
often fastened upon minds so indolent as not
to think for themselves, but take the opin-
ions of others for their guile.
1t is probable, that some six or eight in
dividuals could be selected residing in Adj
ans county, who own as many slaves as
ninetv-nine one hundreths Of the residue Of
| its population, and perhaps they could be
so selected as not TO have a southern man
by birth amongst them-men who advocate
the Federal principle, of the governments
gtaEting exclusive privileges, and the en-
actment of such laws as would make the
rich richer and the poor poorer-men in
short, who prefer all Aristocratical to Re-
publican or Democratic government.-
That there are such men amongst us, we
have no doubt, and that they are surround
ed by host of admiring worshippers, is
manifest, from the !act that large MAORI
~ of the city are in favor of all the plans of
the Freo-solers to limit the area Of Afri-
| Il. -
hold that such a submission is necessarily
destructive to the institution of slavery,
and with it to the white population of the
South. That such is the aim aud purpose
,, ofal political parties at the North, no one
entitled to the appelation of "inteligent, "
can for a moment doubt 1t is said that
the slave population doubles itself every
+ twenty-five years, if So in one century our
} slave population will amount to over CO.
900, ,000-the white population in the mean
time thus hampered will diminish rather
than increase, by the many means that
, must be brought to bear.
If this is the settled policy of the govern
ment, and there cannot longer be doub
j on the subject-What should the South dc
It to be saved! Argument is vain, for wher
the ties Of religion and religious fraternities
: are not strong enough to arrest the mad
:, dened spirit, reason cannot longer preside
and there remains but three alternatives
submission, non-intercourse, or cecessior
from the Union. No people who deserv,
TO be free can think of the first, and for tn,
honor Of the South, none but the Yankees
ultra -partizan Wings, California specula
tors, Office hunters, and merchants, confin
ed principly to New Orleans and larg
cities, can be found mean enough for sucl
course, therefore, it will not be adopted
The second can only be tolerated by ou
veneration for our formerly glorious Union
a in the hope, (remote it is true.) that by re
81 fusing to trade with the North, or hav
is transactions with those who do that, sh
will come to sense of justice, and yield t
of the South her constitutional rights, man
st will adopt this alternative, but as hop
fades, despair will take its place, and
. will be abandoned. The last is the mo,
!, likely, yet alternative-we will be impel
= ed to this by the first law Of nations Sc
he yreSeTVGtGO7e-we cannot get clear Of oil
IL slave population, if we would, the weaIt
Ir- of the world would not enable the people
'r- South to remove them and eolonize the
- I'LL G41LlCG-AtlC bFhO IaCCA Cdk1klOb uWOI
20 the same land to any great extent, save
s; S- the relation of master and slave-and
~ ~ we are doomed to a restricted territory,
4 the North has resolved upon, the swol
~ would have to determine which Of the rae,
en should be exterminated, and should tn
in become necessary, whose fault will it
ey The South has never asked or sought an
'ir advantages OF the North--after she revol
lat ton, as stated lately by Gen. Houston
re his speech, Virginia, whose territory w
q greater than that Of all the territory Of Il
- Northern States put together, geneross
=. kceded the territory Northwest Of the OH
'nd with her assent to incorporate the orr
n. nance Of 'S7 against slavery was .dOl
zee 70 preserve the balance Of Federal powt
In 1903, Mr.. Jetferson's administrati,