The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-10-11


gone with them to the verge of constitu.
tlonal resistance to the measures proposed
as laws, stop short when constitutionally
defeated, and declare for the first principle
OF republican duty, acquiescence in the
lawful decisions of the constituted author.
tiles. 1t is new issue which is threat.
ened, and which the signs are, that we
must meet: no that of concerted opposition
to offensive measures which may be law.
fully opposed and defeated, but combin-
alton avowedly to break up the govern.
ment, by destroying the Union, as mode
OF defeating the operation of constitutional
laF@s Upon thos question, I.oe,ieie.,asa viii
be better represented in Congress, at last
than she was on the bills of adjustment
One of her Senators, and the only two o
OF her representatives who voted, went
steadily against all these bills; although
there is scarcely doubt that every dis
trict in ihe State would have voted by
large majorities for the whole scheme
But in the attempt TO set aside the decis-
ion by any extraordinary means, to gel
up a resistance party, or secession party,
IN any shape or form, as measure of hos
tility to the laws as they have passed.
there will not be man found from Louis
lana, in either House of Congress to give
a moments countenance to the scheme,
nor neighborhood or precinct within the
State, unless there be few more left ol
those South Carolina and Georgia gentle
men, up there in the Ouaehita pine woods,
who formerly undertook with so little sue
cess to lecture Gen Downs, on texts ta-
ken from the oracles of the world they
left.
In other States, however. the effort at
anti-Union organization will have more
strength. In-one of them, it would prob
ably carry majority of the people. In
South Carolina, if her leading presses and
public men are to be taken assexponents
at all of the will of the State, dissatisfac-
ton with the Compromise bills is all but
universal, and they are painting to follow
or to lead, for immediate secession; that is,
instant disunion. Mr.. Rhett is openly in
the field, not in consequence of the. passage
of these bills, but in anticipation of their
passage, and at Marlborough on the 4th
proclaimed not merely the purpose but the
plan of disunion, and gloried in ihe pros
poets of success which he contemplated
from the rising of the South in opposition
to the Compromise measures. He boldly
declared---we quote from a report in the
Charleston News:
We must secede, South Carolina will
lead off, Georgia will go with her, Ala
bama will soon follow, and Mississippi
will not be long behind her, for ''she is
not all Foote, but has some heart and soul, .
and this will he but the beginning; within
eighteen months we shall have the
whole South with us, and more than that;
we will extend our borders, we will have
New Mexico, Utah, and California. Utah
already has slaves, we will march into
California and ask them if they will have
slaves, and her people will answer aye!
we will have slaves, and what of Mexico,
why, when we are ready for them and her
people are fitted to come among us we
will take her too, or as much Of her as we
want, we will form a most glorious Repub.
lie, more glorious than the ancient Repub.
lie of Rome, which lasted seven hundred
years, and had similar institutions to oul
own.
Abiding to the probability of a war be-
tween North and South, he secuted the idea
the people of the North are calculating
people, they did nothing without counting
the costs. Itell you my friends, said he
there will be no fight, but when our South.
ern Confederacy is formed, it will not be
long before these Northern men will craw
TO us and beg to be admitted into oul
Union.
Ofsuchwild speculations are the dreams
Of many who are attempting to stir, up the
Southern people toexcitement against the
laws, and in favor of Immediate and violen
resistance. 1t is with such thoughts tha
the Southern Press, the organ of the ex
treme men at Washington, proclaim thai
all is lost to the South, and that not to re
sist is at once ruin and degradation. 1t i.
with such purposes and hopes that leading
presses in Georgia and Alabama call fo
Immediate State action, to declare secession
from the Union, and the commencement
of this new Southern Republic-wlrich il
to emulate the conquests, the glories ant
the duration Of the Roman Republican
less it ends somewhat more speedily, will
the Roman Republic, in a military des
potism.
These visions of power and dominion
TO be won by the resolution first, and vic
torious armies afterwards--seized hold 0
many simaginations, and viii not be lightly
abandoned. At least it will need an eff
fort strong, prompt and determined, in th,
South, among the Southern people them
Iselves, to repress all such unholy aspira
tions-to rebuke all such wicked efforts
and to vindicate for themselves their 10y
atty to the constitution and the Union
The front of.stern rebuke will be needed
everywhere, and in that effort there vii
no distinction be remembered of wha
were the speculative opinions of individu
ais, or what was their action, within tn,
limits Of the constitution, IN relation /,
measures that have become laws. TheI
will be the true men and the trusted men
who 60 now firmly for submission to laws
preservation of order, and the maintaina1c,
of the constitution.
The first demonstration of the secession
| lists is made upon Texas and Georoia