The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-07-20
DIsUNloN

t2ls; ults to hear the report Of the Delegates
Die Nashville Conventions the Hon.R. Bimwe
Rhest having been called on ior a speech, d,
liVeled a TRADE against the Union. The 70
lowing is an extract from his speech as repor
ed in the Charleston Courier;
'He proceeded to d%enounce the Compromis
now before the Senate, ind declared the onl
tear TO be that it would pass. He was Of opin
ion, however, thati it would not pass, or at a
events, If II did, 1t would only be by NoHherI
men awakening to the conviction that it in
VOWED the surrender and dishonor Of the South
But, whether it was adopted or rejected, tn
position Of the South would be unchanged =
There caS no remedy but The severance Of on
conneTtOH Wih The North. The rights Of tn
South could only be secured by good faith il
our northern brethren, or By War--ihe forme
was hopeless, and the latter was the only re
sort. lie respected the Northern people,
people who pursued their own aggrandizemen
at the expense of others, with a boldness anC
perseverance of purpose that never quailed Of
hagged--he respected them much pmOre thar
he did thos, who submit TO the aggressiOn.-
tie ialtered not, because he might be called
q traitor" -" he was born a traitor - his
family had all been born traitors = and he
was now surrounded, he hoped, by a host Of
tr~aitors-tTaitors TO tyranny and oppression, and
ready to strike for equality or independence
tie lIkened the crisis to our colonial era, when
Christopher Gadsden u~nfurled the banner oil
independence in South Carolina, and declared
that in what was then going on-in the senti-
ments he was %avowing, and the enthusiastic
esponse they awakened on all sides-Me revo-
luton had begun"
Disunion is here openly avowed and advoca-
ted-not peaceable disunion-but disunion and
war. The destruction Of our government, has
been anxiously desired by a certain class OF
politicians, who, disappointedin their ambitious
hopes, are willing to destroy ths only free'
democratic republic on earth, hoping, in the
anarchy and confusion that would follow, thew
might reach a position that nature never intend.
Iej them to occupy, That disuniOn has long
been a cherished idea with many, both north
and south, no one, who was not heedlessly
blind to passing events, could fail to see. Tha
the Nashville Convention was intended to adj
vance that end, was believed BY many, and
their opposition to it. When it was so
by those who did not favor that scheme,
the most indignant denials were given by some,
accompanied with prOtestatlons of love for the
Union. Each day butaids to the evidences Of
the past Of the determination Of many to use
effort to effect a dissolution OF the Union
This is apparent fiom the tone Of The press thai
lct in conjunction with them. II is apparen,
rom the facility with which they reverse or
'hange their position on the question in which
heyProtess to feel so deep an interest. II is an.
aren't from the fact, that when Buchanan and
older men frcm the north were willing
Q adjust sectional difficulties by adopting the
line, it was abandoned and repu.
lated by those who now seek disunion and
vision. Alter that distinguished statesman,
'lth a view to quiet disse ntion, and win south.
IN lavor, planted himself on the principle o,
ne Missouri Compromise, he was, at the com
nand OF the great oracle Of South Carolina,
and deserted by the democratic par.
OF the South. The principle Of the Missouri
compromise was then repudiated by MI. Cal.
GUN and his followers; it was denounced as
unconstitutional and fatal to Southern rights
the doctrine Of Hon-intetvention was de-.
aTed to be the true Southern ground. To
sal dlssentlons and quiet sectional strife.
Ieklnson, Webster, Cass, and other distin- /;
lished gentlemen from the North, declared /;
r the principle Of non-intervention; when3t
Iaigbtway that position is denounced, and Al !,
lEeatls made upon the abandoned, 8 fatal and T,
constitutional Missouri Compromise. !,
How comes it, that after the principle Of the ,
lssouri Compromise was abandoned bv the ,
mocracy Of Mississippi, we now find so mapv !
that party urging Il on the favorable consid. ,
OF the Peoplea Why this vucillation? 4
y this continued shifting of position, unless :
argues a foregone conclusion to be satisfied +,
tn nothing-but dissolution? 1t needs no :
gument to prove that the getters-up Of the +
'shV'lle Convention. and many who sustain .
w W wy ISpuOlHc, the eOnStltu~ n
N and the Union. That they desire their !
structon, is manifest; the thought, the feel F.,
;, lives in their hearts-.speaks from their /
ngues, and pours in gall from their pens
ith the disunionist, the fame Of our ances>
glory won by them on the fields OF
mixer Hill, Yorktown and Monmouth, finds !
abiding place in his heart. With him the
non, the American Union, which with the ,
OF the earth stands first in war, first 10 .
with all ilsaancient ~glories, its past re-
'wn, is present greatness, and its future {
omise, excites no pride, arouscs no patriot
n. His hardened and selfish heart knows /
such feelings; they are foreignto his nature, {
d find nothing responsive ia his so vi. Blind
and madly they are struggling for the con-
mmation of an object which, il achieved. :
VI come with the power and fury Of the
hlTlwind, ProsIrating in its course the man. .
IN and the cottage, spreading devastation :
q neloS OF waving corn and.blooming cot !
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