The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-22
"Subnnission an Obsolete idea in Georgia.

The struggle in Georgia between the resist
ance and submission men, takes place on Mon
day next. From the tone of the press there, as
we'll as from our private advices, we entertain
the hope that the people will redeem the pledges
made by her Legislature, and choose men to re-
present them in that Convention, who will place
Georgia in line with Mississippi and her South
ern sisters, who will not submit to outrage
under the forms of legislation. The hour is
fast arriving when her solemn pledges will have
to be redeemed, or the shame of desertion in the
hour of trial cling to her heretofore honored name.
The annexed editorial from the Columbus
Times, is full of encouragement. When veteran
statesmen like Judge BERRIEN, in whom the
fiery ardor Of youth has been succeeded by the
deliberate forethought Of age, SO sternly repro
bate submission, the younger sons of Georgia
cannot surely finch or falter
We shall soon see. The Times says:
The Hon. JOHN M. BERRIEN.-This distin-
ouished gentleman was recently invited by one
hundred and twenty citizens of Columbus to
extend his visit to this city, for the purpose of
partaking Of public dinner, and of addressing
the people on the great question Of the day.
We very much regret to find from his reply
to the invitation, now before us, that his other
engagements will not permit him to accept it.
We desired that this most highly distinguished
and most able man Of the Wing party, should
come to tell some Of the Wings Of this county
the truth, and to brush away from their minds
the fatal delusion encouraged by designing men,
that this was party question, and that submits
xo bo Rlof0 nf
Wing fdelity-to tell them, as he has the peo-
pie of other counties where he has spoken, that
the South has lost everything by the compromises
of the last Congress, and that both honor and
duty demanded thsir resistance.
We observe with satisfaction the expression
of the ardent and confident hope that Georgia
will be true to herself, contained in the follow
ing paragraph from Judge Berrien's letter.
Repeating the expression of my regret, that
I am unable to be with you, and of my hope,
(which my recent visits in different portions of
the State, have almost martured into confdence)
| that the people of our noble State, will yet be
aroused before it Is too late, to sense of their
dangers and of their duties" / am, &c.
ei He has upo n another occasion, recently de-
clared that SUBMISSION by THE CONVENTION OF
GEORGIA WAS AN OBSOLETE IDEA" This ac-
cords with our own sentiment and experience
of the present temper OF the people. Every
day the cause of resistance is gaining ground,
and we find daily cause to regret that the stand
ard Of the mode of resistance has been lowered,
and that the mode of redress was not more
boldly and distinctly marked out before the
people. - Y 81 ,a8 .4..
We Judge of the feelings of the people among
whom we were born and raised, by our own.
We are constituted like other men, and when the
wrong and insults, the aggressions and the con-
tumely of the North excite the devil Of resist
ance in our heart, we cannot see for the life of us
why the same effect should not be produced in
the bosoms of men having the same nativity,
the same birth rights, the same independence,
and the same sensibiity to the stings of injustice
We verify believe that in an open field and a fair
fight, the bold issue of secession could be carried
before the tribunal of the outraged people of
Georgia. The people were ahead Of their repre-
sentafiyes in Congress during the last session,
and they are ahead now, not of the hopes and
wishes, but of the apprehensions of Jealous re-
sistance men, in the press and in the field.