The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-11-20


10 small anumber out on last Saturday, the 9
18th inst. to hear him. He had, besides q {
number Of warm friends in YazOO. a large
number ofold political ASSOCIATES, who were I
lOath to believe the hard sayings concern.
ing him, which werC borne to them by eve
cry mail, and refused to condemn him wiIh>
out hearing. That hearing has been had,
an they now say, che is joined TO his idols;
let him alone"
The entire want Of order ia his speech,
delcrs US from giving such report Of it as
we would like to do; as il bore lie own con-
domination upon its face. live could write
il out in full, Just as delivered, he has not
a friend who would not feel that we were
burlesquing him. 1t was sort Of disjoint-
ed satire, upon men and things generally; /!
filled up with the most extravagant asser.
tons. We mus: in charity, attribute
many Of his bold assertions to Gisordered
state Of mind, brought about by too intense
application to study or alarm arising from
the probable action Of the Legislature.
The meeting Of that body had ter:ors for
him, which a labored speech Of two hours
failed, Iully to portray.
There was a want of fairness and can.
dor in his speech, which we were rot pre-
pared to expect. He took it for granted
that the great and maiE object of those
who condemned his course, was to produce
a dissolution ofthe Union. 1t was a con-
test between DisuniOn and Footeism. He
had been in twenty counties in the State,
and heard from all the others, and Foote-
ism was likely to obtain the ascendant.
The falsity of such an issue, is too appa-
rent to need refutation. Indeed the very
!, few who had the heart to cheer his acit
felt ashamed of his logic, upon this branch
of his subject.
|. His excuse fol- supporting the Texas bound
airy bill, struck his audience as rather fal
f fetched. 1t was, that he might preserve
Texas as slave State. Some time since
41A-OONCAlAOl ~ uLuGlIS tOlu HlllI Illab AN
> should not be surprised, if portion of the
Trinity country should be settled up b,
poor people, who having no slaves them
selves, would be in favor Of making al
Pexas free State; and the General alarm
ed Cor the safety Of the State, helped t
deprive her of a large portion Of her terri
tory; and he had reason TO congratulate
himself upon his wisdom and foresight; fc
the people now satisfied that Texas woul
surety be a slave State, were movin
there with their slaves. He was in tn
bounds of truth, when he stated that sine
he had been home, he had not seen lie!
> than forty slaves being carried to Texas
" Not only had he secured the whole Stat
to Of Texas as a slave country, but even tt
e portion Of which she had been dismembe
u ed, which portion, bear in mind, while a
tached to Texas, would, if permitted to r
IL main, have converted the whole State
Pc Texas into free StateM The argume
tn stripped o! the redundancy of words
which he clothed it, is plainly this; Texa
M. if she had been suffered to retain all h
NIL territory, would have soon become a fr
State, Sut by forcing her to part with
portion, she and the portion she pan
with are secured as slave territory. U
he der the slavery jurisdiction of Texas, wi
es. every encouragement for slavery emigr
ke ton thither, this dismembered district w
the small leaven, which was to "leav'
the whole lump" and convert all Texa
his into free territory, and by cutting it off,
in is made slave territory, and Texas saw
his as slave State. Too absurd for cor
ne ment. Upon the admission of Californi
N. he was equally as clear and consister
nd California, he expressly declared, was n
1t; admitted, as a free, but as a sLGre Stat
le- This he proved by showing, that where'
lst er soil and climate invited slave labor,
would go, "in spite of law" This is
no means true, but for the present we pa
he it by. He then went on to show that Ca
40 ifornia, in both climate and soil, was q
~ apted to slave labor, and the people
,s, California loved money, and they had tt
right to change the constitution of II
State, and might some day do so, therefor
II. California is a slave State, and so admitte
n. into the Union. Here he grew elOquen
lie he had secured Texas as a slave Stat
out of which four additional slave State
was to be carved.-California was slav
State, New Mexico, and Utah would b