The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-09-24

1rAh aad Aosog Tbs settled IN puucipls
ne afgumem OF ~ nhsu and tbe souih'
and Of 81 Calhoun and the slalh before him.
and Of ihe Republican BE- that hs souihsH
STATE. . not harf Ah praisdi0H Of hs foHhiia-
h9a. bsaauss Il uhs mnaifutoni las been brotoH
bv ~ maiouiv phiA km framed ne lawI ead
hoihh mgjou'y 10 opposed 70 fhsra
This now u a question Of fad end will there
be found in the Sorihem county ofWilkinson,
a paper which will hold the contrary Per.
haps there may be found som among Us who
do no, enter 70 deeply ard fully into southern
feelings Of honor Of principle and Of right as
10 have a sensation at the outrages Of the North,
but the mass Of the Southern People, feel il in
all is bitterness. Has tho constitution been
regarded as 10 fugitive slaves7 as to the tenn
ioies ofthe Statesl as to the appropriations for
internal improvements when Of si5, OOO, 900,
only $500, 900 have been appropriated to the
South, and l2,5OO,0 900 to the North ? as to
California The constitution, according 10 is
preamble, was established, TO form d more
perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general welfare, aud secure the
blessings Of liberty to ourselves and our pro-
perry" Have not all Of these objects been
outraged by a Northern majority And is it
not an evident design and an openly avowed
fact, that this majority, making use of their
power in defiance Of the constitution, intend
admitting free States, and discouraging the for
nation (as they have done) and preventing the
admission Of slave States, until they will have
the majority Of two-thirds, necessary to change
the constitution, so as legally to abolish slave.
ryl We all know that this is their piH, and Il
ism their p0per to accomplish this object in SIX
Years. In addition to all this we have been
robbed of our property. Our slaves are melted
to massacre Us, steal our property, and run
%away--by every means to gain their freedom
And Northern associations have been openly
formed and encouraged by the Northern PEG.
pie for the purpose Of forwarding these objects,
Our people nave been massacred, They have
been menaced and maltreated by mobs, when
they have tried to reclaim their stolen property
Our sovereign States have been nsulted by
the sovereign States of the North sending to
them official declarations that they are ciimi-
nails on account Of their institutions. From the
dung-heap and from the parIor, from the faml-
ly circle and from the public assembly, from
the pulpit itself, we have been cursed from the
earth, the most demoniac resolves have been
made against us and to exterminate us has
been made a part of Northern religious and
political doctrine. We Ito announce il as our.
calm belief that a large portion of the Nortkcrnl
people are determined to make q War upon US n
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Perhaps the editor of the Wing does not look
upon. these things with the sensitiveness that
we do; indeed we r~ecollect that that paper of
July 9Th ult, speaking ofthe Nashville address,
says; "a large portion of the address is taken
up with an artGul and over-statement of the
wrongs aud insults q inflicted upon the South
for the last sixteen years. placing an %interro.
CATION point as we have, as much as to say,
"Iias this indeed been the casel How alb.
Surd p
The Wing, in this article on Mr.. Rhett, calls
this the "best government now known, or that
has been known among men, This govern
ment, as it was formed, was the best, but it has
been completely changed, and is now a Con.
soLIDArEp DEMOCRACY, t. e) a government in
tchich an irresponsible majority has the rule,
But even allowing that the government is the
best, it is not the original form of gouermentto
which we object, but the administration of it,
which is the most oppressive and relentless
despotism on the face of the earth, and we are
thankful that the Southern people see II in time
to shift for themselves,