Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-08-23

Of the land The legislative and executive De- .
parmen,s will be compelled to devote the caer,
gies aud resources Of the State to aocomPtl.a
them Any thing short of this viii be shame
ful desertion of the sovereignty Of The State,
which from that time theacelerIh musi MAKE con-
lession OF It's weakness in the face Of the world,
and sink its dishonored head under the weight Of
merited contempt.
Ia this light the Governor, message and The
address Of the l0lh December regarded The con-
vention aud its acts Both Of these documents give
to it the dignity of sovereignty. They regard
its acls as Of controlling force and the powers OF
the State as bound to enforce them. la these
documents no such craven word rs remon.
STRANGE or petition is used. Sach words are
Justly eschewed as applicable only TO the prayer
of an inferior TO an Acknowledged superior
They regard sovereignty as having no superior
on earth. Hence the bold language Of the mes,
sage:
LET the propositions be distinctly made to the
people OF the non-slaveholdjng States, to remedy
the wrongs so far as it may be in the power Of
Congress to DO so, by obtaining from California
concessions south Of 80 degrees 30 minutes, or
otherwise and to consent to such amendments
Of the federal constitution, as shall hereafter ara
ply secure the rights Of the slaychoIdjug States
from misconslrction, and from further aggrts.
sion. But in the event of refusal do not hest
tate to express my decided opinion that tie only
eifectual remedy for evils which must continue
to grow from year to year, is to be found in The
prompt aud peaceablc secession Of the aggricycd
! States"
And hence, the equally dignidcd language Of
the address.
"Iftho North sha, refuse to acccdc to our Just
demands, then will come up for decision the
! question whether we Shall submit to greyous
wrongs, and take the position of mfelority as
signed to US in the Union, or look to ourselves
for the protection Of our rights aud Institutions
| out Of H..
Stick to the record, gentlemen Of the resistance
party, and if the November elections DO got leave
You in The enjoyment flhe guie, Of home, sweet
in fog. Propositions are to be distinctly Ibid
down, dcmauds Of right to he made and y thc
propositions are not complied Nitl and thc de-
mands not satisfied, secession from the Union
is to be promptly adopted This IS the bold IN
dependent and dignaed language Of the message
and the address and these are the objects for
which the convention Is called and the only OBJ
lects IN reference 20 which il can act. It is not
in the power Of platforms, resolutions and stump
speeches 10 change these objects Hence the
resistance gentry Of the State at large cannot,
through the instrumenllity of the convention,
send your State with circumstances and petitions
in her hands, an humble surpliant for her rights,
like vassal to his lord. And hence that fac
ton ofthe resistance par'yi Lowuies who have
made platform Tor themselves cannot through
tli. convention, send Mississippi in her soyer.
egn majesty to set with South Carolina in au-
gust Southern Congress, assembled or the par,
pose of 20 great mercy,) persuadmg tina, ga-
liant sister not to be so rash as to leave the tA
ion; nor in case her circumstances are spuned
and her petitions rejected, 10 send her 10 thai la-'
great resort, that potent charm, that magnificent
panacca for the cure Of all Northern aggressions
upon Southern rights, that healing plaster for
dsmembered Texas, that better remedy than SO
degrees 80 minutes Tor the annexation Of Cali
lornia, that sweet revenge for the insult to the
South in abrogang the District Of Columbia as
the great Union Ware House for the slave trade,
to-wit! the power of the State in her sovereign
capacity TO impose taxes upon whom the
4 Yankees Oh no, the Constitution forbids that 4;
upon whom them upoa our own citizens who
shall presume to 5uy from the abotionis,S OH
bright thought The like never fitted through
the brain Of Jefferson; Calhoun, with his tower
{ Ing intellect, never conceived it. OF all the plat
(orms,resolutions and stump speeches which have
beon made in Mississippi, not one have limited
at the idea, saving and excepting only such as
| have been conceived, made and passed within
the precincts Of the fraction aforesaid. But alas
/ how true the words Of Solomon. "a is vanity
I This bright jewell, this grand cathoIicon for all
political ailments. is not mentioned once in the
message nor in the act of the Legislature, nor
in the address Of the 10Th December and hence
it must (St. Dunstan help us) be lost. All that
the convention may say or do on this subject Of
taxation, all that it may say or do about MissiS-
sippi going into Southern Congress with South
Carolina to persuade her not to go out Of the I'm
ion, will be null and void for want Of authority
South Carolina has not determined in convention
whether she will meet Mississippi in Southern
Congress in order to be persuaded, and in no
county in Mississippi, except our own Lowndes,
has the business Of persuading been preached
either by platform, resolution or stump speech ;
and the taxing power is in the same psdica1eh',