The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-07-15
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Gao, and charge that o political deba'ef
vas woried in an atgumeHt, Ot over
by his opponent. Bot 1t i did''
.ult, nor Is Il ademrted. 10 show ~ this
laIf column. how Col. Davis or exLGov. ;
Brown were over.matched, or worsied, by
heir opponent Mr.. Simrsll. The people Of
Wilkinson county are in the habit Of rea.
,oning and thinking for themselves, aud
win require a bare charge in the columns
a newspaper, ~suBs,antiated by proof, be.
fore they ~acknowled ye and receive it as a
fact. The policy Of smothering the real
state Of things by naked assertions cannot
be satisfactory to an intelligent people, and
will fail TO effect those whom it is intend
ed to operate upon.
Col. Davis and ex-Goy. Brown distinctly
stated. in their speeches, the policy they
would advise the people Of the Southern
States, and especially Mississippi, to pursue
in the existing emergency-it was not for
them or any other man TO say what the peo-
pie shOakd do-the people are the sOver-
eigns Of the land, and must act for them
selves And how? Let them assemble, as
these gentlemen. and all other prominent
actors of the Southern Rights party, advise,
in their primary capacity, and through 'heir
delegates in a convention. fearlessly express
their opinion in regard to the relation which
now exist between the State and Federal
Government this is the first intermediate
step bet ween submission aud resistance.
1t may be asked, what will this effect =!
II the people acquiesce in all the late meas
ures of the Federal Government, and North
ern interference withtheir property and in
situations, it will be instructions 10 their
servants to act in the national council agree
able to their expressed wishes. If the peo-
pie in their convention, denounce and dis
approve the aggresslons and manifest dis
position If the Northern States, TO over
throw and destroy our rights and institu-
tons, it will be a lesson to the North, to
rease their attacks upon our rights, and
intermed,ing with our property, or hazard
a disruption of'our Fedora Government,
Notwithstanding the train of evils which
might enSue. Ii will also be instructions
TO their servants, to make unyieiding rests
tan~c to Fedora, encfoachment upon State
Soverenity.
II viii also arouse the minds Of the PEG.
ME to a jAst appreciation Of their. rights; har'
monise the discordant eliments among rs
aud move The people in undivided opposition
TO those base poii,icians. who form alliances
with their Northern enemies and pander tc
nortl,ern fanaticism TO build up a nationa
reputation. ''a
Davis aud Brown solemnly advised tit
people against secession hey claimed tin
right, but stated that the present circum
stances would not justify its exercise
They also stated that this was Genera
Quitman's advice 10 the people of Missis
sippi. Quitman, who has been so often
aud is now, wrongfulIy and unjustly char
ged with being a disunionist aud secession
ist I; Quitman. who is the bright mark 70
the arrows of Federal submission and aboI
uou malice who retired from the serve
of the Federal Government with his vent
rab e brow, loaded with wreaths Of unfadin
glory whose praise was on the lips oil ever
true American.ritizen, from the bay OF Pa,
~samaqiody to the Rio Grande; whose uatiol
al reputation and popularity omslriped a
opponents and who has sacrificed his greI
n~atsoDal popularity for the honor and gloI
OF hi, adopted state now comes before Ii
people OF Mississippi as a candidate G
Governor, with peace on his lips and sii
certify in his heart. There is also an a
tempt in the Whig to ridicule Col. Davi
for aIIuding to Mississippi's "vaIor and da
ing on the Mexican battle fields" TT
circumstances which surrounded Colon
Davis on that occasion, seeing those wi
; "stuod shoulder to shoulder" with him in Il
/, hour Of battle. before him and around hi
: justified aud excused the burst Of eloqucn,
which he indulge in. If Tom Corwin al
his friends, who wished the American a
my received with "bloody hands and no
pitabie graves" would ridicule all alusiC
to Mississippi vaIor and chivalry. under al
circumstances, as inapt and improper.
+, would not excite surprise, but an attem
to ridienle, on this subject. from one Of o.
own citizens is unexpected umc9 De-
The JVhig further states thai, in repl
'sMr Simralexposed this triAing with gra'