The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-01
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The Courier iates rsceptiont - a iow rgn
traees Of Col Cofions fprecb. delivered ai
Mount Pleasant 90 Inc ilth ultY and which
We reported We fsaf ifihe Courier does NJ,
sisp drawing and stretching ne mind to end
someihing tmiiorous in southern people, and
ia trying 10 prove that the southern Rights
party are disuniouiss il viii actually 70 stark
mad The editor we are told, waa born aud
bred in the North. and has always manifested
n deep sympathy for the northern party ltl
need not, therefore, BE- wondered al, that the
Courier should light is rush here, and seily
forth 10 detect and expose traitors among the
true men Of the South. But the press ia free
and welptesume it is a glorious p%reroga;!ye
which northern men canuo, be deprived o.
TO assail and impugn the motives Of all who
dilef with them.
n we were to start out in search Of a press
to defend the rights and honor Of the South,
we should turn our back directly on the Cour-
ier and walk of as fast as our feet would car
ny us. 1t has said a thousand things against
the Souih-not one word for her Although
the Courier is "set up" and supported by a
portion of southern people, and espouses the
high.sounding name Of " Union" yet we most
emphatieally deny It's authority and orthodoxy,
as a lecturer upon The course the South should
pursue, a
The Courier takes up our report Of Col. Cor
don's speech, and industriously labors to show
that Col. @. is a disunionist and to further Its
object, it quotes the following paragraph from
our report ."''
This was a time pregnant with interest to
the world; IL Was 10 be determined nor whe-
ther the sons Of a race, who had barred their
hearts to the English bayonet, for the boom bi
freedom, were going 10 shin fmm their own
shoulders 10 those Of the!i posterity, the office
Of meeting the issues of their da~y-whether
we will rcpel aggressionS and usurpations no
less oppressive than those our lorelathers met,
or basely shrink from our duty,
The Courier gravely charges that all who
adopt the above plainly expressed sentiment,
are disunionists. Let every sincere and hon.
est man read and examine this quotation from
ColJG's speech, and see, II any one, but a man
who IL deeply prejudiced IN favor Of the North
and bitterly opposed to the vindication of south,
ern rights could have arrived at such conclu.
sion. Is there a single expression in il, which
by the most strained construction, even hint
at disunionl Does it declare more than thai
we should now determine whether we will
prepare to meet the evils that surround ant
threaten us, OF to submit, and leave the mex
generation to combat and settle themf w,
cannot doubt but that the noble and patriotic
sentiments of Col. Gordon, in the above quota
, ton, will meet tho hearty approval of ever.
! true southemer, ~ va .sa.sa ~ sata.
The Courier further sayss awe have al
along commended that the issue was one o
Union or disunion. The truth Of this is con
t%inually denied and yet are We not borne on
, in ii BY Col, GordonW How, think you, III,
. Courier undertakes to prove its assertion
I. Why, by, quoting tins paragraph from our re
port Of Col, G.'sspeech; aa. hrI raf an..
) He appealed to all present 10 weigh wei
i, and impartially the matters embodied in thu
issues now before the country, to he certain
J they are right, and resolve, at all hazards, {
{ matntqia the Constitution and the Union, /
. possible, He was no diSunionist-no secession
: iSt-but he pdS for the constitution Of The coun
trH, ut all hazards. He believed the Souther,
! Rights party were the true UH;cn party. II
: objects &c, Q 10 protect tho constitution, and Will
that sacred instrument is kept inviolate, tn,
/ Union could not be shaken. u
l. Now, if the Courier finds any evidence j
0 its favor, in this extract, it is welcome TO il
:, The quotation itself is a sufficient relutation Q
= the Coprier's far-fetched conclusions. w
$ think further comment on this absurd effort a
misrepresentation is useless; the Courier's Oh
$ jcct is too plain. We all well know the posi-
: ton Of Col. Gordon on the Qnestio2s before tn
country. He insists that our ligliS are aui!pl
: secured by the constitution, and that il is onl
o necessary for the Souih to unite in adoptin!
proper measures to preserve ~inviolate the pre-
c visions of the constitution, and that if we ca
0 effect this, there is no longer 10 be apprehend
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