The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-08-26

hts message he d,d express the opinion eel
forth ia the quotation we have made from
it, II should be recollected that that opinion
was expressed under very different circum
stances from those which now exist in rela
ton to the questions for consideration. The
| Legislature to which that message was ad.
dressed ordered legal convention to be
elected. to assemble and determine upon
the proper course for the State to pursue in
relation to the evils with which we are
Threatened, and to submit the result OF
their deliberations to the people for their
sanction or rejection A general couveu-
ton OF the Southern Rights party assem-
bled at Jackson in June last, aud distinctly
laid down patlorn whereupon The party
stands the 18th resolution of which we
have set forth above. This platform was
adopted before the nomination of Governor
Quitman as the Southern Rights candidate
for Gov, at the next election he necessari-
ly adopted it, aud stood pledged to abide
by and support it, or he OF course would
not have received The nomination. In a
speech delivered shortly before the June
convention in reply to Senator Foote, Gov.
Qutman gives his own explanation Of his
message we quote portion Of this speech
as reported in the Mlssssippian Of the
23d of May 1851
In reply to the charge that he had re.
commended the separate secession of Mis-
sissipp from the Union, for passed wrongs,
General Quitmau stated, that while he
maintains the right of seperate secession ia
each State, as a necessary consequent OF
our structure Of government aud asserts
that il has ever been one OF the fundamcn-
tai articles of the Democratic faith, and
while events might occur TO induce him to
advocate a resort TO this extreme remedy
in our own State, he had neither recon-.
mended it, nor thought it advisable under
existing circumstances. His Message con-
tanned no such recommendation. On The
contrary, the candid reader will find such
idea ncgativcd by the general expressions
of that document,
The message recommends that "legal
Convention of the people be called with
free aud ample powers to take into consid-
Grafton our Federal relations the aggressions
which have been committed upon the rights
of the Southern States; the dangers which
threaten our domestic institutions aud kin.
dred subjects; aud joiully with the other
Southern States, or separately, to adopt
such measures as may best oomport with
the dignity and safety Of the State, and eff
fectualy correct the evils complained Of "
Here are Gov. Quitman's own decara-
tions as to what he meant in the message
(about which he has been so grossly misrepre.
sented and abused)-and it may be assert
ed that, those who now charge Gov. Quit.
man or the Southern Rights party with
views or opinions hostile to the Union, do
30 without any foundation whatever either
in fairness or fact, aud that such charge is
a gross humbug calculated to deceive the
people.
Whilst Gov. Quitman is thus misreprc.
sented and unjustly denounced as seces-
sionist by these Georgia Platform Unionists,
they take special care to keep dark, and
not whisper a word, as to what Ii. S. Foote
their candidate for Governor, has repeatedly
on that subject. II Mr. Foote's
own words are to be taken he has used
stronger language, and said five times as
much in favor OF secession as ever was ut
tered By Gov. Quithan. We will refer to
the records of Congress and quote exactly
from Mr. Foote's speeches in the Senate of
the United States, ahd other incontestible
evidence to show his views and opinions of
secession. in speech delivered the list
of March, 1850, on presenting the resoIu-
tions of the Mississippi Legislature in re.
gard to the Nashville Convention, Mr.
Foote said
+" The guarantees in which the South is
peculiarly interested, are to be respected
by the Free States of ihe Union in all their
scope and amplitude If in all these i'm
portant points, the North should prove I'M.
willing to do justice Heaven for
bid--if the offensive enactments menaced
shall be adopted, aud the grievances al
ready confessediy Inflicted shall remain un.
redressed-then the Southern States will
assemble in Convention, 10 consylt for their
own safety and welfare; and if justice
shall be Withheld, after all pacific aud con.
sttutionaI expedients have been tried, and
tried in vain why then the Southern States
may feel it to be duty, forced upon them,
of seeding in the last resort from the I'm
ion "-CoagressiOAak Globe vOl 81, part
1t, p. 577 to579.
This not only sanctions secession but as
serts the propriety Of calling convention
to consult on our safety and welfare. Again
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