The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-07-17

stitntion Of the State, sent to that body has
message recommending the policy which the
State should adopt, at the present crisis
We will be excused for making liberal ono
tations from that message as We conceive it
necessary in order to show the position Oc-
cupisd 81 the Executive departmental our
State government.
Speaking upon thesubject Of slavery and
the hostility Of the government TO the 0nltea
States to it Governor Quitman says
To sayeit, topreseryeitf from destruction
or at least from sickly, lingering, distem-
perod and precarious existence, it must be
protected BY guarantees more available than
the present Constitution furnishes orit must
be arrested from the control of power
!. which is hostile to it, and which seeks its
destruction. 1t must, like every other
great interest, be placed in charge of its
friends
It will be seen from above, that the Gov
ernor here declares, that the Constitution Of
the United States under which we have SO
long lived happy and contented is insufficient
to protect our rights, and that they must be
protected by stronger guarantees or wrested
from tie control of the present government.
Again he says
The times demand the firm and energetic
action Of every patriot. To permit our
: selves to float down the stream without a
struggle, would inevitably seal our doom.
{ To resolve again that we will not submit to
further aggression, after our former resolu-
tons have been 50 contemptuously disre-
garded, and after we have been virtually
: stripped of every acre of the public domain,
would but invite further aggressions, if it
did not justly subject us to the scorn and
Z contempt of mankind.
And again he says
THE practical good sense Of Mississippi
discards the shallow excuse. Relying up
on truth and justice, she dares meet the
9 question and look it in the face. Her res
9 olutions have long since been proclaimed to
: the world, that she would not submit. She
Z aciH not submit She will however, select
her mode and measure of redress, with firm
ness, but with wisdom and prudence.
Here it will be seen thatth Governor de-
clares in the most emphatic language that
the State Of Mississippi oiU not submit, to
the recent enactments of Congress usually
termed the compromise acts. In the next
place the Governor recommends a convcn-
ton Of the people of the State, to take into
the best means for obtaining
redress for the past, and security for the fu-
ture, in these words, to-Yit:--
TO devise and carry into effect the best
means of redress for the past, and to obtain
security for the future, recommend that a
legal contention of the State should be
called, with full and ample powers to take
into consideration oar federal relations, the
! aggressions which haze been committed up
on the rights Of the southern States, the
dangers which threaten oar institutions,
and ali kindred subjects; and joiatl5l With
other States, or sepcrotcly, to adopt such
measures as may best comport with tic Dig
nifty and safety Of the State, and e6;ectuslly,
correct the evils complained of.
\ convention thus assembled, and reppc-
: scnting the sovereignty of the State, would
Z of course possess plenary powers uncontroll-
by any instructions orrestriotions which the
Legislature might intcrpose.
Governor Quitman thus proceeds in his
message which he says, he is not only justi-
fed in, but he thinks, required to do, from
the position in which he has been placed by
his fellow-citizens to give his opinion and ad-
vice freely, frankly, and seithout rcserre
as to the course which should be adopted by
the State of Mississippi, at this particular
crisis. Thas advice is to be found in the fol-
lowing unequivoeal language used by him in
his message, viz
Il claim not exemption from error, but SIN
,efty of purpose in the expression of the
solemn conviction of my mind, that, for the
reasons which have been hastily glanced at
: in this message, the UNION of these States,
has been 50 grossly perverted from its orig
inal purposes, as to render its further con-
tinuance incompatible with the honor, the
prosperity, and the safety Of the slayehold-
ing States, unless some correction of past
aggressions, and some additional and more
effeetual guarantees for our future protection
be obtained from our associates in the con-
federacy.
When I reflect upon the pertinaeity with
which the assaults upon our ights have been
{ for years prosecuted, the evident increase Of
anti-slavery sentiments at the North, and
{ the excitement there pervading nearly all
classes against the law to provide for the
'.extradition of fugitive slaves, I have little
hope left that these guarantees, indispensa
bly, necessary to our safety, will be yielded
by a majority, flushed with recent victories
and encouraged by apparent divisions a
mongst ourselves. Yet to leave no effort Al
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