The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-04-09

suitable additional guaran ees for Southern
Rights and reformation of the Constitu.
"oh' and additional strength aud durabiiI
W to the Union2 or shall she fold her arms
and wait for repeal OF the Fugitive Slave
Law (Which is certain soon 10 take place)
and then abruptly go out of the Union?
1t is for you to decide this question. Some
there are who ask what additional guarnsees
wewould havel Is NOT theConstitution per.
feet! they ask. No. 4 clause denying oCon-
gress the power to Legislate about Slave
ry at all Except with the consent of all
the States) would make it more perfect
another clause obiging Congress to admit
any State formally and regularly applying
for admission into the Union, whether its
laws recognize slavery or not; would make
it more perfect still. Other examples equal.
ly striking and necessary for the protection
of the South might be adduced, if onr linn
its permitted.
Now Fellow citizens, who are the destoy
ers and who The conservatives? And
which party has borrowed name Tor effe CT,
to bend and sway the public mind, which
they no more deserve than the buccaneers
Of old deserved the name Of "lriends Of he
sea " which they assumed in part to dis
guise thCir real objects from themselves
aud in part to nislea4 slch as might other
wise suspect them! And why destroy ,t.e
Union for the repeal o! the fugitive slave
.aw! Does tho law save 20 Mississippi
single slave! Or would its repeal lose for
! Mississippi a save? No You acquiesce,
gentlemen, in the loss OF an empire, uf ter
rltory large enough for Is States; you see
the north shut up the future millions of your
slave population, within barriers so strong
that in future nothing but dsunion can ever
break them for you. and you raise nc
hand against the unjust law. You must see
that the effect of this law will bs such as in
sixty years 10 compel the southern master to
run away from his slave, and to leave the
land to the qniet possession of the myri
ads Of blacks who by the laws Of increas,
will then be upon it, and that the north viii
thus consummate policy already avowec
Of making slavery abolish ITSELF and ye
you refuse to join US in our Efforts to proven
the catastrophe through means Of a southern
Congress; and you call US alalmists, disu
nioaists, fre-ealers, and some of you call u,
traitors; but repeal the fugitive slave Law
and you Will go out Of the Uuion! WI,
this Inconsistency Of conduct? Allow u
l with no motive ofodance whatever) to tel
you Why it is. Tno State Rights doctrin
Is the democratic doctrine. Il was the doc,
trlne OF jeff rson, it was the doctrine o
Madison, it was also the doctrine Of Jack
{ son and Polk; and ne State Rights party, i.
and always has be'n the democratic party
And the present attitude Of Stlr- r ght. pra
: ciples, is but development of the old JEFF
Il fersouian time hOAored democratic princpl
and nothing else. Hence it is that the Stat
Il Rights party now embraces every SCUM
{ democrat in the Safe. 1t also number
d many wings; who attracted by the clearnes
% and force of the rscant development Of prin
- ciple, come out from the fogs and msts
- party into the clear broad light of trutl
% But you gentlemen, Union.men as you ca
- yourselves, refused last June to occupy Il
~ platform ofthe IS. R. pas indicated by Il
" Nashville Convention because you suppos,
- it might indirectly involve ia diff Guilty the
" ministration Of Gen'l Taylor You ADM
- ted that the admission of California was
- fragrant and enormous wrong, but the a
% mnistraton had been privy aud even par
u e this wrong, and you determined to su
~ nit to it. You were invited and even slim
III. ,ted 10 do it, by the northern editors wi
had possessed themselves Of nearly eve
~ wing press in the South, and by some nc
=" thern men Of the democratic party, "
true to their early associations, and /
~, claims ofkiadred and country al home, Sc
- cred themselves from their party allegian
81 joined their old enemies, aud you acknc
- lodged tho force Of the appeal, and obey
'' the summons. THIS accounts for the di,
ion that exis among US fellow-citize
But there is another and still wider div
ion in the slave-holdng States. Ii is Il
In the grein growing slaveholding States,
=, or nearly all are opposed to the pI 4tform
80 the State Rights party. The reason of
is seeming enigm1, bu, little reflect
!, will make it apparent enough. Ii is