The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-08-06
HUNrINeToN, July 18th 1851.

HUNTINGTON, July 18th 1851.
Gentlemen, A few days since, received
that cat regular meeting of the States
Rights Association OF Yazoo county, had
been unanimously nominated as candi-
date for the ensuing election to represent
this Senatorial District in the Legislature
of this State"
| have no political aspirations; and but
for theAatering and pressing terms in which
you Il ged ME to take time and to give due
reflection TO the wishes of the Association,
shoul at once have answered your letter
and declined the nomination.; and even at
this late day and after much thought, l
cannot accept the call without making
such sacrifices as would be wholly incom.
patible with my private affairs.
In thus declining to meet their wishes |
beg you will assure the States Sights As
sociation tnat no one feels a greater inter
est in the cause than | do; and that all nv
energies and the little influence | have shall
be devoted to its success. In fulfilling this
pledge | will for the first time have voted
in opposition to majority Of the Wing par
ty OF this State-the first vote [ cast was
Wing vote; and have ever since voted and
acted with the party; and nothing but an
honest and sincere conviction on my part
that they are now pursuing policy adverse
to the Interests of the South has driven me
fIom their ranks.
About the time of the meeting of our
Convention i'll 1S49 all old party lines and
distinctions seemed broken down, and with
one voice both wings and democrats united
for common defence against the usurpa-
tions of the North, and in favor of the rights
of the South. The resolutions of that Joint
Convention are all to that effect; and those
resolutions were fully sustained by the ac-
ton of our Legislature at its last session.
Since that time, little, think, has occur 9
to change the opinions of any one in Mis-
ssippi-certainly nothing in the way of
redressing the grievances we then com
planned of Congress, it is true, at its last
SESSION, when the Union was az the point
of dissolution, gave to the country tnat se>
ries of laws called the Compromise; with
which large portion of the whig and a.
fraction of the democratic parties now say
they are satisfied. The most devoted friends
0! these measures can claim but one-the
Fugitive Slave Law-as at all favorable
TO The South; the others, almost without
were intended for, and suited 10
he freesoil and abolition taste of the North. |
Now, to say nothing of the gross iniusticel
md foul wrong done US in all the others, il
8 impossible TO deny the fact that the free
States have failed 10 execute the provisions
If the fugitive slave law, in the spirit of
he Constitution or of the Com 5romise.-l
Occasionally, it is true, some of their lead
ng men do in their speeches and letters
rge obedience to /: as the LGaO Of tile land,
'ut rarely If ever without some fling at the
Unfortunate institution of slavery, as thev
erm it, in order 90 keep on the strong side
( the popular prelucices of the country.-I
'he masses are every where opposed to it
nd throw every possible obstacle iii the
ray of its executions. That such is the
lct We have only TO Ioo1 at the tone of the
Northern press. There is scarcely paperI
those columns are not daily teeming with
passed by freesoil and abolition
ali in abuse of the south or tend
lg to the ultimate destruction of our slaveI
roperty. Their Legislatures have elected
} the United States Senate men who forl :
Ionths before were pledged by their letters
nd speeches 10 the repeal or modification,
they term it,of this law Old laws de- |
ring the use of their jails for the safe keep
g, and in other ways obstructing the re-
very of runaway negroes. remain unre
saled among their statules-monuments ofI :
cir hostility to this law and to onr institu-t J.
1Es - And even in their general convent.
onss held by either wings or democrats the
measures rs q whole receivesE
It doubtful and cold adoption. In evervf
stance where an attempt has been made g
isolate and sustain this law, it's failure e
5 been signal. Il cannot be denied. how q
lers that under its provisions some fewI
ives have been recovered-among others.
me, in Boslon--and we may jndge Of the /,
irit in which it is executed by attending ii
the history of that case; as difficult as i'll