Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-29

faithless nurse frightens the child whom
she wishes to quiet, with stories of ghosts
and hobgoblins, so do these would-be
guardians of your interests endeavor to
terrify you into acquiescence and SUBJ
mission by parading before your eyes
with theatrical effect the bugaboo of Sc
cEssroN, and the "raw-head and bloody
bones" of "DIsUNIoN." These talismanc
words, wherever they may happen to oc-
cur, in whatever connection, in the publ
cations in Southern newspapers, or the
proceedings of Southern meetings, or
speeches of Southern men, are rudely
torn from their context and fiourished in
the face of the public in fiaring capitals
as ''THE TRUE IssUEr' The obstacles
thrown in the way of the Legislature at
its late extra session, which directed the
call of State Convention, by minority
composed almost entirely of ,ultigs seek
ing a party advantage, and directing
their efforts to that end, are brought for
ward in this same veritable "TRUE ISSUE
as ''confirmation strong as..proof from Ho-
" writ" that large ma ority of both
houses of that Legislature, forgetful alike
III
their constituents, were bent only upon
a mad and suicidal crusade of "DIsUNIoNp'
Merciful Heaveni what is to become of
the country, when such efforts as these
are made in our midst to mislead the pub
lie mind from the great issue before it
And who are these men that are thus
branded and stigmatized as TRAITORS and
DIsUNrosIsTs? Voters of Marshall !
They are the GOVERNOR OF YOUR STATE,
the man of your own choice,-the faith
ful public servant,-the gallant old war;
rior who periled his life upon the bloody
battle field upholding the honor of that
very flag of the Union which these fire
side patriots would have you to believe
he now seeks to desecrate and destroy!
Side by side with the heroic Quitman
stands the chvalrous DAVIS, wise and ell
oquent in council, and valiant in war as
any Knight of the olden time who ever
flashed his trusty battle blade over the
perilous field of victory! Then follows a
majority in both houses of your State
Legislature, and your entire Congression-
al delegation, with solitary unworthy
exception. And after you have proscri-
bed and condemned all these, you are
called upon to make war upon your
neighbors and friends-men, some OF
whom were born in the State and have
stood by its fortunes through'g good report
and evil report, and some who have been
in the country ever since its earliest set
tlement, and are identified with you in in
terests and feelings, and associations
These are the traitors and disuni0nists
from whom you are called upon to with
draw your confidence, and to repose
your trust, the guardianship of yourmost
valuable rights to new and untried hands,
men, whom to say the least of it, have
no more at stake than those whom they
denounce as unworthy to be trusted, and
most of whom have thus far rendered to
the State lip service. only.
The Candidates who seek your suffra-
ges for the Convention on the Democrat
ic States Rights ticket areROGER BAR
TON, J. w. CLAPP, ]. w. MATH-
EWS, and WIN. CRUMP. Try these
gentlemen by every test that can be ap-
piled, and answer if they are not as wor-
thy to be trusted in the present crisis as
their competitors? Answer if you believe
there is any danger that they will abuse
your confidence, and betray your inter-
ests, when by their treachery they would
| involve themselves in the same ruin they
would bring down upon you? And when,
in addition to all, you remember, that be-
fore anything they may do in Convention
can effect your interests, their acts will
necessarily, by the law authorizing the
convention, return to you for your appro-
val or condemnation, how utterly con-
temptible and absurd does this cry of ''se-
oession" and 'disunion" appear! lti the
merest trumpery,-the penny whistle OF
the demagogue!
But not only are secession and disun-
/ ion denounced by these Union-loving or
ators and partisans, bat all agitation even
of the subject among ourselves is to be
discountenanced and put down. Have
they ever intimated to you that the South
had slept upon her rights already toe
long, and that while she slept, the enemy
had sown tares? Have they ever sugges-
ted that any measures of vigilance or pro.
lection were necessary? No, the extent
of their ambition seems to be "to hold
while the Free-soilers and Abolitionists
"shln." They would sing you to SLEEP
with their drowsy lullabies upon the edge
of the precipice and give no note OF warn
ing until warning would be vain! Had
the South been united upon the assertion
of her rights, she might easily when these
compromise bills were before congress
have obtained final settlement of thi:
vital question by establishing the line o
36 30, and securing right of entry soutl
/ of that line with our slaves. Were WI
now united among ourselves this coult
yet be done. Congress could arrange
the matter as to the Territories, and from
present indications, the consent of Cali
fornia could be easily obtained. Thi
would not be doing justice to the South
but it wovld be better thus than for her t.
lose ALL, as she inevitably must under th'
present bills. This too would be fna
settlement Of the question, upon a geogruph
icai boundary line, and when we look a
the present distracted condition of Mexi
20 and roraoua1or fbof che oxroc porha r,