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

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For the Mississippian-
General oaifman.s Special Message.
Il anything was wanting to show the
unscrupulous character of the efforts, now
beng made BY the Submission party of
this State 10 carry the ensuing elections,
the recent attempts 10 make little capi-
tai hy perverting and disappearing the
Special Message of Governor QUITMAN
soTe than supply every deficiency, anda
Jury CT the country of ordinary inteli-
gence would convict them of SANDER
without leaving the box. They commenc-
cd the campaign by asserting and repeat
inc, again and again, that the able and
patriotic Message of the late Governor, at
the opening Of the called session, recon-
meoded the separate, immediate and
prompt secession OF Mississippi from the
Union" when any man ofsense, who has
ever read IL KNOWS that, while it asserts
the right, IL contains no such recommen-
daSica- Gen FooTE, however, when he
returned from Washington, in order to
draw of the public attention from his
own misconduct. extraordinary and un-
parallel, except in the case of Tom BEN
roS.A declared. IN his first harangue at the
Capitol, that the issue was Union or Dis
Union, and, 10 use a figure of speech by
way oi illustration, the whole pack imme-
dIa'e.y took up the cry, and ever since.
such a barking and howling was seldom
Il ever heard No explanation, no dis
claimer, viii satisfy them. Their hypo-
critical professions of devotion to the u
Mon are fully exposed by the chagrin,
modification and distress manifested at
the resolutions of the Democratic State
Rights Convention. So MUCH DO THEY
LOVE THE UNION, THEY ALMOST WEEP AND
RAVE TO FIND NO PARTY AvowING WISH
TO DESTROY TT. Not satisfied with their
labored perversions of the first Message,
shey have lately taken up the Special
Message in relation TO the organization of
the militia, and the act TO promote Com
mon Schools. and are endeavoring to
make the good people believe that a stand
ing army was in contemplation, and that
the money which should have been dis
tib1ied 10 educate the poor children of
the country. has been illegally withheld
70 carry on wari The demagogues =
What contempt they must feel for the
Intelligence of the peoplel Do they ex-
pee; to gull them so easily, and thus in
duce them TO reward the traitors who
have deserted or betrayed them This is
no new trick. 1t is the old farce of the
log cabin and hard cider campaign. bro't
again upon the political stage. Besides
the sly circulation of those falsehoods in
certain quarters, distant from the Capital,
even the dignifed editor of the FLAG has,
on several occasions, alluded to the Spe-
cial Message in reference to these SUBJ
jects, and being guilty of gross injustice
TO Gov. QUrrNAN by attempting to con-
meet them with what he is pleased to call,
the ~paan of peaceable secession" Now,
what is tie truth, The design of organ
izing the Militia, was formed during Gov.
MATTHEWS administration, at time
when the leading Wings, and apparently
their whole party,were cooperating with
the Democrats in defence of Southern
Rights, and without the slightest refer
ence 10 our Federal relations. The out
line for bill. laid before the Legislature,
was the result of a consultation of a Board
ct Officers, which met and deliberated be-
fore Gov Quitman was elected. With
regard to the merits of the plan agreed
upon. L have nothing to say, but the out
line itself seems TO contemplate supply
OF arms from the General Government,
and the following extract from the Spe-
csal Message explains the whole matter,
and gives the lie to the idea held out, that
II was part of the unreasonable" scheme
of the Governor, to cut loose from the u
Mon and declare war:
"a concurrence, (says the Message in
the leading views of the Board of Officers,
which were convened by my predecessor.
and RESPECT ron THEIR OPINIONS INDUCED
NE 20 recommend the outlines of the plan
Tor organizing the volunteer militia, pre-
seased by them TO the Legislature, at its
lass session, and referred to in the report
!. Of Na]or-General DuFFIELD, Of date No
vember 10th, herewith transmitted"
The Military Bill, which the Editor OF
the FLsc has re-published, with such a
flourish OF trumpets, was, understand
drawn up by the President of the Board
Of Officers, himself always Wing. and
when reported to the House, was oppos.
ed BY some Of the strongest State Rights
Members Of the Legislature, and conse.
euently lost
/ So much for the Standing Army hum.
bux. Now for the School Bill. It seems
the friends Of this measure permitted Il te
pass the Legislature, during the frst ses.
SION, in such form and with such conditions