The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-09-16
The Ssulh Delud,d.

frightened Of the State rights track by the
bng-bear, disunion." The true issue before
the people was not uaion or dIsunion-but
the approval or ~disopproyHl Of the principles
of the compromise. There Is not a dozen
of submissionists in this county, who deny
that the compromise was unjust 10 the
South ; yet the old wings loved their par.
ty better than the State, and succeeded in
gaining a victory by the continual cry of
the Union m danger!
Mississippi has been frightened Of the
State Rights track by the bug-bear disunion.
The plausible and glib rhetoric of Foote, the
senseless cutlery Of partisans-but, above all
the high price received for last years crop,
have overcome, for a time, at least, those
manly views and principle for which such
true sons of the South, as Quitman, Davis.
Ghion and Stewart, have contended with a
noble devotion, worthy of the CAUSE
Though others may cherish the hope Of he
eventual triumph Of Quitman, we confess
we are not so sanguine. 1t takes more than
three or six months TO cure a people Of a
de%lusion, 50 deep seated, rs that which has
possessed a large portion of the people Of the
South, The sober second though will not
come around for sometime yet. The South
is a candidate for still further aggression
Its invitation will be promptly accepted.
We shall have more compronises-more
submissi0n-further suppression of all resis-
tame under the cry Of disunion. There Is d
good time now for Presidential candidates,
deeply tinctured with Freesoilism. Great
will be the 10y Of Var Buren, and Rantoul,
Of Greeley and Adams. They will now rule
the roost in the democratic and wing Con-
v~ention, Sam Houston will no longer need
the services of his old friend Donaldson, and
Seward will again over-slaugh Fillmore.
"Why," they will argue down their tender
footed conferes, should we be at all troub-
led about the South. They have swallow.
ed the compromise, which, though not a
whole.hog measure, is a good beginning
and now, that we understand the capacity
Of their oscophaguS, we should not recede
an inch, but prepare for them another
DOSE
Such will be the political effect of the
late elections to the South. Disguise the
matter as you may, there is no escaping the
conclusion, that the eagerness with which
so many of the Southern people have en-
braced the compromise, must produce, in
the minds of the Northern people. the con.
viction that We are easily satisfied that
there is scarcely anything we will not &C.
cept, under the cutlery that our refusal may
endanger the Union. Sometime ago there
was some talk Of conditions and provisos.
Toombs and Stevens, of Georgia, fired up,
as they usually do every six months, and de-
clare that any further concessions were in
compatible with Southern honor and safety.
But this has now passed away. 1t is now
neck or nothing. 1t is only necessary to say
a man is a disunionists, to crush him. Prin-
ciples which incline to State rights, and up.
on which the Southern States have stood
for years, now tend to disunion and must be
repudiated. The democractic party, whose
success, heretofore, is mainly due to it's de-
votion to State sovereignty, has fallen into
the trap so cunninly set for it by the wings.
States rights are Frustrated under a bad and
spurious name. 1t remains to be seen whe.
Their it is wiser to concilliate, or ~resistaggres-
sion. We were opposed to the co,npromis,
because we were friends of the Union. No
example can be found in history, of a strong
party ever stopping at moderate concessions
from a weaker. Ten years ago the bare
suggestion chat the South would be deprivd
OF all advantages from the aquisition Of Cali.
f~ornia,-would be virtually excluded from
her limits, would have been received, by
every man in the South, with a contemptu-
Gus enlal. 1t is now a stern reality, and
our people are delighted with it. Cotton
has iattened MS up to that degree that the
Northern collar is esteemed an ornamen to
our sickness. We have no longer the
pride of the Henrys, the Masons, the Ran
dolphs, the Pinckneys, the Calhouns, which
preferred the heightened independence and
manly spirit Of the South, to all the spin
ming jennies and ~iron-foundries of the North.
A few years, nay months, will prove
which have been the better friends of the
Union,-those who constantly have that
word upon their lips,-who imagine that it
can be strengthened by concessions, by de.
partures from the Constitution and its fund
amental basis of equality, or those that hold
that the Union rests upon the Constitution
and its security depend upon the preserva'
ton of both the letter aud spirit of that ms
trument. In permitting one portion OF the
Union to appreciate entirely to itself a vas'
country, acquired by the blood and treasure
. of all the States, you have made a wide gar
in that Constitution, into which the wedge
of Northern aggression has been inserted
r Soon the requisite pressure will be applied
T and that sacred covenant be severed II
twain. What then will become OF the
Union We shrink from looking dow
that precipice.
. l. is no modification, TO us at least, t.
! find ourselves in a minority in defence of tn,
= doctrine OF States rights.--of the power