The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1851-01-16


A committee exists in New York under the
importing name Of the "Uniou Safety Commit,
tes' and they who place any reliance on it
win surely be imposed on.
They do not con6ue the duties of the Com
mittee to rectifying the freesoil and abolition
spirit that IS now predominant in their own
State and throughout all Yankeedom, and IL
this were the end and scope Of their duties, it
would be legitimate and unobjectionable.
But like the false %bantling of spurious phil
.anthrophy [abolition) they overlook the evils
and diseases of their own region and have
opened a correspondence with the slave States
with the view Of erangeising the political
heather down South It might be well to en-
quire who are these great political Doctors,
who have taken,undei their particular keeping,
the safety of this "~glorious union.n
Mr.. Walker of Mobile in his reply to their
correspondence published IN the MissisSippian
of last week, has sketched the characters of
the most prominent.
Some, perhaps most Of them, figured in the
Utica Convention Of seeding wings that made
a feeble resistance TO Sewardism, but who final
y 'cGued p and yielded their support to the
Seward candidate (Mr. Hunt) who was OPP
posed to the Fugitive Slave Bill as it now
stands andY advocated essential notifications.
Az Utica they took to themselves the dis
%tinctive appeIation Of "National Wings" and
IN pursuance Of this Nationality" idea they
have taken the Vhole Union under their foster
ing care.
"No pent up Utiea contracts our powers
The whole uubounded Continent is ours.''
A prominent man on this "Union Safety
COmmittee'' is Hiram Ketchum.
He believes that Congress has a right to abol
ISL slavery in the District of Columbia and pr
ques himself on having done much to 'advance
the principle of ABOLITION. In his speech in
the Utica Convention be thus speaks of his eff
forts in the cause of ~freesoil:
III will make no boast, but / should like to
see the man who has done more, from his carli-
est manhood to the present moment, in advoca-
ting the principle of ABOLITION than the hum
bic individual who now addresses Won and nv
principles are unchanged, entirely unchanged.n
This 'Union Safety Committed man here
boasts-no, he disclaims bodsting-but asks
somewhat boastingly who has done more for
ABOLITION than he has, and further he as
serts that his principles are unchanged entirely
Hnchanged.' A marvellous proper man for a
Union Safety Committee that has opened a
correspondence with the South, urging upon
the Southern people to form Union a%ssocia-
tons and Union committees similar to that OF
New York. Q
We should not be surprised, iii should turn
out to be a part ofthe duty ofthis New York
committeeto make some efforts at abolitioniz,
ing the South.
This Mr.. Ketchun, addressing the Southern
people, in allusion to slavery, says to us;
"Your forms Of government in your States
differ from ours; ,e have advanced further than
you; but the darkness was once upon us.p
That is, by abolishing slavery they have adj
vanced, they see clearer than we do in reference
to this subject and it becomes them to dispel
the darkness that prevails down in the benight.
ed South.
Verify our northern brethren are very cool
and self complacent in their arrogln Mt claims OF
superiority!
This New York "Union Safety Committeer
will set us all right we presume, and rectify pub
lie sentiment down in our region as they see so
much clearer than the people Of the South.
AS Yankeedom regards Mississippi as grew
ously afflicted with altraism (darEne~ they call
it we suppose) it is but reasonable to suppose
that the northern sUnion committees will
make strong efforts to teach our State the
truth and the right
Perhaps this "Union Safety Committee of
Mr. ketchum' is already in correspondence
with our Union friends in this state-they have
done SO in other slave holding States, and of
course Mississippi will not be overlooked.
Let the South beware of following a "North-
ern lead'-let her beware of Northern coun-
sells and Northern lights and Northern profes
sions. Surely she has every reason to watch
with jealous distrust every movement in that
quarter. Iineo Daaaos ct dona ferentes.