The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-09-02
TO II HE PEOPLE.

sort time since there was desperate
at,enmpt made by ,nc so called " Union
party" to force the impression Oh the peo
pie Of this county, that the Southern Rights
party were Disunionists.-that the issue be-
tore the country was one OF Union or Dis
union For time. this mmbng was SO
strongly urged that every one who tiared
10 take the part of the South against the
North, aud truly represent the many acts
oFwrong aud injustice committed ana threat
ened by the northern people through the co.
operation OF Congress against the South
and her iudisputabe rights under the con
stitution, and advise her TO unite and take
prorer measures to arrest the progress of
the threatened erile. were denounced and
branded as dsunioaists, wishing 10 destroy
The Government.
Although, this attempt TO deceive the
people, was promptly repelled aud exposed,
yet it did not stop the sandcr; the same
attempt was soon uade again, but IN quite
different form. The cry was now raised
audswiftly carried through the ranks OF the
Union party" that the Southern Rights
party were not dlsunonists no, not "a all, but
they were sece~sioni>,s, wishing to peacea
hly withdraw from the Union Immediately.
This unfounded assertion was in its turn IN.
SANITY met, fatty eontradicled and shown
TO be utterly untrne.
Col. jeff Davis, on the l9ih Of Novcm.
her, 1850, in 4 letter which has been ex
tensivey circulated iuths county, in answer
10 questions put to lim by certain mem.
hers of the legislature, expressly says: "lf
HnY have falsely, ana against the evidences
before them, attempted TO tiS on me the
Charge OF wishing to dissolve the Union
under existing circumstances, am sure
your information and intelligence have en-
abed you TO detect the shallow fraud If
any have represented me as seeking to es-
iablish Southern confcderacy on the ruins
Of that which our revolutionary fathers be-
queathed to us, my whole life and every
sentiment have ever uttered in public or
private, give them the le. If any have
supposed gratuitousy, 0hey could not 9TH
etwise) that my efforts in the Senate were
directed ec the secession Of Mississippi from
the Union, their hearts must lave heeu i'll.
sopsible 70 the obligations Of honor and
good faith. which feel are imposed upon
me- by the position Of an accredited agent
from Mississippi, to the Federal Govern.
nent." Governor Brown, Coils. Stewart
and Gordon, and all other true Southern
Rights men. have repeatedly said in sub.
sance the same thing Yet, no;withstaad
ing this positive denial and clear refutation
OF this groundless charge against the South
ern Rights party, of advocating the imme
diate secession of Mississippi from the I'm.
lon, still it.was secretly circulated for the
purpose of deceiying the uninfo med, until
the publication OF the resolutions OF the
ate convention of the States Rights patty
which met at Jackson i'll June last. The
l4th resolution of that convention reads as
follows:
I'D. That the advocates Of States
Rights are the true friends Of the South
and of the Union and that no right
can be more clear or more essential TO
'hc protection of the minority, than
the right of n State peaceably to with
draw from the Union. without denial
or obstruction from any quarter what
ever; but whilst we assert the right,
we consider it the last remedy, the
3nal alternative and also declare that
me exercise of it by the State of Mis-
slssippl, under existing circumstances,
would De lnexpediant, and ia propos
sition which does not mt II5c azupr,.
baton of this conventiotRS & 49,
This resolution is conclusive, there i> no
getting round tit speaks for itself, and
plainly shows the true position OF the
southern Rights party. 1t declares eApli.
city that secession is looked to las the last
remedy. the final alternative That under
existing circumstances, it would be insE.
ped'e'1. ard is q proposition tclsich does
'''t n1eet The Gpprobati0H Of the conucn.
f'0"'' What is now to be done says a un.
lohlst' privately. to friend, why. from this
'eSoiution. we of the Union party are mora
Q, secessionists than they are we have
adopted tho Georgia platform, aud in the
s.n resolution thereof we have struck out
Neotgia and inserted the name of Mlsss
slpp, 'e Its place. Here follows the 4tL
resolution Of the Georgia platform
,,';1t - That Mississippi in our judgmer
VIII and ought TO resist. even las a IA d
resorD to disruption of every ii
which binds her 10 the Union. apv az.
'ion of Congress upon The subiect a,
slavery in the District Of Columbia or