The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-07-22
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who rossesses H. There is to weapon m
polnical warfare 70 fatal a. that Of neon.
si'iency, when II can be firmly fixed upon
a pubic man. or press. Our cotsmponnes
Of The Wig aud Matches Co0scy. have
displayed al industry worhier Jar Of bet.
'ct cause, to hold the Republican up as an
inconsistent and tickle pnnt-laking a posi-.
ton today end abandoning il tomorrow.
In their eagemess to stamp this odious
charge upon rs, they loose sight OF the fact.
that they are Ho;c s;rainiag every nerve to
its utmost tenure. TO elect to the Gubema-
iorial chair Gen. Fo q, a man upon whose
head they have poured out. in former times.
their mos, bitter wrath; they forget. that as
party journals, they are striving 10 elect to
the odices of Mississippi men whom they
have denounced as Repudiators, Btiscoi,es
and ultra locofocoes. They are overlook.
ing, in this respect, the mountain in their
own eyes. and reproaching their neighbors
for tire moai that is in his.
So far rs the charge of inconsistency is
made against up, we think it totally unjust
aud u~ngrounded. II they have done us the
honor to read our journal since we have
had control OF its eolurhns. they can but
bear testimony with all our readers. that
we stand to-day on the SAM platform we
erected In our enl-start. We defy them
aud the world TO show one solitary instance
In which we have abandoned that platform,
or TO point us to a sentiment we have ut.
tered against the Union. II we have erred
il has been in ~endeavoring TO sustain the
Union and the Constitution--and we eau.
didly admit, that in more than one instance,
we have subjected ourself to the censure
and disapprobation OF some of our political
friends, for the stand we have taken in de-
fence Of the Union. @a'
That a disunlon spirit was extant TO a
certain extent among both wings and de-
mocrats. in this State, we do not deny. We
have labored TO chain tina. spirit, aud to
prove that it was Mt enmity with the true
interests Of the South. We declared that
we would remain in the Union as long as
we could, and that IL we were drivcn out,
we would carry the constitution with US.
The speakers Of our party in this county
declared further, that our rights are in the
Union, and in.the Union we must contend
for those rights" Although a number Of
our public men and presses in other por-
tons Of the State, had grown impatient OF
ever obtaining justice from the North, and
did not believe that the compromise could
or would be sustained, yet we thought dit.
fcrently and stated that "for the sake Of
Union and harmony we are willing to sub.
init to The compronIiso--but it meets our
uneqnivocal disapprobaSion. Reflection
and study upon the true interests Of the
South have convinced all men that this
was the safest policy, and to-day, we do
not believe there is o solitary democratic
paper in the State. which has not adopted
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The charge then, that we have changed,
needs proof to sustain it. e.Ha
II is also stated that ole week, we have
advocated the olliteration of old party
names, and the next, have argued different.
ly. We have seen nothing yet to change
our faith in the time honored principles of
democracy. There is nothing now which
we advocate. that is foreign to those an.
Glen. principles. We stand upon the Viz.
GINA and Kentucky Resolutions of 90, and
'99, drawn by the hands Of Jefferson and
Madison, the great fathers of democracy
and State rights. New issues have arisen,
and may continue to arise, that must be
met by the country; but we see no more
necessity Of changing or dropping the name
Of democracy, in order to meet the ques.
tons now before the county. than there
would be 20 meet any local issue tina,
might arise in bur State or County. There
are issues which are local to the whole
government, and which men may meet
without changing their original principles
: and the Compromise is one Of those mea
sutcs. The question Of the C~ompromis,
. stands to the comfy, a local issue, in every
! respect, as the improvement Of the road
: or the navigation OF the Homochitto. stand
0 10 this individual county, Men of ei,he
b party may advocate or oppose that inca
sure, and still be wings and democrats.
We hold that the wings of this State
With General Foore at their head, hav