The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-08-19

The Old ajage that drowning men viii
catch at siaws. was never more fully YER
i6cd than in the fact that the Jackson alag
Of the Union. - The strongest aud most IN.
~scupuIous Wing paper in this State, pub
/ lishcs in extract from the letter Of FOL
JEFF. Davis, ~ answer to questions put to
him lest November, by cer-in members Of
the Legislature, land which has been extern.
sive!y circulated in this county, The real
object Of the " Flag no doubt in its despe-
ra.lon. is to try and get some to believe
that Col. Davis fayors immediate seces-
sion. Why did it not publish the whole Of
this letter? Because Col, Davis expressly
gives the lie to any and all who say or III
sinuatc that he is or ever was in favor Of
d|isunion or Secession, under existing cir
cumstances. Col. Ventrcss in his speech.
ca, tries to p;ove Quitman a Secessionist,
because some man at some obscure place IN
South Carolina, at dinner, drank a toas. say.
ing, John A. Quitnan first President Of
the Southern Republic These are indeed
desperate shifts 10 try and keep up appear.
ances. Here follows the extract from Col.
Davis's letter. We copy from the Jackson
(Whig) Flag.
am in favor of the execution of the
plan indicated by the State Convention of
/ n-.I-- tOIn III .1IrAr, II tI,, Tz.r.,,
ton to the slaveholding States. and by the
| Legislature of the State at its last session,
which | consider may be stated thus: to
submit the question TO the people, in a law,
for the assembling of a Convection Of the
| State. to consider of and decide Oh our pres.
ent condition and future prospects, aud the
measures which should he adopted. To.
prepare for the defence Of the State, armed
if need be. To propose a Convention Of
the sIavehoIding States, TO be composed of
formally elected delegates, which should
unite all those States who were willing to
assert their equality and right to equal
protection in, and equal enjoyment of the
common property, The States thus united
should in my opinion, demand Of the other
EANNtog bllIl EIdlhttttC - NOulu NCGblt W
them the safety, tina benefits, the tronqulli-
ty which the Union was designed to con
fer. It granted, the minority could live in
equality under the temple of our federal
compact if refused, it would be conclu-
sive evidenced of the design of the. minority
to crush all paper barriers beneath the heel
Of power the gulf of degradation would
yawn before MS. The equality to which
we were born being denied, and the alter
native of slavish sabmissiog or manly resist
ance being presented to us, | shallbe IN fa-
'vor of the latter. Then if full provision
has been made. in the preparation of arms,
of munitions Of war, Of manufacturing es.
tablishmets, aud all The varieties Of agricul.
ture to which our climate and soil are adapt
cd, the slaveholding States, OF even the
planting States may apply the latest RENE
dy,--the final alternative of separation
without bloodshed or severe shock to com
mercial interests, painful under any circum
stances it must he 10 those, who have
through life cherished the hope Of perpetn
ity TO our Union, to see it destroyed bu
Faithful history will record our many sacri
fees to preserve it, and the responsibility
Of its destruction must attach to those VIII,
by assailment of the Constitution, which
they had the power to violate and not til,
will to observe. have stiled in the Unioi
the breath of its existence, A most unfai
attempt has been made to put in the fore
ground the question of Union or Disnnion
by those who were violating or surrender
ing our constitutional rights. To yield III
aggression is to produce, certainly in tn
future, that condition from which dissolu
! ton must, and civil wal probably wi
spring; unless il be assumed, thatth South
eru minority, will hereafter consent to oC
4 cupy such position, towards the Norther
majority, as the colonies Of North AIMED
I. ca, on the 4th of July, 1916, determine
4 not to hold towards the Kingdom, Of Grea
Britain. The destruction of that equi!
brium, which would have prevented tn
3 overthrow Of the Constitution BY the cot
struction Of an interested majority, ma
be charged to the generous concessions {
the South in ceding the Northwestern tie
ritory, in permitting the Missouri compron
5 Use, and by otherless noted acts winch al
cumulated power in the North, by transit,
from the South. Concession aud %saerifc
have not secured to us the good feeling
-, the North submission to wrong will IL
y probably command their respect. To pr
serve the Union, the principles, the spirit
the Constitution must bepreserved. | 4
s not think the North has given us reason
expect this service frem that quarter; no
shall the South effect that This, to n
5 mind, is the question to which we shou
direct our investigation.
y Whatever can effect that end will civ
. pcrpetuity to the Union; if it cannot |
reached, then the government changes /
; character; there might remain an unic
but not the Union.
For myself, / have no hesitation to i
d form you that | prefer 70 so out of the U
ion, with the constitution, rather than aba
" don the constitution, to remain in an U
ion.