The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-15
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necessity Of Hotthsfu STATES hihhs As8't
lions and in doing 20, I hope 10 show taai Il
is by such associations only that the mas OF
the Southern people can be reused up 10 =
knowledge Of their true condition in this great
political confederacy, and manhalled into a
proper attitude Of defence against the ageres-
mons Of the North.
II is now well settled in the minds Of those
possessing any degree Of discemment and Po-
liiical honesty, that the anti-slayery move
ment is to 60 on until it overwhelms us; and
all the signs from the North show that II has
received new and most powerful impulses
since the passage Of the compromise measures
Nearly every State there has spoken out IN
tones of Thunder against that constitutional law
made by Congress to protect the South Now,
this being the fact, those who cry peace, and
endeavor to lull US to sleep, while the danger
is lowering over our heads with all its con-
stantiy formulating darkness, are certainly
blind to our true Interests. Those who oppose
the assembling Of ourselves together in order
to take measures and prepare ourselves for the
crisis before Us, are certainly blind TO our pc
sition and the modUs operdndi of all the great
popular of the present age. They
are also blind to the well disciplined condition
of the Abolition cohorts of the Northern States.
Whence is that tremendous power which is
moving the great body Of the Northern mind,
like the beating waves Of the ocean, against
the fugitive slave law, or, in other words,
against the Constitution? Whence has been
accumulated all that influence and power
which are coming down upon us like the
weight of a descending screw4 1t is derived
from the primary meetings held throughout
the Northern States, for the express purpose of
agitating the question Of slavery. There is
scarcely a town, village or hamlet that does
not have its societies formed, well organized
and religiously devoted to the destruction OF
slavery. The continual teachings of the ten
thousand pulpits of New Englandsre constant
ly falling upon the ears of the people to rouse
them into opposition to us and our institutions
If the excitement has been checked some.
what in Congress, it is only that the South may
be quoted and the work carried on with ten.
fold more rigor at home, as the elections are
, now very plainly showing. New York, Ohio
, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and we may
as well add, Massachusetts, are now to be rep.
, resented in the United Senate by open and
avowed anti.slavery men, To say nothing o.
4 the host of Free.soilers poured into the Hous,
!, of Representatives, the ranks of the Senat,
q have been broken, and some half dozen bold
, daring, dangerous men have entered that sa
4 cred and august body, pledged to the destruc
$ ton of all we hold dear. Anti-slayery is tn,
. test question in almost every mans election t.
Congress from the North, and it is in vain t
ia deny this fact. II the waters of agitation ant
a excitement have been checked somewhat b,
!, the late compromise, it is only that the flood
4 may break through upon us with a more feaI
q full destruction in the future. The signs of tn
times plainly show this,
a We are called upon by the so,called Unio
4 party to cease our fears, and let the matte
rest; but are the North letting slavery alone
a No! Abolitionists were never doing NOR
d than at the present time. A very few year
q will be sufficient to pass any law, and alter tn
Constitution. This is the result aimed at as sur
as we exist in the Federal Union. Well Nigh
d we cry peace, and fold our arms to rest, if on
i brethren Of the North were doing likewise
h but it is not so the enemy of our rights is aC
o tive, and becoming more powerful and dar
II gerous every day. And Isee no way of stem
h ming this tremendous current of evil, but fc
{ the South to rise to q man in defence of i
rights. Organize, should be our watch-wor,
IL it is right for the North to agitate a ba
q cause, and form itself into associations for evi
n ii is certainly right for us to agitate a goo
a cause and form ourselves into associations tC
n good, and the protection OF our constitutions
rights. The South needs union and frmnes
1t She has lost too much by false friends. lie
"A walls of defence have been broken down to
h often by traitors at home. She has always ha
Dr. Representatives in Congress willing to yiel
and compromise her rights; and this is one
is the material points in which the South hs
81 suffered.
to In my opinion, we should be so organize
n. and disciplined, and so determined in regar
=" to this great question, that our Representative
z would no more dare to go to Congress and con
,e promise away our rights than a Greek or
Roman dared TO return home from a bait
without the laurels of bravery The best M
I. thod of arriving at this result, is, by the forms
L ton of active and energetic Southern STAT
I Rights Associations. am no agitator. In
> calm state Of THE Republic, it is abhorrent, b.
% now agitation is salvation.
l. But says my neighbor, you aim at secesso
e and your doctrine tends to the most disastrcl
T. consequences. To this objection, | will on
a. 49,