The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-04-09

unmndful of our own true aud real interest
are always eager to get them. But repeal
the fugitive slave law aud the grain grow
ing Save holding States loose properly to
the value OF 100000 a yeal. 1t is no
wonder then that they should threaten dis
solution Oft the Union ifthis law il repealed,
while they 'ulci submission 10 what has
been done; but it is q little strange to US
that southern slave holders should be so cas-
lily caught and carried away by this false
and interested cry
Now Fellow citizens, if Virginia, Mary
land, Kentucky, Missouri, anu Tennessee,
were unwilling to unite with US and stop the
North from admitting California las they sure
ly could have done is it reasonable for those
States to expect the South to bind herself to
their car TO be dragged by them oat Of the
Union in the event Of the repeal of the Fu
gtive Slave Law? Their frontier, their
large seaport towns and intimate commerce
with the North render them easy prey to
tho abotionists; our slaves are safe from
disturbance, and those States s,rve as break
waters against the restless and ever beat
ing tide OF northern lanalicisn. The repeal
Of this law would be nothing in tho list OF
wrongs l1digaities, AMI spoliations, which
the south has already suffered, but far
worse than this may be done by an uncurb
ed and dominant majority deed that would
Justly bring about an immediate dissolution
the Union; aud it ia to prevent this that We
demand for our safety a southern Congress.
Allow US to direct your attention, Gentle
men of the Union party. to the inconvent
ences and hazards of the position you have
chosen Yon distinctly announce yourselves
as opposed 10 a convention (See 9Th resolt
ton of the Union meeting at Jackson.) bu
you will resist if certain law Of Congress:
Is repealed. This is sufficiently explicit a,
a declaration doubtless, but what sort of re
s.siance is contemplated by youl Have you
VerJ clear ideas upon this head yourselves
Do you mean individual resistance, or the
resistance of the Safe of which you are 6
citizen! or the combined resistance of al
the southern States? Ii you mean individ,
al resistance to lid act of Congress, tina
is flat rebellion, gentlemen, and we cauno
90 with you. Ifyou mean resistance on tn,
part OF Mlssissi Ppi only, this we grant yor
would DO within The pae Of YOUR poitica
power; it would be legal in snort, but w
think it would look little silly, and fey
very few Of US could join you in such ste
as this Do you mean then - resist b
the combined and united acti IN o! the sous
ern States? But how are the States {
combine without concert How can therr
be concert without conference! And how
are the Safes to confer without frat conv
nlng! Well then; this act of converting
the very convention or Congress, that we {
! the State Rights party wish to bring abou
aud which you by your Jackson resolution
oppose. If you sit with folded arms uni
this Law is repealed, how long would it r
e Qu're to enable you to bring about this niece
sary Concert among the States o f the sout
II which we seek to effect in a Vance? "
. would have first to agree upon plan Of
- ganzatiOn, then you would have to organi
ID under this plan, thento deliberate upon
a plan Of resistance; at the end of which tim
;. the reasons for resistance at all, may not
q pear absolutely imperative to all Of 20
!. Time often diminishes the sense of iniu
" and sometimes bluuts the sting of insult.
b. has happened already, more than once sin
u the beginning Of this contest; not with y
!, gentlemen, but it has happened with t
y great States Of Virginia and Georgia. w
r. can find language strong enough to sta'
bo as it deserves the recent conduct of Georg
be The words which the great master Of
v. guage puts into the mouth Of father de
CO ring the lost honor Of his polluted and ruin
w child. is scarcely more than fitting the CT
ed and condition of Georgia.
i. "Oh! she is laller
ne Into pit of ink that the wide sea
l. Hath drops too few to wash her clean aga
lie And salt too little which may season {
all To her foul tainted name"
OF No, do not let US fall like Georgil int
his state of iisllessness and lanccd seeur
on Let us organize and prepare for resistaI
No, fit shall be necessary, and if it ne
ike shall be necessary what injury resilts7
no, rattle snake, the monarch OF reptiles, b.
an not languidly, & at full length until the
yes mans foot is litsedsoYer him, for he kn