Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-05-20
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1ha Hwhia Nemimaalem ia Mississippi.
 On Monday the 6th inst, a sO-called Union Con- ventiou met at Jackson, Mississippi, for the Pur- pose of nominating candidates to fill the State off, ces. The convention was composed of lS0 whgs, among whom were the most bitter and uncOmpro- mising old fashioned feeralists, and twenty secre ant democrats. mostly disappointed office seekers. This assemblage made the following nominations:
 For Governor. H. s. FooTE; Secretary of State, James A. Horn, (whigl; for Auditor, D. R. Rus cell, (whig); for State Treasures, William Clark. (who waSnt renOminated for the same office by the Democrats a few years since; and who was violently opposed to the Compromise measures, satil sbsut tie ti~ss q the UniOn ConVention.l
 It will thus be seen that the whg party of Mis- sissippi has committed itself upon the subject Of State rights and Southern interests, and, by the nomination of the recreant democrat Henry s. Foote, has spvVped, ratiesd and co4frmei the com promise measures of the late Congress. and ac- knowledged willing submission to all the aggTes- sions upon Southern rights, for the protection of which the democracy of the South aided by large portion Of the true democracy of the North have been so bEavelv battling. We do not wish to make the Southern question party test, for on this subject whgs and democrats throughout the South should be united heart and hand, but we have observed with regret that there is disposi- ton upon the part of the whig wireworkers Of the South under cover of the name of the Union party, to beguile the unsuspecting into support of men, who have been traitors tohe South and false friends to the Union. The device Is as shallow but far more pernicious than the assumed name of mo- party party, by whose magic influence they were enabled to succeed in the last presidential cleo ton. We trust that in Arkansas at least the eyes Of the people are open and that they will not be gulled by any such purely psrtizan trickery, into the support of men who are not known and tried advocates of Southern interests, nor lead into the approps of any measures aggressive upon the rights of our citizens.
 | The advocates of States rights are the true Union men of the country. To their efforts alone are we indebted that the late compromise mea- sures were not even more unjust to the South, and to them must we look in the future for pro lection for ourselves, our property aud our dearest priveleges and for the safety of the country.
 Although the South. in preference to sudden 1 ana VlOlcub 0iSSVAuttoA VI thS CA~'' ANS ~"'N-' ingly acquiesccd in the late compromise measures, her people, if not blinded by the most fallacious sophistry, must still believe that they were unjust and unconstitutional. They must still believe that the exclusion of slavery from l53, 900 square miles of public territory was an act of unconstitutional injustice; that the dismembermeut of Texas, to be l paid for with money furnished almost entirely by the South, was an unpalliated and inexcusable outrage; that the fugitive slave act was no guar antee of future protection but merely the reitera ton of an established constitutional provsion; and that the suppression of the slave trade n the Dis trct of Columbia was an unwarantable aSsump- ton of power on the part of Congress, and the en- tering wedge of a series of premeditated aggres- sons upon our most prominent domestic instlt;i tion and our social relations, by which in the end slavery in the States may be abolished and the negro and the white man placed upon political equality as in New York and Massachusetts, The people of the South, wings as well as demo- crats, must still believe these facts, boasted of at 1 the North and confessed by the South, and all l though they may not rush heedlessly upon seces- sion and dissolution. they surely can not be in- duced to seal their own fate and cringngly to kiss the hand that smites them, by giving their APPROVAL and RATIFICATION directly or indirectly; to such odous and unweleome enactments.