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The Union Meeting Ina Mississippi.
We have already recorded the demonstration of
the Union party at Jackson, Miss, but again re-
vert to it for the purpose of gathering few Of the
most striking passages from the speeches deIiv-
| cred on the occasion.
| Senator FooTE deemed heightened argument ON
the Compromise measures unnecessary in the pres.
cnt state Of feeling in Mississippi. He said:
"The sovereign people have already declared
that they are entirely satisfied with the plan of adj
| justment. Their decision has been the result of
| much reflection, OF much and deliberate scrutiny,
| and has been made after extended, multiplied and
most variegated controversy; and in my judg.
nent, there is but little danger of that decision
| being either reversed, modified, or ever repented
of. Since the people have acted in so imposing a
manner upon this subject, it has been my fortune
to traverse many counties OF noble State, and
iee authorized to declare that change in public
sentiment has occurred anywhere adverse to the
cause OF the Union whilst in every county that
have entered numerous have been present
cd to my view of alterations opinions among those
who voted the disunion ticket in September. Thou
sands OF honest voters, by means deficient in in
teligence have discovered in the last week or two
that they have been heretofore deceived and i'm
posed upon, and are now retraeing their steps and
openly confessing the error in which they have
been involved. | venture to predict, and do il
with much confidence, that the coming election in
November will exhibta great falling ofin the ranks
the strength of the Union party. The character of
the State of mississippi has been already most ri-
umphanuy vindicated against all suspicion of inf
dellty to our noble civic institutions; in November
we shall establish the claim which more than year
ago set up in behalf of noble people that they
were more zealously and thoroughly devoted to the
Union than any other people in America
At subsequent stage, he amplihed his observa-
tons on this point
"For my part, assure you that have never for
al he n i
dcted, more than eighteen months ago, the giori-
Gus result which we are realizing; and last
November, in the State capitol, upon the very day
previous to my setting out for Washington I
warned the demagogues of the hour, with several
OF the moot prominent of them in my sight at the
time, OF all the disasters which have since over
taken them. When dsunion leaders called into
existence new combination, under an imposing
coSnomen--when they announced to the world
the formation of great State Rights Association,
into which Wings and Democrats alike to
he admitted, provided always that they were will
ing TO aid in resisting the Constitution and laws
OF the Union, why we, the friends of the Union,
seeing the danger existed that State would
be dragged into secession and civil war, unless
something was done and without delay To avert
II, resolved Tor season to forget party and all
It's beSulllng interests, and without regard to
ancieH ~, I-snss, out of which so much fierce
contention had formerly arisen lost no time set
ting foot that noble patriotic organization
which has already secured to the friends of the Con-
shtutlon and laws one OF the most brilliant tri-
ter of that triumph II is not victory of the Dem
ocratc party over the Wing party, or the Wing
party over the Democratic party. II is triumph
OF patriotism over faction-of truth over error-of
the Constitution and laws the reasonable cf-
forts of men who were bent upon their destruction;
in fine, triumph of the people over the dema-
gogucs; again to occur in November, confidently
believe, and most ardenuy hope
Judge HOPKINS, Of Alabama pointed to the fact
that every State in the South except South Caro-
lima had acquiesced in the Compromise; and main
tanned that South Carolina has no right to AFRO
gate to herself the right to dictate to others:
"Let it be supposed that Southern Confederacy
were established, what guarantee was there that
in such a confederacy South Carolina, who
now treating her peers 30 contemptuousiy, would
not still continue the agiator, the dsorganzer
and the dictator! Did not her present and past
conduct indicate that this would be the result?
Undoubtedly it would; and hence it followed that,
if the present Union be not preserved, we could
have no Union The South Carolina politicians
knew that secessionism was disapproved by
every one of her sister States in the South;
but che was seeking a war with the Federal
Government to embroil the country, and OBJ
tain that support from by her sufferings
in the contest which she could never gain, under
present circumstances, by any other means. This
the tyranny of little State and her few friends
in other States. They expected 10 break up the
Union by the law OF sympathy. They declared
they would march with their collins their backs
10 the line Of $50 30. They aping the French
revolutionists, one of whom had publicly declared
that he respected no law but the law of triumph;
and a South Carolina orator, in making speech
lately, said he respected no law but the law of Sc
oession! They wanted secession now; they wanted
il now, right wrong, because the excitement
upon which they lived had still some life in it."
OF the movements of the Secessionsts in his own
State he spoke in similar strain:
"In Alabama they had patterned their organiza-
tons after the fashion of the French revolutionists
they had established jacobinical clubs and, though
feeble in numbers, had by concerted action sucS
ceedcd in making no uncomfortable noises These
clubs were in constant correspondence with each
other, and set of resolutions passed by one ofthem
was sure to go through the whole lot. They had
held two conventions, which affected to be repre-
sentatlon of the will and voice of Alabama, but
with which the people had nothing whatever to do,
Tor the assemblages composed exclusively OF
the clubs Of self appointed dctators. Their tactics
had been TO denounce the Union men as untaithtul
to the South. They had to the full the Jacobincal
art OF exaggeratng their numbers ana tneir innu-
ence, and more presumptuous, overcoming, and
interruptions set of men, never undertook TO leada
people TO destruction"
The judge proceeded TO anmadvcrt severely on
the poliy of South Carolina a State, contcnding
that cher whole system of government is aristo-
cratic, and that ga contemptuous disregard of the
rights of her people is distinguishing character
isic of her public men," He then went into
elaborate analysis of the measures composing the
Compromise law. He went through them seria-
tim, and argued that not single southern right
had been invaded; but on the contrary, constitu-
tonal provision for the protection of slave proper
ty, which until now had never been enforced,
put into active operation by the Fugitive Slave
law. The Missouri Compromise was fully respect
cd. There was no inhibition of slavery south Of
90 30, and TO no territory either north south of
that line, had any of the provisos odious TO the
South--thoso provisos against which tho South had