The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-07-08

were borne 10 his car on the breeze, telling
him ofthe peril of his comrades, his soldier
heart could not be restrained, and selling
Capt. Coopcr's horse, he rushed into the UNI.
equal conflict. But Saturday last, with his
own hands he aided in firing a salute to his
noble commander OH that bloody fcId--Col.
Davis.
Mr.. II. was stricken down without a mo-
ments warning. lie was returning from
the ballot box, where had just voted, IN APP
parent good health, when he was taken with
an apoplectic ft, and died in less than IN
hour.
lie will he buried today.
We republisll, for the sake of making GER
tain corrections, the resolutions adopted at
the late Southern Rights Convention. We
would call the especial attention ofour wing
friends to these resolutions. They will be
ofinfnite advantage to those persons who
have labored so zcalously to fix the design
Of treason and piracy upon the motives Of
the Southern Rights party. These resolu-
Iutions will show conclusively, that the de-
mocratic party, who, claim for n sovereign
State equality under the Federal compact,
are not traitors, nor dlsunionisss, but the firm
and steadfast frieRds OF the constitution, de-
termined to preserve that sacred instrument
at all hazards, from the wanton attacks of
a party who are disposed to recognize a
"higher law" and whose love Of a strong
central government is n marked character
istic.
Nothing can be more clear and explicit
than the lith resolution, in regard to the po-
sition claimed and occupied by the South
ern Rights, or Democratic party. We cali
particular attention TO it
ia. That the advocates Of State Rights
arc the true friends Of the South, and of the
Union; aid that no right can be more clear
or more essential to the protection of the
minority, than the right OF a State peacea.
DIV to withdraw from the Union, without
denial or obstructiomfrom any quarter what
ever; but whilst we assert Inc right, we
consider it the last remedy. the final alter,
native and also declare that the exercise
of it by the State Of Mississippi, under ex
, listing circumstances, would be inexpedient
and Is q proposition which does not NEE
the appreciation Of this Convention.
Time, the great soother aud healer of al
human affections, is fast mellowing downth'
rampant disposition OF. our political oppon
nents. by placing them in their Legitimate
element. The old party names-whig ant
dcmocat-which for a season were drop
/. ped. are becoming more freqdently used b,
$ our exchanges, and more familiar to the ey
. and ear. In nearly all the southern State
parties arc rallying upon their old princi
/. ples--the democracy holding to the State
rights doctrine, and the wings clinging t
their long.cherishcd dogmas of federalism
and consolidation. The humbug cry of tn
Union, notwithstanding the vehemence an
pcrtinacity employed by the wings TO seeur
its prestige for their party purposes, ho
most signally failed, The people have sec
for themselves that there was as much
not more-Unionism in the creed of thos
n who seek to preserve from violence and
i buse the Constitution, as there is IN the pre-
!, fession of those who get upon the house-toT
n and highways to proclaim their patriotism
In Alabama and Louisiana the democrac
-, have never lost sight of their identity-the
have eyer claimed the Staterights doctrin
rs one OF their fundamental principles, sam
toned and approved by Jefferson and Mad
son. In Mississippi, it should also be tbs
II Il is a'fact that admits of 10 dispute, til
the Staterights doctrine is advocated in tn
State almost exclusively Ivy the democrat
"a marty and the old Siaterightsmen Of 1873
while the so.s,yled Union party is nothir
but the old Federal wing party, and a fe
fugitives, who had left it in 1886, for u
purpose Of getting Office under Van Bure
The reso utions on our first page presei
!, no new feature in the democratic platform
- They are the identical principles upon whiC
the democracy in the southern States no
. stand. The ~expediency OF exercising Il
right of secession, is to be determined by G
cry State which feels that undue and unju
10 mower has been exercised by the federal 6
ycrnmcnt towards it. If South Cardiff
OF thinks that her honor requires that she s
cede, the privilege is undeniably hers to
so.
G. We perceive from our Carolina excha
n. res. that there is much probability that u
Legislature Of South Carolina will oPpol
separate State secession ut this time. III
lis leading men Of the Stale are opposing u