The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-01-01

otnef. 4hs principle was propounded al >
a very early day, as especially the policy or ,
this continent. II has kept interference
from abroad. Il is quite as applicable to
the sister States of this confederacy as TO
foreign nations, except in regard to those
objects which are .confded to Congrees by /
the constitution. Yet in violation q this
principle, the people of the North do not
hesitate to seduce our slaves from our SER
vice; to protect them from recapture, and
TO prepare their minds for resurrection.
The national legislature will afford US no
redress, because a permanent sectional ma
liOfity is agafnst u.s. If foreign nation
were to do these acts, and make no repara-
ton, it would be just cause of war. This
principle has been more than once asserted
by our Government in relation to this very
description ofproperty, and as often recog- /
missed by Great Britain.
Without the constitution, and without
the constitution, and without the Union,
the acts Of the Northern people above set
forth, would be cause of war. As.it is, the
constitution IS the rampant behind which
abolitionism affects, to entrench itself and
commits these acts with impunity. So ia
from the constitution afFording protection
TO slavery, and justice TO its owners, as it
was intended to do, it is converted into an,
instruments by which deadly assaults are
0 made upon u : institution. If the compact
: of union has thussfailed in practice, to at
J tain the ends for whfch. it was created, it is
time to seek for security ia amendments of
its provisions, or in come other mode.
: Is it right that those who have no. Pecu-
o mary or social interest IN the subject Of sIa-
e very, should be permitted constantly to ag.
o ltate the question Of slavery in Congress,
q solely with view to its destruction?
. Is it right that the slave trade, so far as they
: are connected together should be abolished
g in'the District Of Columbia?
. Isit right that the TugItiye slave bill
if and with it the constitution upon which
in it is founded shOt be disregarded and Sc
at nought?
le Is it right that the common treasure 0
ael the States should be expended by free
IN soil majority in Congress, in the purchase
e of the territory Of slaveholding State to I
N line south, which if extended east 10 the
III Atlantic would leave more than half of the
o. State Of Mississippi north of it?
y. Is it right that the North, which in {
ed spirit ofinjustice to the. South restricted
he its institutions to the line OF SO deg. 80 mir
lee by compromise thirty years a .. shoulc
pei now be permitted, in spirit much NOR
no unjust but by another compromise, to drit
ms US to line further south by about tw'
he hundred and seventy miles?
Of Isit right that the people of The soutl
u, should be excluded nom the territories &C
i quired from Mexicol
j. Is fright that they should acquiesee i
a system which restricts the, Institution {
slavery to its present limits, which viii re
lsultiu creating free.soil barrier west an
south beyond which it cannor pass an
- : which must end in its fal destruction, il
volving the people Of tie South in uhive
sal and immediate Suin?
If all these are right then the South hs
no present causs Of compliant, and shoul
Ppo not mumur But if they are wrongl
lbehoves the Southto consider how itsrigh
ght are to be maintained. and. what are Il
an the means Of remedy aud redress. The fir
sm. obvious step is to cali of aleonvention
ny the people. By this step the Ssa
and assumesher.highest attitpda.of sovegeignt!
the and is prepared to call her whole fesourc
ali- Into exercise. That convention may as
tfor redress with some hope of success
"a We would suggest that it should, al
amendments of the constitution. by Vhi'
'On- either of the two great sections d the. co
tion federacy, should in future, be deprived
With the power Of expressing the others by IN
; quail and unjust taxation whether direct
de- indirect:
. i BY which fugitive slaves shall be de .
rom ersd up ia The same way that fagittxes frc
] il justice are, aad that the Sale Authoris
,lish shaa 6ssist and compel their delivery:
nee B5 which 81 future discussion Or agi
has zion of TIE subject D slavery in The ia
rial Tor Congress shall 5 excluded,unless witt
rent viewtoextend q ID the projection given
err. other lions Of property
~ Aud st should ask that Congr
but shall xlsnd the Missouri Compounds ]
laae "a tie Pacific Ocean, an b that end, obi