The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-06-24
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pfaising It's authors and advocates. rs
the greatest and purest patriots in all
the land. We would earnestly recon
mend a careful and calm peruSAl Of the
following article taken from The New
York Tribune, and Of the most pow
erful and influential newspapers pub
lished at the North. By this it will be
CLEARLY seer what are the real sentiS
ments of the Northern people in ref.
erence to us and with what contempt
they view any claim we may make
upon them, for our indisputable Constr
tutienal rights We sincerely believe
hat "a carefuL reading of this article
from the Tribone will put in its true
light, Northern sentiment towards US,
and show many good men here how
they have been deceived by the sup,
porters of this deteptious "COmprom-
Use" under the high sounding name Of
Union Oh the glorious Union :
Referring to the alarms Of northern
journals, about the dangers TO the
Union, the Tribune holds the following
language: :
What of these dangers? What
are the people of the slave States say
ing and doing, or what have they hith>
erto saying and doing, that should al
arm even timidi'y and cowardice it.
self? What is there in theiflanguage
ortheir attitude that should cause even
old ladies in breeches to SILVER and
shake, and run elucking about like set
ting hens, as though everybody ought
to partake of the intensity of their in
terest in the, incubation Of their own
apprehens:ons ? Is it anything new for
the South to declare that the North
shall not preach or practice emancipa-
ton of their slawes-not even one at "A
time! Did not their great champion
long ago declare, and have not various
State Legislatures long since.declared,
in substance, that agitation Ofthe slav-
cry question at all was good cause for
secession and disunionf Has not the
whole burden of the song of the South
always been that the North should
have nothing to do with Slavery, ex-
cept to return the runaways? And
have they not always insisted upon
the discharge Of his latter duty? In
a word, does not the South stand now
just where it has always stood on this
whole question Wherein is the diff
ference between the state of things the
last year and that of former years, ex.
ceptlng that the Southern men swore
a little harder than common when
California was admitted, and SUISSE
quently when Northern men declared
the Fugitive slave Law should not be
executed And excepting, too, land a
most important exception it isl that
certain political interests and GER
tain trading interests in the North,
warmed into life a new brood of dough
faces, (Mr Webster once called such
people dough heads" and slough
souls,'C who very suddenly discovered
the Union to be in danger, and have
been ever since preaching and praying
to Northern men to support and exc
cute that law so save it. Taking a
fair historic survey of the whole FIELD
of Slavery affairs, it is nothing les.
than a shame and a humbug to declare
that the American Union and Govern,
ment has been in any greater peril du
ring the last year than it has been any
time these ten years, and that is jus
no peril at all. l5sn .n,E % en.
"And what is the execution of thi'
Fugitive Slave law upon which w,
are gravely told the issues of light anC
death to this Union and Government
hang? Does not everybody know tina
it amounts to nothing, practically
Does 1t not cost a good deal more thai
it comes TO for IN wne of an abscond
ing chattel to repossess himself there
off Do not the fugitives fly in drove
to Canada at its approach! lndee'
did not Mr.. Speaker Cobb himself de
clare here in New York, in effect, tina
it was only the name of the thing tina
they were after, and not the runaway
themselves hal the expected to get
And did they not get that in a passag
of the lawl Don't the South under
stand that they can't get their escape
slaves, no matter how many laws ar
crowded upon the statue book, or cram
med down the unwilling throats of th
North. Are not the flying blacks sill
along to Canada, secreted, and other
wise kept out of the reach Of thei
masters Was the Union dissolve
because Shadrach was rescued, G
would it have been if Sims had escaI
ed The rescue has made the occa
sion of an extra abullition of Souther