The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08


of the Woodvile Republicans report {
Col. Gordon's speech made before a South
ern Rights Association in Wilkinson cour
ty, by the editor of the Natchez Courier
lie makes the following quotation from TN
report;
This was time pregnant with interes
: to the world IL IcaS to be determined aou
! whether the sons of a race, who had bareC
their hearts to the English bayonets, for the
boon of freedom, were going to shift from
their own shoulders to those of their DOS.
terity, the office of meeting the issues oi
their day-whether we will repel aggres-
4 sions and usurpations no less oppressive
than those our foreiathers met, or basely
shrink from our duty -
And asks, If this is not raising the ques-
tion Of Union or disunion, acquiescence in
the past, or resistance by revolution This
! is sentiment which no man should be
ashamed to utter; it should be the sentiment
| OF the whole South-which was uttered by
Col Gordon, as the tenor of his speech
showed, to warn the people of the South of
the imminent danger which threatens their
institutions. 1.-The time is pregnant with
interest to the world and it is for the pre-
sent race to bare their breasts to the storm
and not lCdlt with quescent fear and humili-
atlng submission, for their posterty to resist
the dangers they are afraid to face; if our
foreiathers had waited for their posterity to
act we would now be groaning under the
British yoke, as our children will hereafter
groan under Northern oppression if we do
not now act
The Courier says:
off we are suffering such expressions as
he Colonel Gordon) describes, revolutions
ought to come" .. ...
| will not accuse the editor of the Courier
of being an Aboitionist, as he denied that
,fdct-but it seems that his feelings are so
warped by his Northern predictions, that
ne could not feel the foot of oppression if
placed upon his neck. say, sir, with Col
Gordon, that such oppression do exist, and
with the Courier thai revolutions ought to
come--a revO utlon that should arouse the
South from Der lethargtc position, and warn
the North that her aggression must cease.
Tbs Is the only revolution that Wi. save
the Constitution ana onion; aud if the
South does not mite IA the defence of her
nights and property, and IN determined re-
slstance to Northern aggressions, the time
will soon come, that instead Of the voice Of
appeal and warning, Of concliation and COM
promise, the voice OF the cannon will be
heard in defence If southern f ghts.
The COuues turtuar says that:
Col Gordon thinks Thai under the Cou-
stitutlon and Union, we have suffered The
uos5 aggta .at=d GppIa5, ans.
This is designed 20 show ina, Col. ',ordon
and MS parry are opposed 10 lle 1haaan-
ton, as wei as Union Of opp -ssjon, the
Union cannot be oppressive while the Con
stltution is observed. and the Courier own
extract from Col Gordon's speech, shows
that the Colonel THINKS that these aggra-
waited expressions are committed without
the "auth0ySty of the Constitution, 3" but by
the poacer Of the Union. The extract speaks
for itself:
'He appealed to all present to weigh
well and impartially the matters embodied
in the issues now before the country to be
certain they are right, and resolve, at all
hazards to mGintain the Constitution, and
the Union, If possible. He qOaS no dis
u'1i01,tSt, no SeceSSs0eaSt, but he a0aS for the
Constitution Of the country, at all hazards
He believed the Southern Rights party
were the true Union party. Its objects
a0ere to protect the Constitution, and while
that sacred instrument is kept nviolate the
Union could not be shaken"
Now, sir, the Courier lectures Col. Cor
don because he differs in the above extract;
from the suggestions in the Address of the
Southern Rights Association, that the Con-
stitution should be amended in order to pre-
serve Southern institutions. 1t is to be
hoped that no man, North or South, who
regards the boon of American liberty, would
not be pleased to see the Constitution
amended, if it could effect the perpetuity of
the Union; but, sir, if the Northern people
are already so lost to every sense of propri-
ETY., as to disregard the Constitution, and
violate and nulify the laws of Congress
passed for its enforcement; will they ever
regard any amendment of that sacred instru-
ment? No, sir, the editor of the Courier
has been taught to try and create an i'm.
preston among the people that the South
ern Rights party are disunionists, secession
lists, and volators of the Constitution, and
condemns speaker of that party, because
he says: f'1
"That the Constitution and Union must
be maintained at all hazards, and that while
that instrument is kept inviolate, the Union
could not be shaken. s5.e
This language does not suit the editor OF
the Courier, and the renegade Democrats
who coalesce with him, in encouraging
Northern insults and aggresslons, and de-
crying Southern independence
1t is time, sir, that Southern men should
unite upon some decisive measure OF resist
ance, which must be left to the sdom OF
councils to suggest, aud with union at home,
and cooperation of the good aud true men
of the North the Union NAV be saved and