The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-29


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Waas 5 m0rc natural in u people fully
awake - their interests. aud nunly resolved
t. s~,are them hy every lusuhlable means,
sAaa a desire 10 be well aud completely
laSxu,ea M every respect, not only OF
the movements Of their friends and allies,
bat particularly Of the plots and machina-
tons OF their bitterest enemies? How bet
ter can We possibly set about combating n
WHY and dangerous foe, than by keeping
ourselves well informed OF what he in turn
is intending and plotting against MS! How
would 1t appear for a minister 10 denonnce,
from his pulpit, the writings Of Tom Paine,
Hume, Vollaire or Volney, who had never
looked into one of these authors? Would
il be safe? On the other hand, do not our
most eminent divines make it a point to be-
come thoroughly conversant with those
works, familiar with the haunts and habits
of vice and the vicious? Then when they
attempt a refutation or an exposition, they
can do what they wish consistently, sue
cessfuIly and without the fear of contradic-
ton or refutation They are treading upon
solid ground. They know the enemy's
tenures, and they can set about dislodging
and defeating him. A thorough ~acquaint
ance with the shafts in our opponents
culver better enables us to guard against
and repel them and should a breach be dis
covered in his ranks, a knowledge of the
fact allows us to concentrate our forces,
gather our energies, and secure a triumph.
Now, what more is proposed or intended
than just this, by those persons who have
ordered the offending publications? True.
we know the North, the abolition or free
sufficient? Napoleon well knew the Aus
trian armies would, if possible, annihilate
his but did he rest satisfied with this know
BY no a Let us not only
know we have enemies, but, so far as posi-
BILE, inform ourselves Of theirmoduS operGnds.
Let us know how far the weapons they use
us are from the armory of truth, and
how far they are the Vaccinations of false
hood and of a perverted and distempered
imagination. Right here, the Wing, with
all its knowledge, commits, what we can
but esteem, the grossest blunder; for IN all
consistency we must suppose he neve al
lowed his eyes to rest upon one of the ain.
cendiary publications" (having too much
of the fear of the penitentiary before them
for that J Yet, in the roundest terms, he
~denounces "The Commonwealth" and its
editor as seditious, base and impervious to the
South. Now, the question is, how does the
Wing know what it has asserted to be true
| have no wish, not the slightest, to defend
Mr.. Elizur Wright or his paper; yet OF
what ground can one editor and paper de
nounce another, not in general language
merely, but in the grossest, when with tina
other he has not the least personal acquaint
ance! Yet the Wing is a lawyer, and on
of aspiring hopes, as we should infer iron
language he uses in a very pretty back-ou
in his issue OF the 18th instant. We can
not resist the temptation to notice, for
moment, the assertion regarding the pena
nature of the act of receiving and readin!
the aforesaid publications | find, in look
ing over the statute as quoted by the Wing
that the offence seems to consist in the de
sign, or fact, of producing disaffection anon!
the slaves. Now, will some n please in
form us how the course Of the citizen
above mentioned is to produce such results
while not a slave will ever see one of tn
papers to know it from the Wilkinson Wing
1--WE suppose those who can read may no
tice a Stight difference,) Is it probable tina
these gentlemen will assemble their slaves
and read and %expound to them the salt
Elizur's editorials? Or by what mean
perceptible to mortal ken is this disaffectiol
to be brought about!
But further notwithstanding the effor
to retreat from the question as to pledges
we think, after all, the Wing has, most un
Willingly, committed himself. Hear HIM
"In the day that law was passed, it was
never presumed that there would be South
ern men who would make themselves anne
nable TO a law intended for a~bolitionists.
Then, it was not foreseen, &c; nosc, how
ever, we apprehend it is sufficiently clear tc
the WHO'S that Southernm en have q uods