The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-08-19
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the Democratic State Central Commiue
of Massachusetts, from the accompli>he
and eloquent pen Of Caleb Gushing. Esq
It's Chairman. Undaunted by the ill-starte,
election of Sumner the abolitionist, aut
the treacherous detection of such men a
kantoul, the true Democracy, the Spartan
band of the Bay State, have ia ken th,
boldest and broadcst ground--the only ba
SIS, indeed, upon which the Cunfcdcracy
can be preserved in anything like sound
and healthy condition. 1t is instructive to
look back at the past fruits of slavery agl.
taton, and It's tendency to overwhelm the
unity OF our people-and TO review what
1t has done III the past, SO that all honest
men and patriots may nerve themselves TO
the great duty Of the present. The address,
TO which we have referred, furnishes some
important landmarks for taking such an
observation. 1t cites the several stages in
the progress OF the organic dissolution of
the Union, which have attended slavery
agitation;
al. A. severance OF most of the church.
cs of the United States into two distinct aud
hostile religious uauohaitics, in place of
that, their previous unity Of organization,
which had constituted one OF the strongest
moral bonds OF the political nationality Of
the Union.
"2 The gradual separation of the cducn.
tlonal institutions of the country, and cspe.
! cially the total or partial cessation of the
previous practice, OH the part OF the young
men of the. South, Of pursuing the higher
branches of education at the North.
"3. Violent conflicts of political interes.
the North struggling continually to acquire
.acillties of attack. and the South to obtain
vantage ground of defence.
81. The growth Of spirit of crimina-
ton aud recrimlnatlon--tho North headed
by exaggeratlou Of theo y and opinion
the South by sense of peril arising from
their numerical inierority in Congress
and in both sections Of the Union personal
ambition making the emotion of the day
an instrument OF power, and inllamlng and
cmblttering the popular passions to pro-
mote its own interested object, disregard
iul of the general good
20, Following upon this, the more or
less personal arrangement and reciprocal
hard feeling, indicated at the North by the
vltuperativo language of debate, newspa-
pers, public meetings, and even official b0-
dies. towards the citizens of the South,
and manifested at the South in the intro
duclion of manufactures and shipping oil
their own in place of ours, in the encour.
=, ,rfment Of colleges for education at home,
and N abstinence from accustomed accus-
toned acts OF social intercourse at the
North"
The address next cites the fact that the
two great parties Of 'he country possess no
longer that general ofga nlzatlon, co-exten-
siye with the Unon, which once charnter.
ized them; and it ably demonstrates that
the tendency to party anarchy, w!uch this
agitation has melted will, unless repfessed
break up all national concert in political
action ard produce political anarchy. "lle
who denies that there is danger to the I'm
ion in all this" adds the Address, "must
be imperiectly acquainted with the facts,
or so prejudced by feeling or position as to
suppose that one half of the States of the
Union will submit passivcly to unlimited
aggression and incessant attack from the
other States. The exigency calls upon us
deliberately to inspect and measure the dan
ger and calmly to decide what is the duty
OF a good citizen in this emergency"
The remedy is plain enough--the ma
tional democracy now stands upon the van
tage ground of patriotisni-the platform of
non.nterference by the Federal Govern
ment with the rights aud interests of the
States, laid down in the Baltimore Conven-
ton resolutions.
To destroy slavery agitation, by settling
once and forever every question upon which
it bases its baneful action, is now the great
mission Of the democracy, as is well re-
marked by the Burlington Qowa) Gazette.
The pagan Of the democracy OF Iowa, tho
situated in free State and on the very
frontier Of what was our western bounda-
ry, a short dme since, is as sound aud ma
tional as the democracy Of that gallant
State. 1t thus rings the note Of warning
into the ears of the wing party;
Were we opposed in this struggle by alb.
olltlonists and free sollers alone, our labor
would not be difficult or its end uncertain.
But we have at present fresh evidence that
the leaders of the Northern wing party are
arrayed against MS in this holly cause. They
are blinded by an iniatuation for office and
power. They have chosen to solicit the
sufrages of slavery agitators by offering
them,in the event of the success Of the whig
party, continued room for the work Of trea.
SON. To the deliberately expressed designs
Of the wings OF Pennsylvania, New York,
and Vermont upon this subject, We now
add the determination OF their party in
Ohio, as announced in their convention
nominating Samuel +. Viutou for Cover
nor.
There the same Infamous campaign pol
icy is again adopted by the wings OF pow
eriaI State. Slavery agtators are again
informed that they may coalesce whig par.
ty and that All entire toleration OF opinion
utli he aIldwed then, IN the Cnuitiyo eia ,,o