The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-03-11
For the Republic N.
A Refused Letter.
WALTER SHROPSHIRE.
Mn. EDITOR:

VA EDAiUhs
The following is part OF acommuni-
cation sometime since written. for the
columns of northern newspaper, with
which Theta" wasin the habit oil cor
responding. But, alas its SOUTHERN
S%yMPAImEs placed il where its literary
merits might have ASSIGNED thunder
the tablet If you think itnot unsuita-
BILE for the readers of a southern lati~
tude, it is at your command.
" n "You ask me, Mr..
Editor, to point out some instances where the
South considers herself aggrieved, and to men,
ton what mean by my illusions to Northern
aggressions? Let me in the first place reply
that | consider everything you ask for, so clear.
ly written and plainly to be read, that most en-
phatically, he who runs may read, although he
be a northern man. But if were to give in
stances, | would m in the first place,
without referring to one particular act or time
with the fact that the South, through her love
and devotion to the Union, has been forced, for
the sake Of peace, temporary and delusive as
it may have proved, to resort to the penicioas
system of comprom.siag; 'Hs~&lg, on her part,
nothing for which 10 go into any such measure,
being guilty ofno wrong to the North, no vio-
lation Of the original compact of the States, in
a civil, religious. or political point of view,-
yet as if wrong lay at her own doors, she has
been compelled to open those doors, to innum-
cradle acts of aggression and oppression, in the
shape OF Wilmot provisos, protection to runa.
way property, abuse Of those in lawful pursuit,
and much more, until driven to the WALL
Whether northern people understand it or not,
she will retreat no step further. The North may
continue to advance-to cry out peace-and
flatter themselves that all will still be WE'LL
but let me, as one sometime resident in the
South, assure you, that 50 far as my experience
goes, there must be an end of all this. The
southern people are now in earnest, and much
as they love the Union, that Union will fall
fall in the husband alike the baseless fabric
ofk vision vanished, leave moi a wreck be-
hlhd," before further demands and what they
consider acts Of aggression, viii be submitted
may also mention the passage by Congress
OF the late compromise measures loosing by
them, as the South does, every item for which
she had ever contended. Among these, partic-
ularly notice the informal proceedings in the
admission Of California, and again the only
act by which the South could possibly be the
gamer, and which, after all, was doubtless in
tended as a mere coating to the pill that il
might be swallowed with fewer grimaces-the
fugitive slave bill--nos that the bill is in itself
Objectionable but the manner in which ii is
received, and Its friends and those attempting
to carry out its provisions treated BY many per.
sons in the northern States.
And further, how is II possible for the South
to regard with indifference, the course of such
men as the VIGOROUSLY infamous Theodore Par
ker who, to his treason and war against the
main principles Of all good society and govern
ment, adds the crime Of entering the sacred
desk, and with his hand upon Gods word, avow
and inculcate thai doctrine Of deyils-athe
higher law principlesp-and assures his audi