The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-06-03

Gcm Robert ]'tauiJu. of Admins county
Ihcy rccm roioieeJ--anI well hey may
dat thcy have tod Dc hands Of such pa OPP
popei. We have seen them wriho hke tor.
turod yormin Dcncath his bumiag spcechcs.
audwo appreciate he Joy they experience
on being relieved from his opposition. But
the wings seem to be counting their CHECKER
before they are hatched. Gen Stanton de-
clarcs that be feels " no desire 10 be idcntid-
ed with either Of the parties tn have con.
vulssd the State" We think, however. the
wings may cerpinly calculate on the Gen
erals vote for Foote, and, il by nominating
him Tor Congress, they eau web him dmer
to their cause, they wil not hesitate in doing
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Gen. Stanton desires to " see a rcorgani-
cation Of the democratic party on the plat
form Of ~ and 49, 1t is useless to talk
about this now. In the 6lst place. ifthe de-
mocratic party could be recognized we
should dislike very much to see il contain
ing much Of the rotten timber il had in ls4S'
Some of the timber Gen Cass put into the
platform would be very Objectionable. II
we had not admitted them, the Old Demo
cratic shipwopld have safely weathered the
storm before which it nnhappiIy went down,
In the second place, the question OF slavery
las been forced into both political parties,
lg their Northern members, aud we must
meet IT, TO refuse to do so, would be 10
abandon our dearest rights to a grasping
and ambitious people, whose known chnrac-
~terislic is 10 absorb all political power. In
October, 1918, Gen. Stanton made a pow
FIJI speech in this county, in (which he took
The ground that the only hope for The South
was to mite on Cass and Butler. lie said
in his address
II call upon the democracy of the country
TO gather around him, ICassl thick and firm,
for events the most portcntiOus ever known TO
tins country, are involved in his election. He
is our only political savior"
Now among these "portention7 events,
was the passage of the Willnot proyiso-
a measure which Gen Stanton most bitterly
denounced. If we take the explanation OF
Gen. Foote, and others, the Compromise bill
is but the WiImot proviso in a new form
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See then, Gen Stanton's position in 1913,
he opposed MIR. Fillmore because he was a
Provisoist--in 1851, he sustains one OF Mr..
Filllnore's measures, (which is the Wilmot
proviso under u new name" In 1913 Gen
Stanton said .Y KS
+" Elect them, ICass and Butler, and aboli-
tionism, Van Buren, and Wilmot, will all be con-
signed to their eternal sleep. But let Taylor
and his CONSERVATIVES freud, Fillmore, be
elected, and the South may prepare TO throw
herself back upon the S,aterights doctrine and
.unfurl the banner of a new Republic"
Gen. Stanton seemed to have penetrated
the future with u prophets eye. All the
odious measures he a~pprehonded, have been
consumma ted by the election Of Fillmore
and everywhere the South is recoiling upon
the Staterlghts doctrine General Stanton
smelt the battle afar of, and we believed he
would conquer or die with his old staterights
friends. Unlike those who forcto.j the aw,
full destruction of Jerusalem, we expected
to find tho General urging his people to
harmony and valor when the crisis came
But what says the General to his old polit-
ical friends;
"l.appeal to yuu not as a stranger but as a
Mississippian, to torbear, lest your ~preciptancy
may bring about all the eyils that must neees-
sarily follow disruption Of our government"
We would like for Gen Stanton to al.
wise us one way all the time If the south.
ern rights party are wrong in opposing
MIR Fillmore, they are simply acting as the
General advised them in 1913.
Upon the whole, the Generals letter is
pointless. lie seems to think the North
has wrongcd us, and that we ought to do
something to her. The party who occupy
this ground with Gen, Stanton, remind us
ofthe fable of belling the cat. There was
a certain old cat that made its appearance in
q happy family OF rats, aud commenced a
terrible crusade against them. At length
the rats called a convention to consult upon
their grievance, and to devise a remedy
Several speeches Were made presenting their
wrongs in strong terms, Finally q PROPOSE
ton was made. that a ben be procured and
placed upon the neck Of his feline majesty,
so that its tinkling might give timely warn
ing Of his approach. The idea was novel,
and was at once adopted by a large majority,
amid much rejoicing. Just then a vencra.
bic old rat, who had grown grey in his pill.