The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-03-11
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI THURsDAY, MARCH III 49,

haps in some undiscovered ocean to find that
unseen army of the South, which so much
endangers the Union.
As evidence that civil war was really in
contemplation in Mississippi, he says Gov
ernor Quitman called special session ofthe
Legislature, and recommended prompt seces-
sion. The message was printed, and is be-
| fore the country. Governor Quitman has
often denied that construction of it, and lives
to make auy explanation of his language
which may be necessary. He further says
''The movements of Gen. Quitman were IN
derstood to be advised by Col Davis" &c.
And that he has reason to believe that Gen
Ouitman never would have convened the
E Legislature in special session in November,
! 1850, had he not been advised to do so from
Washington city" That Gov Quitman' S
message at the opening of that session twas
not sent" he is sure, until Col Davis had
, been consulted in regard to It's contents. =
; That "night after night, after the emanation
) Of the message, Col. Davis and others atten-
: ded in the State capitol and made speeches
. in support of the leading recommendations
: of the message"
t To all this briefly reply, that I did not
/ see the message until after it had been prin-
J, ted, and read it for the first time when on a
j, journey to Washington city that General
0 Quitman could not have needed my advice,
, and if he had felt otherwise, he had no OPP
4 portunity to consult me in regard to the
/ contents,of his message. Thatif Gas it will
+ no doubt be believed by those who read his
address, he means to say that advised Gen.
), Quitman to call the special aession of the
St Legislature, it is wholly untrue. And | will
n add that considered the act of the Leg
= stature at its previous session required that
h they should be thus called together. Thai
to on the 18th of November, 1850, was in
lie vited by thirty members of Senate and
Of House of representatives to deliver an adj
of dress in the Representatives Hall on thu
ne evening of that day, in relation to the mea
le sures Of the preceding Congress, and thu
ed state of public affairs; and that accepted
the invitation, and spoke as proposed. Thes
ds imputations Gen. Quitman can answer NOR
perfectly than another; and [ leave then
s to him, with the entire confidence that afte
,s. he shall have noticed them there will b
as nothing left to cavil about The true reason
Is for believing that a civil war was in eontem
,r- plation in Mississippi he presents thus:
Nv "Col. Davis had written letter in d.
he cember last, in which he urged the adoptio
ICE of measures for putting Mississippi in
Of state of preparation, ARMED if need be- |
tt his letter lie had demanded certain addition
ed al guarantees and said:
ov- off these guarantees be granted, the N
cs, nority could live in equality under the tel
vn, pie Of our federal compact &c, &c.
In To whom was this letter addressed? whe
the has it been found and what are the CT
ide tain guarantees demanded? Can it be tn
cen facts so little restrain him, that he thus d
to scribes an answer which l gave to certa
1t Undergraduates propounded to me by sor
nd, of his particular friends, when we were DO
ned in jackson last November was year az
lelr Ii so, let any one who deems the matt
the of sufficient Importance refer to that lettt
ore and he will find that [ stated approving
Ehe what I considered the position of the Sta
ban taken in the Convention of October, lS4
use and by the Legislature at the succeed
session. And that so far from looking
nan civil war, that believed the course in viii
this the State had started, if followed out, wou
ate never lead to that result. But when
says that [ demanded certain addition
sts, guarantees, be states what am sure is l
g IN contained in any letter | ever wrote: becaI
lee l have always held that no one of the part
] an could, with propriety dictate to others equ
ton y interested, the policy they should ado
fed but that in general conference it must
ton decided whether anything, and if anythil
what should be done. The proposition
and a convention of the Southern States, o.
'lect so much lauded by Governor Foote, sur
ton, meant no less than this, and it could
Be have included more. Principles are
changeable; measures are modified by
pre- tending circumstances. The date, thereto
Inch is important, when the question is one of
and pediency In December last no one co
5 on have thought of writing such letter as
used describes. In 1850, the measures miscal
F., ae- a compromise were the laws of the land
GOT It was possible, not probable in our divi
ands condition, that the South would obtai
US modification of them, which would give
gges- the eextreme concession" Of the Nasty
Il CO. Convention. Our position then was tina
not, ascctional minority. Our prospect was
case sink still lower in the scale of rela
lrlng strength. Then [ said in connection '
the proposition for convention of deleg
- = lIOtu tLC Sidh ChbluiiiS CtdtCS1 do pACoCl
MAJ in the Mississippi address: ''The States
tht'R united, should, in my opinion, demand S
guarantees as would secure to them
the safety, the benefits, the tranquility, vi
acy ? the Union was designed to confer" "
gave must he think of the co-States, who
pera- this would have led to a dissolution of
o CO. Union? And to what condition must he
used? be willing to .consign the next general
entity who considers it an offence in ours to Ct
CAR security for that, which the Union was fl
alton ed to promote?
IF any by industrious and reckless mis-
resentation have been so far misled as t,
es OF tribute to me a purpose to destroy our
VS. ion, by this course, l refer him to that
0 nc ter, and in the portions of it which my
mics take care not to quote, they will
nmit- l hope, satisfactory evidence Of the dc
Cock ton which has been practiced upon theI
awak- But who IS he who now wearies til,
dawn and pals the sense by ranting denunei,
of "sccession leaders" the NASHVILLE
as vention, !" and "plots of the disunionisi
icipa- the formation of Southern Confedera,
orally Tt is the same Fl. S. Foote, who, on the
civil of February, 1850, in the u. S Senate,
claim he cordially adopted and reiterated m
lief Of marks in relation to the Mississippi Cor
lissis- ton the same who defended the Nash
+ In Convention and said IL xvas not to sub