Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-05-12

J ganizati0ns m our State-the Union party
and the Democratic State-Rights organiza
ton" / never heard Of Union Demo
cratic party until after the elections we're ovei
and a convention was about to be called Il
send delegates 10 Baltimore. The candidate,
in the State elections we're announced as Union
candidates and Democratic State-Rights can.
didates. The tickets were printed Union
tickets and Democratic State-Rights tick.
ets.
Il i strange how a sensible man hates to
confess he las done a silly thing | know
my colleague Mr.. FREEMANl feels bad. Hc
feels that he has been playing truant to the
party Of which be processes to BE- a member
The best way to get out Of il i to confess his
folly, quit all this tom-foolry about the Union,
and settle down again into a quiet, orderly
citizen, and betake himself to the study Of
true Democracy I Icommend to him the con.
ISOLATION held out in The two lines
While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may retumn
The gentleman expresses some strange
ideas about the anxiety Of my friends and
myself to get into the Baltimore Convention.
/ must confess this part Of bis speech is all
jargon to me. eve have on the wedding
garment, -" our lamps are trimmed, d" and
know Of no reason for any anxiety on our part.
We are Democrats, and have always been.
We appoint our delegates in tie usual way,
and, upon my word, can see no reason to
doubt that We shall take our seats like other
members Of the family. 50 far as my col
leagues remarks apply to me personally, /
can only say that ] am not an appointed dele
gate; and in this be and are alike. lie has
been appointed BY Union convention, It Is
true But take it, Union convention has
no more right 70 appoint delegates to Demo-
cratic convention. than the Pope Of Rome
would have to appoint the pastor Of a Metho-
dist church
One Of the strangest features in the gen.
tleman's speech is, that the whole Democratic
party Of Mississippi are sccessionists, because
certain county meetings and certain newspa-
pers promulgated secession doctrines and SEN
timents. + my colleague serious in this
If he is, will show in ten seconds, BY the
same rule Of evidence. that he is Wing.
lie proves that am a secessionist, because
the Mississippian, Free-Trader, Sentinel and
other Democratic papers, used expressions
supposed to indicate, more or less. disposi-
tion to secede. Suppose / take up the Vicks-
burg Whig Natchez Courier, Holly Springs
Gazette, and other Wing papers now in the
service Of the gentleman, and show that they
arc for the Wing cause and Wing principles
throughout-does not the gentleman, BY his
own rule thereby become Wing? lie does.
And yet, sir, ! do not pretend to say that be
is a Whig, Parties arc to be judged BY what
they say and do, in their organic capacity.
and not by the acts and speeches Of individual
members Of the party. Before party can
Be justly held responsible for the acts and
speeches Of any one OF more Of its members,
it must be shown that such members had au-
thority to speak for the party. This can new
er be done when the party in convention has
spoken for itself. In such cases individual
members become responsible for their own
expressions, and the party. as a whole, and,
and each member of IL. is responsible for
what the organic body, the convention, has
said. BY this rule am ready to sec my
party tried, and BY it mean to try the gen.
tleman and bis party.
lie introduces a series Of resolutions, which
he says we're passed BY the convention which
nominated Governor Quitman. Number 5
and 6, as / find them in bis speech. we're reso.
lutions originally passed BY joint convention
Of both parties-Whigs and Democrats-in
our State. They were copied By our conyen-
ton simply because they had received the
sanction Of al parties, and we're, therefore,
not liable 70 objection, as We supposed, from
any quarter. The same resolutions had been
reafhrmed By the Union convention. and now
stand a. q part Of their platform. Such az
least IS Hzy recollection.
The resolution number -, as printed BY
my colleague. declares the admission Of Cali
fornia into the Union to be the Wilmot
proviso in another form" This resolution, as
my colleague knows very well, imbOdies the
substance Of letter written by the Mississippi
delegation in Che last Congress GncludiDg
Governor Foote) to Governor Quitman. I
hope Governor Foote, and my colleague as
his supporter, win each take bis share Of the