Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1852-05-06
vERns OF ADVERTISING.

Rights men to ask of the North an
10 the constitution, giving
to tie South additional guarantees for
her rights. This measure, |; in CON-
mon with majority of the party, op-
posed: FiRsT, because, three .ourths of
the States would not concur in giving
US the amendment, and, therefore, il
was unnecessary to ask it: SECOND, BE-
ccuse, we have already more guarantees
for our rights than the North respects,
and il would be nothing short of folly
to ask new guaranty, simply TO see it
disregarded THIRD, if we cannot
maintain our rights under the consti-
tuition as 1t is no mere paper compact.
how stringent soever in its language.
can. possibly, bind the North: FOURTH.
if the northern people have repudiated
the faith of their fathers, and put at
uaught the solemn promises of their
iliustrious sires, and thus;
"Stolen the livery of heaven,
To serve the devil in,'
we cannot, with any reasonable pros
pect of success, hope to bind their de-
generate sons: FIFTH, it is properly
the province of the general govern
ment TO propose and ask amendments
10 the constitution, in as much IS all
power not delegated 10 the United
States" has been reserved 10 the
States or the people," Besides, if the
federal department has sufficient virtue
and patriotism 10 "act within the square
and angle" of its powers, contained in
the constitutional grant OF its creators
(the States,) and is desirous Of "secu-
ring the blessings of liberty TO our
selves and our posterity," it will no
more usurp undelegated power than
fiagrantly ahuse its delegated trust.
Finally, it was the northern people
who sprung the issue ana brought Oh
the controversy that threatened the
integrity o. the government, and we
opposed the proposition for an amend
neat t. tn cons,itU lion, because, judg-
ing fro.n the fact, we believed as soon
as the North possessed the requisite
numerical federal strength she would
amend the constitution, 50 rs to a
mount an the end to virtual dissolu-
ton Of the Union, and we desired the
world TO know "who done the foul
deed
have said that was opposed to the
Nashville Convention; together with
many of our citizens who finally voted
with the State Rights party. The fol-
lowing are some of the reasons why
| opposed it: l. believed it would
result in no practical good TO the South.
2. The Federal Government had plan
ted itself upon the rock which will ul
timately split the Union, and saw
but little prospect of its receding from
the exercise of the powers it had usur-
ped. 3. As it was the whig thunder
of the North that had produced the
crisis, and we were in the middle of a
whig administration, it was hardly rea-
sonable to suppose that southern wings,
as Il party, would unite with us in cor
recting the abuses of government;
especially as the whig party, both North
and South, had contended for construc-
tive powers under the Constitution,
more extensive even, than those exer-
cised by Congress afterwards in the
passage Of the Compromise measures.
4. Knowing that the whole tendency
of the Northern mind for the last thir-
ty years had been directly 70 consol-
dated democracy, mere majority OF
which they believed should be compe-
tent in all cases to pass all laws their
selfshness or fanaticism might dictate,
regardless of the Constitutional or re-
served rights of the minority, we be-
lieved a convention of the Southern
States could do nothing towards re-
dressing the wrongs of the South. ).
remembering what torrents Of abuse
had been heaped upon South Carolina
!, in 1928, for attempting State in
terpoSition to arrest the headlcng
course of an infuriated majority who
were vieing with each o,herin the strife
|; to break down the last rampant of the
, Constitution, we believed that nisrep-
; resentaiion, ca.umny and fa.sehood.
would SO IA, POISON the pubic mind
tnat tIe Convention Of 4 few Southern
| States could not be productive of aly
good. Bat must dismiss this branc.,
/, of the subject, and viii return for a
moment to the much mooted question
E of secession, which, in certain quarters,
has been considered the bane of our
, system, and is still considered by some
] as the Had Of all our woes.