The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-03-11
NEW SERIES, VOL. 2 NO 49.

1850, said, ''When unconstitutional acts were {
perpetrated by the government, amounting
to intolerable oppression, he had "ever be-
lieved that it was in such case the duty of I
State, or States, or any portion Of the peo- s
pie to resist it to the utmost"
Thus it appears that whilst others were
innocently entering into, and endorsing the
Nashville Convention, as the means Of per-
petuating the Union, this man, who now pro-
fesses such unmitigated horror of Southern
Confederacy, saw in that Convention whilst
approving it, convenient rallying point for
those who should go out Of the Union.
That he should have COMPOUNDED the idea
of State interposition, with the revolutiona-
ry right of resistance by "any portion of
the people," showed the vagueness of his
political opinions, and how well qualified he
is to rail at the doctrine of State Rights and
State Remedies. Can this ignorance also
account for his fiction that the State Rights
Democracy anticipated civil war in Missis-
sippi; and the purpose to form Southern
Confederacy was contingent upon their sue
cess in the September and November cleo
tions?
He accuses me of having desired that the
Legislature should assemble in special ses-
sion, in November, 1850, for the purpose, in
part at least, of censuring" him, "approv-
ing" me-He says that [ was in Jackson,
when the Legislature met, and remained un-
til a resolution for that purpose was concocted
in committee and reported to the House.
5 That the resolution was drawn up by my
eliminate and confidential friend, Mr.. Nc
; Rae" and that he does not doubt that I
| 'Fsaw and advised the adoption of the reso-
: luton" Poor egotist Because his own
t vision is always turned inwards, so that he
t can see nothing except through the medium
: Of his own interest, he imagines others equal
ly occupied in the contemplation of him
7 1t is not true that [ saw the resolution be-
e fore it was introduced to the House; and my
: recollection is that it was introduced by Mr..
e Nash, after left Jackson.
d Gov Foote was at Jackson when I arrived
e there, and remained after departed.
e But how does it happen that these con-
n victions which he now announces were not
n declared in my presence when the matter
e was new, if as he so nationally af6rms he is
n merciful to the absent and harshest to his
J. antagonist when most near ? Why has this
grievance festered in secret until he reached
e. his "preScW oficiol attitude 2" 1 well re
N member when the resolution censuring hin
a reached Washington, copies having beer
In sent both to him and myself, that he cam
n TO me and said he wished to present them
and l agreed with the understanding tina
Il he would do so with the respect due to tn
NJ Legislature. He did present them, but il
so churlish manner, that l had to call fo
their reading, and move that they should b
- printed l heard nothing then of his cor
-, - sidering me responsible for their inceptio
y "a or contents. l cannot now perceive why /
= should have gone beyond the journal Of til
~ legislature to find a reason both for their il
- III PRODUCTION and passage. There he woul
~ have found the series of resolutions which
=. was so eager to bring to public notice, thu
W he borrowed an unaathenticated copy whiC
u had been sent to me, and used it in speeC
~ he delivered in the Senate of the Unite
1vo9' States, March 21st, 1850.
~ Those resolutions were reported by Il
n committee to whom "was referred the speci
" message of the Governor, with the letter
~ our Senators and Representatives IN Co
Ilu gross, on the subject of the admission
~ California into the Union as a State" Oh
n"i of these resolutions declared that the ga
noO mission of California under the circumsta
:o ces recited, would be an act of fraud and 0
,'J0 preston on the rights of the people of Il
"a. slaveholding States; and it is the sense
r, this legislature, that our Senators and Re
resentatives should, to the extent of the
=, ability, resist it by all honorable and cons
iol tutional means" He who used every mea
nGe to find some by-path by which to escape su
.ely plain instructions, sought too by himse
not and suggested in a fully discussed thri
ul written letter, might have expected censul
~ and in my opinion deserved it, whatev
oie' might have been the merits of the questiC
He asserts that my ayOWed objection
'Giu the appointment of members of Congress
:, nc 5 delegates to the Baltimore Convention, v
lleu "a suggestion evidently thrown out to d
"a credit the appointment recently made by
ucu Union Democratic Convention of Mississil
u = of our three Union Representatives in G,
n .IG gress" Is he blind, and like the Cyclic
'Hie : raving in his blindness. If he did not, o
II % ers will see the contradiction presented
the two articles to which | am replying
NV! ave one. In the first article when his obj
was to show that I had not been an eflcl
ates and active laborer for Mr.. Cass' election
NJ 1913, he introduced an extract from VI
mus he asserted was an accurate report of a spe'
'uGn l made in jackson, in 1913. The extr
the begins thus Ole Cd preferred to h
men men (my) repeatedly expressed views in Is
nat as to the impropriety, and evil tendency
says members Of Congress interfering with pr
the Dental nominations, &C., &c. In the
not cond article when he had different purp,
Iicn' he notices recent reference to and rene1
lalm expression of my former opinion against
oEn- appointment of members of Congress as
egates to the Baltimore Convention, and s;
srep- fethe suggestion is evidently thrown on
0 at order to discredit the appointment recel
I'm made by the Union Democratic Conyen
let of Mississippi, of our three Union reprei
enc tatives in Congress" Thus does he in
Ind, article falsify what he had affirmed in
oeep- other, but a few days before. And tho
N. he had found in an old wing paper SKI
& ear Of. speech had made in 1913, and
alton duced it as a report of unquestionable a
Con- racy. when he found that I, not know
IS for what he had done, had renewed the EXP
cv p sion Of this opinion, he noticed itin his
18th cond article thus: "This is certainly q
said amusing to those who know, that Col. Ds
" re- during the whole winter and spring tf Il
aven- though Senator of the United States
lville the time, was more actively concerned |
vert any other person in Washington in all