The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-01-07

FRIDAY. JANUARY -. 49,
Tender Of the Callllet Of Peace.

; Tender Of the Calumet Of Peace.
well-worded appeal appears in the las
Mississippian from Messrs. McAfec and
Hussey, Union-democrati members Of tht
State Senate. addressed to the other UnioI
democrats in the Legislature. suggesting
the propriety Of not merely forgiveness. bu
forgetfulness Of the past, between both bran,
ches of the democracy. The appeal argue:
J that the causes which excited the differences
of the last two years, have passed away
and therefore the differences themselves
should cease; it comedies that all democrats
were honest in motive, and upright in in.
tention, and that their only dispute was a
TO the best mode Of serving the country;
land it argues the meeting together in com
mon party convention, where neither the ap-
pelIat.on of "Union" or Estate Rights
shall be heard.
We think that Messrs. McAfee and Hus-
seY deceive themselves in their overweening
desire to be reunited to those leaders, who
control the great body Of the Mississippi
democracy. Such desire is natural; but
when carried so far as to violate great prin-
ciples, is liable to the imputation of impro-
per motives. The great distinction between
Union and State Rights democrats, was .
leading principle: SseessiOnismi The en-
deavor of the latter was. to array the State
Of Mississippi ID an antagonistical attitude
tothe Union and her sister States; to demand
a redress for supposed grievances; at the
same time that it was acknowledged that
no efFectual redress could be afforded except
by q dissolution Of the Union; to arm Mis-
sissippi for her own defence, and to bid de-
fanbe to the authority Of the Union. To
this end the right Of secession was insisted
secession at her own will and pleasure,
without question. disturbance, or opposition
the right Of dissolying the Union ct any
time she herself pleased, for any cause she
thought adequate, and by any mode her
convenience dsstate3 Here was the prin-
sciple that the secession democracy asserted;
here the palitid course it advocated. We
care not about referring to the abuse, the
the accusations heaped upon
the friends Of the Union by the secession
leaders, or to remind the former, that the
support Of the Compromise was. in the esti-
nation of the latter, treason to the South.
and halfway abolitioaism. But we have
right to ask Messrs. McAfee and Hussey,
how they can claim that
aAllthe clouds that Ioweredon their house,
Are in the deep bosom Of the ocean hurled
when they must acknowledge that these
State Rights leaders still affirm this princi-
pie Of secessienism, this right to dissolve
the Union whenever andhoweEer they please
and still ostracise the great leader Of the
Union democracy, but for whose patriotic
efforts. the Star o. Mississippi would have
shot madly fromits spheres How can they
acknowledge that il was the wish Of the Sc
cession leaders to serve their country, when
the avowed purpose Of too many Of them
was to break il up; Or how stoop to fatter
and to fawn upon them, BY pressing their
honesty and uprightness, when they can
name shores Of the very leaders, whom they
now propose to serve, that were politically
both dishonest and corrupt?
When State Rights democrats escheW
their favorite doctrine Of secessionism, and