The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-04-05
State Rights Party.

-" th'itA the iOit0~ing article taken iron
the Georgia Times and Sentinel as good al
exposition Of the past intentions and pfesen
positions Of the Democratic party. as any thing
which could be written on the subject, we al
lude Of course particularly to the party in tn,
Southern States, covering the whole grounC
when the State Rights and Union parties, a,
such, were contending for supremacy, and com
ing on down 10 the present time, when ono,
more as Wings and Democrats, we are organi.
zing for another campaign although the arti.
Gle was written with reference to the condition
Of parties in Georgia, we think it suits us o.
Mississippi, equally well.
There are always, will be some. stultifed
inteliects which cannot be persuaded to see
correctly, nor would be though one rose from
the dead Of course, we have no hope of con-
yincing such, or of showing them, what we
conceive to be our true position before the
world, we write for men willingt TO be e~onvinc.
ed.
"DIsUN1os AND THE GEORGIA rREss.s
Several our contemporaries are still ringing the
changes upon the worn-out theme Of Disupiop.
1t is a raw head and bloody bones, which they
periodically exhibit for the purpose of Brighten
ing Their timid readers and of i%njuring the
Southern Rights wing of thu Democracy. Why
gentlemen, it is a very old tune, with which
the public have become disguised long aoo.
1t is an old thread-bare expedient which every
body understands, and no one more tboronob.
" than the managers who resort to it. You
only make yourselves the laughing stock of a
discerning public, in allowing them to suppose
that you really expectto frighten them with this
ass in a hons skin. The ears are to prominent
to impose on a boy of 10 years. And our
brethren of the press who are guilty. in the
premises will pardon us for suggesting that
repetition ofthe same old story so often. exhib-
its a scarcity of ideas, which is truly lamenta.
bic.
Neither the Editor of this paper nor the
Southern Rights party ever were disunionists
per se.-We believed that a bold and deter.
mined assertion Of our rights at all hazards
the surest and most certain mode of nre-
serving the Union, and ofsecuring our rights,
publicly proclaimed that if the South
would unite in the demand of Justice at the
hands ofthe North, that justice would be rem
iered, We taught that the Uuion was &c
to the North as it was to the South and
hat war was as terrible to them as to us. On
these issues we suffered an ignominious do.
eat; submission to wrong was decided to be
to a bold and manly resistance. bv
very Southern State except South Carolina
md she, in the general detection thourht +
'rudentto torbear for the present the assertion
y Ger independence. Under these untoward
circumstances, the Southern Rights Party feH
'ack upon the Georgia platform, ready and
Wiling when the emergency occurs which is
ontemplated by those resolutions to buckle
m our m and rally in the front rank
ronnd the flag staff which the Union nartv
'ar excellence erected.
We wonld here, respectfully, ask the Edj-
who indulge in the cid cry Of disunion.
mat they meant by the Georgia Platforms
y as IT also a cheat to gull the people2 Or
'as 1t an honest declaration warm from .be
carts OF freemen! Then, if there pc treason
! dlsunlon sentiments, you are as guilty as we
gu aae prospective disunionists, if YOU are
onest. We were never anything olore. All
us Is so palpable to the most unlearned read
that we feel we cucumber our columns bv
to the subject. "Let the dead burn
seir dead.n
One more word MS to our connection with
re Democratic Party.
The Union party had determined upon sub
lsSion the Southern Rights party was brok-
h scattered and overwhelmed by defeat, We
ood 6y the flag staff as long as a rag futtered
the breeze. But time rolled on-and new
sues were presented. We were called on to
loose between Scott, the friend ofSeward and
Ie candidate of the abolition wing Of the par.
/; and Pierce, the creation and choice Of the
outhern Democracy and a statesman who
lltorinly sustained the constitutional rights
the south both in Congress and out of Cong
We could not hesitate between them
'e threw our heart and pen into the scale of
IERcE; and if We did anything in that con.
to overthrow Federalism and Aboltion;sm
the person of Scorr and his hackers. and to
evate a man to the Presidency whom we /,
MY believe to be a State Rights Republican. :
thank God, and are content to bear the
nsequences. If this defense is not s~atisfact-
J TO that part of the press in Georgia which :
disposed to censure US they will please con-
lue to sing that same old tune" o. disuuion 9
'ul Their own dull ears are tired of the mel
y We will promise them a quiet time Of
IN future, though we fear their audience will v
a oeggarly account of empty boxes"