The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-07-28
Vol Is. No


IlREYIVAI or THE SLAVERY A6IlA-
TON IN 6 ONGLEss THE DIsUN-
ION QUESTION M cEssITY ORA
4 GREAT INDEPENDENT UNION
II PARTY
M Rockwell the new free soil whig Sen.
ator from Massachusetts, ii petition from
citizens Of Boston. for the repeal Of the Fd-
give Slave law, tIlat re-opened the agitation
lof tie disnnion guestionin the United States
Senate. The debate upon thatpetiiion, TIE
lother day, between Messrs Jones. 81 Ten
lessee Rockwell and Sumner, Of Massachd-
sets, Butler, Of South Carolina and others,
was pretty well up to that pitch OF selection
81 evaporation which charactized the me-
Emorable Congressional agitation ofI85O.
Il. # vas but few weeks that Mr.. Jones
Iridiculed the idea that storm was brew
ling, among the anti slaYery elements ofthe
North, and now he has become the verita-
lble Cassandra 9th Senate. The mantle
Of Gen. Foote appears to have fallen upon
the shoulders Of Mr. Jones' He tells us
that 'the Union could not be preserved one
day after the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave
law but then we are sonsoIed with the pos
Tive assurance that IL never will be repeal
ed. The abolitonists then may rave on;
ar. Charles Sumner in the face Of his oath
ito support the constitution Of the United
States may daily repeat the cry that he is
not dog that he should execute the Fu-
gitive law; The anti-slavery societies may
over whelm the Senate with their petition.
for repeal; but having the assurance Of Mr. 81
Jones that there will be no repeal upon. that
point Of assault at least the Union is SCI
cure.
But unfortunately The repeal ofthe Fugi-
tive Slave. law is but an Incidental item. in
the general account Of this present agitation
of Gle disunion question. Causes behind
The fugitive law and behind ihe Nebraska
billlies atthe bottom Of the mischief
The demoralzing spoils party Of the adj
ministration affords the key to this porten-
tous excitement revived between the North
and the South. The desperate exigenCies
Of the administration demanded some such
desperate expedient as the Nebraska bill 70
restore the President and his cabinet their
policy and their party to the lost confidence
oflhe South and Of the constitutional Union
men Of the North. But having IN advance
demoralized and destroyed the Union and
the efficiency Of the triumphant party Of
I85ethe administration is poWerless to re.
unite its scattered fragments even upon the
constitutional principles Of the Nebraska.
bill and hence the danger to the peace Of
thecountry
The danger is not in tie Fugitive slave
law, wi ere Mr.. Jones places it; but in the
absence ol any great National homogeneous
Union party, covering al sec
tons ofthe republic Mr. Jones Yirturlly
confssses that between the Southern and
Northern wings the rupture is complete.
he admits the evil as far IS his party is con-
cerned. But We have no corresponding
confession from Charles Butler Mr. Mason
Mr. Petit or any other Senator Of the demo
cratic side in. reference to the broken back
condition Of the late National Democracy.
None ofthem however can putin any valid
claims as champions Of the constitutional
rights of the South until their own position
IS little more satisfactorily defined. Do
they. belong to that pie bald dominant dem
ocratic party Of (which the Charleston Mer-
cury is the organ in South Carolina, the
Union the organ at Washington and Of
which. too the New York Evening Post
and The Albany Atlas are the leading organs
ii the great conservative State of New X orls
The contempt Of M. Butler for Charles
sumner smaelxs Of waggery while the Van
Burens are admitted 70 the orthodox com-
nunion table and the wrath 81 Mr., PETITE
against the cree soil Senator from Massa-
,husetts IS al moon shineas long as the
party of the Buffalo platform are counted
among the latter day saints' Of the demo-
cratic church. u the teeth of 81 unholy
il ineopgruous spoils coalition like this, al
professions Of constitutional consistency, q
II devotion u State rights 81 to'the Union
Ire but aross "a Ind crucible Ofpublie opin-
On. Neither party nor parlisans can mains sla
ain their ground "a ihe profession q Union
ind constitutional principles While they ere
.arfes Is i league with traitors ana dissen-
ion aaitalors CROUCH tho corruphng agen-