The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1855-12-20

in congress, and a sectional abolition
president! Will the conquered South
submit? Clearly not It holds them
lower in the scale Of men than their
law, rank The slave, to hope for such
submission. They are men, high
minded men," and will secede from
such a congress, and what then p
Why, "srT THE DOGS ON THEM eXclaims
a northern senator, great leader IN
this new fusion movement, who pro-
claimed this treason in Maine. Yes.
CRY HAVOC aSD LET SLIP THE Dogs OF WAR.
That is the fusion statements rem
edy to save the Union, and that is
civil war. And the farmers, mechan-
les, and laborers of the North are to
be the "dogs' to be set upon the South
by your senators Wade and Wilson
and their whippers in of disunion and
civil war! And what then? If you
fight and daily4sacrifce hectacombs
of white men in sthe cause of negro
freedom, have you abolished slavery?
Not unless the white men of the South
are exterminated.
But suppose there isno fighting and
the separation is peaceful. What
them The best we can have of it
will 10 a northern republic, which will
permit no slave state to join it, and
southern republic, which every state
and territory that holds or desires to
have domestic slavery willjoin. And
this southern republic and these new
slave states will keep and hold their
slaves with a stronger hand than now;
and in the end the northern republic
must either fight the southern, or make
treaty to deliver up her runaway
slaves! A population we shall be OBJ
ligcd to get rid of when they have
ovcrrun the north with pauper labor.
From these futile and terrible issues
of blood, dismemberment, and nation
al degradation, those who love their
whole country, those who are Ameri-
cans indeed, can turn onlyt the dem
ocratic doctrine of selfgovernment
and non-intervention; the constitution
as it is, and the Union as was before
abolitionism disturbed it.
And where is the standard Of the
Union around which they can rally
The whig party at the south is lost by
this incessant war of the north upon
their domestic institutions. The know
nothing party at the north is but a new
name for anti-slavery, with one more
idea added. 1t is a party with just
tro ideas-viz: to free the blacks and
to make mtite dares of all emigrants
and foreign born! No party but the
democratic party has national exist
ence or can hold national conyen-
iion without disruption.
That party says to the North, keep
Ill your rights under the constitution
1t saws to The south, keep oil your
right, under the constitution. II hollS
north. south and wcsti in the common
bond of a common union, alike sacred
to all.
1t says to the people of every Ter
titory, regulate your own domestic
concerns, frame your own constltu'
tion, and come into the Union, when
YOU have the requisite population with
all thc rights of sovereignty which
each state now enjoys.
1t says to all parties, put an end td
this slavery agitation and give room
.or enlarged legislation for the whole
country and for Its advancement in
the manifest destiny that lies before it
1t says to each State, improve the
condition of your own people and
cease to intermedle with the concerns
of other states or territories.
1t says to Anti-slavery, in all it
forms of fusion and confusion, yor
have tried bitterness and strife and de
nunciation long enough to test thel
imbecilty to advance the cause offrcc
dom of the colorcd race. Return tt
the constitutional compact and th'
Christian temper of our fathers wh'
made it; and if indeed you love the
slave, try the genial influences o
T kindness, brotherly love and true phil
anthropy, and cooperate with tn
South in their voluntary efforts Il
ameliorate the condition of the slav
labor which is their inheritance!
] In this spirit we appeal to the dc
mocracy Of the whole country, to tn
I Union men of the North, to the Chris
tan people of the North, who hav
? not lost their love of country in big
! otry to foreigners and hatred to tn
: South. Let us take care Of ourselve
g and our own states, and cease inter
a mcddling with the domestic concern
: of others. Let us begin the work {
: redeeming Massachusetts, not by tn
), party cry of repeal of the Ncbfask
= bill, which cannot be repealed, an
o would effect nothing good if it coul
e be repealed, but by restoring the fuI
e ,lamental principle Of our Unio
which leaves every state soverelg
If except in the grants made to the VI
u ion by the constitution.
Il Elect men to office who when thu
C take the oath to support the constit
o ton of Massachusetts,, will respe
,r the bill of rights which prohibi
1t sumptuary laws and cruel and un
-e sual punishments to destroy the pro
y, erty and personal rights of the citize
is Men, who when they swear to su
Of port the constitution OF the Unit
n States, have no mental reservation
IS, evade it by nullifying laws which
g national legislature has passed and
is judiciary solemnly affirmed.
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