The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1855-11-22
THE NEXT CONGRESS--THE
THREATENED STORM
TIE WAY 1T SHOULD
BE NET.
BE NET

1t il a general expectation that the
next session Of Congress will be
stormy and dangerous one--that the
opponents of the Soutll-ofthe Con-
stituton and laws, will come up full
armed and eager for the fray. The
Washington Sentinel, in view of this
fact, makes some excellent suggestions
in regard to the position which CON
seryative men should occupy. OPP
position upon the floor, in ,cords, is
what these agitators want and with
ont it they will perish, Deprived Of
an opportunity to haranguc and hum
bug the people with hypocriticai cant,
and their occupation is gone. Dis
cussion Is useless rnl unnecessary .---
The people understand the points at
issue as well as their representatives.
do. Let the agitators be met with a
silent, solid, and unbroken front, and
when the roll is called, let every friend
Of his country look well to his record.
We have no fears Of the result The
Scnlinc} Gays:
We are not of those who look upon
the coming session of Congress as
such a Raw head and bio ody bones
after all. There are more ways
than one of dealing with refractory
spirits. When we were a boy, we
feared more than the rod and the lee
ture, the calm snd passive silence Of
our governor, There was more that
was hurtful to our feelings in the lat
ter mode. The disgrace of not being
noticed--of being ignored, constituted
covantry that went beyond the pow
er that imposed it. In greater or
less degree it was impaired to the
other boys. Now we have fought
and lectured the unprincipled AbOli-
tionists, who, it is said, come here
this winter to attempt the destruction
of the institutions Of our country.
We have fought them with the
weapons of reason; we have sought
to win from them the error of their
ways, by kind and gentle remon-
STRANGE. Our seed has been sown in
stony ground, and fallen on hearts of
hardened natures. They have war
red against our gentle counsels, and
with defnant fanaticism have wildly
challenged our resistance, and scorn-
ed our patience. We should bow,
not in submission, but in silence to
their mad behests. Let the tormen-
ted begin-their threats are in vain
there is a spirit in the country that
they can neither win nor subduc.--
Good and true men ofall parties, will
unite to tear the veil from the pompous
but evanescent power. Their days
are numbered. Let them do their
worst. The sooner the better. low
then shall they be met? IN D1GNI-
FLED SILENCE! Let them repeal
the fugitive slave law-abolish slavery
in the District Of fColumbia-threaten
ito abolition in the States--refnse to
admit any new slave State into the
Union, and all things else that their
reasonable hearts can invent to wea-
ken the tenure of the property of
their brethern (?) and to violate, with
blasphcmsus sacrilege, their oaths to
God and man; and they will accom-
plish nothing but their own iniamy,
and the contempt Of the whole civiliz-
ed world, by whom we mean, the
true constitutional men of the coun-
try whom no geographical or section
al line can corrupt.) Let not a word
be uttercd--no murmur escape their
lips, and we shall see if their craven
hearts do not sickeu and faint before
the storm Of our silence, at tn ir fen
dish attempts upon, not only OUR
RIGHTS, but the rights of ALL under Our
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