The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-15
Governor morchead's Message.

Tour friend, the Governor Of Kentucky, has
our thanks for two copies Of his Message. This
is an admirable document. We have read It
with great interest and are pleased to learn
that the financial condition Of that great Ameri-
can State is so prosperous. We copy below
the closing part Of the Message. 1t is patriotic
and temperate, but at the same time breathes a
spirit which though long suffering, will one day
stand forth in lofty defiance in the whole South
ern people, if the SLAYER, agitation is much long
err kept up by our brethren of the North. None
will deplore this day more than we. But il they
make Esaus of us and try to take away our
birth-right. the frs: law of nature is self pro-
lection. Let agitators look to it.
II am unwilling to close this communication
without calling your attention to the present con-
lition of our federal relations. Kentucky being
a border slave State has had more cause to com
plain of the agitations of fanatcism, and of the
practical encroachments upon her rights, than
perhaps any other State of the confederacy, yet
she has manifested no other spirit than that of
Cancellation and calm forbearance; and in those
angry sectional conflicts which have cnnvulsed
the nation she has stood almost as an arbiter be-
tween the north and the south. and whenever the
Union was supposed to be in Danger she has not
hesitated to yield her opinions and her Interests
as sacrifice upon the altar ofpatriotism. With
such feelings deeply imbelded in the popular heart
she has witnessed with pain and modification the
alarming strikes that are making by great and
growing sectional party in the north to obfiterate
the constitutional guaranty ofher rights, and to
weaken il not to sever the ties by which we are
bound together in a common brotherhood. She
| has lamented and incurred over that wild and
RECKLESS spirit which has hurried the defendants
ofthe heroes of Bunker Hill and Lexington to a
dissertation of the Federal Constitution, by an at
tempted notification of supreme law Of the land,
made in pursuance Gifts provisions. She has seen
with dismay and CONSERVATION this spirit of dis
corl enter into the sanctuary Of our national lib
critics She still looks to the Union as the best
if not the only socnrity for her peace and happi-
ness. AMI faithful aud honest support ofthe con-
situation tho only guaranty of liberty.
/ There are certain great and fundamental prin
ciples which are nlonepolized by no party, which
rise above all party claim, and Which it would DC
proclamation to surrender to party use. These
principles lie at the foundation of our government
AMI guaranty perfect equality ofrightto eacl
and every State of this cenfederacy. 1t was The
only condition upon which the Union coull have
been formed, and il is the only one upon which i
can be preserved 1t is the fundamental basis no
only Of the general welfare, but in all human pro
bability,of liberty itself. Tho most. emphatic
worls Of the Father of his Country, and the mos
impassioned defamation of the orator as to thu
value Of the Union Aenunciate but the Gaines
truth It's dissolution would be like the breakin,
j up Of gallant ship on prosperous voyage, il
order that the6crew might find greater safety OF
Its bose a3ismcmhered, and scattered fragments
The real enemies of the Union are those who per
sist ID sectional agitation-those who are bandet
ii together to bring the action Of common Fedora
Government for all the States into an attitude D
hostility to the property of part--they are tht
practical disunionists. They forget or disregard
all the compromises which impart vitality to til,
i constitution. The dark and rampant spirit o
abolitiopism aud freesoilism. regardless alike o
1 the admontions of patriotism and the dictates :
justice is threatening, in its mad career, destrd
q the very foundation Of the Union.
B ThesFederal Government ia It's original orgarI
i fzation conformed itself most wisely tothe thel
condition Of the people and the property It wa
intended to protect. Slavery then existed s. mos
Of the STATES The constitution. did not pretend
i to make any change whatever in the relation o
master am slave. The property in slaves, sucl
as it was, pte-cxsted, and the constitution rccog