The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-12-15
Speech Of Hen. Jefferson Davis.

Speecn OF Hen. Jefferson Davis.
A friend, living iI Mississippi, has sent us
a copy Of the speech delivered at the Capt.
tol of that State, by Hon Jefferson Davis.
on the lltb of last month. Senator Davis,
during the past Summer and Fall made q
tower through the Northern States, public
ly addressed the people ut several places,
and the national sentiments reported to
have been expressed by him in these
speeches, were displeasipg 10 the people Of
his State and of the South and the gene
raj belief was that the gallant Mississippian
had departed from his strong Southern and
States Rights principles.
he endeavors in the present speech to
correct this impression says that the only
change in his opinion is in reference to the
Northern democracy, which he now believes
TO he true TO thu South that reaction has
taken place in the Northern mind favorable
to the South, and that among Northern
democrats, is often heard the unqualified de-
fence of our constitutional rights and the
rndication Of our institutions in the alb
stract and in the coRcretc.
iio s'Ns """e>e'' 'ha' shouic The South
and the Northern democracy be defeated in
the next Presidential contest, the question
will be presented to us, whether we will
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' " "'' 'n'' ''e hahds
VI our "'oWeu ana itnPiicaoIe enemies
He copRsels the South that, in this event
she should immediately set ahout securing
her tor,,v o,,sii. oP - Ir,;o, ,,.;,, n
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possessed OF thr power, would unquestion.
ably despoil us. He says that the master
mind of Seward has in.uIcot.d ;r,, ,h,
p,,. p.n,hu. -, l, ",' '"'
Np"'''."" "o'' sue" u'au'y an>
'P''"y I" ire south and her institutions,
that we may expect from them no quarter 4:
that, Incredible as il may soem h. hos 49,.
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"'s '''"' ny '"e
P'"Po'"'u'' '''' u u tue purpose OF the
south aud the democratic party TO force
slavery upon all Tho States Of This Union
We re,orniza i, tbo ov,,,o, h.l,,,. a.,
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"'e ""u '"''"''S ~ INC ih''~ OF l'rmer
umeS
say to you here as | have said TO The,
democracy of Nav York, if it should ever
como to pass that the constitution shall be
perverted 10 the destruction Of our rights
so that we shall have the mere right AS a
feeble minority unprotected bv the barrier
OF the constitution to give an incf,eetual
negative vote in the Halls of Congress-, w
shall then bear to the federal Government
the relation our colonial fathers did to tho
British crown, and 1t we are worthy Of our
lineage We will in that event redeem our
rights even II II be through the process of
revolution. And it gratifes me to be ena.
bled to say that no portion Of the speech
TO which have referred was received with
more marked appreciation by the Democra-
cy there assembled than the sentiment
which has just been cited. am happy also
to state that during the past summer heard
in many places what previously | had only
heard from ihe late President Pierce, the
declaration, that whenever Northern army
should be assembled to march for the sub
)ugati"n Of the South, they would have n
battle TO hight at home before they passed
the limits OF their own States, and one in
which our Trends claim that the victory
VIII NJ least be doubtful.
Now, as in 1887, hold separation from
ihe Union by the State of Mississippi to be
the asst remedy-the final alternative. In
the language Of the yeperated Calhoun |
yreat ,bo"ob n", ths n,oa,o", @ S ..'n, oo !"
would cling tenaclousy to our constitution.
al Government, seeing as do in the frater-
Ia. l'al onlon eq OF equal states The oeneht to aH
Which IN, ra,hars honaa % 90" "'S% H?.'"f
their sons TO attain. | love the flao Of nv
codntry with even more than fiIia' affec.
uon' Miss'ss'PP' gave me IN my boy hood