The Yazoo Democrat., 1858-10-23

"wHAT SHALL WE poYa

WhA1 OIlAhB We W
An esteemed friend in Yazoo county, wri-
ting us business letter, closes with the
following:
"The news from the Northern elections is
ominous What shall 0e do 2"
We wish we could answer our correspon-
dent and tell him what we "shaA" do. We
could tell him what we ought to do, but we
have done that so often that it has grown to
be an old story, and we greatly fear that the
South is rapidly sinking into leLhargy that
will lead inevitably to despotism. Party
organs and party hacks tell US of the heal,
thy reaction that is constantly going on at
the North-they prate feelingly Of the
sound and conservative masses that are rail-
lying in support Of the South, but, strangely
enough, every election manifests the fact
that the number of these conservative friends
of ours is growing small by degrees and
beautifully less" Each successive election
finds some manly spirit stricken down, be
cause he does not deuounce us as thieves
and robbers, and thinks that we are yet
American citizens, and are entitled to some
shadow of justice in the Union. Each sue,
ceeding contest onl y serves to display in a
broader light, the increasing power and un
abated insolence of our Abolition enemies.
They are now reveling in unbrdled power
throughout the North and Northwest, and
soon their sway over the whole Union will
be undisputed. In 1860 they will have the
President, the Cabinet and Congress, with
the entire patronage of the Government at
their disposal. With this prospect in view,
our correspondent may we'll ask "What
shall we do?" The Union-at-any. price gen
tlemen will continue to cry peace, we'll
knowing that we can have no peace, save
only such peace as the crouching slave en-
Joys under brutal and tyrannical master
They will continue to denounce as traitors
and disunionists those who will not bow
their proud hearts to beg that as boon,
which as freemen they claim as right
They will continue to dilate upon the glo-
ries Of Union, which is now only Union
ia name, and whose power is used to de-
fraud and opprcss the people of the South
They will appeal to the memories of the
past to sustain aud uphold what is now only
an engine of oppression, and deliberot tely
shut their eyes to what must be the inevita,
bic future Of the South. That the cry OF
Union! Union ! will be too potent for the
South, we greatly fear; for while we have Il
number of very "inteuse" Union men
amongst us, large majority of the Black
Republicans are equally clamorous for the
preservation of the Union. 1t is natural
that they should desire the Union to BE-
maintained. To them it is of the first i'm
portauce, for besides giving them power,
place and plunder, it enables them to insult
to degrade, and rob us with impunity. For
such Union, and on such terms, we have
neither respect 0or love, and sooner than see
the Government pass into the hands Of the
Black Republicans, we would, it we had the
power, shiver it into million of fragments.
Parasites aud hacks may call us "traitor"
until they grow hoarse, but we shall none
the less hold and utter the opinions which
are alike the result Of judgment and of pat
riotism.
We believe that the Union wM be dis
sOlved unless the people of the South will
meckly bow their necks to the yoke of the
oppressor, and sink into abjeet and degraded
slaves, and we care not how soon it comes.