The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-09-18
SOUND SOUTHERN SENTIMENTS.

DOOND pOO AEIN DEN LINEN 10.
Ex-Governor John j McRae, of Missis.
sippi, on being informed of his nomination
for Congress in the Fifth District, by duly
appointed Committee, responded eloquently
and appositely, and accepted the honor con
ferred upon him. AS, in his case, nomiA
nation is equivalent to an election, we cans
not but congratulate ourselves that sound
and feliable Southern Rights gentleman has
been chosen to fill the chair vacated by the
death of the lamented and ilustrious Quit
man To have selected any other would
have been political sacrilege, to say the
least. +.
The following paragraphs, taken from his
letter OF acceptance, contain, it strikes us,
sound and unobjectonable Southern senti,
ments We publish them with pleasure,
and invoke the earnest attention of our
readers to the IDEAS succinctly promulgated
by the distinguished .Mississippian. Says
Ex Governor McRae;
Your letter is ccompanied by no platf3rm
of principles adopted by the convention. for
the reason I suppose, tha: the sentiment of
this district is so well understood, and NV
own position, for the past len years, h2s
been so well defined or thn exciting question
OF Federal legislation invovingthe cous'tu-
tional rights of thc South, that n, special
enunclation Of principles by the convention
was deemed necessary.
1t may be well for me to saw, however,
that the cardinal principle with myself in
reference to the powers of the Federal Gav-
ernment Is. that they must he exercised in
all lis departments within the strict limta-
tions of the written charter. That these
powers fad their origin and init in che
Constitution of the United States, bat
without the Constitution there is no Union,
and that Constitutional Government may
be destroyed as well by the consolidation Of
its powers as by their dissolution, as we'll by
the unlimited federation of the States as BY
their total separation; and that when the
issue is between these two alternatives. grow.
ing out of sectional interests, and an irreeon,
cIlable collision between he different snciaI
systems of our people, prefer the latter.
This position embraces the sentiment.
which | find so well expressed in resolution
OF the primary meeting in Claiborne county.
to appoint delegates to the Brook khaven c,n.
ventlon-"That we repudate as erroneou,
and injurious the notion that our stateemeH
should Know no North or 40 South, but on
the contrary, that their duty is to know both
sections aud wrong neither-that impartial
and ready justice ought to be the only rule
of the Federal Government, and that the
State liberties must and shall be preserved
even at the sacrifice of the Union
Upon this position all Southern men
ought to unite without distinction of party
aud upon it they ought to stand or fall.
We don't suppose the Governors ideas
will take very well with the "Uniou at.any.
price" gentlemon--witb those individuals
who so dearly love to be kicked, cuFed, SPIT
upon and threatened, and who could not be
induced to stand up for, much less fght for
their rights under any circumstances bu
we are much mistaken if there is not party
already formed, biding the time and tht
occasion, which will support men avowinI
similar sentiments all over the South, anc
compel universal obedience thereto.
w. O. Crescent.