The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-25
A corresnonlent ID the Montioelln In,irnn

A correspondent Of the Monticello Journal.
writing from New York over the signature of "Q'
SAYS:
''Since was here last summer am satisfied
there has been decided change in popular senti.
ment against the South. It seems to me that
disunlnn is inevitable, and the sooner the better
for the South. What are We gaining now from
hateful union with our Interiors in every respect
Nothing hut their quasi privilege of intermedding
with our just affairs, and the Just contempt of the
civilized world" Is t#
man who has been an enquirng reader of
Northern newspapers is bound to conclude that
the popular feeling of that section amounts to
positive and malicious hatred 90 is mistaken
about there being any decided change since last
summer, but there has been a gradual growth of
i'll will for many years past, and this estrangement
is owing to the fact that they know their inferior
ity to the South in every eRment that gives dig
nifty and responsibility to man.
Nationally 50 constituted as to be incapable of
those feelings Of chivalry and maguanimity which
characterize the Southern States, their sordid
natures yet afford just pride enough to make
them envious and teach them to hate. Without
an idea beyond the pocket, they have yet allowed
their envy and fanaticism to lead them into meas
ures which, if successful, must greatly depreciate
their wealth, and curse them with an endless
pilgrimage to the golden calf they worship.
The masses at the North seem to be ignorant
of the fact that dissolution of the Union must
unquestionably operate to their great disadvan-
tage, while Yankee aspirants and politicians,
though aware of this fact, expect to make capital
out Of the prejudices of their constituency, and
rely upon the patience and submission of the
slaveholding States for the permanence of their
power. The North being eminently manufac-
turing country would be ruined by the loss of the
South. SO soon as the Union is destroyed she
would be deprived Of our produce for the reason
that Southern manufacturers would spring. as if
by magic, from its ruins, and would far outstrip
her neighbora whose Independent sovereignty
would have to pay the dear price Of tariff upon
her imports of our rough material.
But Notwithstanding the obvious necessity of
the slaveholding States to her prosperity, North
ern office seekers continue to furnish fuel to the
fires of fanatcism, and maintain position by pan
orators paint imaginary crueltes with all the arts
of rhetorical harangue, and then depict to their
auditories Whose vanity transforms falsehood
into fact) the virtues of Northern legislation,
which is equally visionary, though highly adorn-
ed by lofty diction and hyperbole. These speak
ers forget that the South is too spirited to submit
much longer to encroachment, and that so soon as
she dissoves connection with their country, that
soon will their folly be exposed and they be
cursed ny their own people for the evils their am
bition engendered.
Weare nearly convinced with 20" that disunion
is inevitable, and if equality can only be sustained
at the expense Of disunion, we say, let it come.
If our neghbors will not cease their malicious
though stutifying cry against our institutions,
then it is not only our right, but our bounden
duty to ourselves and our posterty. to kick from
us whining hypocrites who presumptuously and
oficiously NEEDLE with our affairs. The Southern
States are strong enough and wise enough to
govern themselves without Yankee assistance and
God knows if we do not understand what is moral
and proper in people, we must be low indeed to
call for advice upon believers in Fourierism.
Higher Law and Free Love The South should
insist upon her capacity to manage her own affairs,
and insist that the North shall feed her starving
thousands before she opens her purse to emigrant
and and fugitive slave societies. whose sole end is
our injury. sense of dignity and independence
should prompt us to spit upon degenerate race
of prying, guessing" arrogant Yankees, who
assume the prerogatve of veto upon our wishes
and our institutions If they will not see their
own insignifcance, and cannot discover how fool
ishly ridiculous their pretentions are, let us tear
the scales from their eyes and shew them their
dependence and our strength
'Q' is right we are gaining nothing but the
'just contempt of the civilized world" by con-
nection with such misery preteuders We should
bring them up in their mad career Of encroach-
ment, and let them know they have been fretting
Hercules. They seem determined to arouse til e
lion, and will succeed but they will not fail to
feel the effects of their folly.
THE POISONOUS TOOTH.