The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-11

majority of abolitionists there, would not
this be tacit acknowledgment of wish
to commit fraud upon the people by
imposing on them government against
their desire 7 We do not go so far as ia
call the Lecompton Constitution fraud
We are DESTROYS Kansas should be admit.
ted under it, but we think that heavier
blows have been aimed and struck at the
interest of the Southern country than the
rejection of this Constitution.
The forcible seizure of Gen. Walker
was death stroke in comparison to the
rejection of Kansas. Who can deny this
None but mulish asses and despairine
politicians, who want to break the Union
at any price, will pretend to deny it, for
not only was outrage committed, but in
suit added, and nothing was done but a
few speeches delivered, resolutions pass.
ed and blood and thunder spouted, gen.
orally.
Six months ago, it seemed that the
whole South was undivided in the opinion
and coariction that Kansas nerer coufd
come IN as Stare State. And why has
it so suddenly been changed from so un.
important an insignifcance, to such a bug.
aboo that the mere thought of her being
rejected makes the patriotic blood OF
Southerners boil over.
Some of the most influential men in the
Southern country--men who never have
nor ever will prove recreant to the cause
of the South, have long since given, as
the honest convictions of their hearts
kansas can never be a slave State.'
Mr.. Badger, of North Carolina, said"
have no more idea of seeing slave popu-
lation in either of them kansas and Ne
braska) than have of seeing it in Mas
sachusetts." Mr.. Wilson, of Virginia,
said" No one expects it no one dreams
that slavery will be established there.
Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi, believed
"that slavery will never find a resting
place n'thOse territories
Besides these declarations from men
who could have been influenced by no
motive of self-interest; the actions and
speeches of others equally patriotic, have
clearly manifested the fact of their belief
being the same way. If there was any
thing to be gained-if any advantage
would accrue to the South were the Union
dissolved, we would say dissolve it. If
our rights are trampled on-if we are de-
barred the right of equally participating
in the liberties dispensed from the Senate
Hall-if there is no longer an administra-
ton of government which gives "equal
rights to all-exclusive privileges to
nome" we say dissolve absolve the ties
that make us one people. WewOuldhave
favored dissolution Of the Union much
more readily on account of other outrages,
not to say tyrannical acts, than the re-
lection of Kansas, for we do not think
this rejection would be one of such i'm
portance as to make a dissolution desira
BILE, and could with more propriety be
considered as an illegal act were it pass
ed than wrong and deprivation of right
were it rejected. In conclusion, the whole
Democracy, North and South, is in fine
pickle. While one division of the South
ern wing remains silent on the Kansas
question and showers abuse in bitter
strains on the devoted head of old Buck
on account of his Paulding scrape, the
other division conscious of their distract
ed state, harp upon their wrongs, and
disunion is the charybdis in which, with
the energy of despair and modification it
is endeavoring to hurl itself.