The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-09-18
SENATOR A. G. BROWN.

On last Saturday, the 18th inst, this distin'
guished Mississippian was honored with a com.
plimentary Barbecue at Hazlehurst His speech
on that occasion is one of signal ability and
eloquence. 1t is published in the Mississippian
of last Friday. We regret we have not space
enough to transcribe it to our columns. He
expresses himself strongly in favor of the pre-
scriptve clause of the English Bill, and seems
disposed to apply the same to all Territories
DESTROYS Of admittance to the Union in future.
In reference to the New York Herald and Rich
mond Enquirer in that connection, he uses the
following pointed language:
81 observe that the New York Herald the
Richmond Enquirer, and other kindred sheets,
ore urging the abandonment of the English Bill,
and the speedy admission of Kansas, as the only
means of saving the Democratic party in 1860,
If the Democratic party can only be saved by
means like this, then the sooner it sinks the
better. And / have this farther to say, that
whenever the Democratic party consents to be
led by such men as edit the New York Herald and
Richmond Enquirer, it is time for the old guard
to strike their coors.
We have had quite enough of sacrificing prin-
ciple to expedenty | want no more of it, and
will have no more For the National Democratic
party l entertain profound respect. 1t is the
last bulwark of the Union; when it falls the
Union will fall with it. But if it requires ano
Their compromise, and another sacrifice of South
erh rights to save it, it may CO."
lie fully sustains the Administration Oh the
Kansas issue, but differs from Mr. Buchanan on
the Nicarag Walker question. Gov. Brown
thinks the Gass-Yrissarri treaty is wrong from
the fact that its plan for Central American colo
nization has for its agent the American Transit
company, which is identified with the non slave
holding States, and must therefore tend to abo-
litionize the country, which is to be educated for
annexation Walkers project, he thinks, would
produce a result exactly the reverse, because Of
the certainty that it would be accomplished if at
all, by Southern men, The Governor is fill
buster, and sustains his position by irresistible
arguments He is down on Squatter Sovereignty
and down on Douglas because he advocates the
anti Dred-Scott doctrine that the Territories have
the right to exclude slaves from their limits by
Territorial legislation. With regard to the slave
JIuuCJ bSllVfOo III piC-lLfuhS 10 FlBHt
per se-but doubts the expediency of cheapenng
labor at the South, before the white population
is somewhat increased. He says:
We can never reopen the slave trade while
the Union lasts unless we can multiply the mum
Der of slave holding States This we can never
do, unless we acquire more territory. Whether
we can acquire the territory while the Union
lasts, do not know l fear not But | would
make an honest effort, and if we failed, | would
90 out of the Union and try it there. | speak
plainly, would make refusal TO acquire terri
tory because it was to be slave territory, cause
for dsunion, Just as | would make the refusal to
admit new State, because it was to be slave
State, cause for disunion"
He thinks that the opening of the slave trade
now would SO cheaper labor as to check immi-
grafton, and consequently is illibuster--be-
lieves in expansion. and wants more territory for
the extension of slavery.
Of the Union he says:
81 was raised in awe, in almost superstftious
reverence for the Union. But if the Union is to
be converted into masked battery for assailing
my property and my domestic pedce, / will de-
stroy it if can, and if this cannot be done by a
direct assault, would resort to sapping and mi
ming.
have been asked to state my views as to the
future of the Union and will do so with the
utmost freedom and frankness, In twenty years
have not changed my opinion as to the great
fact that you must give up the Union or give W
slavery. That they can and ought to exist to-
gether in harmony and be as they have been
mutually beneficial, is certainly true but thai
they will not, is in my Judgment, just as true
The sentiment of hostility to the South and til
institutions is widening and deepening at thu
North every day. Those who tell you otherwise
are themselves deceived. or they wilfully deceive
you Twenty years ago. this sentiment was con
fined to few fanatics; now 1t pervades all class
es, ages and sexes of society. 1t is madness t
suppose that this tide is ever to roll back. To
day, Seward, the great arch-spirit of Abolition
ism, marshals his hosts In twenty years he ha
not changed his plan. He means to bring tn
Union with all its power and patronage, its pres
tge and its glory into direct conflict with slavery
The day of battle cannot much longer be delayed
When it comes, when the power of the Union i
turned against slavery, when its arm is raised t
strike down the South | know not where othe
men will stand, but for myself, will stand Wher
| have always stood, on the side of slavery an
the South" NJ
These paragraphs convey some idea of tn
tenor Of his speech, which is one of the ables
we have read in many months.