The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-18
From the True Southron.
THERE Is TO nE NO PEACE

that there is no peace, and that there can be
no peace between the North and the South
We believe that there is forgone determi.
nation on the part of the Northern PEOPLE
to rob aud enslave us, and for uttering this
our solemn and deliberate conviction, there
are certain good natured people who amuse
themselves by applying to us the Ito their
view opprobious epithets of fire-eater,"
f" disunionist," and "traitor." We care
very little for mere words--many people
use great number of very large ones with.
out meaning much. If the terms " fire.
eater," " traitor" or " disunionist" express
our views or explain our position, we accept
them with pride, not as a badge of dishonor.
If determination to resist wrong makes
man fire eater, we are one. If au un-
conquerable aversion to being robbed con-
stitutes disunionist, then we are disun,
ionist, and if an invinciGIe contempt and
scorn for Government, u people or IA party
that would degrade us from the rank of
freemen and equals, and reduce us to the
condition of cringing Pariahs, then we are
a traitor Of the deepest dye, and we glory
in the title
We say these things, not because we do
not love the Union our fathers made or
reverence the work of their hands, but it is
because we do love and honor the Union and
the Constitution as they were originally in.
tended. Both were made for our protec.
tion, but one is disregarded, while under the
power of the other, the government is con
verted into an engine for our oppression.
The majority Of numbers is against us, and
paper projections for minority are now
powerless. Each passing year adds to the
strength of our enemies, and their insoleuce
keeps pace with their strength. We recent.
ly published good portion of Mr.. Seward s
Rochester speech, and as pendant to that
elaborate programme of the able Senator
from New York, we present couple of gems
from the New York Tribune, paper as
distinguished for the ability which marks
its editorials, as for the uuscrupulousness
which characterizes its principal editor. In
recent issue Mr.. Greeley says:
The present position in which slaveholding and
| free labor stand face to face with each other is
the IQNV1IHnle result OI Hl our past nlSLOFY, rs
was fully forashadowed in the very trst Cont
mental Congress, and still more distinctly in the
! Convention that framed the Federal Constitution.
In this state of things, it is in uGn that the self
! ish, the quetsts and the timid, whether at the
North or at the South, cry out Peace! Peace
! There is no pedce-AIr. Choate and Senator Ham.
mond to the contrary Notwithstanding. There Il
no PENCE and until the great decsipe battle is fought
there can be none. The struggle has begun and
must 20 on. In this thing, we cannot have our
own way. IN such struggle there can be no neu-
traeiiy. II is time for spery one to choose under
ehtch banner he ciu stand.
This is plain, and its candor at least is to
be commended. ",Fhe struggle has begun,
and it must so on, says Horace Greeley.
In such struggle there can be no neu,
trality 1t is time for every one to choose
under which banner he will stand p
We agree with you, Mr.. Greeley. "Therc
can be no neutrality" who is not for us
is against us and should be treated as an en-.
emy. We haze chosen the banner under
which we will stand," and with the help Of
Heaven we intend to stand by it until it
floats in triumph or has become the winding
sheet of the true men who rally beneath its
| folds.
But the foregoing paragraph, from the
editorial columns of the Tribune, though
"aItogether lovely" does not stand alone.
A Washington correspondent, in the same
number of the paper, writes as follows:
The struggle against the slavcholdng arstocra-
cy will continue as long as that aristoeracy EXISTS
Platforms may he made and unmade, fugitive
slave laws passed and repealed, Kansas admitted,
and dozen other free States admitted-but the
anti slavery agitation iCiH not stop until the slave
holding dristocrdey subdlsd and suppressed There
may be lulls, and there may be reactions--there
may be settlements and " final Settlements
remember myself, six or seven of the latter since
the first great one in 1834-but the anti-slavery
agitation will continue and grow stronger and
stronger every year, making issues, if it does not
find them made. Our Southern friends may as weLI
understand, first last, that the only cay to get rid
Of The agitation about SLAVERY is to get rid Of slavery
Itself.
We have not word Of comment to offer
upon this. We agee with the writer. We
believe with anti-slavery agitation will not
stop until the slaveholding aristocracy is
su6daed and suppressed We believe that
the g only way to get rid of it is to get rid
of slavery itself," aud as we are not willing
to stop agitation by that process-as We pre-
fer rending the Government to pieces in
stead, why we are content that all the old
women Of the country should call us traitor
and disunionist