The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-26

1.-The people know that the Black Republicans
are forcing the sectional question upon US, unt
they see how suicidal would be the schsms at the
South-how essential to our preservation unanim
ity will be- and, in 1860, we hope and believe
the South will present an undivided front"
The above is an extract from one Of our late
issues, to which that astute hebdomida the Lex
ington Advertiser makes the following very sage
and overwhelming reply;
"Bah Such palaver belongs to the days that
were it's fit food for sucking babes-not matured
manhood Such argument, advanced to oppose
the organization of the opposition to rotten and
crumbing Democracy, is commensurate with the
, cause it advocates. This ruse-this huge spectre
set up to frighten intelligent and independent
freemen into the support of tottering party has
lost its virtue. The preservation of the South
is not dependent on this unanimity-but, as the
Democrat htly says our preservation is-aye,
the Democratic party and that alone. Is there
any intelligent Southerner at the present day,
with the experience of the past before him. so
verdant as to believe that Democratic party re-
strctions would ever control the slavery question
II any matter arises to agitate the subject again
Even the union of Northern and Southern Democ-
racy itself, upon the slavery question, is like unto
oil and water. 1t commingles when well shaken,
but how long does it remain so?
Now, in writing the article upon 'The Opposi-
ton Party, we had no intention of manufacturing
diet fit only for the weak digestion of Sucking
babes" else we would have most certainly sent it
marked for the especial consideration of the Lex
ington Advertiser This week, however, we ask
the indulgence of "matured manhood" among our
readers while we devote half an hour to the edu-
cation of the conductor of that classic sheet Ours
being labor of love- and not work of retaliation,
we must be permitted to express our hope that
the profered food may be received in kindly
spirit, and that it may rest quietly the stomach
/ Of the Advertiser.
Lend us your attention for a short time, dear
Advertiser We are about to discourse you and
ADM mister most nourishing aliment to your limo.
cent mind. Perpend.
| In the first place, we would suggest the propri
ETY. fmore carefully studying your subjects before
undertaking to thlow light upon the same, for the
reason that, unless person is possessed of unusual
hueney and pausibility, as we'll as elegance in
composition, he will find it exceedingly difficult to
indrce the belief that his verbosity is argument
Superfciality at best, dear Advertiser, even when
made up of all three of the accomplishments just
mentioned Is but gNuze-like fabric, and there is
danger Of its being torn, to the great discontinue
and modification of the 1ceaUey. 70 instance this,
we are constrained to tell you that you have
thoughtlessly placed yourself in rather anawkward,
not to say ridiculous situation in the article above
tod bv hi, =; nh n,J
tunate selection from our editorial for attack.
You will perceive by careful reperusal that the
glst of sentence is the assertion that unanimty
rs essential to the preservation Of the South BY
opposing this doctrine you set yourself against
the acknowledged postuate Of all sensible men at
the present crisis, and also against the wisdom
incucated by the old fable of the lion and the
oxen-not to mention the scriptural proverb, that
ga house divided against itself must fall" 1t would
be ungenerous to attribute your position to any
thing else than thoughtlessnes, as it is hardly
supposable that you would wilfuly undertake to
advocate the splitting up of the South into parties
when the Northern people are so well organized
and united in opposition to the institution of
slavery. You should be more cautious. By way
OF further opening your eyes, dear Advertiser, it
is our painful duty to allude to n very heavy and
meaningless if not a very bad sentence in your
article, to-wit:
THE preservation of the South is not dependent
upon this unanimity-but, as the Democrat htly
observes, cur preservation is'-aye, the Demo
cratic party-and that alone.7
Now this places you in the unpleasant predica-
ment of using a very sef-satsfed style in making
an assertion which nobody ever denied or would
ever be "verdant' enough to dispute. OF course
neither the Democratic party nor any other party
is or ever can be preserved without ''unanimity"
This is an axiom, dear Advertiser and axioms
should never be adduced with the vainglorious
air of man who had found mares nest or made
a great discovery. Such style is too apt to
produce the impression of mbecility in the person
who adopts it. Your best plan would have been
to have chosen some part of our article which
would have allowed direct issue, and then, in
your animadversions to have acknowledged that
Southern unanimity is necessary, but to have
taken the ground, and proved it if possible, that
it is better, eafer and more feasible to unite her
upon some other party than the Democratic By
this course you would at any rate have escaped
the probability of ridicule from your readers, and
might possibly have done yourself some credit if
your position were tenable and you had sustained
it. We are sorry you did not take this course
We hope our instructions may profit you in future,
dear Advertiser
In conclusion, we would call your attention to
the improperly of beginning q reply to the re-
marks of your brethren of the tripod with the
exclamation, bah !" 1t is not exactly respectful,
and unless followed by something sensible, sounds
too much like the bleating of a sheep
We take great pleasure in publishing the fol-
lowing communication from the people, and in