The weekly Mississippian., 1859-10-12
The Elections Last Monday.

We give this moring, such official and un-
official returns of the Mississippi elections as
had been received at this Office, when our paper
went to press last night.
By these returns it will be seen that the
so called Opposition State ticket is mo where'
is literally torn up root and bran h. The
Democracy, like a fire in the woods have
swept everything before them. Underbrush,
scrubby timber, dead logs, and tender plants
have alike vanished before the all conquoring
element Lamar, Davis, Barksdale, Singleton
and McRae. 1--WE have named them in the order
of the Districts) have been returned to Con-
gress, without opposition, except as to Single
ton who leads his independent Democratic
competitor to the tune of thousands. The is
sues of the canvass were plainly and distinctly
set forth, and boldly advocated by the Demo-
cratic candidates. These issues were proposed
by the Convention of July the 9th, to the
sovereign people of the State, and they have
recognized and approved them by not less than
twenty thousand majority. By this election
Mississippi has declared that the doctrine Of
non-interference with the Institution of slavery
in States, Territories, or District Columbia,
does not nor was it intended to conflict with
the assertion of the power of.Congerss to pro-
tect the property of the citizens of the several
States, who may choose to settle in the terri
tories which are the common property OF all
I Il L. L., o,I1,cal ho decision nf
the Supreme Court that the rights of property
in slaves is distinctly affirmed in the Constltu-
ton and that ''the only power over it conferred
upon Congress, is the power coupled with the
duty of guarding and protecting the owners in
their rights" She has declared that she will
stand by her sister slave-holding States in in
sisting upon the enforcement by all the de-
partments of federal government of their con-
stitutional rights as thus expounded by the
| Supreme Court of the United States" She
| has declared that ''in the event OF the election
of Black Republican candidate to the Presi-
dency, by the suffrages of one portion Of the
| Union only, to rule over the whole United
States, upon the ayowed purposes of that Or
ganization, she will regard it as declaration
of hostility, and will hold herself in readiness
to cooperate with her sister States of the
South, in whatever measures they may deem
necessary for the maintenance Of their rights
as co equal members of the confederacy." She
has declared the acquisition Of Cuba to be a
commercial and political necessity, and pledged
herself to the support of every proper meas
ure looking to its accomplishment.
With these notices plainly inscribed upon
their banners the Democracy have gone into
the contest, and with their numbers recruited
by very many patriotic men who have hereto
fore been numbered with the Opposition, but
who have nobly laid aside partizan enmities in
the presence of the dangers that threaten the
South-they have achieved victory without
parallel. Amid the general gloom, we joy
fully hail the result as an indication that
Mississippi will stand united in the pending
contest between the adocates of State Equality
and independence, and the crusaders Of Abo-
lition who are marshalled for the conquest o.
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