The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-31
The vicksburg Wing on Disunion.

[solve the Union. But we can tell Col. Pettu
and the Mississippian, that if a thousand sucl
men were to traverse the State and max,
disunion speeches in every village, country
store, and cross road, and as many such paper
were to report, enforce, and laud their speech
es it would be, to use the language of dis
tinguished friend in Bolivar county, "ike wa
ter poured on ducks back" and leave no
other impression than an increased admiration
for our institutions, that have not only with
stood every assault from fostbout, but have
proven themselves capable Of resisting all eff
forts from seitbia, to break down and destroy
the priceless inheritance bequeathed to us
y from our sires.
The Union cannot be dissolved, and to use
the language of Old Hickory, "by the Eternal
it must and shall be preserved" There is
, too much at stake for our children, too much
for posterity, too much of the hopes and ex-
pectations of future civilization and freedom
ito give it up so.' No, no, Col. Pettus and
gentlemen of the Democratic Convention =
We do not intend to let Black Republican
be elected, and thereby put your threats tc
the test, because we know that if we should
you will mgloriously back out, as you did in
1851, and let the matter end in buster and
brayado
1.-THE Wing speaks of Col. Pettus' "efforts
to dissolve the Union;' but it knows that he
is making no such attempts. The Union o
justice and equality framed by the fathers oi
the Republic, is virtually dissolved upon the
accession to power of an abolition Admins
Il tration and the Inauguration of its policy
The party of Seward has no other avowed
object-no other bond of organization the
destruction of the compact of Union between
the States; and the Whig forgetting the fact,
confounds with the schemes of the enemies Of
the South, the protective measure advanced
by Col Pettus as the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Mississippi. The question
which will be presented upon the happening
of rhat event, will be, not the maintenance of
the Union of the Constitution under which
we have heretofore been living, but submission
to the despotism of a fanatical majority, who
have had the boldness to say that when they
succeeded in seizing the government it shall
be perverted to their purpose of overthrowing
the institutions of the Southern States and
reducing the South to a condition of colonial
dependency and degradation. The original,
true, glorious Union if you will so have it,
can be as easily destroyed under the forms Of
one common government, as by the violent
separation Of its members; and the real dis
unionists are not the State Rights men of the
South, who are advocating the preservation of
the Constitution as it came from the hands of
its revered founders, and who look to separa-
ton as a refuge from the consequences of its
overthrow, but Seward and his disciples at
the North, and his abettors at the South, who
help him on and give encouragement to his
fanatical crew by telling them that if ever
WELD all its powerful machinery for the de-
strnctinn and degradation of the South. her
sons are such miserable cravens that they will
quietly submit, or have not spirit and man.
hood enough even to withdraw from their as
sociation.
If the Whig does not think Col. Pettus will
'be sustained in the policy to which he is
committing his Administration, why does it
not give practical illustration of the sinceri-
ity of its profession, by rallying an opposition
to him? Why does it permit his election to
go by default? If it believes that majority
of the people of Mississippi prefers Black Re-
publican despotism administered by Seward
or some other abolitionist, to separation from
such government and its consequence of in
dependence and prosperity, why does it not
rally its clan to the contest Why does it
content itself with making mouths "solita-
patriots marching to the defence of their
rights?
1t is not because the principles and meas
ures of the Democratic party have not been
distinctly ayowed in its platform and through
its standard bearers, but because the few poll
ticians of the Wing school who are opposed to
resistance policy. and who are willing to live
under Seward administration, know full well
that they cannot muster corporafs guard to
their standard. They have attempted, but
attempted in vain, to organize an opposition
ticket and now when they see the triumph
ant. hosts of the State Rights men marching to
victory, in the modification of defeat they con-
sole themselves by such stupid prognostica-
tons of evil, and such silly rawlings, as the
Wing exhibits.
The Whig writer says that he does not
intend that Black Republican shall be
elected to the Presidency. We would like for
him to explain the means by which he intends
to verify his declaration and what part ne ex-
poets to bear in the struggle to present re-
suit which all patriots cannot but deprecate.
There is now but one national organization
upon which the country can rely for success
full opposition to the Black Republican party.
The old Wing party has ceased to exist and
the men who most adorned it in the South
have connected themselves with the Demo-
cratic party. The aAmerican ORDER" too, has
gone the way of other ephemeral organizations,
and upon the Democratic party, is left the
burden of the fight against the Black Repub-
lican conspirators- Does the Wing writer
hope to defeat the latter by abusing and offer
ing factious opposition to the former !?
Descending the name Of jackson by misap-
plying sentiment attributed to him, the
Wing writer insists that the Union can never
be dissolved and leaves us to infer that the
election Of Black Republican by the North
ern majority, viii afford no cause for separa-
ton of the aggrieyed states from the States
which by such action would indicate their
purpose to deprive them of their Independence
and equality But what says his great exam
plar, MI.LARp FILLMORE In a speech de-
livered at Albany, N. Y, in July, 1856, the
late Whig-A American candidate for President
and a Northern man at that, uttered these
memorable words which the writers Of the
Vicksburg Wing school accepted as their shb-
boIeth in the canvass of that year
ave see political party presenting caadi-
dates for the Presidency and Wee Presidency,
selected, for the first time, from the Free States
alone, NTH the auos0ed purpose Of etecting these
candidates By The snfrages OF one part Of the
Union only to rule ouer the icloe United States
Oan IL Dc poSSlDlc Iidt tifooo VIM eA0 cA,5aSSu
In such measure can have seriously reflected
upon the consequences which must inevitably
fo1losO in case of success CAN THEY
HAVE THE MADNESS OR THE FOLLY
To RELIEVE THAT OUR SOUTHERN
BRETHERN WOULD SUBMIT TO BE
GOVERNED BY SUCH A CHIEF MAG
| ISTRATEs? Would he be required to fol-
| low the same rule prescribed BY those who
elected him, in making his appointments II
q man living south Of Mason and Dlxon,s line
be not worthy to be President or Vice-Presi-
dent, would It be proper to selectone from the
same quarter as one Of his cabinet councl OF
| to represent the nation in foreign country !!
Or, indeed, to collect the revenue, or admins.