The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-11-02

STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs was the friend ant
advocate of the law of 1851, for the rendition
Of slaves.
He was the first Northern member OF Con
gress to denounce the Wilmot Proviso as al
| unconstitutional outrage upon the rights
the South
He was the defender of Brooks against the
abolition howl raised against him on account
| of his attack upon the libellous Senator sum
ner, of Massachusetts.
He was the friend and the instrument oil the
repeal Of the Missouri line, restricting slavery
by law of Congress to geographical hints;
He was the enemy of the Lecompton Con
stitution on the express ground that II was
the work of naked Squatter Sovereignty, ana
violated the whole spirit Of the Kansas Ne
braska legislation, which had been based upon
a solemn compact between the North and the
South.-lNoJile Register.
The OTHER SIDE.-The champions ofDoug-
las, North and South, must pale Their TRES be-
fore the intense labors of the Mobile Register
IN the sa4frs cause lie is the burthen of its
song. 1t continues to struggle against cur
rent Of Southern sentiment as resistless as
Niagara,-and though baf1ed iii every at
tempt-receiving nothing but jeers and ridi-
cule, or pity-it is still persistive and un-
wearied
The Register circulates, we learn, quite
freely in East Mississippi and though the
staunch Democracy in that quarter are as firm
as granite, they have right to require that
the journals devoted to the dissemination Of
Of sound principles should present the other
side ofihe picture held up by the Mobile jour
nal, and vindicate the truth Of the history
which it seeks to misrepresent.
l. Douglas did not vote for the Fugitive Slave
law. He made it convenient to be absent
from the Senate when the vote was taken, al
though he assisted in the passage of the obnox-
ious bills for which it was designed as COM
pensating measure to the South Let the
South remember that.
2. Douglas voted in favor Of the Wilmot
Proviso, when it was first introduced, alleging
as an excuse that he was so instructed by the
Legislature of Illinois But if he believed it
unconstitutional why did ne not resign his
seat, rather than commit an infamous outrage
upon the Southern States Of the Union at the
price of his oath to support the Constitution
And here we will remind the Register that
during the progress of a debate with Col jeff
erson Davis, in the Senate in 1850, he declared
that he was mot prepared to assert that Con-
gress had no right to prohibit slavery in the
Territories Let the South remember Hat
3. "lIe was the friend and instrument of
the repeal Of the. Missouri line restricting
slavery by law Of Congress the Reg
ister but that is not half the story. With a
treachery to which the record of political in
triguants may be searched in vain to find a
parallel, while striving to repeal the missouri
line," he concealed his real purpose to open
the territory over which it extended to Squat
ter Sovereignty rule. which he well knew the
South believed to he worse than the Wilmot
Proyiso." In other werdS, according to his
of the Kansas Nebraska bill, he
took away the Missouri restriction, to substi-
tute what was infinitely worse; but studious-
ly concealed lis construction of the measure
until after its adoption. Pending its discuss
ion Messrs. Brown, Butler, Mason, Hunter,
Clay and other Senators. expressly repudiated
the Squatter Sovereignty Interpretation which
Douglas no'0 places upon it, and he did not
dissent from their views. If they were sup
porting it under an erroneous impression, was
it not his duty to state frankly the views
which he has since avowed, so that the posi-
blity of wrong to the South and o.. future
might be avoided His failure
to do so, and his subsequent course, convict
him of premeditated, malicious perfdy. Let
The South remember that.
4. He was the enemy Of the Lecompton
Constitution" says the Register. Aye, and
nore's the pity. Kansas asked admission with
constitution regularly framed under the
;anctions Of law, recognizing and protecting
slavery, (that was the rub y and he conGedera-
ed with the Stewards Wilson's, Giddingses, and
3urlingames TO keep her out Of the Union !
f Douglas is to be lauded for this act, so IS
Seward, and ifthey are applaudcd, the South
md the men of the North who stood with her
n the long struggle over the Lecompton
ssue, are to be blamed. We have been led
o expect to witness many wild excesses in
he heat ofpartizan strife, but we never dream
ID of reading ina Southern journal that Doug
as ought to be supported by the South be-
cause he co-operated with the Black Repub-
leans in the fiercest war which has ever yet
been waged between the advocates OF South
ern equality and Abolition aggression.
Where are the champions of 'Old John
Brown p Are his services in the kansas
struggle" to be overlooked ? If the lieseman
Of Seward in the Senate is to be commended
70 Southern favor, surely the sacrifices of
'Old john will not be forgotten.