The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-21
From the Aississigpi Mirror, Aug. IL
The New Dogma"

| en4uiIe Wuetuer the EKetloenC ana hrs Cab
met approve Of this curt mode Of meeting
well established constitutional demand OF the
Southern States. Whether the Orpan pines
to Q tune set it from the White House, isa
matter Of precious little consequence 50 FAR as
the action Of the Southern peoples concerned
They know their rights, and whatever the
organ or the Cabinet, or the President himself
may say, we have an abiding faith that they
win maintain them.
1.-THE Washington Constitution" had been
at the pains to instruct itself in regard to
Southern politics, it would have learned that
what Il sneeringiy calls sthe new dogma" is
about as old as the controversy between the
Northland South on the subject ofslavery.
Southern statesmen from the beginning Of
the controversy set up the same demands that
are now made.
We have before US q well considered speech
Of Senator Brown, delivered at Enwood
Springes, n,this State, November I'd, 1850, IN
which he says.
"We should demands the clear and undis-
puted right to carry out slave property 10 that
country and have it protected and secured to
us after We get there andwe should demand
continuation of this security and projection.
We should demand the same right TO 30
into all the territories with our slave property,
that citizens Of the free States have to 60 with
any species Of property. and we should de-
mand for our property the same profession
that is given to our Northern brethren NO
more, nor less.
We should demand that Congress abstain
from all interference with slavery in the ter
ritories, in District of Columbia, IN the States,
on the high seas, or anywhere else, except to
the same that is given to other property
We should demand continYe..si Of the
present fugitive slave law, or some other Law
which should be effective in carrying out the
mandate Of the Constitution for the delivery Of
fugitive slaves.
In all this we should ask nothing but meagre
Justice; and . refusal to grant such reasonable
demands would show fixed and settled pur-
pose in the North to Cypress and finally des-
troy the Southern States. II the demands
there set forth, and such others as would most
effectuaIly secure the South against further
disturbance, should be denied, and that denial
should be manifested byan act Of the Feder-
al Goyeonment, we ought forthwith to dissolve
all political connection with the Northern
Htates"-ISee speeches and writings Of Az
Brown, page geo.
II there be no authority OF earlier dat the
'new dogma Is at leastnine years old That
Mississippi endorsed these doctrines - proven
bv the fact that Gov. Brown has been once
elected to Congress and twice to the United
States Senate since he enunciated the above
sentiments.
Nor can IL be said that these sentiments
were overlooked in the elections. In 1851
Gov. Brown was a candidate for Congress in
this the fourth Congressional district These
demands were brought up against him.
The friends of the compromise OF 1850, led BY
General Foote, were fierce in their assaults
upon him. They put forth two pamphlets
entitled 1.-THE true issue stated, !" in which il
was CHARGED that Governor Brown ahnade
certain sdemSii0sN Of the Federal Governmenf'>s
unreasonable in themselves and grossly unjust,
and that the object was to bring about dis
ruption Of the Union. Governor Brown met
these charges as follows;
at Is asserted that made certain demands
Of the Federal Government, and took the
ground Il these demands were not complied
with, all connection with the Northern States
ought to be dissolved The demands are not
set forth, and the reader is left TO infer that
there was something monstrous and unRa-
sonahle IN them. The truth is, that have
demanded nothing, have proposed nothing
but what the southern friends Of the comprom-
Use say zoe nos1 haze. All ] asks IS that they
win join us in procuring from their northern
friends and acknowledgement that their in
depreciation Of the compromise is right Here
are the demands; IS there anything unreasona-
BILE or unjust in themP'
(Here follows the demands aboye) He con-
tinued:
SIS there anything asked for in all this
afkk
constantly insisting we now have And yet
the writer Of this pamphlet falsely asserts that
/ have demanded repeal of the compromise,
and the substitution Of other legislation IN
its place. No such thing is true. I only
asked that the friends of the compromise Il
the north should execute it as its southern,
friends say they understand it; and how shall
southern men shrink from this demand II they
are sincere in their declarations They know
perfsltly well that then Interpretation is re-
pudiatsd by their northern allies, and there
fore it IS that they shrink from the test Of
making the demand n-fSee speeches &c, of
A. G. Brown, page 1928.
It will be seen from this authority thai in
1851 "the new dogma was not only main
tanned in Mississippi, but the opponenk Of its
advocates at that day asserted thai il had
been CONQUERED in by the North There never
was day when any public man would have
dared to risl1ed himself before The people of
this State IN opposition to the "new dogma"
Men may prevaricate now as they did in 1851,
but they dare not meet the issue. When
Southern men now, IS in 1851, insist that
the South has under the present legislation Of
Congress al that Is covered by the demand
for protection, they should be met as Gov
ernor Brown met them in 1851. They know
perfectly well that their Interpretation is re-
pudAted by their Northern allies, ''and there
fore Il is that they shrink Rom the list Of
making the demands.''
How the Washington Constitution got il
into its head that the demand for this protec-
ton was NEW dogma" at the South, we are
wholly at loss to determine. Errors we
are told viii travel league, while truth is
putting on her boots, but in this case error
seems 70 have travelled the whole distance,
and tfuth not 6nlZ failed e, put On her =
hut m fact did not rise from her anrbsrs
General George Washington Bovmar editor.
and proprietor of the Constitution > and orCan-.
grinder in chief to the present administrat;on,
never heard until now that the Son 4 Claimed
equal privileges and protection in the terrific,
ries. OF course that closes he Question
What he did not hear was not worth bear;nc
Theeditor ofthe Washingt0A "Conzttnt;on,,
and all others at the North may as wei nm
derstand first as last that the South has de-
manded, still demands, and viii continue 10.
demand equal rights in the territories, and
and that there shall be nosuch thing as illegal
discrimination against slave property. Gov
eEnor Brown expressed the Southern senti-
ments in 1S48. In speech in the House OF
June Sd, lS4S, ON The GOV
eminent of the territories, he said
IAN these supposition are based on the
hypotheis that discrimination NAV riphthlIv
be made against slave owners and slave ur1I.
arty, which I am hr, from ADMITTING. NJ
inch discrimination can be made. Tbe same
oath, the same conscience, that binds the law
maker TO give protection to You and your
property, binds him IN an equal decree 40
give protection 10 me and mine. And no
Rore fear than yOu, that this oath or this con-
science will be violated Our rights are pre-
cisely equal admit that by iorce. fraud
md PERJURY. may lose my rights, and by
he same means you may lose yours.
lshal not admit as some Southern r,en,
have done, right in the people Of tie terri
DRY TO exclude me and my constituents from,
fun participation IN the use and occunancv
u these territories There Is Sometime q.
in such . proposition that the nina
recoils instantly you beholding il
The conclusion, Mr.. Chairman. To vh;eh
my own mind has arrived on several points
involved, are briefly these That every
;itizen Of the United States NAV 90 Ia he
'erritories, ana take with him his pTopertv-
b Il slaves. or any other description Of non
sFty. That neither the United States Con-
gTsss nor Terrtnaial Legislature has anv nov
Y or authority 10 exclude him; and that the
powes ofiegislation by whomsOeyer exercised.
q the territories. whether By Congress- or ths
eritoriAl Legislature, mRst b exerted for d =
,qpAl benefit Of aI--4br the southern &, y
holders no less than for the northern de- .Ier
p dry goods A-ESee Browns Speeches, page
ThislooksveFy much like the new sloemap
n an old garh II tho editor of the Constitu-
lon has failed 10 keep himself advised Of vhai
I IS the South has been contending Tor that IS
as hult Of his misfortune. But we may
assure himthat his ignorance viii moth allowed
d to interfere. with our increasing and pressing
demands for justice. We tell the editor, we
ell the north that The south is at last united,
md thoroughly aronsed-it holds the destiny
u the Democratic party in the hollow offs
hard. Il Is just As well TO talk plain, IT, the
politicians when they assemble at Charleston