Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-11-25
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uIaIoTS, OoN. me- Wlllle, OF MISS, mas sent
a message to the Legislature of that State,
in which he contributes literally to the air.
repressible conflict" of words and gascou.
ade on the Slavery question. He treats
the North and tho Union, as if they were
only created and suffered to exist for the
use and at the will of $4,000 Slavehold.
ers of the South; and talks Of what Missis-
sippi will do with as much coolness as il
she was able to pay her debts or manage
her own population.
As sample of Mississippi impudence
and assurance take the following recommen-
dation of this Governor:
81 would recommend as necessary and expedient that
you by your egs aton should make 1t the duty Of the
then Governor in the event Of the election Of Black Re-
publican to the Presidency Of the United States in Novem-
ber lS6O to issue his proclamation ordering election
for delegates to State Convention be holden on the
rst Monday Of December thereafter and that said
Delegates he appointed assemble the Capitol in the
city Of Jackson on the third Monday Of the said month
Of December lS60 for the purpose Of ad png such
ures as may meet the exigency Of the occasion.
lwould further recommend that should adopt resn-
utons, inviting other Southern States to co-operate
with the State Of Mississippi in the adoption
be for the maintenance of their
Is all that for the present would recommend to be done
Bat as the time has come at which the public mind should
be strongly directed to the difficulties aud dangers Of our
position and the remedies for the same would suggest
that in my opinion, in such the meeting of
Convention orCongress Of the Southern States ought
TO insist upon constitutional guarantees for pro-
lection. This should be sine qua II Is absolutely
necessary to our security The North will then under
the form Of our present Constitution have the entire pow
er and control OF the Govenmenwe will be utterly pow
erless.
with this view in the event Of A BLACK Republican or
Aboiionst being elected to the Presidency, would sug-
gest that Convention Of the Southern States should
throw open all the Southern ports making them free
n Inns no tbp btfd NJ
the Northern conederacy upon the Northern people
This would be just the Government would be Of the
North and for the North; consequently they ought
support their Government. In addition to this it
might be polite, as measure Of warning, to impose
duty of % per al articles of Northern manufac-
ure about the present rate Of duty foreign manuac-
ures This would teach the Northern people what the
Union worth to them in money, II they cannot be
made otherwise TO appreciate its importance The
eyed value Of the Union to the nonslaveholdng States is
iucalculnle. For instance with the Union portion oi
the earth is prosperous than Massachuses-with
out the Union could be less than she would be-
The grass would in the streets oF Boston,
factories would stop her commerce would perish and her
ships would rot at her wharves and widespread ruin
would cover the State.
Were it not for the wickedness Of twad
die like this, it would be n fit subject fol
ridicule. The bare election of President
by the Republicans, is to be made the cause
and occasion for measures looking to resis.
tance or the Federal authority and a disso.
luton of the Union. No time is to be al
lowed for the new Administration to devel.
ope policy or take steps unfavorable tc
the rights of the South. If the new Elk
oculive is known as "Repub!ican"-nc
matter how conservative or constitutional
may be his views and purposes touching
slavery-he and the authority conferred up
on him are to be contpmued and position
Of hostility assumed toward the Govern
mcnt of which he is the constitutional head
J by those whose candidate has been defeat
ed in his election.
This Rcpudiator thinks it safe to Judge
others by himself. Because his constituent.
sunk their manhood and honor in denying
their honest debts, he takes it for granted
that the people of Massachusetts aud thC
North can readily be brought to the slav,
masters by demonstrations aimed at thei
pockets. But we think the North nceC
very little anxiety on this score. 1t tn,
general Government can be relieved from
the heavy and disproporlionate drafts upor
itstrcasury to keep up the mail routes anC
other accommodations at the South, it cal
very well afford to lose the small amour
of revenue collected at her ports. Indeed
it may be questionable whether the sum re-
ceived at these, is sufficient to pay the cost
of protection and collection.
Gov. Melville seems never to have
thought of the effect which his proposed
dissolution would have upon the South
While the grass is growing in the streets
of Boston, what is to be done at Harper
Ferryl If the Federal troops are now tc
be depended on to protect a town of 1900
inhabitants from II white and 4 black ia
nalics, what will be the dependence wher
those troops are directed against the Vir
ginians, who in this Mississippi programm,
are to change places with John Brown, anC
become themselves the inSurgenlsY Wha
shepherd will then furnish fold for Gov
Wise's "sheepp In view of the Harper
Ferry scare, how disgusting and puerile al
this supercilious swagger appears. Unabl,
to protect themselves from handful of ia
natcs or to catch runaway nigger, with
ont the aid of the forces and money of tn,
Federal Government, these pompos hrag
CARTS talk about Furnishing The North b,
depriving the South of these aids Ou
worst wish for them is, that true and triet
Republican statesman may be chosen a
Chief Magistrate in 1860, when thcseswag
gerers will have first rate chance to str
on" their treason. Kentucky, at least, O
the Southern States, would find in the prob
able demand for one of her staple product:
an inducement sufficient to secure her fidel
ity to the Union. Toledo Blade.