The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-13
The Proceedings Of the State Con-
vention.

The proceedings Of the late Convention
as furnished by the Secretaries, were hurried
ly thrown in type for our Weekly edition oil
Wednesday and are reproduced in to-days
impression. In the Resolutions as first pub
lished, several very material typographical
errors occurred. They are now published in
a correct form and we would suggest to our
cotemporaries to insert them in their respec-
tive journals, as thus printed
EmbOdying, as this Platform does, the creed
of the Democracy of Mississippi-presenting
fully and frankly the issues upon which they
will enter upon the approaching contest and
fight the great battle before them-it will be
well for the journals in the interest Of the
party to keep it flying at their mast-heads so
that their position may be clearly understood
by friend and foe.
With declaration of principle, and an
ayowal of purpose, SO wise and patriotic, frank
and explicit, we can have no doubt Of the
result Of the popular verdict The candidates
standing forth as the chosen champions Of
the faith thus expounded, will be elected by
unprecedented majorities The election will
approach unanimity nearer than any Of those
which have proceeded it. The people of this
State will show to the world by their decision
at the ballot box how universally they repu-
date the heresy of Squatter Sovereignty
how firmly they are resolved to maintain the
bred Scott decision of the Supreme Court,
which lays down the policy which the federal
government is required to pursue under the
Constitution, touching the paramount question
of slavery in the ter1itories-and how fixed
is their purpose to unite with their sister
| States Of the South in adopting whatever
measures may be requisite to the preservation
of their sovereignty, and the maintenance OF
their rights, in the event of the election of a
Black Republican to the office of President
Mississippi will not adhere to the confederacy,
if majority of its members manifest deter
mination to inaugurate an Administration
having at its control, the Treasury, the Army
and the Navy, and all its immense patronage
|
tutons. She is bound by no other Union
than the Union of Justice and Equality, es
tablished by its trainers. When majority O
the States choose to change the condition,
upon which the Union was created, it viii
cease to be binding upon the assaulted Sover
eighties. This is the ground which the De
mocracy of Mississippi occupy, and We viii
venture to predict that the election in October
will prove that thousands who have hereto
fore voted opposition tickets, will, in spri
of patriotism, range themselves under the sam,
banner.
The proposition which has thus been sub
} mitted to the popular tribunal is clear ans
distinct Let those who prefer Black Re
: publican Administration upon the ruins of tn
) Constitution, to Southern Equality and hide
pendence, say so, and the issue is at one
made up. The result in October will shov
where the State intends to stand
1t will be seen that the Convention took N
action, pro or con, upon the subject of tn
,, African slave trade This course was agree
able to all, and to none more than to the ad
yocates of the trade. The reasons whiel
, prompted this policy were repeatedly state
in the Mississippian and in other journals fav
orable TO the movement before the assembling
of the convention. 1t is due to candor, how
f ever, to say that the private expression Olsen
timent among the members in favor of the re
peal of existing federal statutes prohibiting tn
} trade was general, if not entirely unanimous
: and the current of opinion ran strongly il
favor of re-opening the trade as measure G
, Southern progress and protection. To non
more than to the speakers who addressed tn
, Convention, was this fact apparent. Ever
declaration favorable to the repealof thos
most iniquitous acts which were horn aaf a
foIlies of a past generasIon and which are raj
idly throwing the South into hopeless min
ority, was greeted with an applause as viii
and irrepressible as the impulses from whic
itsprung were honest and patriotic. ehay
never in all our experience of journalism, see
any cause grow so rapidly upon public favo
| as this. And why Because it is founde
upon truth, Justice and wisdom-and ha
grown out of the necessities of people VIII
, are struggling for their political existenc
against overwhelming odds.