The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-06-04

tians. Their schools and colleges teach our
nmcrality. Their press pours out bitter
ness aud scorn upon our people, aud treat
with ridicule and contempt oar pretensions
to equality. BY the action Of the General
Government 10 its legislative and admins.
trative capacity, we are cheated of our rights
IN the common territories and driven from
any participation in lands for which we paid
dearly, both of blood and taxes. We are
pundered By tariffs, laid on one hand, TO
make US purchase Northern harbors, rivess
and roads, in pensions and bouuties. We are
plundered, swndled, vilIiied aSd degraded.
We are not the equals of the North. We
are now not homogeneous peoples. No two
peoples on the earth are more distinct and
separate. Few have greater causes for dis
like. The Union now exists as o bond Of
inequality, in which the North is rising to
mastery-the South sinking to provinciaism
and lain. Self preservation urges the South
either to restore the Union to what it should
be, or to retire from its bondage and form
an independent government
This conclusion has been forced unwilling.
.ly upon very large portion of the people
Of the South. They have watched the
progress of sectionalism at the North, and
see nothing ~ hope for fIous tlat source.
They have studied the condition of the
contest between the conservatives and the
black republicans of the North. They de-
rive 10 comfort from that quarter. They
can see no induceMent, no motive powerful
70 akoC af
gression. yhe scsuples Of the North have
been relieved by the inculcation Of the false
doctrine that government exists for the
greatest good of the greatest nsAmber," and
that 'the majority must govern unchecked" "
Interest, ambition, sentimental point in
ono dNectoB-nortbern dominion and its
exercise over the South. Justice and peace
which are the sole objects of government
are lost to view. The paper constitution
and good faith in regard to its terms are
valueless and wholly unequal to the erner-
gency. Those who stem the current of
Northern opinion must sink there.
The only principle, aud the ouly motive
which could restrain the people of the North
in their headloAg careeT is shat presented by
the disNniouists of the South. This consti~
tutes direct, touching, insurmountabe
appeal to the interests of the North. Could
the Northern people be made to feel the
likelihood Of disuhion. with all the concom-
liant evils to their prosperity, they would
shrink from the precipice to which they are
surely pluRgiug; they wosld give up i'm
pertinent, fanatical crusades upon the insti-
tutions of the South ; they woUld then pay
their equal share of the expenses Of the
government; they would be satisfied with
the great advantages derived, justly and
consttutionally, by internal free trade and
free intercourse; they would give up lar
gesses for internal improvements, and boun.
lies to favored classes to which they have
no legal or moral right. The disunionists Of
the South are really the best friends of the
constitution and the Union. AS matters
stand, the constitution has been overturned
by gradual and practical revelation. Those
persons misealculate the spirit of the South
ern people who found their hopes of the
! Union on the downfall of southern rights.
They are practically, and to all intents and
purposes, the real disunionists. Those who
encourage northern aggressIons, either ac>
lively or passively, encourage that which
must end ia the disruption of the Uuion.
The best friends Of the Northern demo.
Gratis are the disunionists of the South
They alone could afford an issue at the
North on which genuine democracy would
have risen to power and e1tiDguished black
republicanism. If the fate Of the Union is
sealed, it is because the people Of the North
believe disunion at the South to be idle
braggadoco The South has been delinquent
in not using her power to protect her rights
and enforce the constitution against northern
aggression and injustice. She has taken
from real democrats at the North the only
means of sustaining themselves and securing
the South We despair of the preservation
of the Union, because we believe that SEQ
tioDalism has progressed so far without him
drance, that nothing short of dissolution
of the Union can bring the people of the
North to their senses.
These are the grounds on which We are
disunionists, and this the extent.