Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-08-24
The Disunfon Democracy of Missis-
sippi rampant.----Ihe Issue Pro
claimed.

sippi rampant.----Ihe Issue Pro
claimed.
The democracy of Mississippi are having
matters their own way. There is no oppo
sition, as yet, to their State ticket, and they
are availing themselves of the impunity
which this state of things affords to air their
doctrines and aims nd hbitum. OF course,
they display an intense distaste to a continu
ance of the Union. In the absence of any and
every other pretense for advocating the dis
ruption of the Union, they manufacture
hypothetical one, that Oh the,possible election
OF a Black Republican President. And rather
than that should fail them, they are pursuing
precisely the course of policy best calculated
to foment strife, precipitate purely section
al contest, and to elect Black Republican
President, and thus bring about the contin-
gency upon the happening of which they pro-
pose to dissolve. and set up separate con-
fedcracy of their own. The tone of the Jack
son NiSsissYPidn, the leading exponent of the
fi-e-eating democracy, and the manufacturer
of fire-eating issues and fire eating opinion.
has, for some time past. shown this to be the
ultimate purpose. 1t has been signally sue
cessful. The election OF Black Republican
President is now the issue and the battle-cry.
One valiant Colonel. JOHN J. PErTUs, of the
county of Kemper. is the disunion democrat
&c candidate for Governor, aud is stumping
the State in company with the chief of his
staff, Corporal L. r. BURT, of the county of
Noxubee. They recently appeared at Ma
con, and the Star, of that place, thus reports
them:
.'Hons. Pettus and Burt addressed large
and respectable audience at this place on
Monday last. They both made able and tell
ing speeches. In the event OF the election # a
Black Republican President they ,cere for a dis
solution If The Union. They touk precisely the
same grounds which all the leading men of
the country occupy. We deem it uneeces-
sary to attempt to give synopsis OF their
speeches"
The AissiesiPpian quotes this approvingly
and says: I'VE repeat, let there be no mis-
take about their position, and the meaning
of the popular verdict when it is rendered in
October" In addition to this. the Vicksburg
Wing. having heard that Col. PErTUs de-
clared in one Of his speeches, ''that in the
event of bis election to the Governorship, and
Black Republican should be elected to the
Office of President of the United States, he
scouId a,cad some hostile demonstration to.eards
the South before advising resistance" asked TO
be informed distinctly if this was the exact
position of the democratic candidate for Gov
srnor. To this the MiSssSsiPpidn replies, italics
its own:
"The informant of the Wing is clearly in
error. Col. Pettus at all times aud places, in
b. .,Li;- ---~L.. ...s..- s ..rsations
in his open declarations to the people at the
hastings and in his councils with friends, de-
claIes without reservation or qualification his
approval of the platform of the Convention
that nominated him pledging the State to re-
sistance 10 the event OF the election Of Black
Republican to the Presidency upon the avov-
ed purposes of the anti-slavery organization.
In his speech at Scooba, in his own county,
on the 9th instant, he went so far as To de-
clare, according to the DeKalb Democrat,
whose editor was present and reported his re-
marks that although he nop he'd, as Il rsTe. Ae
Caif Magsraey Of the Stale H ms lands, he tnoUld
freely giue up and retire from the eaarEss; u he
thought the people troaid not sustain hmm IN strong
Tesistancs 70 he Inauguration Of Black Rsps1bti-
Gun President
There could be no more palpable evidence
of the true obje,t and aims of these misguided
extremists, than these declarations. IL is dis
olution by fair or foul means. Nothing, We
imagine, could be more gratifying to their
feelings than the election OF Black Republi-
can TO the Presidency such an event would
supply the dessideraium Of which they stand
30 pressingly in need. But are there no con-
servative friends of the Union In Mississippi,
Are there none to foil the reasonable designs
of these dsunionists. and join the conserve
tive masses Of the entire country in an effort
to redeem the country from The hands OF its
enemies, both North and Souths Can Missls-
sippi not muster legiens enough TO strike
blow to the domestic enemies of the Republic.
something like that che gave to the foreign
foes on the ensanguined fields OF Mexico
VIII she not raise nm arm to defend the eoun-
try from the Vaccinations OF The deadliest
enemies OF the Unionf
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