The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-27
From the States.
Sewardism, as Explained by its Recog.
nized Champion.

According to Senator Seward, our system
of government is "a war of anntagonistic sys-
TENS" "a conflict between slave labor and
free labor" and st is mistake to think the
collision accidental, unnecessary the work OF
interested fanatical agitators.'' at is an ir-
repressible conflict between opposing and en-
during forces and it means that the United
States must and will sooner or later, become
either entirely slayeholding, or entirely a
free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice
fields Of South Carolina, and the sugar plan
tatiOns of Louisiana, will ultimately be set
tied by free labor, and Charleston and New
Orleans become marts for legitimate merchan-
disc, or the rye fields and wheat fields of Mas
sachusetts and New York must again be sur
rendered by their farmers to slave culture
and to the production of slaves, and. Boston
and New York become once more markets
for trade in the bodies and souls of men
Such is SewarGlism, and such the manifes-
to which the Charleston Convention will have
tlse fnoacrati0sf Deliberations, 10 pru
vide for resisting successfully, if the Union is
to be preserved with honor and interest to
the slaFeholding States, after the 4th of March,
1861.
In order that the enerpachments Of the
North upon the South may be effective, Sem
atof Seward regards 'the dismissal of the
Democratic party from the administration of
the government" as a sine qua non; for that
party is positive and uncompromising in the
slavery, and negative, compromis-
ing and vaeillating in regard to everything
else;" and it has procured from Supreme
Court, fixed in its interest, a decree that
slavery exists by force of the constitution in
every Territory of the United States, para
mount to all legislative authority, either with
in the Territory or residing in Congress"
Here is platform that strikes at the very
foundation of our system of government
our land, because that tribunal had the integ-
nty conscientiously to perform its duty.
The spectacle is as startling as it is UMPIRE
,edented for Presidential aspirant to assail
the Supreme Court, the national dispenser of
Justice, as sympathizing with slavery, in fact
fixed in its Interest,"
All! we have fallen upon evil times, in
deed, when such things can be "and not ex-
ute our special wonder;,' and if reckless allie
cations like these can be espoused and carried
to the Executive Mansion,
here will be nothing worth living for to the de-
F0ted lover of the Union.
We have studiously RETAINED from magni-
wing, in the slightest degree, the enormity of
Senator Stewards tenets. They are, indeed, SO
nonstrous within themselves as to admit of no
'xaggeration. We should be glad if they
'ould be so interpreted as TO mean nothing
worse than national decentralization. Unhap-
'ily, however, they are not only revolutionary,
)ut faeTantiy uncompromisinpiy hostile'to the
constitutional existence of the republic.
Is the country prepared to suffer this disun-
onizing Abolitionism to enter the Federal
metropolis with Executive power The
fifteen slayeholding States, we will undertake
Q say, most assurdly are not. They will array
themselves in an unbroken phalanx, employ
ng all the rightfui means at their dispsal to
,reyent an occurrence so fatal to the great
york consummated by the wisdom and patri-
'tism ofnational fathers.