The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-31
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Speech Of Chancellor Dickinson.

honor to our noble hearted friend, Col PettnS
that such man should have warm friends is
not remarkable, and nature had but manifest :
| ed her true nobility, in the liberal sentiments
that he had just expressed
Chancellor Dickinson then set forth the
duty of the South in the present crisis
He said that Twenty years ago he had adj
dressed the people of Kemper upon equality
of the Southern States with their Northern
sisters and had appealed to them in behalf Of
State rights and State remedies That no had
once advocated both and that the Gid Wbio
party of the South recognized them fulIT
when first brought into existenee. That he
was Wing, and none who knew thonoht
him weak in the faith He had aiwavs stood
by that party in its various mutations. had
never deserted its principles or its candidates
and if any one had right to speak plainly 10
his old Wing friends-he was thatman. That
the national parties of the Unionhad hereto.
fore differed about measures That the Wbig
party of the North was now no more, that
there no other parties existed except the Dem.
ocratic and the Black epubliean-That the
South had to act with one or theother-That
the Democracy Of Mississippi had presented
to the people of the State Tor Governor. n
good and true man in the perssnof J. !, Pet
tus-whom he had known long and weIl-that
he would trust him to stand By the State in
the coming crises-that he would throw the
Southern standard to the breezs with no part
of its inscription concealed-shat its folds
would float most freely when the storm blew
hardest That this was no tinR for the peo-
pie of the South to be divided and he was
glad to see that vast concourse Of people from
various counties in Eestern Nississippi. all
agreeing, without distinction of PARTY, to sus-
tain the equal rights of persons, and of proper
ty in the common territories Of the Union
and to vote for those men who maintained
that Southern men had equal rights in the
Confederacy with Northern men. and were
entitled to adequate protection wherever the
federal jurisdiction extended, either on land or
sea-that the time had come when the North
should know, that the people of the South
were in earnest. That the politicians were
not alone, but the people were with them
that the masses of the North should be warned
of the true position of affairs before it was too
late. The leaders among them taught there
was no danger. But there was danger, if the
Northern people did not take matters in their
own hands ard check the abolition leaders in
their mad career They should study the
true nature OF government and be made to
know that powers were not Inserted in the
Constitution to destroy us - that South
ern men in making the Constitution did not
intend to give the general Government the
power to destroy themselves or their proper
ty. That all the power conkrred was for
purposes Of protection and not for destruction
That the ab0litionistS commended for the
power to destroy property in slaves, and in
tended to exercise it. And at the same time
denied the power to protect the property of
Southern people. Strange doctrine that-cer-
taInly they We're estopped from denying the
power of protection, for if they had, as con-
tended by Them the power to destroy, which
he denied, they certainly had the power not to
destroy but to protect
But while the abolitioniSts welded the DOW
or of protection i'll Congress. bv contending for
the power to destroy or abolish slavery in the
territories, the Southern people contend Tor
the power OF protecting persons and property
in the Territories, or on the high seas-wheth-
er slaves or otherwise, and at the same time
denied, without inconsistency, the power of
Congress to legislate against persons or prop
erty, by exclusion from, or abolition in the
places where it had jurisdiction That the
p0'cer to Protef does not imply the pofcsa' 10
destIOy; on the contrary, it expressly nega-
tives the power of destruction
That in 1850the compromise measures were
adopted, and as part of the same a law was
passed by Congress, providing for the recama-
ton of fugitive slaves, absconaing from the
States into the Territories of Utah and New
Mexico. That this legislation was not adopt
ed, except upon the principle that slaves were
and that the owners thereof were
entitled to the exercise of federal power to re-
gain their property, and to be protected in the
possession thereof.
That the same measures provided for ap-
peals to the Supreme Court in all questions af-
fecting the title TO slaves; and that he, as
Union man of 1850, argued thatin these fea-
lures or those measures, property slaves was
and the right to protection was full
" affirmed. That was his understanding at
the time-he never liked to hear it denied.
That his State Right friends of that day con-
tended that the South was entitled to protec-
ton, and feared that the Northern advocates
Of these measures did not intend to act fairly,
hence they insisted that if the principle was
recognized it ought to be expressed in unmis
taxable terms, so that it could never after
wards be questioned. That he never intended
by sustaining the compromise, to abandon the
doctrine of protection. twas constitutional
right and the people of the South should vim
dicate it, that the whole subject Of slavery IN
the Territories had to be passed upon, subject
to the limitations of the Constitution" That
Congress and the territorial Legislature which
was the mere agent Of Congress- had to act
subject to the Constitution-that Mr.. Truni-
bull in debate with distinguished Senator,
wished to know of him chow he thought the
Court would decide the constitional question:
10 which he replied II sag an wiHing to |
'eape that to tie Supreme Court Of tie United |
States, because the Constitution has entrusted |
. there" That the Supreme Court had made |
the decision, the bred Scott case had been de- |
,ided and the Supreme Court held slaves prop
erty, and entitled to protection. That the /
right of propertyin slaves is distinctly and ex-
pressly affirmed in the Constitution And |
that ''the only power over it, conferred upon !
Congress, is the power coupled with the duty
81 guarding and protecting the owner in his |
rights
Thus the question was decided, by the high
EST judicial tribunal of the country The ques-
ION OF power and duty was to be left to the !
Supreme Court, and now the decision was
made, in favor of the South and equal rights.
The matter was referred to the arbitrator, |
md one OF the parties now refused to abide by |
heir decision. That if we had right to go |
% the territories, we were entitled to the
remedy, to enjoy that right That we had |
| right of retaining fugitive slaves, and Con-
gress had given us the remedy to get our
slaves. Congress, at least, had taken iurisdic- |
ion, to enforce the right. So of the right to !
20 into the territories, Congress should enable |
IS to enjoy that right. lie hoped the people
If the South would never consent to receive |
ess than their rights. He would take the /
lecision Of the Supreme Court, and going to |
he Charleston Convention--demand its full |
md emphatic recognition. That no friend |
constitutional equality could stand up in the /
North and assume for us higher position
han we take for ourselves That this was I
10 time for trifing, and the South should |
mite. That united action might save us-our
lights and equality in the Union That Sc |
ward must be defeated, or the South was de- |
,raded and the people of the North should
znow that his election, on the platform of the |
Black Republican party, was not to be tolera-
ed for moment. On that point he hoped all |
Mould unite.
Thus spoke Henry Dickinson, one of the
most devoted opponents of Democracy, in this
whole section of the State. He was repeated
y cheered; and the friends who had heard |
him often before declared it was the best |
peech he had ever made Go on Chancellor, |
Urging your old friends to the rescue, and may |
hey ever follow the lead of your white plume
% long as it mods to the equality of the South,
n the sisterhood of States, ***
NEGRO KILLED.-The Oxford Mercury, of |
he 18th, says negro belonging to Maj. Tor
enee, a planter in Yalobusha county, was
rushed to death by the cars near that place.
The negro was drunk and asleep on the track. |
Eagle
BLoNDIN's LAST Act OF FoLLY.-0n the |
18th inst, Mon. Blondin crossed the Niagara |
liver heIoyy the Falls on n tight rome carry |