The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-04-16
PROTECTION AND PATRIOTISM ARE RE.
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unsustained BY pateSnaI care and uneducated by
favor Youthful "reminiscences and Evolutionary
freedom may keep up it's fres until the process Of
corruption is complete; but when virtue and
government Gnally part company, the useless and
etnerlsl remembrance of past greatness can no
longer stone for the absence of practical liberty.
There is compact, though unwrltten, yet firm
and adamantine in its strength existing between
the people and their rulers. That compact is,
fsalty for protection protection for fealty This
natural, selfexisting, eternal agreement, may bo
and has been gradually darkened until it has in
some instances for centuries, faded from view.
Sometimes the people and sometimes the govern
ment has transgessed and blinded the other
party to it's own oppression BY willy arts. and
plausible theories, but immaculate justice and the
instinct Of freedom will eventually assert their
supremacy and restore the balance which the
ambition Of the great or the folly of the mob has
destroyed.
Governments must decay, for where power is
Auman nature cannot resist nor can human Wis
dom prevent the encroachments Of criminal am
bition; but the people, beings to be governed,
are as imperishabie os the earth upon which they
liye' And unless the charm of custom, or stand
ing armies and resistess force are present. the
people will always remedy their own wrongs
They may eleep for centuries under an oppression
which usage has made toerable, or which thew
had not energy to shake off, but some generation
more active, will inevitably come upon the stage
Of life who will expel the usurper from his seat
Of power.
There is but one intelligence in any nation
which can test the slow and creeping advance of
oppression, and that is the Constitution. ANY
departure from its limits is wrong, whether done
ey the people or their rulers, but it is much more
dangerous when committed by the last An
power and privilege spring from the people, and
1t is far better that their liberties should be in
creased than that the spirit Of tyranny should
begin to peryade the Government If the inten-
tlon OfOur own Constitution were strictly observed
by those in power, this Government would be
found singularly adapted to ensure the full enjoy
ment of liberty by its people. Congress, by that
great instrument, has sufficient power to do all
acts which would benefit the country-develope
Its resources and concentrate its energies. But
1t is folly to expect those in authority to stand
still. Human nature is weak, and the consciences
OF men are easily persuaded that the end of their
ambition is right Consequently have we seen
numerous instances where the most hideous forms
Offederalism have been warmly and even plausibly
advocated. Some Of its dogmas have even met
with temporary success, but the people have
heretofore, at the balot-box, been able to recover
their rights and defend themselves from insnua.
Sing theories and refined constructions.
The ballot-bOx is, then, the most valuable
pacific safeguard to the rights of the people of
this Uuion. 1t check upon rulers-it is the
reWarder of merit and the instrument which pun
shes that ambition which transcends the control
oFpstriotic motives. But there is now a growing
power which threatens ts destroy the efficacy of
the bsllot-box, and tske from oil the slaveholdinp
States the right Of suffrage For the right to
vote is no right at all, with the previous certainty
that even the unanimous suffrage Of the South
would be insufficient to carry out measure most
important to that section The Northern people
are our deadly enemies as their acts most clearly
show. They are rapidly approaching unanimity
in the Black Republican creed, the effect of which.
when prevalent, will be to destroy the institution
from which we draw life itself They have even
now reached that point Of power which enables
them to nullify any measure which tends to the
mr. arm nrna fnff l.ssa a,ts.. II
may sound, it is nevertheless true that to cramp
The South and, ruin her greatest Interests, has
become the settled policy of this Government.
Now, when President is elected, who is imbued
Tith the sentiments of abolitiouism, and the con-
Letting power of the veto is removed, he must be
m egregious fool who thinks that Northern
majority in Congress and Northern President {
will not convert themselves into an engine Of {
oppression. The primary principle of their creed
8 in direct antagonism with the Constitutionnow s
md every member of Congress of abolition senti {
nents perjures himself when he takes his oath of
,fice. What can be expected Of such men when
heir incinations are unchecked? tits plain that |
lnless the great party at the North meets with
Ome sudden and unexpected calamity, all the
apartments of Government will finally become
bOlitionized 1t is equally plain that when this
appens: the South will be powerless in pacific ! !
neasures-that she will be the secondary section
+ the confederacy, Overshadowed by the North :
nd representation in Congress will be, SO far as
he is concerned, mere form, which can do her
% good, but will rather serve to seal her disgrace
ireland bears not a more humiliating relation Ff
England than the South will bear to the North if &
he allows her delegates to go into Congress when II
lsr votes will be plainly of no avail for the pro-
'ction Of their constituency. In our humble Il
pinion, unless indications change, the Congress n
hich assemblies in December, 1860, will be one 81
hich no Southern gentleman who values his own tt
)nor and the honor Of his section will allow b
mself to enter. He will have to associate with 81
famous traitors and perjured psrricdes. who bt
IL be filter subjects for the hsngman's rope CT
an FIR legislative honors But this dsgracefu 10
och, We fear, is sure.to come. Tr 50
Let it not be recorded in the history of this =
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