The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-12-31
UNION MEETINGS AT THE NORTH.

UNION MEETINGS AT THE NORTH.
These meetings are all the rage at the North
at this time Our exchanges are filled with pro-
oeelings, resolutions and calls landing the Union,
clarifying the Constitution and matchmaking
old 0ssawattome, and these manifestations are
sent out to US headed with grand display of
broad faced capitals "JUsTIoR To THE SOUTH,
"UNIoN AND FRATERNITY." CONFIDENCE AND
Concord" and many other similar phrases, all
equally delusive, and calculated, il not intended,
to make u false impression on the Southern mind
The late so-called "great Union meetings" in
New York turned out, az was generally predicted
at the South, to be political sham, fabricated
and concluded upon moneyed considerations, and
for the advancement of industrial interests. The
call for this meeting, it is said, was signed by
twenty thousand voters Of New York city. In
CHANGING hastily over the published list of these
proceedings, we observed some names that APP
peared to US as signed twice to the call 1t would
be very easy to get up mammoth list on this
process We may be mistaken, however, in this
insiuuation, and explanation may be found in the
identity Of Names and if such be the fact, we
learn for the first time that there are two mer-
camille houses in New York doing business under
the name and style Of ]. R. Jafray & Sons. But,
supposing the signatures all to be bona fde, we
find among them the names of several politicians
and merchant princes who sign ed not more than
a month ago, call on 0pdyke to become can
didate for Mayor OF the City, and this same
Opdyke is the individual who introduced in the
last Legislature of New York and used every en-.
deavor to have it passed into law, the famous
Personal Liberty Bill Among other reasonable
provisions Of this bill, it refused the use Of the
common jais Of the State in MD of the arrest and
recovery of fugitive slaves; it employed attor-
nsy, at the States expense, to defeat by all means
the Just rights Of the STAKEHOLDER to his property;
it forbade any attorney in the State, under heavy
pains and penalties, to- prosecute before courts
the claim Of the master to his slave; in short it
was in every sentence and line, full Of treason to
the federal government and bad faith to the
Southern States What sort of respect there
fore can we be expected to entertain for the pre-
testatious Of friendship Of such a mixture of
white spirits and gray, characterized the late
Union demonstration at New York, and, in fact
all Of the late meetings at the North.
After all, what will they amount to? Not one
third Of the signers to the calls will vote in vim
dication of their high sounding resolutions. =
What care we for friendly resolutions, if we are
voted down in every contest by their authors and
framerst On this point Of inquiry, we learn q
lesson from an enemy which is worth more to us
than thousand Union meeting The New York
Tribune, in a late issue, says: They (these
Union meetings. amount to nothing, and all SEN
sible men North and South know it. The only
way of knowing where the country stands on any
given question is by the vote it gives. All the
Union-saving meetings in the world cannot talk
down the Republican vote given in the North last
Autumn And if the South is fearful of lacking
Northern support and sympathy, it finds its reas.
ons in that vote, and not in the lack Of Union
saving meetings. The only really practical method
we know Of to relieve any unfounded impression
Of this sort, is for the Republicans to take pos
session of the Federal Government, and admins
ter it justly and fairly All this they are doing
as fast as they legitimately can"
In the above extract we have the truth plainly |
and boldly avowod. In fact Gleeey recognizes
in these Union meetings powerful auxiaries to
the final consummation Of the ends of Black Re-
publicanism. If these shams but serve to allay !
apprehension and excitement in the South, and to
lull our people into feeling and sense of conf
dsucs and security, the purposes Of the miners
and sappers Of the Constitution and Southern
rights will be all the better served and facilitated.
No doubt many Of the particpatOrs in these
assemblages we're actuated solely by patriotic
impulse, but we believe that their principal pro-
jectors we're moved chiefly by spirit Of Specula-
ton, and fear that their Southern custom would
be eurtailed We notice that the proceedings of |
the great Union meetings in New York, together
with list Of the signers to the call Of it, have
been published together on one large sheet, head
ed " Union Pledge" and these Union Pledges
are now being circulated throughout the South
by New York merchants, accompanied with their
business card and q note at the bottom, assuring
their Southern friends" that the Union is safe
and Southern rights Vindcated. We have seen
several Of these Union Pledges" sent out here
by B. NJ. Whitoek, Of the firm Of B. NJ. Whitock
& Co., large liquor dealers in New York city.
The object is transparent enough for one with
half an eye to see throughit.
This B. NJ. Whitlock was one Of the fifteen that
originated this great Unlon-saving sham.
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