The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-08

of HRLPER on the floors of Congress, when
they are charged with the treason they con-
temulate. have not themselves the assurance
to deny the charge directly, but attempt to
eyade it by declaring that they do not intend
to violate the Constitutional rights of the
South--reserying to themselves, the exclusive
right of determining what IS Constitutional"
Nobody supposes, or has ever affected to be-
lieye. that the Black Republicans would to-day,
abolish slavery in the States, if they had the
President and a majority in both Houses of
Congress while on the other hand, we sup
pose that there are few grown-up men, who,
in view of all the signs of the time, do not be-
lieye that It is the ultimate aim and purpose
of that party to put an end to slavery in
the States. But they do not promise to do
ANYTHING unconstitutional. Oh, no! They
viii 20 gradually to word. They will get the
control of the government in their own hands,
and exclude shareholders and pro-slavery men
from all participation in it. They will excite
more JOAN BRowNs to come among us on
their missions of philanthropy, and seek to de-
precaite the value of slave property by render
ing it, as far as in them lies, an element DIN
security and danger. Finally, when the
North shall have grown relatively strong
enough to enforce her edicts upon the weaker
South, and when the rule of mo more slave
States'' shall have resulted in placing it in the
power of the AbolitonistS to amend the Con-
stitntion in accordance with the provisions of
that instrument, they wiH so amend it as to
give Congress full jurisdiction over the ques-
ton of slavery in the States and then they
will aho .ish slavery in the States without any
violation of the letter of the Constitution
We do not charge, or believe, that the Central
Committee intended to defend the Black Re-
publican party but we do say that they have
permitted their judgments to be warped by
their hatred Of Democracy that it is very diff
cult for them to perceive anything of evil in a
party that is opposed to Democracy and that,
if it had been their purpose to apologize for
the course of the Abolitionists upon the
slavery question, they would not have found
it necessary to make any very material alter
atoms in their address.
We feel assured that every member Of the
Central Committee thinks he is opposed to the
Black Republicans, and intends to oppose them
to the last extremity but at the same time,
we are equally confden' that even SEWARD
himself, when he peruses the address, will
plume himself upon the allies he has found
In the oppositionists of Mississippi, who de-
clare, IN the address before us, that the claim
OF the South to an equality of rights in the
Territories has been surrendered, and that it
is now too late to reclaim it. All that Black
kepubllcanism claims, for the present, is what
the committee concede to 1.-THE principle
that all the Territories are dedicated to free
labor. That is the entering wedge of their
system. Grant them that, and the ultmte
abolition of slavery in the States is inevitable,
and becomes slmply.a question of time. The
Abolitionists will, therefore, gladly welcome
Is co-laboreFs ALL who, by opposing Democra-
cy. will aid them in establishing the only prin-
ciple on which their party has been organized
| and Zach tame, milk-and-water expressions as
this-"H we are to surrender anything it
must be our property, and that we cannot
| and will not do"-will not be regarded by
them as evidences Of undying hostility on the
part eff Southern Oppositionists.
Never before was it SO emphatically true as
/ it is at the present moment, that the rights
and interest and honor and safety of the
South alike demand that we should present,
to those who are seeking to degrade and ruin
her, a firm and united front. Thus, and thus
only, is it barely possible that the Union, as
/ our fathers framed it, may even yet be pre-
served. If however, we present to our assail-
ants the spectacle of divided counsels, and lei
them perceive that there is in our midst an
organized party which, by warning upon their
enemies, seems to sympathize with their aims
and wishes, we can only expect that, thus en-
couraged, they will never cease their assaults
upon us until they shall have accomplished
| their unholy purposes.
We have extended our remarks far beyond
eur original design and yet we have touched
upon only few of those features of the ad.
dress of the Opposition Committee which We
consider i'll advised, injudicious and unfortunate
Ito use the mildest terms by which we car
characterize them but we have said enough
We trust, to persuade every Southern patriot
| who shall read what we have written, that
for him, the path Of duty lies in direction
precisely opposite to that which is indicated
BY the address.