Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-12-04
MISSISSIPPI.
.M. H GIST.'

MISSISSIPPI.
The Legislature of Mississippi having
been convened in extraordinary session Oh
he 26h ult, the Governor, among other
things said:-
The existence or abolition of African
Slavery Ia the Southern States is now up TOR
final settlement before that tribunal which
has exclusive juriSdiction-the people of the
Southern States where it exists. 1t is true,
that the forms OF d trial have been
had. before the people of the non->laVehold-
ing States. The institutions of the South
have been dragged before that tribunal, in
violation of every principle of the Constitu-
ton and of common sense, and tried before
| Court having no jurisdiction, and a jury
! ignorant of the law and the facts; and the
verdict thus obtained is, that slavery is sin
full and must be destroyed. We are told
that this verdict will be executed. that the
Northern mind will never rest satisfied until
slavery Is placed in such a condition as will
insure its ultimate extinction, and that all
the power the Southern States now have in
he final settlement of this matter is II
choose whether it shall be peaceable and
gradual abolition or speedy and violent.
These are the hard terms offered TO fifteen
States Of this Conrederacy-as if they were
conquered and not CO equal States, as if the
superior numbers of the Northern States
gave them the Constitutional right to regu-
late the domestic affairs OF the Southern
States without consulting their wishes and
against their consent.
submission to such rule establishes a
despOtism. under which the dearest rights of
ihe Southern States are held at the suffer-
ance of a people, ignorant of their wants
and hostile to their rights. If they were
honest and just, they are so utterly ignorant
of the capacities aud necessities of the two
races which inbabit the Southern section of
This COnlcdeTacy, as to rei DER il impossible
for them to rule it with sucC ess IT manage it
Without ruin. 1t would be az reasonable to
eXJect the steamship to make successful
voyage across the Atlantic with crazy men
Tor engineers, to hope for a prosperous
future for the South under Black Republics
Rule. Can the lives, liberty aud property of
the people of Mississippi he safely entrusted
TO the keeping OF that sectional majority
which must hereafter administer the Federal
Government?
| think they cannot, for the following rpa-
SONS: They have exhibited low selfish
MSS in SEEING all the territories which are
he Common pr. perry of all the States. They
Hav- deliberately ATTEMPTED and have sue
ereded iii educating a generation to hate the
South They have sworn to support he
FEDERAL Constitution and d lib rat ly passed
Il thu DlIin"st provisions at that Compact
fl'y have sent iIrg im- of money to Con
:. e. Tor the y rp" # brbiIg the IN NIB. r.
hat body tu pas LAS IT, advance their
trlv5,Jr Interests. Tn V have ut rmpt. d Ia
i'-srtd ~ IL ll,e IN .tinn I h = uaiinn-.
.. dea"unrIHG u - pdsbi ian~. pirates and
'iI { : "a FL .'S-rclnf' 5 4 ci,i>taI or viii
4 IA u. They haze xc Il "a slaves to
sIfrretInis. AT i. d l. III ." hrlrl nur prop
a "A a 4
eJn VII Is m and an IA ga to i'll Iien
hri bH"dN wo Thy 1--we m.:rilcr
"a h-Tn mn Ia in. id'g "a pHr>,iit of Their
i.it,ye >ttvs-~ and f,sie.l 10 paui>h tbeir citi-
Us TER th->s gram ViolaiinuS OF the iaxs
q 81 aud III IA. Tn Y have furnished
70 aud arms Tor the INVASION ot "a slat e.
hui,ling State. and W the puashmrnt
,Aa d,d - II asuh aHd murdr. by a civil
nations Overlook he iIvad-Is t'Iev
threatened he da-tarlly revenge OF midnight
&c udiaries. TOlled bells ia hon. r of trait-
rs and murdereTs, aud rewarded the family
Di the Chiel Traitor, a. never Was rewarded
that of any soldier who fell in defence f the
ruantry, srad add him up as an example OF
heroic devotion to a Ist aud glorious cause.
fn,ir pr-ss, pulpit. iectuve-room aud forum
m daily ana nightly with celebrations To
their people to press forward This war on
our Institutions even to the drenching of
zens In view Of all thi. long catalogue of
.a>ults an1 mi Iries, IN view Ot the fact that
this hostile section must continue 10 increase
ia power l feel that l am warranted in say
lag that the Northern people have forfeited
the canhdeuce of the people of Mississippi.
a ID that h lives, liberty aud properly OF
ourselves aud our children alter us, ought
not TO be entrusted 10 ruler, cleo ed by such
a people. The judgment of the people OF all
the Southern ) bars me out in this
coHclusiun; Tor { e candidate r. Gently elect
ID To the Presidency. gets rot one electoral
vote in ali the fifteen slave States While
.,ur Nor b IN assailans had only the power
o. the re S. mo bS, aud State Governments to
aid them in these aggressiohs, it was the
opinion of many UT our wisest and best men
that we mi-ht still defend ourselves in the
Union, by the power of our State Govern
ments " 18th The aid If the Federal Government.
But whcu in recent Presidential election a
large majority have decreed that the Federal
Government, with all its immense powers, on
which We relied tor protection, s5uii hereai-
ter be administered by the same class OF men
VINO have been guilty of all these acts of vIo-
lence and bad faith; it is folly. il is madness.
TO hope Tor safety In such a Government
To remain longer but adds weight and pow
er to the arm that strikes Us, and takes from
us the power OF returning the blows. Sur
veyiHg the whole field, in view OF the past
history. the present attitude and future
probabilities of this great question, see but
one path of honor and safety for Mississippi.
Let her sly TO the Black Republican, States
as Abraham said 10 Lot: Let there be no
strife, pray thee, between me and thee, and