The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-08-22

would not submit to the election of President
by Northern sectional party. A Southern
gentleman told you, here, the other day, that
you ought to submit to it Abolition emissa-
ries heard that speech, and, doubtless, they have
written to their fellowlaborers at the North that
Mr.. Fillmore was mistaken; that the Southern
people are less brave than he supposed them to
be; that distinguished gentleman Of Mississip-
pi addressed a large audience Of Mississippians,
and counselled them to submit and that he was
not drummed out of the town in which he spoke !
There is yet one way, said Mr.. Lamar, in
which we may save ourselves-by forgetting
that we are Wings and Democrats, Douglas men
and Breckenridge men, and uniting together like
one man in support of our imperilled rights. 1t
remains to be seen whether we have magnanim-
ity enough to do this Last winter, at one time
it seemed that the South might yet be united
When, during the long and angry contest for
Speaker of the House of Representatives, it was
announced to him that Mr.. Smith, of North
Carolina, Southern opposition man, had re-
ceived votes enough to elect him, with the aid of
the Democracy, the Southern Democrats went
over to his support, and actually elected him
Speaker; but before the vote was declared, the
friends of Douglas, from Pennsylvania, who had
voted for Smith, treaeherousy changed their
men then declared that the Southern Democrats
had displayed such magnaniInity that they
would support a Democrat If he were put for
ward McClernand, of Illinois, was accordingly
put in nomination, but the Southern opposition
men declared that they could not vote for him,
because he was a friend of Douglas. They did
not hesitate to assert that as between sqHatter
sovereignty and the Wilmot Proviso, they had
no choice. When the Charleston Convention
met the Democratic party was found, for the
first time, to be divided by geographical line.
The Northern wing of the party insisted upon
the dogma of squatter sovereignty. The South
rejected it. Had the men of the South preferred
the spoils TO principle, had they regarded only
the success Of the party, it was easy enough for
them, by adopting some such unmcaning gener-
atty as 'the Union the Constitution, and the
enforcement of the laws" to have avoided the d.
vision that Occurred there; but would not every
body have exclaimed that the South was cheat
ed, if snch farce had been enacted? We be-
licved, said Mr. Lamar, that the conservative OPP
position men of the South would be with us in
our effort to repudiate principle against which
they had so strenuously protested but we OBJ
serve, on every hand signs, scarcely to be mista-
ken, of a general understanding that the friends
of Douglas and of Bell, throughout the country,
have formed close and intimate alliance The
speaker here presented an elaborate explanation
of squatter sovereignty and of its inevitable ten
dency to accomplish the ends aimed at by the
Black Republicans; but, being greatly exhaust
ed, lie here concluded with an eloquent appeal
to the people to cast Off the thraldom of their
leaders, and rally, like brothers, to the defence
of their own homes and firesidcs.
Our report is necessarily imperfect. Long as
it is many points were discussed and many ar.
gumcnts presented, which we have not noticed
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