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

The Senate was engaged yesterday in the
speech of Mr.. Buck, in opposition to the res
olutions and amendments sent from the House
on State and Federal Relations. The subject
will be resumed to day at 10 o'clock.
For House proceedings see another column.
"Let the Issue be Made"
Under this caption the Pennsylvania,
true and reliable Democratic journal, reviews
the reasonable conduct of the fanatics of the
North, and says the great purposes of the
Constitution have ceased to be desirable to
large portion of the people of the North. The
Pennsylvania recapitulates some of their acts,
and says they can no longer be regarded as
fanatics, enthusiasts, or madmen. They have |
inauguraied q political power and ascendency
in most fthe Northern States. Alarge num-
Der of influential journals promulgate their
views, and still larger number silently ap |
prove their sentiments. Meetings are held |
not alone for discussion Of their peculiar |
peculiar views, but for the purpose of denounc-
ing the Constitution, the laws and the Union.
They not only affect to despise the compact
which holds together the States Of the con-
federacy, but have resisted the laws of Con-
gress. They have done this with violence,
and with arms, whereby citizens Of the United
States have been killed. Bodies of armed
men were sent by these people to distant
territory for the avowed purpose Of making it
free. For this purpose hostile collisions were
provoked, towns burnt and pillaged, and men
and women murdered. They have convened
in q foreign land and adopted scheme for
Provisional Government, which contemplated
among other things, that an invading army
should be raised and quartered in the swamps
and mountains of the Southern States where
from incendiary and predatory bands could
sally forth to burn and rob, and incite the
slave population to make general insurrec-
ton and massacre of the white population.
They have so far carried out this scheme as to
have one of their chief men quartered in Viz
ginia, whom they provided with large amounts
of money for the purchasing of pixies, mus
kets, pistols, spears, ammunition aud provi-
sions. His place, ostensibly farm house,
was made the headquarters where these arms
were deposited, and at which those engaged in
the undertaking were directed to assemble.
Whilst these arrangements were being pushed
forward in Virginia, other points were made
depots for the assembling of men and the
gathering of arms with the view of having
simultaneous attacks in several sections of the
South. By haste, Encouragement, or stupid
ty, Harper's Ferry was the only place at
which an attempt was made, and this failed
from the indisposition of the slave population
to Join, contrary to the expectation of the
leader and those advising. But violence was
done to the soil of Virginia, her citizens were
unlawfully arrested, their property seized, and
q number of them shot, although unarmed
and making no resistance.
These acts of robbery and murder have
in the North. The death of the leader, who
made himself amenable to the laws of Virgil
uia, and whose condemnation by her courts
was inevitable as well as just, has been de-
clared to be martyrdom equal to that Of our
Savior White and black, men and women,
have assembled in Philadelphia and other cities
in large numbers before and since the execu-
ton of this man, and openly made his acts
theirs; in other words, they unhesitatingly
advocate instruction, murder, and servile
| war in the South:
The Pennsylvania thus concludes the ar
| ticle:
In view, therefore, of the open and active
resistance to the laws of Congress-in view of
the arming and sustaining of body of men
in territory of the Union for the purpose of
wagng civil warm view of the repetition Of
this purpose in a more general way in the
Southern States-in view of the applause with
which the late acts, in part execution of those
plans, have been received, and the laudation of
the murderer and the condemnation Of the
authorities of the State of Virginia, acting
under the solemnity of the LAWN view of
the adoption Of these acts by the political party
called Republican, so far as can be judged by
| auc IOuIuato VI bAAab Rottyp 1AtA bAO oOPPOiI
and protection Of reasonable meetings by
Republican Mayor and PoIice-and, finally, in
view Of the general IMMUNITY for lawless and
reasonable practices throughout the North,
now under the sway Of the Republican party,
we most unhesitatingly say that the purposes
of the Constitution have been violated and can
no longer be maintained, either to perfect the
Union or insure domestic tranquility.
Tat ba ioc11a than ho made THE OnDoSl-
ton and hostility to the Union, the laws, and
the Constitution, of which we have spoken,
commenced and has been fostered in the North.
The South has been loyal, and can take care
Of herself she is able to resist, expel, or pun
ish all traitors who may invade her soil or in
termeddle with her domestic concerns. She
can do this and remain in the Union, or, if
preferable, separate and form new govern
ment. But the North has within herself trail
tors, incsndiaries, and promoters of riot and
anarchy. More than this, she has within her.
self those who hold as little allegiance to the
Bible and the Christian religion as they do the
Constitution of the Union. The issue is then
with the North. Shall the work of treason be
allowed to proceed? Shall meetings be held
in our midst wherein treason and murder are
openly and daringly taught, and the example
of those who engage in them lauded and
made noble for the emulation of our citizens ?
Shall public journals be printed in our midst,
and circulated for the purpose of destroying
the Government by creating a widespread
disafEection and lawlessness among the people ?
Or shall the conservative, Union-loving and
peaceful citizens of the North assemble to-
gether, and BY peaceable means, if possible,
and if not by resort to arms end this agita-
ton, either by silencing the agtators forever,
or by driving them from the country to seek
laws and q government more congenial to their
purposes and sentiments ? We again say,
let the issue be made, and without further
delay.