The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-07-28


the record of Edward Everett, the nominee fo
The Vice Presidency of the sol disant 80 Union
Constitutional party" We again ask how any
Southern man, indeed, how any Constitutional
UniOn-lOving man; either North or South, car
support Mr., Everett for the high and responsible
position to which he aspites, occupying, as he
does, position so sectional and so hostile to great
section of the Union. Has it come to this, that,
in order to save the Union, we have to support
our enemies-men who declare that the Federal
Government, established for the benefit and pro-
lection of all its citizens, has the power, and it
Is its duty to exercise it, to make war upon an
institution which is the very basis of the social
fabric, and the very foundation of the prosperity
and happiness of the Southern people? Are we
to be told that hostility to the South is couserva-
tism? Shall we be taught by degrees to bend
our necks to the yoke of Black Republican, prin,
ciplos? Shall we be coaxed to bend cur backs
like galley slaves to the lash of Black Repabi-
canism, under the false name of conservatism
under tie delusye cry of the Union, the Con.
sututiOn and the enforcement of the laws? God
palmed off upon our people. The disguise is too
Hmsy. The mask Las been torn from the impos
tor, and Mr. Everett stands forth in all his polt-
ieal deformity, committed as fully to the princi-
pies of the Republican party, upon the subject Of
slavery, as Lincoln or any of his traiorous fol-
lowers Read again the % Resolres" in the pas.
sage of which he so "cheerfaly co.operqied,'
which are published at the head of this column
then read the following plank in the Black lie
publican platform:
That the normal condition of all the territory
of the United States is that Of freedom That as
our Republican Fathers, when they had abolished |
slavery in all our national territory, ordained that
q no person shall be deprived of life liberty or
without due process of kw," II be. /
comes our duty, by legislation, whenever such
legislation is necessary, to maintain this proyis-
Ion OF the Constitution against all attempts to
violate 1t; and we deny the authority of Con
gress, Of a Territorial Legislature or OF any in
dividtal. to give legi existence to slavery III any
Territory Of the United States.
Now, we call upon the advocates Of Mr. Ever
EFT to show the difference between his position
and Mr.. Lincoln's. The only difference is that
MIR. Everetts is set forth more explicitly and in
a clearer light. Can any Southern man east his
vote for Mr.. Everett without hanging lis head in
'hame2 Can he support him without his Con
science whispering to him that ae is ncrving The
oarricdal arm of those whose warfare upon the
Constitution, will probably end in its total de-
truction, and the dissolution Of the Union But
his d" still small voice" with many may be hush
ID by the din of party clamor; reason may be
'bscured for time by the smoke and dust of a
political conflict, sense Of duty to our section
nay be parayzed in the strife, by which means ]
Mr. Everett may get the support of some good S
nd patriotic men in the South, but we protest {
will not be on endorsement of his odious prin.
iples Many of the supporters of Mr. Everett
hink that the election Of Mr.. hncolH would be
just cause fof the dissolution of the Onion, but
heir partisan prejudices bind them to such an
xtent that they cannot see that Lincoln and Ev-
rett stand upon precisely the same ground of
ostility TO the South.