The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-08-29
From the Montgomery Mail
mr.. FIIlm0re-the Leasue-the Mail.

TIE Nashville Patriot is one of those nom
inally Southern papers, which is greatly afraid
that the South viii commit some aggression on
the rights of the bowling, anti-slavery masses
Of the North If ii could control, it would hang
every man who would raise his hand to stay the
onward course Of ab0litiOnism II is impossible
to read it. without seeing and feeling that all its
ends and aims are towards the subjugation of the
South TO her enemies We would respectfully
ask If those who manage il, have wives and chill
dren in the SOUTH
The Patriot questions us. 1t would know
how it is that We supported Mr. Fillmore, but
cannot support Mr. Belly We viii answer
frankly. We believed and believe that Mr.. Fill
more was and is sounder man than Mr.. Bell;
we know by his own words that he-NoTthern-
born as he is-cannot conceive the Southern
baseness which would submit to Black Republi-
can domination
But lire did soroHg in supporting Mr.. Fill
more is it reasonable that we should repeat it.
with opened eyes, as to Mr. Bell2 We tell the
Patriot, we have committed our last error
against the South. She is now enYironed by
enemies. Many Of the men in whose embraces
Mr.. Bell now lies so comfortabl y-including
Washington Hunt, Leverett Satonstall, and Neil
Brown-are waiting to stab her to to the heart
Ii by accident, inadyertence, or through preu-
who are unwilling or are not free, TO concede the
South her rights under the reconstruction, we wash
our hands forever of all such, their creeds and
principles. Our fealty is due TO the sovereign
State of Alabama, which has a business contract
with other States and whenever Alabama shall
decide that her co-partners have destroyed that
compact by fraud or otherwise, we expect to
obey her mandates, like true and faithful citizens
The Patriot asks us if we were not member
of the Southern League, and if that did not pre-
vent us from supporting Mr.. Bell We 1.-THE Sc
NOR editor who writes were a member Of the
League. That membership did not prevent us
from supporting any man, of our party, or any
other, If we believed him willing to sustain the
constitutional rights of the South. II, with Mr..
Watts, we believed Mr. Bell sound there was no
obligation on us to deter us from supporting
him; if however, with the Patriot, las is evil
dent from its tone,) we believed him only loyal
to the Union, and not true TO the rights of the
States, we could not vote for him.
We suppose that the object of the Patriot is
TO show, in Tennessee, that there are men and
papers in Alabama that prefer the security and
equality of the slaveholding States, to an Ossa-
watamie Union. The Nail is one of those pa
pers its editors are among those men. We re-
we're a constitutional Union-a Union controlled
by Freesoers and degraded to the carrying out
of their views, We would abhor beyond hell it.
self and would fraternize with devils before we
would affiliate with its supporters and defenders.
And now the Patriot may go and gather
freeso votes on the plain speech of Southern
men, who, however their section may be degra-
ded, do not choose TO fawn on those who are
rivetng their letters