The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-08-29
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THE Bell-Eyerett papers and orators Of 1860
wax eloquent over the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, to which measure they sttrib-
ute the anti-slavery agitation of the day
They talk as though they had always thought
the repeal of that Compromise very nansh-
ty thing. They did not pretend SO to think
in 1856, when AiiLard Fillmore was their
candidate for the Presidency. During that
year, as we learn from an old number Of the
Flag Of the Union, "a large aud enthusiastic
meeting of the American party was held IN
Representative Hall, in Jackson, for the pur-
pose Of responding to the action Of the Ma
tional Convention. Jos B.Cobb was appoint
ed President, and F. L Swami, Secretary"
sMr. J. K Clinton. yielding to the vocif-
erous calls from all psrts of the Hail. made
one Of his best efforts. Speech amer speech
followed in ike soul-stirring vein. until the
small hours Of the night"
"The following gentlemen in response to
repeated calls, addressed the audience in about
the order in which we place their narnes:-
C. [. Buck, of Vicksburg; r. b. Holmes, of
Ysxoo; II. w. Foote, of Noxubee; A. X. Far
rar, of Adams; ]. L. Alcorn, of Coahona; O
C. Martin, of Yallabusha; r. A. Pinson of
Pontotoc; A. N. West, of Holmes; G. L.
Potter, F. L. Swan, of Kinds"
"Mr Potter then offered the following res
oiution which was unanimously adopted:
Resolsed, our opponents being the judges,
that Nillard Fillmore, by his approval Of the
Compromise measure" Of $50, consaansa-
ted TIE repeal of that odioas restriction called
the Missouri Compromise"
The Flag in its enthusiastic description of
the meeting, proceeded to foretell the APP
preaching success of its party in the follow
ing terms: ave hazard nothing in asserting
that Fillmore and Donelson will carry the
State of Mississippi, next November, by
larger majority than the so-called Democrats
can boast of at the last election "a predic-
ton which was signslly f.sifcd by the event,
but which was as likely to be fulfilled as are
the clustering prophecies of victory with
which the Beeverettites are now seeking to
deude such voters as are chiefly ambitious
to range themselves upon the winning side.
We ask our readers to note the names of
those men who figured in the Fillmore ratif-
cation meeting of 1856. They are, to-day,
the recognized leaders of the Bell party in
Mississippi. Then, they claimed that Mr..
Fillmore deserved credit for having "consum-
mated the repeal of that odious restriction
called the Missouri Compromise" Non,
when they have candidate, who voted against
the repeal Of that measure, they denouce that
repeal, from every paper and every stump as
as Urong, perpetrsted by the Democracy.
We leave our readers to judge what amount
of POLITICAL honesty is possessed by the men,
who, too btain power, thus readily sacrifice
even the appearance of consistency, and I'M
blushingly eat, to-day, the words they uttered
yesterday. If they have the assurance, after
this, to talk about their principles let it
be understood, that their principles arc
those "seven," which a witty politician once
ascribed to his antagonists" the five loaves
and the two fishes" Any thing warning
against these, or having tendency to keep
them longer from their coveted position at
the public crib, they have no use for; and, of
course, they unhcsitatingly set it aside, no
matter how completely they may have been
identified with it in times past when they
hoped to render it scryiceable in the promo
ton of their schemes.