The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-12

What honied phrase shall Ne emplcg, prop
erly to characterize this act of damhing treach-
cry?
In the same bill clause wasfnserted giFy
ing to the Supreme Court the tecisionof the
issue Of property rights in the Territories, with
a special view to slave property, and he agreed
to abide by that decision. He used this Ian
guage IN reply to Trumbull and others q
told them that it was . Judicial question; my
answer then was, and now is, that if the Con-
stitution carries slavery there, let it go, and
NO POWER ON EARTH CAN TAKE IT
AWAY" The Supreme Court has decided :
Sd. Every citizen has right to take with
him into the Territory any article of property
which the Constitution of the United States
recognizes as property"
4th. aThe Constitution of the United States
recognizes slaves as property, and pledges the
Federal Government to protect it. And Con-
gress cannot exercise any more authority over
property of that description, than it may con-
stitdtionally exercise over property of any
other kind"
But Douglas, contrary to his pledge, refuses
to abide by this decision-(see his Freeport
speech)-and has, therefore, betrayed his
friends and his party, and abandoned his
'faith. Is he @renegade?''
Under the guarantees of the Kansas Ne
braska bill, which Douglas, by false pretences
of his own construction of it. persuaded
Southern men to support, Kansas, in 1858,
applied to Congress, with regularly and le-
gally formed pro-slavery Constitution, for adj
mission into the Union. The Democratic
party-the Democratic Administration, and
the advocates Of the Kansas Nebraska bill
generally her admission Douglas
backed out from the consequences of his own
Observation-Disclosures his own party-and
went into the Black Republican organization.
-There he fought with the desperate energy o.
Seward and Giddings themselves against the
application Of Kansas If he did not play
"the renegade''-if he did not then @desert to
the enemy" what, in the name ofall the gods
did he do? There was treaclery, black and
infamous, somewhere. Seward was on one
side; and our Southern Senators, with the
Democratic Administration in the lead, on the
other Douglas eonfederated with Sesoard,
and fought against the South. Will it be as
sumed that it was not he who played the de
serte-," and that Seward was right
In 1856, Douglas was eager for the Demo-
cratic nomination at Cincinnati. TO receive
it, he pledged his personal honor to General
Quitman (see Gen. Q.'s letter, since published)
that he was opposed to squatter sovereignty
and in favor Of protection; and upon that as
surance he won the favor of that brave and
trhe-hearted Southern patriot. He did more
He read and approved, before the Convention
met, resolution which was submitted by
Gov. Brown to the Mississippi delegates to the
Convention, in which squatter sovereignty
was denied and the doctrine of protection
was avowed; and upon this assurance of his
position, Douglas deceived the delegation into
his support for the Presidency, after the name
of Gen. Pierce was Withdrawn.
He now says he never really entertained
such doctrine; and his subsequent course
proves that his object was to induce the South
to support him under misrepresentation o
his opinions and that he designed to play
false to her unsuspecting representatives il
the Convention, after he had secured til,
prize.
This was confidence game" which nom
but the most despicable and debased Pete
Funk who is engaged in the trade of politics
would have stopped to practice.
The Mississippi delegation were willing t.
take him upon his pledges. Men who stool
in near relation to him gave their assurance
that he could be trusted. If he had held thu
opinions which he now entertains, the delega
ton could not have consented to support hin
without emitting themselves to the sam,
measure of infamy which has completed thu
degradation of Douglas himself.
Douglas repeatedly pledged himself to con
tinue in the Black Republica party after thu
Kansas struggle, if they who had profited BY
his treason would consent longer to trust thl
traitor, aud return him without opposition Il
the United States Senate. He is now can
vassing the North in the interest of Lincoln
and offering to become supporter of his AID
ministration, so far as the enforcement of his
policy against the South is concerned. Wha
is this but DESERVING to the enemy?"
Ina recent speech he said that if the people
of the South refused to yield obedience to q
Black Republican Administration, they de
served the fate of John Brown-thus placing
in the same category the defenders of theil
constitutional rights with that wretched out
law who invaded the soil of Virginia to muir.
der her defenceless women and children.
What honied phrase must be employed to
characterize this wanton insult, by the people
against whom it is hurled?
Douglas may be intrepid and dashing'
ESQ was Arnold -he may mark high and
strike boldly" Eyes, "high" enough to reach
to the depths of Seward, and "bold" as the
bantam, Burlingame, to assail with epithet
and denunciation whole people, may not
be Just to call him renegade or to do any
thing else but sleek him down with fulsome
and disgusting adulation-but may We be par
doned for doing worse thing than support
ing with all our heart and soul as sound a
platform as the Democratic creed upon which
John c. Breckenridge stands, when we offer
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