The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-05
An authoritative Exposition ofthe Poll
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: Wehave hsfare us inthe st. Louis Demoera
;. a Black Republican sheet, speech .deiiyere
: on the 21st inst, by Lyman Trnnbul, Se:la
tor from Illinois, at an Abolition eelebratio
in Springfield, The home Of Lincoln. -s.1hl
speech is understood to be an authorized FeI
sion of the views and policy of the Preside4nl
of the non-slaveholding States and his con
struction of their verdict in selecting him t
preside in The Executive Chair of the Union
The Democrat says that t'it was prepared Il
the suggestion of the President elect and re
ceived has full approval before it ,0as deti0ereA
This Presidential exposition comes at
peculiarly auspicious moment, while the peo
pie of the aggrived States are@l3n council con
cerning the proper course to be pursued II
avert the calamities of a Northern sectiona
triumph.
There are some men in the S5uth so un
mindful OF the lessons of the past exhibiting
the destructive purposes ofthe Black Repub
lican organization, tbat they are willing te
trust the rights, honor and destinity of thell
respective States to the keeping and to the
tender mercy of that party, and hence are
resisting the movement which is now in rapid
and we think sure, progress, for Southern
safety and independence.
This proclamation from Black Republican
headquarters will convince them, we trust,
that their hope of forbea ranceSfrom their enc
mics is delusive, and that if dhey reject the
councils of wisdom, prudencegand patriotism
which call upon them to rest their confidence
in their own ability and means of selEprotec-
tion, they will rely upon frail reed which
will break and pierce them to the very vitals.
After long and unwearying effort the enc mics
of the South have, through the efficacy of
mere numbers. succeeded in seizing the gov
| ernment under the forms of the Constitution,
and now to say that they will heedlessly
throw away the prize thus won, in the very
hour of victory, is to assume an absurdity
and is to hug the veriest phantom to our
bosoms
But what says the chosen Oracle of Black
Republicanism-the authorized exponent of
the Black Republican creed-to these wretch
ed and unhappy waters upon Black Republi-
can charity?
After quite parade of glittering generali-
ties, Senator Trumbull, the spokesman of
Lincoln, proceeds to the following practical
utterances:
Secession is an tmpracticabi2tty,o or rather an
impossihlity. The Constitution provides no
way by which a State may withdraw from
the Union no way for the dissolution of the
Government it creates. The General Gov
ernment interferes but little with Individual
rights ofthe citizen, except :or protection. 1t
Is chiefly felt in its benefits and its blessings,
not in its exactions. If every Federal officer
in South Carolina were to resign, their offices
remain vacant, and it's Legislature declare the
State out at the Union, it would all amount
to little except to inconvenience the citizens
of that State. So long as the State did not
interfere with the collection of revenue ON the
Sesb0ard, the people in other portions CT the
Union would not be in the least incommoded.
What is the South Carolina aarmy to do when
raised Whom is it to fight Msniestly
ifit commences war on the United States
officers engaged in collecting the revenue, it
becomes the aggressor.
This would be revolution and making war
without a cause; for South Carolina makes
no complaint against the revenue laws. Is
she prepared to thus become the aggressor
The only use l can see for her Minute Men is
that they will enable the people the more
readily to suppress any uprising in their
midst, which their misrepresentation of the
purposes Of the Republicans may have encour-
aged. She complains that the fugitive slave
law is not executed in some of the States
This, iftrue, the whole country knows to be
a sham, so far as South Carolina is concerned
she is SO situated that no slave can escape
from her limits into free States. However
much cause the border slave States may have
to complain of the escape of their negroes into
the free States, it is clear South Carolina can
have no such complaint In her resolves she
processes to be preparing to defend herself
against eneroachments on her rights. Let her
adhere to this policy, and not attempt to
dictate to other States what they shall do,
and no collision will occur for no encroach-
ments will be made. e,
The disunion feeling in the South is doubt
less greatly exaggerated. A sort of terrorism
seems to prevail in some places, which, for the
time, appears to have crushed out any mani
festation of Union sentiment; but, as the
causes for this excitement are all imaginary,
the election of Republican President in the
constitutional mode certainly affording no ex-
cause, it is reasonable to suppose that reac
ton will soon take place among the Southern
people themselves, which will overthrow the
disunionists at home. 1t is a great mistake
to class the supporters Of Mr.. Breckenridge as
disunionists. His supporters as class are, |
doubt not. as sincerely attached to the Union
as many of those who, for political purposes.
during the recent excited contest, sought to
fasten upon them the stigma of disunion.-
Should the conservative and Union men, in
any particular locality be enabled to cope with
their adversaries, and South Carolina, or any
other State under the head of nulIfiers and
disunionists, who have for years been seeking
for pretext for breaking up the government,
plunge into rebellion, and without cause as
sail, by force Of arms, the constitutional auth
critics of the Union, there will be but one SEN
timent among the great mass OF the people of
all parties-"The Union-it must and shall
be preserved"-and woe to the traitors who
are marshaled against it.
Should any Republican inquire what has
been gained by the triumph of Republicanism
answer much. Re haze gained decision Of
the people in favor of Pacific railroad: a
homestead policy; Il 5udicious tariff; the aansis-
sion into the Union Of Kansas as a free State;
reform in the financial department Of the
government; AND MORE IMPORTANT
THAN ALL, THE VERDICT OF THE
PEOpLE-THE SOURCE OF POWER
| THAT THE CONSTITUTION Is NOT A
SLAVERY EXTENDING INSTRU-
| MENT. NO MORE DRIED SCOTT ENE-
CISIONS WILL NOW BE MADE. Free
| men of both the North and the South, will
hereafter be protected in all their eonstitu-
tional rights THE POLICY OF THE
| GOVERNMENT, as of old. WILL NOW
| GET IN FAVOR OF FREEDOM, and not
| for the supremacy Of slavery, as has been the
case for the last six years. FREEDOM
WILL HENCEFORTH BE THE LAW OF
/ THE TERRITORIES, because the. people il
their majesty have SO decided; AND METH
! Err COURTS NOR CONGRESS WILL RE
i ABLE TO THWART THEIR WILL
When full effect shall have been given to al
these great measures of the Republican party
and the prejudices engendered against itin thu
minds Of many, by the artful appeals Of dena
gogues who have m;srepresented its objects
shall have been removed by actual knowledg
Of its acts, we may expect the bitterness Q
party spirit to subside; the cry of disunion +
! be hushed, and the principles of Republican
ism to become the permanent policy of th
; government, under which it will flourish an
prosper, as trust forever.
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OF Vigilance Committees have extende
to Georgia A Mcintosh county correspor
dent of the Savannah Republican mentions
report that several respectable citizens of tn,
/ county had been arrested, tried and whippe'
j by party of men in disguise.
/ CULTIVATION OF CoI"ToN IN JAMAICA
IS News of the 9th instant has been receive