The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-08-11

Territory; Congressional interference to abolish
slavery Slavery shall be abolished in the Dis
}trict of Columbia bred Scott decision an in
suit to common sense, &C., &C." Tell me there il
no danger? No necessity for preparation, wheI
under this flag powerful and purely sectiona
party are battling for political ascendency, pledged
to each other, that slavery, as it exists in th'
Southern States of the Union, is political sin
moral evil for the abolition of which many Of
these fanatics have pledged their honor, theil
fortunes, and their lives. They will in all proba
bility, elect their President Let US look at home
Three paftizan flags are flying over our divided
and doomed people-a people having but one
common interest, and that interest, as l have
said openly, threatened by these Northern zeaots,
backed by the hell-hounds of fanaticism, who are
rampant for Southern GORE 1 am no alarmist,
but again tell you the crisis Is upon us. In our
midst even here at home, has been galvanized
into sickly vitality, the old of Whiggery,
under the sanctiied title of Constitutional
Union party" its flag staff without platform
to support, standing loose in the mud.sls of that
old wreck, All, yes the "Censtitnton" as its
platform, subject to any Interpretations to suit
emergencies, and strange to say, there are few.
pey fer, members of the once proud and glorious
American party-now no more-whose lives have
been passed warning their fellow citizens against
the wiles and treachery of Whiggery who now
lisp the name with as much sweetness as ever did
CLAY himself. True, slrs, this Wing party has,
with shrewdness peculiar to themselves, placed
upon this platform (?) men of most unexceptiOn-
able character, (f we excerpts Mr.. Everetts little
departure when he endorsed sympathy resolutions
and Subscribed money to so0the the martyr
dom" of Mr. Sumner after the Brooks Gaming, J
literature, hoping to reach the rens of govern
ment Under that siren chant "Union ! Union I
Union ! /! at euery hazard" have no such
veneration for the term, when il no longer pro-
tects my interests,-when it stultihes the South
when 1t has lost its original meaning, and is a
by-word to lul us to repose, while these N orth.
ern vampires suck out the last drap of blood from
the body of equal rights. Never agSin Gun we
W BdSSSuJ uo W. WGI0 tCu ytuLo sIuCt, III
the memorable Nashville Convention. The South
may submit to even greater injustice and srosser
misrepresentation than was imposed on her by
that sap-ient body; but never again can she be
lulled to inaction, and loss of justice by
this siren song of Union. This cry has long
since lost its prestige, since the object for which
the Constitution was framed, has been so fire.
quently and So rathlessly violated. With moth
ing proposed, with no platform as guarantee,
we can claim no security of interest from the
self-styled Constitutional Uunion party
OF the Douglas wing of the Democracy have
but little to say and less to hope. 1t is beneath
the dignity of true Soutlrerns, to canvass the
presumptfohs of this man, whose political heresy
clThgs like the shirt of Nessus to his perfdious
carcose,-a stencil in the nostrils Of the South,
for6fddng approach.
now come to speak, gentlemen, of the true
Southern, or Breckenridge ticket IL is unneces-
sary. nor do deem it at all important, to en-
quire what hqs been the position of this party On
the various political issues, their former position
on the squatter sovereignty curse, or that all
tangled question Of slavery in the Territories,
previous to the meeting of the tate Charleston
Convention. 1T that time and place. they met to
canvass these questions. and it is tho result of
their Hea action that claims interest and investi
cation We see assembled at that time n marty
whose strength deaed defeat party owning
the President and controlling the Treasury. n
party of whom it was said was held together hy
the cohesive power of public plumber, showing
that unlimited means was theirs a party wkich,
when acting in concert with itself, was invincible
and capable Of holding the reins of governme Mt
in defiance of all the combined isms of the world
but in that party we discover few noble spirits
and patriots, who, recoecting the truth of the
charges brought against them by political oppo-
nentS, charging that the platform of 1856 was
susceptible of double meaning-that it was not
plain and explicit upon certain points
Of vital interest to the South, determined so to
amend it as to secure our Constitutional rights
md render them plain and safe in the future, be
yond the bubble of doubt or the possibility of
cavil.
Tossing overheard that odous doctrine of sot,at
ter sovereignty, like honest men they demanded
Of that Convention guarantee for the faithful
performance of their platform, and thus to secure
10 US, on a permanent basis, our Constitutional
tights, they not only did risk, bat did disrupt
heir party, and duty now calls on us to rescue
oenefactors. The Southern Democrats are tile
men who have dared to meet this issSe and
breast its consequences; the only party that
'ays to the stakeholder, Ego, sir, with prop
srty into the Territory acquired by YOUR
blood and treasure, and your rights shau be
acknowledged and respected" This is the party
hat dared to reject the opinions Of the Douglas
ties, who holds that at any period during their
Territorial existence, the people Of such Terrific
y possess the right to legisate for Che exclusion
If slavery. The party that would not consent
o have Douglas forced upon the South as their
candidate for the Presidency, for which noble.
ness of action they merit the warmest gratitude
If all true Southerners. No member Of the old
American party can, by possibility of reason.
discover objections to the slavery clause in the
platform, which, if not identi
,ally the same in language, is in substance.
hat embodied in the American platform Of
1855. The question before us, however. is
lot a question of men, but question of MAS.
Tres, of principles, of vital existence, question
hat claims unanimitv Of action as a proof TO
anatcs, that Southern freemen will guard their
constitutional rights, to the disruption of the
lie that binds this Union. By concert of action.
We may not be able to elect the President but
ve will present front so strong as to awe those
Northern zeaots, and e'er it is too late convince
hem that the South can take no further stems
backwards. To answer your question in plain
language, IJeeI and believe ii TO be the daty, and