The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-19
-oaf last appeal Kbn Of 1issi.sipei,
Do Your Duty

Before another issue Of this paper reaches
its readers, the question will have been deci-
ded, whether Mississippi will assert ana
maintain her rights as sovereign stale OF
whether she will submit to the intolierah' anu
anatical .ltte of Black Republicans
Men of Mississ ipi! You will on THURSDAY
next. the Goth inst, decide for yourselves,
whether YOU will be freemen o: saves
whether the star which represents your own
proud State upon the national banner is as
pure and bright and equal in magnitude as the
star which represents Massachusetts. lou
must decide for yourselves and your children,
whether YOU will give up that freedom. indie
nendence and equality, which our almost god
like ancestors won upon near hundred
hlood. stainet Battle fields, for a Union which
has ceased to be the L nion they made toperpet-
| uate that rich heritage Of glorious riglL IS and
priceless privileges. lfyou world retain that
proud heritage THAT you nay sequeath it to
your children, you must now strike the blow.
Northern fanatics have disregarded the wise
counsels of "the Father of his fountry' and
by a sectional majority have seized the Federal
Government in order to destroy the rights Il
the other section and degrade it into inferiorily
they have trampled upon the Constitution
have disregarded the most solemn obliga-
tons of honor and justice in order to carry
out their diabolical purpose of exterminating
the most cherished domestic institutions of the
South. They haye buried constitutional
right and State equality, beneath the weight
of abolltionism. and they are now writing upon
the tombstone. mo resurrection !" But
Mssissippi, and the other cotton States, will
roll back the stone and the God Of liberty vii!
again sit enthrnned in the hearts of free
people. @ RS
The clouds If abolitionism, which has been
gathering in tie Northern sky for forty years
has ended in the dark wintry and tempestous
night of a total Black Republican triumph
But we believe thatin this sunny, god-favored
land of ours, mighty spirit of heroism is in
spring the hearts OF the people, so that with
one firm resolve, one bold and manly move
they will "snatch victory from the jaws Of de
feat.-save their honor, their rights and their
equality and slight their torch for future
triumphs at the nations funeral pile" If such
be the result, then it may with truth be said
of the South she has passed the 1liad of hel
woes and isjust entering upon the Odyssey o.
her greatness.
Then men ef Mississippi come gather un'
der the banner of resistance to Black Repubh
can rule-come, join those who are marching
on the shortest road out of the Union. Doa'
you hear the tramp Of the mighty hosts
don't you hear the slogan of our native land
as they ascend tie eminence Of Southern
rights and Southern independence Blu
above all, don't You see upon the lofiest pima
Gle of that eminence, (which bathes its higl
hattlementsin the blue clouds of heaven"
banner proudly floating to the breeze, emilia
zoned upon it in characters of living light
Southern Confedcracy." Let US reach tina
banner it is banner that will do to liv
under, and il needs be, it is banner which
will do to die under
But we would say few words, especially
to the young men of Mississippi. 1t was ono
our proud beast, that the road to fame ant
renown was open.to every son of America
that the smoke that rose from the cabin of tn
humblest squatter might warm the child DIES
tined to hold the reigns of the government
of this great and free people. That boast, un
der Black Republican rule, is cheat and I
swindle. For under such government t.
be horn in slave State, will be stigma upor
the aspirant for Federal honors. The Presi
dency, all federal places of distinction, thu
army and navy, are all closed to every South
ern man-the brand of inieriority, deeper thar
Gains, IS written upon his brow. The fre'
negroes of the North will occupy highel
position than the noblest and worthiest son o
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