The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-16

Of the Mississippi Dsnaecracy.
We have received through the Postoflic'
an anonymous handful, with these contents
dated Columbus May 5th: !.
WHEREAS, The late Convention Of the Na
tional Democratic party, lately held in Ghas
lesion, having failed to nominate candidates
for President and Vice. president, and with ,
view to the performance of that duty have ad
journed to meet in Baltimore on the 18th o
June, and r
WHEREAS, The representatives, Of the Stats
Of Mississippi, delegated to represent her il
said Convention, believing it TO be their duty
to abandon such trust, and also the Nationa
Democracy, by withdrawing from said Con
vention, and resolving themselves into an IN
dependent body with view to organize anoth.
| er party, to be known as the Constitutions
Democratic Party" and
4 WHEREAS, Such OF the citizens Of the Ne,
tiona Democratic party as reside In Missls-
sippi, will be without representation in the
adjourned Convention to be held at Baltimore
unless they take action 70 supply the vacancy
created b4 the abandonment Of them and
their party by those heretofore called to re-
present them, therefore -..s-... Ia.
A meeting of the National Old Line Demo-
Gratis and all favorable to the continued organ
ization of the Union Democracy, and all others
who feel an interest in the perpetaity OF eur
Institutions, as they now exist, are called TO
attend meeting at the Court House, on Sa-
turday, 18th inst, to elect delegates to Jack
son for said purpose on 9Th Of June.
C.lumbus, Miss, May 5, 1860
The foregoing came to US without name,
and otherwise under circumstances Of such
questionable authority that We deabt whether
it is entitled to the consideration Of Q notice.
Tfit is intended as joke it is very poor one.
Ifit is intended as the beginning Of movement
to produce dissension in the ranks of the De-
mocracy of Mississippi and to champion the
cause of Douglas at time when the whole
South has given evidences Of unanimity un-
paraaeled in her history, we can have no he
station in denouncing it as treason of the
deepestdye.
The underground projectors Of this move
ment-ifit is really not = joke-will have
learned before this reaches them that an
official call for Convention of the Democra-
cy of Mississippi has already been issued by
the Chairman of the Executive Committee ap.
pointed by the Convention Of December 18th,
pursuant to the instructions Of that ConVen-
ton in anticipation of the very result which
has happened. They might, therefore, have
been spared the trouble Of making themselves
If we may so speak of persons or things
which appear so entirely mythic-ridicuious
and contemplate.
Regarding the foregoing as Of itself wholly
unworthy of serious refutation, still we will
embrace the opportunity which it gives Us of
noticing statements upon which the treasona-
bic movement it proposes is based, because
they will probably become current among
those who may seek for personal aggTandize-
ment to disorganize the Democratic party of
the South and to betrsy her cause.
1t is simply absurd to say that the repre-
sentatives of the State of Mississippi abandon
ed their trust, and also, the National Demo-
cratic party" at Charleston. Their "trust'
was to adhere unfaltering to the principles
enunciated by the Convention which aecredi-
ted them as delegates; and this 'trust" they
faithfully performed. They did not ''atSndon''
the National Democracy" The records of
the Conveution-show that they voted through
out, side by side with the reliable Democra-
cy of the Union, and were opposed by those
who represented States which are under the
control of the Black Republican organization.
Do the authors of this Dark Lantern trick,
presume to assert that the National Demo-
cracy" consist of the corrupt and debauched
followers of Douglas. who are striving to ex-
clude the South from the Territories by
means of the Squatter Sovereignty expedient?
tits equally absurd to assert that the delegates
who retired from the Charleston Convention,
for consultation and combined action, after the
refusal OF that body to incorporate the princi-
pies of the Mississippi Democracy into the
Platform proposed to be adopted, changed the
name of their party or abandoned that under
which they were appointed as delegates. The
journals oftheir meeting show that single
member unsupported by the delegation Of
his own State, proposed change Of name, but
that he withdrew his proposition, as he him.
self declared in obedisnee to the loudly ex-
pressed will of the entire meeting.
1t is the invention of ignorance, or Of some
thing more to be despised than ignorance, to
assume as the author of the foregoing mani
festo has done, that the Democratic party Of
Mississippi will be without representation ct
Baltimore by the action Of their delegates at
Charleston. They Withdrew determined 10
nominate candidate upon the platform which
was supported by the entire South and all
that remains conservative at the North, If the
Convention had persisted in the course threat-
ened and had nominated ticket unworthy Of
Southern support upon the Cincinnati resolu-
tons unexplained or positively defined
Squatter Sovereignty platform. That body,
however, under the pressure Of the course Of
the retiring delegates re-opensd- the question
of the platform and failed to nominate .
ticket.
The representatives from Mississippi win
resign their 'trust'' only 10 the same authori-
ty that conferred it.; but they do not intend
to acquiesce in the selfassumed jurisdiction
of the author of the namslsss thing which
we are dignifying BY notice in our columns,
instigated doubtless By designing members Of
the Opposition.
When the Convention meets on the 30th
of May, the Democracy Of Mississippi win
decide whether or not they viii choose to be
represented at Baltimore. They win doubt.
less determine TO meet the Democracy of the
other States, at Richmond, who stand upon
the principles of the Majority Report, and we
presume they viii instruct their delegates to.
cooperate with the same Democracy in tho
Baltimore Convention in defence of the same
principles and on the Same platform, in the
event majority of those enlisted in the move
ment shall decide that course to be the surest
and wisest plan for uniting the whole South
and the sound North in the approaching Pres
idential election.
The Mississippi Democracy will not sepa-
rate themselves from those who at Charleston
adhered to the principles of the Majority Re-
port and resisted the nomination n the Squst-
ter Sovereignty champions Nor do they in-
tend that the State shall be misrepresented in
any convention where the principles Of the
party and its candidate are to be chosen. In
common with the Democracy of the other
Southern States they do not intend that 9
miserable squad Of disorgxnizsrs, disappointed
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