The weekly Mississippian., 1860-10-24
!" Southern Disunion. !"

The following speaks the true sentiments oil
Southern State Rights men, Mr.. Yancey, how
ever much he may have been misrepresented,
does not claim, and has never claimed, any
thing for the South that is not embraced IN
the views of the New York editor quoted
below. Nothing that Mr. Y. has ever spoken
or written proves him to be in favor of cause
less disunion. Even the we'll known Slaughter
letter, written by Mr. Yancey, urges resist
ance only to the next aggression"
SOUTHERN DIsUNIoN.--In our opinion (says
the New York Journal of Commenee1 there
is no disunion at the South save what is oc-
casioned by sense of violated rights, and a
conviction that there is little or no hope of
redress. There are no better friends Of the
Union as established by the Constitution than
these very fire. eaters, as they are called, who
are unwilling to be left with all the obligations
of that instrument resting upon them while
the immunitles and benefits of it are denied
them. Just restore the Union to its original
basis-the basis Of the Constitution-and it
will have no warner friends and defenders
than the men Of the South. Garrison and his
crew are consistentin denouncing the Consti-
tuition as "an agreement of hell" and the
Union, because based on such Constitution ::
but those men are very inconsistent who pre-
tend to uphold the Union, and yet violate the
| Constitution upon which it rests. What but
such violations are the personal liberty bills"
which have been enacted in several of the
Northern States; the refusal of the North,
with some honorable exception, to surrender
fugitive slaves, as stipulated by the Constitu-
ton; the practical denial to the South of equal
rights in the territories; and generally dis
position on the part of the Northern people,
or large portion of them, when they do not
distinctly violate the Constitution, (in those
features which inure to the benefit of the
South,) to come as near to it as possible
Now, we say that they cannot properly be
termed disunionists, who are only so in case
the terms of the Union are persistently viola
ted. And we say that those men at the
North and West, who talk of "coercing' the
South to continue in Union which she new.
er assented to--a Union not such as the Con.
sttution calls for, but such as Abolition
tyrants see fit to inaugurate-are themselves
disunionists since they virtually sanction q
violation Of the terms of the Union, which
they might have prevented if they would, and
then commit the double wrong of compelling
the injured party to abide under his injuries
If A makes a contract with containing mu
tual stipulations and if A distinctly violate;
inure to the benefit of B, there is not a cour
in the land but would say that A is estoppet
from demanding of the continued fulfillmen
of his part of the contract. And this " cove
nant breaking" ON the part of the North, il
far enough from being innocent 1t is classet
in Scripture with the most fragrant kinds o
wickedness (Rom. i. 3l.l The tue business
Of the North Is to repent, and do her frs
works fulfill her obligations to the South
all of them, as she once did, and as the Con
stitution requires and our word for it, w
shall hear mo- more about disunion and seces
sion at the South, but shall find existiD!
wounds healing up, and the halcyon days 0
the Republic restored. This is the way Il
"coerce'' the South-with the bands of love
doing our whole duty under the Constitution
and letting the South see and feel that It is
Union for her, and not against her. The Who'll,
theory of the Union is CHOICE. The momen
FORCE is applied, against State or section
that moment the golden chain is broken anC
so broken that in all probability it can neveI
be repaired.