The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-27
A Word About Traitors.

Our advices from Baltimore will hardly
leave any doubt npon the minds of our read
ers as to the policy which the Douglasites are
bent upon pursuing in the Convention. The
report of the Committee on Credentials, sup
porting and recognizing the claims of the bo-
gus delegates OF Louisiana, Arkansas, Geor-
gia and Alabama, to the exclusion of the regu-
lar representatives and manufactures of the
Democracy of those four States, foreshadowS
the rule or rain" scheme which these plod-
ding and miscreant politicians have been con-
cocting and premeditating since the adjourn
ment of the Charleston Convention. We were
in a great measure prepared for this result.
For several weeks past, nearly all the presses
| in the interest of Squatter Sovereignty had
| predicted this, and had announced their de-
| termination of carrying out their plans, at all
| risk and hazard. They had gone further, and
| declared that should the Baltimore Conyen-
ton repudiate the fatal heresy and its incar-
nate embodiment, Stephen A. Douglas, they
would feel themselves perfectly at liberty to
support the Black Republican nominees. In
| presence Of these well-known facts and as
| servations, the course of the Douglasite dele
| gates eXcites no surprise in this latitude but
| evokes rather unmitigatcd contempt and ridi-
| cule. We know that there are no expedients
however contemplate, to which they have not
| already resOrted in this and other States /: and
their attempts now to destroy the unity OIL
the Democratic party and to exclude those
whose life long adherence to. principle entitle
them to the unbounded confidence Of the par
ty, and in perefect keeping with the treasona-
| BILE designs of their past life.
| We have seen several dispatches in refer
ence to the action Of the Committee on Gre
dentials, one Of which, published in our col
umns this morning, adds that the !, Douglas
contestants from Delaware and Texas will
! also be admitted. If this be true we say,
unequalifiedly and unreservedly 50 much the
better, for these acts OF aggression will at once
unseal the lips and open the eyes of thou
sands and tens of thousands in the South,
who, hugging the vain phantom of Douglas
ism, have been foolishly led to believe that
there was nothing in it inimical to her
interests and incompatible with her senti-
ments. If successfully accomplished, this
| high handed measure will at once kindle the
torch of undying opposition to Squatter Sow
| ereignty throughout the Union, and arouse
such feeling as will die out only with the po-
litical destruction of those who are striving to
use the Democratic party as an instrument
for self agSrandizement and ambitious pur-
| poses.
The South is ready to fight this battle.
She has been long preparing for it, and is
willing to meet the issue. From this mo-
ment the Democracy of Louisiana may rest
assured that Presidential standard bearer,
worthy of the honor, and of her confidence,
will be brought into the field, to vindicase the
! interests of the nation and the principles of
National Democracy. Oar sister Southern
States may depend upon Louisiana doing her
duty and giving her support to the nominees
of the Richmond Convention. Mark the pre-.
diction ~ o. Courier.