The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-03
"Thsrs Is no Man st the South who
More Deserves to be called South
s ern Man with Northern Principles,
than John Bell"

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Thus spoke one Of Mr.. Bells own friends
to Boston audience. five were u use such
an expression about Mr.. Bell here in Tennes-
see, says the Nashville Union, his Hiends in
this State would at once declare that we were
doing him the grossest injustice. But here Is
the e'sentiment uttered to Boston Bell Ever.
cit meeting by Mr.. billiard, one Of the most
intimate friends Of Mr. Everett one Of the
great guns of the Bell Everetts of Massachu-
sets. What Bell man Of the South dare gain-
say sentiment uttered by such high author
ity at the home Of Mr.. Everett? Read the
following from the Augusta Dispatch: ..
Since Mr.. Leyerett Saltonstsl wrSse Se-
ply to gentleman in Alabama, who addressed
Edward Everett in reference to his views on
certain questions, we have heard nothing Of
him. On the night Of the str, the Bell-Ey- @
eretts of Ward No. II, Boston, had q reunion.
at which Mr.. Saltonstall made speech, in the
course of which he spoke as follows Of the q
I" Sage Of Tennessee" Bell:
Isuppose we are all ayerse to the institution
of slavery; but we do not wish to interfere
with the government Sf the slayg States.
When the Sage OF Quincy, John Quincy Ad-c
ans, was fighting for the night of petition of
anti-slaUery men, john Bell was on his side.
You find him standing firmly against there-
peal of the Missouri Compromise; and for .
these things the South calls him an anti-slave-
ry man That is the n.an for national con-
servatlye men-a man who 5 opposed to
Northern extremists and Southern extremists.
hind Mr.. Saltonstall--he don't intend to
interfere with the government of the slave
States" He likes John Bell because he wsa
On the side Of the " Sage Of QUINCY. - when tbs.
sage o. Quincy" was on the north side Of a
popular question. Unfortunass for Mr.. Bell.
ne has had a leaning for the North side Of
nearly all the great national questions for al
most quarter Of a century Therefore. M.
Saltonstall thinks he viii do We th;pk M,
Salstonstall ought to confne himself 20 his
legitimate duties of conscience-keeper for Mr..
Everett, and let Mr.. Bell alone. ona anti.
slavery man" on . ticket ought to satisfy the
dear, good conservative SaltonstalI, and h,s
speeches might not do his Southern brethren
any good We suppose they will treat It a.
they did his letter to the man in AIaIams---
with discreet silence.
at the same meeting Mr. Hilliard made
quite finished defamation, in the course oe
which. after alluding to Mr.. Breckinridgs a
the accomplished candidate Of the pro-slavery
and secession school, he endorsed Mr.. Bell as.
follows: q
On the other hand, how has IL been with
MIR. Bell! He has been all his Life in opposi-
ton to the dominant public sentiment Of the
South. He is pfotectionist; tho South Il for
free trade. He was in favor Of the United
States Bank; the South was not He opposed
the South Carolina doctrine Of notification.
He protested against the removal Of the de-
posits. OF all the Tennessee delegation he
alone favored the reception Of petitions for the
abolition Of slavery in the District Of CoIum-
bia. He opposed the annexation Of Texas
He protested against the repeal Sf the Mis-
sour Compromise, and resisted the Lecomp-
ton Constitution. There Is no man at the
South who more deserves to be called q South
ern man with Northern principles than John
Bell
How do the Bell-ringers like the picture2
If we had called Bell Southern mAa with
Northern principles, we would have been
called inscriptions; and much abuse has been b
heaped upon Mr.. Toombs for saying that Mr..
Bell had, with few exceptions, acted with >
the North on sectional questions. VIII they
repel the soft impeachment Of their Massa-
chusetts ally?