The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-03


! political and sectional Controversy to reude
d an extra; Judicial opiaion; and that, no matte
how the Supreme Court may decide as t
the duty of Congress, under the Constitu
ton; still, whenever It shall be called upol
again to legislate concerning a Territory,
will not be controlled by any of the opinion
Of the Supreme Court but will discuss ans
decide those questions as an abolition major
ty may think proper. Remember. fellow
citizens, Congress agreed to make that judi
clal question and referred it to the Supreme
Court, agreeing to abide by its decision; yet
when that decision has been rendered, that
neither Congress nor the Territorial Legsla-
ture can exclude, but that both must protect
| slavery, we find William L. Sharkey of Mis-.
sissippi, and John Bell of Tennessee, standing
alone in all the South, denouncing the deei-
sion as extra.judicial, refusing to ABIDE BY
1t as finality, and claiming that an abolition
Congress must interpret its own constitutional
power, and decide as majority may think
proper-protect or exclude.
lie gods, and men of Kinds, don't that star
tie you? coming as it does from Southern men.
Ii such be their fidelity to the South, ye pow
ers above, save the South from such mistaken,
if not criminal, friendship!
now ask you, fellow-citizens. in all candor,
what is the difference between Lincoln, Doug
las and Bell? Lincoln denounces and intends
to remodel the Court and have the decision
reversed; Douglas says the Territorial Legs
lature may exclude slavery, notwithstanding
the decision; and Bell refuses to accept the
decision as a finality, and says that an aboli-
ton Congress, after referring the question to
the Supreme Court can set aside 1.-THE supreme
law Of the land'' And yet John Bell stands
upon the "Union, the Constitution, and tie
enforcement of tie latvsp' But he don't want
the Constitution, as interpreted by the Su
preme Court-he don't want that supreme law |
accepted as finality and enforced, which pro-
tects slavery in the Territories.
This may explain why John Bell, when I
asked by one of his own electorsif he was with /
he South upon the doctrine of protection to
iaVery in the Territories, was as dumb "as a
mute at a funeral" Aye, silent as that grave I
n which he would bury the constitutional
lghts of the South, in order that he might
tand in the green room of the White House I
nd receive the guests Of the nation l told /
'ou the Constitutional Union party, in their
FORK Of exhumation, dug up John Bell, with |
Their political fossils, out of the tomb where |
n outraged and betrayed constituency had |
unsigned him. 1t is we'll they failed to gal
anize speaking vitality into him, or in his ca
ose upon the issue which is now before the
ountry, he might have shown himself worthy
the Chicago rather than the Baltimore
omination
And now, in the name of that country which
on all love, ask you if you find any thing
the platform or the record Of John Bell to
low that be stands upon that eminence of I
'uthern rights where you must all stand, if
III intend TO maintain your constitutional
shts and equality in the Union? l assert il, .
lthout fear of successful REPUTATION, that {
ither his platform nor his record give us any
arantee that he is with US in the fear o
contest which is gathering thick and q
rk around US. He does not stand upon
at eminence OF Southern rights and con-
tutlonal equality where / have shown Il
u, from the records of the country, all 81
rites have planted themselves. But l am
oud to say that from the loftiest pinna- y
) OF that eminence which bathes its high O.
Elements IN the blue clouds of Heaven, there d.
q banner that proudly floats, emblazoned
on its ample folds, IN characters of living IN
ht Protection alike to one and all, the Fl
Institution and the equality of the States N
; symbols of an everlasting Union.H That
nner IS the banner of Breckenridge and Lane co
I'd believe that in this sunny land of ours, -
lere the orange and magnolia groves the
d flora and broad savannahs abound, where mi
he maidens are soft as the roses they twine,n
their smiles are incentives to deeds of re- "a
WI believe, | say, that in such God do
ored land as this, a mighty spirit slumbers,
heroism inherent in Southern manhood th
ich will rise superior to the ties of party,
rally around the only standard which an
rs the notices of Southern rights. Then l.,
4 of the South, proud and gallant sons of
ssissippi, gather, like MacGregors when do
ed from the highlands by the wild haloo
ather, say, beneath that banner, deter ca ca
led that while there are leaves in the ~ ~
st and foam on the river" that banner,
pite them all, shall flourish and flourish da
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