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The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
Virginia.

The Governor of Virginia has issued the
following proclamation, convening the Legis
lature OF that State:
WHEREAS, by the Constitution of this
Commonwealth, the Governor is invested with
the authority 70 convene the General Assem-
bly, "when, in his opinion, the interest of the
Commonwealth may require it,
And whereas, at the last session Of the Lee
gislature large Amount Of the public busi-
ness was left in an unfinished condition, for
want Of time to complete the same And
whereas, since that time, contract has been
entered into by the James River 6 Kanawha
Company. for the sale Of its entire line of i'm
provemef1t with all It's franchises and i'm
muuiteS, including the large interests held
therein by the Commonwealth, land with stip
ulations Tor the com; ;.letjon of the entire work,
and it is necessary that thecoutract, if approx
ed. should Re ratified by the General Assem-
blv to give validity and force to the agreement
so made.
And whereas, in consequence oftheaif'oint-
ment of electors, 4 micrity ol whom are
known to hc laver,lie TO tie election OF Sec
tional candidate rs President and Nice-Prssi-
dent of tho United States, whose principles
and views are believed by 4 large portion ot
the Southern States to be in direct hostility
10 their constitutional rights and interests,
and in consequence thereof, great excitement
prevails in the pfbit and prIdence requires
that the Representatives OF the people OF this
Common wealth should take into consideration
the condition OF public eif,irs and determine
calmly and wisely wat action is necessary in
Ibis emergency, thereanre, |, John Letcher,
Governor, by virtue OF tine authority aforesaid
do hereby require the Senators and Delegates
| of the two Houses o the Assembly of the
Commonwealth, 10 convene at the Capital, in
the city of Rchmaud, On Monday, the Sc
venth day of Jiuury, A. d. 1851 at IL o'clock
NJ. to legisla,e upon such Us they may may
| deem necessary and proper.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
Independence Forever.

We have never seen more enthusiasm than
was created IN the action Of the Legislature
on yesterday On Friday the Senate, by m
almost unarimous vote, appointed the first
Monday in January as the day for the cleo
ton Of delegates to the State Convention
This gave general disappointment When
the bill came to the House, time was altered
to the 9th Of December, and 17th OF Dccem-
Der as the time for the Convention, bya unAn-
imous vote. IL WAS then returned 70 the Sc
nate aad adopted by a unanimous vote. The
enthusiasm is immense, and doubt exists now
that Solttb Carolina will go ont ofa Union In
which she, and the other Southern States
have been subjected to a sectional domination
which depletcs her through its rcvenne and
commercial system, and which, in total disre-
gard of her treasure expended, her blood sput
and her constitutional rights now proclaims
through the majority Of numbers, that she
shall be excluded from the common DOMAIN
Of the Federal Government. The day Of
Southern Independence has dawnedand yester-
DAYS action viii sooner or later secure q
Southern Coniedcacy. The South alone
must govern the South
The passage Of bill by unanimous vote
Of both Houses, is an unprecedented act In the
history OF our State Legislature Cottaaead
los Co Banner.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
From The Np Eorf Day Book.
Shall Negroes Govern White Men 2

The Black Republican party have such ex-
traordinary regard for the negro race, that
they not only design to place that race on
the platform of political equality with the
white race, but they are taking measures to
have the polls environcd at the ensuing cleo
ton by Wide Awake banditti as special po-
licemen, to obstruct and challenge the voting
Of white citizens, and thus keep as many Of
them as possible from exercising their right
OF suffrage. 1t is because they know that the
working men ofthls city are mostly Democrats,
that the Slack Republicans, with the police
under the control OF a renegade free soil
Democrat, will do their utmost to obStruct
land prevent every poor white man from voting
il he approaches from the stands where the
Democratic tickets are dealt out. Thus it
has always been observable, that when a
white man has an extraordinary philanthropy
towards the negro, be has as surely an ex
traordinary amount of hatred towards his
own race.
But this is not Hil-the project OF giving the
elective tranchise to negroes in this State. If
successful, VIII be the creation of an olipanchv
in the State oil New York Ten or twenty
thousand neG4t9 voters will have the power of
controlling politi al parties, as a balance of
power party 50 that the fable Of the old man
in the story Of Sinbad the Sailor, will be re-
allied as a political fact, and New York will
become model nigger Republican State.
1t would be beautiful political spectacle
to see negro oligarchy governing New York,
placing political parties in power bv turns. the
white political leaders making trea6es with
the negroes for their support the latter
debating terms. 1t would be 4 very edifying
sight to see white orators going on the stump,
courting negro audiences and making dema-
gogue speeches to the patriotism CD and prin-
cple % of negroes. The nigger suffrage will
be nigger,}o3a.
| lIhat tho English people, very few Of whom
ever saw negro, should have their sympa-
! thies excited in his behalf BY meretricious
literature. is not 60 be wondered at, but that
Americans, who see and know the negro ID
be inferior in all the attributes of mind cana.
b;lity Of thought, elevation Of soul. conscience
honor or principle, that they should "cut such
fantastic tricks before high heavenn abont the
negro, must be considered as one Of those eni.
demic hallucinations Of mind to which In
Yankees are subject as they have been from
the earliest times OF witchcraft and blue laws
down to the present era OF negro equality and
| negro suffrage.
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From the Baltiniore Sun.
Can Territorial Legislature Exclude
Slavery---Ths. Supreme Court Egaln.

1t has beer. asked whether tne United States
Supreme Court will not .sdjudicate the pend
ing Territorial question; that is, the right of
the Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery
In the Dred Scott case the Chief Justice gave
his opinion to the effect that the Territory, as
a creature of Congress, could net do Whist
Congress could not do; but case has arisen
which will bring that particular question di-
rectly before the Court for decision. 1t vii
involve the distinct question Of the right Of .
Territory io exclude OF abolish Slavery -
Should the Court decide that the 3ecple Of
Territory cannot exercise this mower in par
ticular case, and the processes Of the Court
should be resisted, the United States Marshal
must be supported to any extent by the Exc
cutive of the United States. i no case which
| roter to is to come from Kansas. The Ter
ritorial question may perhaps .hus be settled
by the admission of Kansas, and BY the ex-
Pocted decision Of the supreme Court
ION.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28

OF TIE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
Ma. 667, DATED AUegsT- Il, 1850.
LANDS IN TIE LATE NEW YORK ISDIAS RESERVE.
u! EAN NSAS.
4 I orders public sales Of the vaeaRt tracts Of
IL pab, e lands in thes lste Reserve fH the New
l1Fk Indians, in the Territoryfqf Kansas, as fol-
Iuws: a
a. tbs Iasd oHee at Fort Scott, on the 3 / day
o. Dseeia5er 1t of she tracts parcels Of pub
lie lands. not covered by individual Indian Io.s-
tisis.s ,hirty-six townships Md parts OF toen-
ship tsilI uithin theI lNge reserve above mem
tiai ed for New Yofk Indians, and within tae
es,guI. e. Ui BepF bon, Allen, aud WSodson.
: A. the Lard O 0iee ataEors Scott, Son the L tn
day OF december next, of the trasts parcels If
pe Bile lands not covered by individual Indian
lteati5ns, in ibirTy-six gfoRnships and parts Of
tnN B>k its ia ling Si1hin the late above
nti ned ~ New York iiai ans, and Sithin the
esnntisa Of Wo0fson, G5selwood, aud Butter
Tie land, vii be ofersd with the usual excep-
tisns Of senH i sectious, fc. &c. 3
The sales viii be kept open until the lands are
al offered, which is to be accom- Sisbed Withis two
weeks, sp4 no longer; and % private entry OF any
ef tbs IAnds will bs adEEtS3 until after the expi-
Fati.4h vt the Two weeks. "a
Pc enption elaimants are reqnIrGsi TO establish
i gsterRbd Receiver, srff make payS9ent for the
same IN or befsse the day appointed for the cnm-
neneenent OF the Pablo sales, otherxise their
claims vi ] bs srfeised. JOS. g. WILSON,
tJpsBsissfoaes Of tie G9ser1t fSad Q5S,s.
GENEKAL LAND oFFIcseoet0ter 10, t.s6G.
O;t. ~ 6o-WsN %
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Prophetic Language ef Statesman
T, 1897 when Abolition petitions were frs

In 1887, when Abolition petitions were first
presented to Congress, the great statesman
Calhoun, made speech on them, from which
we take the following prophetic extracts:
Gas widely as this ircendiary spirit has
spread. it has not yet infectsa this body, OF the
great mass of the intelligent and business por-
ton of tho North but ualess.it be speedily
stopped, it tciH spread and a0ork ap,oard TIL
it brings tie t.co great seaions Of the Onion
in5o deadly conflict"
"A large portion of the Northern States
believed slavery to be sim and would believe
it an obligation of conscienae to abolish it, if
they should feel themselves IN any degree re-
sponsible for its continnaace, and that his
Webster's1 doctrine would Necessarily lead
to the belief of such responsibility. then
predicted that it would com pence, as it has,
with this hlnatical portion e eeietys and that
they yyoufa Begin tlfsif o.;ll mons 81 Ise
norant, the weak, the young, the thoughticss
and would gradually extend upward till they
become strong enough to obtain political con-
troll, when he, and others holding the highest
stations in society, would, however reluctant,
be compelled to yield their doctrine, or be
driOen into obscarty"
"Ihose who imagine that the spirit now
abroad in the North win die away Of itself
,oitiom sh- ok Of convulsioa, have formed a
very inadequate conception OF its real charac-
ter; it vii! continue to rise and spread, unless
prompt and efficient measures 10 stay it's pro-
sress be adopted. AIready it Aas taken pos
session Of The. pulpit Of Tie schools, and to a
extent, ef tie prege; these great
instruments by which the mind OF the rising
generation will be formed"
"However sound the great body of the non
section are at present, in the
course Of few years they will be succeeded
by those who have been taught to hate the
people and institutions of nearly one-half OF
this Union, with hatred more deadly than
one hostile nation ever entertained towards !
another. 1t is easy to see the end BY the
course of events, if lett to them
selves, ne must Jerome, Isally tlco people 1t
is impossible under the deadly hatred which |
must spring up between the two great sec
tons, if the present causes are permitted to
operate unchecked, that we should continue
under the same. political system. The CON
dieting elements would burst the Union !
lsunder, as powerful as arc the links which |
hold it together -4Jdlitiou and tie Union |
cannot ooe1ist. As friend Of the Union, I |
openly proclaim it, and the sooner it is known
the better"
Thus spoke the great Calhoun to the great
Webster in the Senate, in the year 1887
How prophetic his language With what a
master hand h traced the career of .Ahoii- |
.ionism to its present consummaiion. "ABo- |
LITIoE AND THE UNION CANNOT coExIsr .''- |
The former has triumphed and the lattsr is
IN the very verge Of dissolution. No power
Of man can save it from destruction |
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SENDING BACK NORTHERN NoTEs.-SPEc1E.
The whole Indebtedness to the North for
goods (says the Montgomery Nall isysttually
and by common consent postponed, until we
all get straight at the South. In some places
lawyers send back Northern notes sent them
for collection every where business men re-
fuse to pay such, on the ground that our in
terests at present require that we should have
no draft on our resources. Besides this,
specie ispouring into our Southern Banks, as
we learn on the best authority.
Thus, after very little while, our moneta-
~ Affairs will become as satisfactory as ever
tise coin viii come from Europe and cotton
will command fair prices.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
The Wiles of the Abolition Devil.


The n. Y Times, au Abolition, Lincoln
sheet, publishes the names Of several Southern
politicians, as being OF those from whom Lin
coin will make portion of his cabinet. Bolts
and Riyes of Virginia, Bell Cf Tennessee, and
Davis Of Maryland, are thus used, TO attempt
to delude the southern people.
Aboitionism is bY nature thief a liar and
hypocrite. The idea that Bell, or Rives,
would hold Office under such band Of thieves,
is the elimination Of their vile deceptions.
But suppose that these or any other South
ern politicians should be base enough, to lend
themselves TO the iiendish aims of Black Re-
publcanisn, would that deceive the South
ern people? We trow not. The South un-
derstands Black Repuolcanism.
Our citizens must be on their guard against
devices OF the Abolition party and Of their
emissaries. There is but one safety for the
South and that is. to leave Coniederacy
now moulded and fashioned for their destruc-
ton. ain IA
II ho had the political views Of Daniel S.
Dickinson, whi.c mon in the South could not
submit to his rule We. are sehite people
here and thoSe--whoever they be--who ad-
| wise submission to government so composed,
! are our deadly enemies. #
Beware Of Abolition wiles !-loatgonery
Nail.
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NUMBER 40.

tney viii prove themselves equal to the pres-
ent Or any future emergency, and never will
.,oghs oroS 10 affiliate with, or submit to be gov
dnnm. aJt 3y' party who entertsins the most
tn,;n55 5 hostlllty towards them and their insti-
tho IIn;a % SiaYery' They are loyal and true to
degrodnI '5'i' ouL never Will consent to remain
Very respectfully, your obaS;ar,t " sa'. ~,
To 7 # A. B. MOORE.
Montgomery, Alabama, Noiilh'ttee,
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28

| W Inc news not appearing thlS morn
ing, the following letter has been handed to
us for immediate publication by the author,
the Hon. ". P. Harris. 1t is designed to pre-
vent gu erroneous impression on the public
mind touching his views concerning the i'm
portant matters which will soon require the
action OF the people of Mississippi in their
sovereign capacity. 1t will be seen that he
wholly rejects the idea that the course Of Mis-
SsSlppl shall be subject to the decision OF the
other "slaveholding States or majority of
them" If Mississippi is to await the tardy
acton of Tennessee or Maryla Or Ken
lucky or Missouri or Delaware, or the whole
combined, then it is not improbable that she
will wait until the crack Of doom: certainly
sae will wait until Lincoln is installed into
Office over US with the purse in one hand and
the sword in the other
II the action of Mississippi is to depend
upon the action Of Tennessee for instance,
than have her People isbofcd IN vain to elevate
themselves to the full stature of men who
know their rights and knowing dare maintain
them. Unless her sentiment is misrcpre-
sented she will not take step so utterly Sui
cidal. It will amount to an unconditional re-
treat from the attitude which she has hereto
fore occupied.
We declared repeatedly before the election,
and we now reiterate, that ninety-ninc OF ev-
cry hundred of the supporters of Breckin-
ridge and Lane were for disunon in the event
OF Llncoln's election, and upon that kaoaC7edge
we do not hesitate to say that they do not in
tend to permit this grave movement, involving
considerations of vast and vital moment, to
degenerate into the miserable farce of "a Con
vention Of all the non slaveholding States or
a majority of them"
The Convention game has been pretty well
played out. If it is still to be persisted in
we think it would be advisable to take each
chapter in its order and await the action of the
ATLANTA Convention" for which our Legisla-
ture at its last session provided.
Let each State that chooses to go out of the
Union act in its separate, sovereign capacity,
and when this step is taken, as many as shall
have moved, can then meet in Convention and
ADOPT Constitution and Government for the
Southern Confederacy
The following is the paragraph to which the
card Of Judge Harris is a response
SEPARATE STATE AcrIox.-Our attention
has been called To an omission in our report Of
the speech of Hon. Wiley p Harris, at the late
demonstration in this city, in which he object
ed to separate State action. Very few are so
extreme as to favor this idea. Resistance
seems to be the general understanding, but
the mode must be determined by Convention
of the slaveholding States, or majority Of
them. This is the only course that the peo-
pie will sanction, and the only one that can
result in the establishment of a Southern Con-
fedeTacy on sound and firm basis.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
Abolition Raids.

3 According to late accounts there has been
a renewal of Abolition outrages in Kansas
which are preliminary to contemplated inyas-
ions efAIissouri Arkansas and Texas to avengs
the recent punishment of anti-slavery emisa-
RES in the last named State. The triumph of
Lincoln is bringing forth its fruits already.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
The Gospel of Black Ripublicanism

In recent number Of The Chicago Demo-
crat'' Lincoln's home organ, we ind under
the above title sketch ofa speech delivered
in that city by John P Hale, one Of the
leaders in the Black Repabican conspiracy
against the South. We Dpy single para
graph. Comment IS nnaeessory
4ni. Hale preached the shole Gospel q he
pssb2scareissu. lie took up the slavery qnes-
ton in its moral and socil aspect, as well as
in its political relations, aud demonstrated the
duty OF every good citizer to fight against this
monstrous evil, and to overcome it; tie
stated that "eray icing efeats 6y the Afn''gt
tn in the hpnaan .j9a1a is rat.ztfz p loaM fa's
ess,h equat in rights befre t3oa a'a tae f1'c"
He agtd his vas tbe cef Ef'-tt dtstfans, 'td tae
chief corner. stone Of the R,plt5lican p4''ty
frT Judge Goldthwate, OF Alabama, who
has long been retired from politics, and is ore
of the most discreet and nnimpasSloned men
in the State, in his speech at the great Mont
comery meeting, said { within sixty days,
we may have resumed our independence and
got through with the temporary embarrass-
mepts. if we act promptly and wisely "
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
The Charleston Mercury has the follow

The Charleston Mercury has the following
STURDY PATR1oTs.-lA number OF charcoal
dealers, from the interior of this district, were
yesterday here on b,sSineSs, wearing-not the
blue silk eockade-but plain strips of brown
paper, bearing such mottoes as "Resistance,
Remember Harper's Ferry" etc. We could
not but admire tic stern simplicity of this
unpretending badge Of devotion to South Ca.
rolina -
The houest man, tho o'er sac poor,
Is kingof men for a that.
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A Black Republican Sentiment.

A prominent Black Republican of this city
yesterday (says the New York News) gave
utterance to the following noble, Christian
like sentiment
"The negro who would assassinate Gov
ernor Wise should be pat on the highest
pinnacle of the heavens and rolled in the
American Hag.o
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The Effect on the North.

The Memphis Enquirer, leading Bell pa
per, which is opposed to the dissolution of the
Union for anything less than d direct attack on
Southern rights by a Black Republican Ad-
ministration, thus sums up the effect a separ-
alton would have on the North
WheBeyer the North, determine on an at
tack upon our rights, sha eEill have also to de-
ternine on the most impracticable of all things
AMI that is, to throw away her commerce, her
trade. her profits, her manufactures; accept
poverty, starvation, anarchy, ruin, and all the
horrible conditions of civil war, in comparison
with which the revolution was ease aud tran.
guilty.
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Tnr Rreur Or srcrssIos.-Hon. {

The RIGHT OF SEcEssIos.-Hon. C. l.
Vallandigham, of Ohio, publishes in the
Cincinnati Enquirer of The 10th inst, very
able letter, in which he takes strong grounds
in favor of the right Of State to secede. He
says that be viii never vete for an appropria-
ton to force State to remain in the Union
against her viii and concludes by hoping
eff Abraham Lincoln will not remember tho
secession of the Ten Tribes, that hc will re-
member the secession of the Thirteen Colon
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28

1H- An election for officers of volunteer
rifle company was held in Hazlehurst on
Friday, the 9th, and the following officers
were elected:
John w. Ward, Captain; a. j. Russell,
1st Lieutenant; S B. JohnsttA, I'd Lieuten-
ant /; o. 81. Johnston, Sd Lieutenant
The company numbers 3a members, and
have adopted uniform Of gray cloth. -Copiab
Net1s.
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MISSISSIPPI CeNGREssMEN.-TheS Senator's
ard Representatives in Congress from the
State OF Mississippi. are at present in this city
1t is believed that their meeting has reference
to the critical posture of our federal relations.
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or The blue cockade--athe South must
be protectedin her rights"-have made their
appearance in large numbers on our streets.
Nearly every man in town has one, and doubt
less If it becomes necessary to protect our
rights at the price Of blood, the citizens of
Magnolia will not be found wanting in the
strife. Three cheers for the blue cockade.-
Mag7folian.
The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28

FLORIDA W READY.-The Columbia Caro-
linian says that letter from Gov. Perry, Of
Florida, to Gov Gist, informs him that Flori-
da is ready to call Convention as soon as it
is known that majority of the electoral votes
are for Lincoln.