The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-10
The Bell and Everett Demonstration

week. was not as extensive an affair rs was
the leading men of that party IN
Mississippi were in attendance, and it was
and is spoken Of as stale affair; and we pro-
pose to notice briefly some of the positions
taken by their most prominent speakers, as
an exposition of the views of the party in this
State. We shall not attempt description OF
the many ludicrous scenes which TRANSFERRED,
however inviting the task, but invite the
serious attention of our readers to the posi-
tons of their Spokesman. Providence smiled
upon them in sending the rains and the winds |
to keep the ten thousand people who were |
expected from attending-for had every proud |
and gallant son of Mississippi heard the senti-
ments uttered at and endorsed by this State |
mass meeting, the majority which the State
viii give for Breckenridge and Lane would
have been more than doubled.
COL. W. h. SPARKS, OF LOUISIANA,
Was put forward as the first regular orator,
after Gen. Patrick Henry had made short
speech, on taking the chair as President of
the meeting Col. Sparks, after a few intro
ductory remarks, said he scorned a union
with the Breckenridge men, the Yancys and
the Toombses, but he would unite with the
Black Republicans to defeat the disunionsts of
the South. He labored to show, and proved
quite conclusiyely, that the Wing party had
endorsed the doctrine of protection to slavery
in the Territories as living and vital consti-
tutional right; and then turned around and
denounced Southern Democrats, over the
shoulders of Mr.. Yancy, for breaking up the
National Democratic party at Charleston, upon
a mist, an impracticable issue. He expressed
his surprise that there were some old line
Wings who endorsed that action; that there
were Wings in Louisiana, each with an in
come of $4,000, who we're supporting Brock
inridge. Glad to hear it. Expect there are
plenty of the same kind in other States; be-
sides host of just as true men, with smaller
incomes. He said Yancy at Charleston de
serted the Northern Democrats, who had stood
true TO the South through good and evil re-
port Mr.. Sparks and his party have been a
long time finding out the fact that Northern
Democrat can be true to the South. He said
the Democratic party was dead; that it died At
Charleston! 1t is false. But if it be dead, it
died in defence Of the rights, honor and inter-
ests of the South, and Southern men should
be the last men to kick its dead carcass. He
said, John Bell has fought side by side with
John ]. Crittenden, in battling against the
heresies of the Southern Democracy. We
challenge him to point to an instance where
any good thing was ever proposed for the
South, or even had a strictly Southern look,
that John j. Crittenden and John Bell were
not found battling side by side against it. He
defended Bell for voting for the reception Of
abolition petitions, and said Congress was
bound to receive and report upon them. And
then, in less than ten minutes, he denounced
John Quincy Adams for agitating the slavery
question by fighting, with the energy and
tenacity Of blood hound, for the repeal of the
"twenty-first rule" which prohibited their
reception. He said that until the South be-
gan the slavery agitation, the fanatics Of the
North were listened to only by fools and old
maids. A number of years ago. he heard
William Lloyd Garrison preach his treason in
Boston; and, said he, the respectable portion Of
the crowd took him out to hang him, but he
(Sparks) and another gentleman y persuaded
the mob to desist and dispense. A fit subject
to be hung; but if to be rescued, saved by the
most faenest rescuer in all the land. His de-
fence of John Bells slavery record consisted
in stating the fact that he owned four hundred
slaves. The blacklist abolitionists have owned
slaves. Douglas owns slaves, and he got
them just as Bell got his-by marriage. He
said John C. Breckenridge was true patriot;
aye, remarkable for his patriotism and purity;
but he lent himself to the disunionists. How
paradoxical-for, if he has lent himself to
destroy the Union, he surely cannot possess
that patriotism and purity which the speaker
Justly gave him credit for. He says armed
men are prepared to resist the Inauguration Of
Lincoln, though be would be constitutionally
elected President. We do not know how he
learned that fact, but we do know that armed
men are prepared to force the South to sub
NIT to every insult and degradation which
our ayowed and INSCRIPTIONS enemies could
heap upon us, should they, by the divisions
in the South, get possession of the Govern
ment. He said he had been informed that it was
the intention of Governor Pettus, in the event
of the election of Lincoln to the Presidency, to
Immediately convene the Legislature in ex-
traordinary session, to take steps to secede
from the Union; and that if he was citizen of
Mississippi, and had the power, and the Gov
ernor attempted any such thing. he would hang
him high as Hannah. When that vile traitor
Garrison was attempting to rouse his coun-
trymen to destroy our constitutional rights J
and equality, and an Infatuated mob was about |
to hang him, Sparks rushed to the rescue and |
snatched him from the hangman's hands; but |
when the brave and patriotic Governor of our |
State would rouse Mississippians to yindicate
the Constitution and the equality of the States,
their houses and their household gods, Mr..
Sparks, instead of rallying under his banner
like true Southerner, would lead him to the
scaffold. 1t is proper here to add that this
isgraceful and infamous sentiment, though
received with some applause by the thought
less and inconsiderate portion of the audience,
was signally and properly rebuked by the
'pirit and tenor Of other speeches which fol-
owed.
Mr.. Sparks said old 10. Lane, if he was ig-
lorant, was honest and gallant He may re-
emble Gen. Lane in the first, but we would
late to risk our veracity in stating that be re-
embed him in the last two characteristics.
lie says he gave brother to fight his coun-
ry's battles Give the honor to the brother
rho fills = patriots grave, not to him who
avs he would offer up his sons upon the altar
{ the Union, even if the Government, which ,
xists by virtue of that Union, were used to
estroy the rights, honor and the interests of I
be South.
COL. r. H. MAN, OF NEW ORLEANS, q
Vas the next speaker. In our notice Of his !
'eech, we shall initiate the style of distin- |
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wing, when be played tie historian for Col. v
eff Davis He asked what services Col. Da- t
IS had rendered the country? He answered e
nd said, Col. Davis went to Congress; he Is
ent to the Senate; he was in Pierce,s Cabi- a
st-that,s all ] So we viii say of Colonel e
ANS speech. He was invited, we presume, "
attend the mass meeting; he came, he was IL
troduced to the audience, he spoke-and n
ats all we know about it; although we lis CT
ned attentively. IN
HON. A. N. WEST, OF HOLMES COUNTY, re
idressed the crowd in the evening. He be- e
n by showing, what no one denies, that p
in is wonderfully and fearfully made. Won o'
rful, physically and mentally; fearful, be- We
use Of his evil passions, which urge him on pc