The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-01-25

70 eitneFs JDF tse eOf5tlbdttOFt AND ~tS S''s"'ey
or J9y our constitutional rights OUT OF TUE
UNION. In the first, we rely alone upon the
constitutional, conservative, patriotic men OF
the North say to you in all truth and 50
bsrness, this hostile and insulting State Legs
ation in the free States-these popular de-
7 monstratons Of sympathy with and appro0a-
ton of treason and murder upon our own
soil must Stop-and, more than all, the dema-
Gosues who have rode into power and lnhn-
ence upon this vitiated and lawleSs public
sentiment must be hunted from their places,
or the days of this Union arc numbered
Can this be done? .Are tho indications~p put
forth By the late assemblages Of Union men
Of the North mere sound and fury signify
ing nothing ?' or viii this Conservative and
| constitutional tone Of Northern sentiment DO
exhibited at the balot-box? We shall see.
One of your own citizens writing on this
subject. uses the following patriotic language.
His advice should be needed:
"Let it be understood that this thing must
now st0p, and that if it docs not stop, civil
war, in ore form or another, must follow
The people Of the South are not to be requir-
ed TO keep themselves on war footing agninst
Northern Inarauders. Their protection in the
Union, must be in thoir rights, and in the
guarantees of the Constitution, carried out in
4 gond faitlA Is s time fer he patriotic people
Of tii5 zeOftiI l06a DositOH Liie Iace.
They must not permit agitatOrs, within tho
jurisdiction Of Northern States, to foment and
applaud war and bloodshed against any part
OF the Union.
If public sentiment can check fanatcism,
without legislation and without force, il is
well. The power Of this right public sent-
ment Of the people, has been our boast and
cur pride in the past--it will be with a senti-
ment of humiliation that VIC will recognize
the necessity OF other resorts. But by moral
or by physical force, se!fton must be stopped
The dissolution Of the Union would be fol-
lowed by civil war-not simply war between
the North and the South but war here, at the
North--a horrible, bu,chering war from city
to city, like the eXec-able war Of the Hugue-
no;s and the League, that desolated France
for half century. Every statesman that
has studied the results of a dissolution Of the
Union, foresees the local chaos that would in
eyitabiy follow, and that all opr liberties would
be ieaIlaried together Let US, then, take
counsel in ti,ae. II the moral sentiment Of
the community does not suffice, let US resort
to legislation .ainst sedition, and not submit
! TO the o,lious tIlmmels that the virtue OF our
! fo"eGathers rendered unnecessary. And, final
! w. if legislation fails--ifit It becomes question
| OF civil Tar-let it DO one for the presard-
| tiO1l of the Union, not one consequent on Its
! dissolution. Let the war begin in the infect.
ed districts, and let US be sure and not suffer
tie chief malelactors to escape to England or
| Canada, leaving their crimes to be expated by
4 their braver because more sincere dupes."
Now, should you be forced TO the last dread
alternative Suggested in the above extract, you
will have the aspirations of every Southern
| heart for your success, and, if required, every
Al
| But should all these efforts tail-should
rampant fanaticism and lawless violence re-
main triumphant ; then the South must look
10 hcrown saety-must defend her own con-
| stitutional rights as best she may, OUT OF
the Union. This will be our only alternative.
And here. let me add, whether VIC call this
secession or revolution, whenever separation
becomes ineY table, neither PlTty teiH Be left
IL cT.{BsiUs possession Of He national estate
An equitable division must DO made. This
i1ust be done, "peaceably if VIC can, forcibly
II we mus'
Ana here, am aware that the representa-
tiyes of tiiat fanatical spirit now triumphant
at the North have boastiully asserted that the
eighteen millions Of the Northern people will
be more than able to cope with the eight mil
Hons Of Southern .Neenen, thereby intlmatng
a sure and easy victo.'v ! This BuncOmbe
4
: sideraton os the elements whics1 would enter
: into this conflict. In the first place, we be-
lieTe that, even in this ultimate resort, theTe
are thousands, and perhaps millions, at the
North, who wonl1 never join these hnatical
| marauder3 IN their crusade against our con-
siitutional rights, and thereby tTample under
foot the heritage Qf our common ancestry.
Again: In this terrible conflict, should it
overcome the South would possess advantages
which t!-c God ofBattles has never vouchsafed
to any other people, save TO our revolutionary
ancestors: Our q3areI tciH b just; our
feds will be cultivated; our families will be
supported; the siuews OF war will DO sup
piled by cur happy and contented slaves;
while our young men (and old men, if neccs-
Sary.) will be engaged in the defense of our
country, our hearths and our affairs.
But the hoped-ior detection of our slave
! population, in such contest, is another reli-
| auee Of the Abolilionists. They have studied
| mankind and read history TO little advantage,
! if they believe their Vaccinations to this pur-
| pose will prove eiiectuaL Through the whole
! Of our revolutionary struggle, when all the
American colonies save one were slavehold-
Ing, and when constant and repeated exertions
were made by the emissaries Of the British
army to incite the slaves to revolt and insur-
recton, where was there q single instance of
success in their efforts? Again, We should
suppose that the late experiment of their con-
! irere Brown, would cause them to renounes
such hope.
Then, again, it is vainly supposed (by the
endorSers Of Helper, espccially,) that some Of
the non slavehoding population of the South
might be induced to join our enemies This
too, is q great mistake | state it as an incon-
troyertible fact, that the non-slaveholders of
| tho Co,,tl, q class have haaO Nipca In corn
mencemont of our history, as true, faithful
and efficient defenders Of the Constitution and
laws, and the institution Of domestic slavery,
as the slayehollers themselves. challenges
successful denial Of this proposition.
Thus with these advantages. and others
! that might be mentioned, if peace cannot be
! procured upon other terms, we are confident
| in our ability to conquer peace"
| need not discuss the effects Of separation
upon the two sections. Doubtless it would
| be detrimental TO the welfare Of bOth-less so,
for obvious reasons, to the South than to the
I North. Neither will | say how much should
| deprccate the necessity Of separation, aud
/ the consequences that might flow from il. All
good men everywhere, in every part Of our
country, must entertain the same sentiments
on this subject.
| have thus, gentlemen, attempted. ina
| hasty manner, to give you brief outline Of
py views on the important topics connected
| with your question; and frankly 10 place be-
! fore you my opinion of the true position Of af-
I fairs between the North and South.
Very truly yours
IIessrs, Baldwin &; Starr NY.
Abolition Incendiaries Warned to
Leave.
The following are a few Of the items which
we find in The columns of our last nights ex-
changes
or \ nest of Black Republicans of whom
! the Rev. John G.. Fee was the ringleader, con-
s,sting Of about thirty persons, were driven
| from Madison county, Ky, a few weeks since,
where they had settled and organized avillage
named Berea.
ABOLITION MISSIONARIES IN TRoUBLE.-
! The Independent states that Rev. Geo. Can
| dee, Rev. Wm. kendrick and Robert Jones,
| Missionaries Of the American (Abolition) Mis-
sionary Association, have been expelled from
jackson county, Kentucky, after having their
hair and bearis shaved, and tar put on their
heads aud faces
| EXCITEMENT IN NoRTH CARoLINA.-The
| Montgomery Mail Of the 18th learns private
ly that an intense excitement perfades west
crn North Carolina, in the region OF salisbury
and Greensborough, caused by the Abolition
| practices OF the Rev, Worth s. Co. The ex-
| pulson of the entire Quaker population is talk
ed Of