The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1889-12-07

would pick ous as the fire eater In his own
country he is intensely beloved, chiefly from
!: his kind and gentle disposition. He is a mar
O. whom Mississippi may well be proud.
He also cook IN active part in opposing tbs
4 French spoliation bill and advocating the
southern route for she Pacific railroad. He
I led the so-called Lecomptou party III con
/ gress in opposition to senator OougIas and
/ in debate with the latter propouIh ri the once
celebrated queries AMI propositions which
drew from the Illinois senator }ls famoG.
J theory as to the right of territorial legisla-
ture to adopt "lnfriGiuiy legislation against
slavery, and his article in Harper's Magazine.
which set forth the creed of the Douglas
Democrats" The breach was now complete
Meantime, i'll the summer of lojS, DE made
a tour for health and pleasure through the
eastern states, delivering several addresses,
i'll which the warmest attachment to Tho
union was avowed-always, however, with +
proviso, expressed or implied, that aggros
sions upon the Soutl would certainly he met
with resistance. Some OF these adClres5e;
have a strange sound now. In letter ac
knowledSing an invitation to join N Il Boston
celebration of the birthday of Daniel Web
ster, i'll January 1859, he wrote:
81 send you my cordial greetings to the
friends of the constitution, and ask to be en-
rolled among those whose missiqn is, by fra
] ternity and good faith to every constitu
tional obligation, to insure that from the
Aroostook to San Diego, from Key West tC
Puget sound, the grand arch of our political
I temple shall stand unshal1en.o
DID WAR BEGIN IN 1852
An event was at hand, however. which wa;
to precipitate the conflict nG-se5, the en-
terprise of John Brown. A million southern
men and women, who had laughed at the idea
of danger from northern aggression vert
suddenly converted, saying, as one of then
expressed il, 1--WE can no longer live in peace
with the north; our allies have become our
enemies, and we must seek release from the
connection while we can do so with safety.
The feelings of jefferson Davis for the next
fifteen months may be gathered from the fol
lowing letter, written at the close of the dis
cussion to his long time friend, ex-Presideni
PIERCE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan 90 1851
My DEAR FRIEED-l have often and sadly turned
] my thoughts to you during the troublous times
through which we have been passing, and now
come to the hard task of announcing to you lha
the hour is at hand which closes my connection
with the United States for the Independence anC
union of which nay father toed and in the service
of which have sought to emulate the example
ne set for my guidance. Mississippi, not as
matter of choice, but Of necessity, has resolved L
| enter on the trial of secession. Those who hay.
driven her to this alternative threaten TO depriv
her of the right to require that her government
shall rest Oh tle consent of the governed, to sub
stitute foreign force for domestic support, to re
duce a state to the condition from which the col
ony rose In the attempt to avoid the issue whicl
had been joined by the country Y assent ad
lninistrCti0n It's Implicated and precipitate,
! question. Ever now if the duty ito preserv,
the public property" was nationally regarded, tn
pro0Guie collision at Charleston would be avoided
& SecGrty far better than any which the Fedora
troops can give might be Obi aimed in eonsidera
ton Of the little garrison of Fort Sumter. If til
disaYowal OF any purpose to coerce South Care
lima be sincere, the possession OF work to CON
4 mand the harbor is worse than useless
When Lincoln comes in he will have but to col.
tinue i'll the path of his predecessor to inaugural
4 Il civil war, and leave q sodsant Democratic &c.
ministration responsible for the fact. Gen Cush
ing here last week, and when he parted i
seemed like taking a last leave of brother
Z l leave Immediately for Mississippi, a9d know
not what may devolve upon me after RgsE return
i Civil war has only horror for me- but hateve
circumstances may demand shall $nla as ;
duty, and 1 trust be so discharged Spr .e,u wi.
not be ashamed of cur former connec& Or ceas
to be my friend "a
Mrs Davis joins me in kind req 9Nnce t
Mrs Pierce, and the expression e the~1cssa tha
we may yet have you both at olnf coua ~ home
4 Do me the favor to write to me Sften. -Addres
Hurricane p. o., Warren county, Miss
May God bless you, is ever the prayer of you
4 friend, JEFF'N DAVIS
President F. Pierce
4 In that fifteen months events had move.
I rapidly towards the dread elimination. l.
i the first Democratic convention of 1860, MI
Davis received some votes, Benjamin F
Butler voting for him 81 times. In tn
i subsequent election the two northern candi
dates, as Mr.. Blaine styles them, received al
1 the votes of the northern states sal mer
handful, less than 100000, while Breckin
ridge and Bell received the almost solid vot
4 of the southern states "In truth as well
I in appearance adds Mr.. Blaine, st was
4 sectional contest, in which the north support
1 ed northern candidates and the sol. Il south
4 ern candidates 'Disunion was alread
completed in the hearts of the people" say
Tourgee, 1.-THE sections simply fell apart be
cause there was no cohesion" These opinion
of philosophic Observers long after TIE strug
gle, have their value.
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