The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-01-28

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nenl and 70 the legislature Of 3Ilsissip.
+ Fi calIela convention Of the people %
be held u September 1851, TO redress
. grievances and to consider what meas.
ares should Dc taken toinsurs the equal
benefits guaranteed by the constitution.
The election Of delegates took place in
| August and the general election for
state officers and members Of the legis.
/ lature took place in September There
/ has never been q campaign ia Missis-
appi So exciting in all of its details as
/ this one. George became a candidate
for the legislature on the States Rights
ticket and proclaimed his adherence 20
[ that doctrine from every stump IN Car
roll county The result Of the election
Of delegates was O crushing defeat for
the States Rights party. Qaitman
their candidate for governor refused to
remain in tho race longer and Jefferson
/ Davis was called from bis seat in the
saDafe ITO finish the heat
The tide which had set IN with such
evident yolpme against the Democrats
was checked but tcould not be turned
Davis went down and Foots was elected
/ The States RIGHTS parfy was completely
routed and George Twas left at the
most The pripcipIe3 he advocated In
this rampaigp he never abandoned
The constitutional questions involved
/ he had studied as few had studied. and
I the conclusions reached based on the
most discriminating analysis and the
most intimate and exhaustive iuyestiga-
6or wifbefood the test of time the
shock Of war I'm after wears when az a
senator of the United States he was
without a peer as a constitutional law.
YER he reafirmed his ADHERENCE to the
oDjpfops and convictions he had bro.
claimed In This rompaigr
The following winter he was elected
rcnorfor To the High Conrt of Errors and
AppeaIs and prepared during his incum-
banrv Of this Office ten volumes of De.
ci#ons
The period between the Union cam.
paigp Of 1891 and the final ulpture in
| Ise0 WINS one Of uDceagipp political agf-
tatiop and acrimonious debate. The
soctjonoI qboreoter of fine conflict be-.
came more decided with each succeed
inc vear The election of Buchanan
from tbe greostate Of pcpngvIvapio bv
Inc Democratic states RIGHTS marty was
borol1e5 as the borbipger Of pesce and
! his inauguration was noted as the open
ling chapter Of another "era Of good
feeling The result showed how futile
were all human attempts to read the
future.
Kansas with her Topeka and her lie.
campton constitutions stood knocking
at the door Of congress. Each faction
claimed the sanction Of regularity and
each found a champion on the floor Of
congress among the states rights or abo.
Htion parties respectively, To add to
the confusion and render still less pos
sible the iridescent dream Of
peace the supreme court of the United
States handed down their opinion in
the now famous bred Scott case.
Away went the thirtysix thirty Of the
Missouri compromise and in the vemac.
uIar of the day the court knocked Mr..
Douglass suuatter sovereignty into q
cooked hatw
Tborco f,ro.or5 a ,yos Fgbt IN tbe
dopb Gaorgo in common With all HIS
l,rotbror az f,o I,or md r,,;,,bt incIp5o
oI ot,or nrorossions roIigions md ge,n-
lar 5ogrtoJ much Of hi5 Fmo 4, ,a
gfr5r ~ tl,o c,nsti4,,tional a,,ostiors u.
yolyS5 Tbo rcsnlt of t5ig invastigotor
gvo5 Mn, n,or, rr,,,l, IN pbe ,ninions
no had formed in the Union campaign
Of ST. and in 1850 when every etforl
to arrive at any poipt of mutual agree.
ment or reach any conclusion wbereto
the pubIc mind Of both sections could
bo intended bod sipnalIv failed: when
fine conflict bna indeed become IRE
prcsdble, and the Union cemeuted by
the blood Of the Revolutionary heroes
had become a Union pinned together
with bayonets When that party had
triumphed at the polls which had pro
claimed as one Of its tenets that the
constitution was league with nell
ana a covenant with death, ana the