Year: 1859

Mississippi, in State Convention assembled
has unanimously resolved in favor of a Con
| gessional Slave Code for the territories, anC
virtually in favor of OPENING THE AFRICAN
| SLAVE TRADE.


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The great body of the people of the United


States regard with equal detestation the doc.
trines Of both sets of fanatics Mississippi


Slave Codeism is no better than northern abo.
litionism nor is the movement of Mississippi
for the overthrow of that provision of the con-
stitution which allows the prohibition of the
slave trade, and for re-opening the slave e-trafic


any less reasonable than the effort of north
ern abolitionism to nullify the fugitive slave
provision of the constitution, and to carry on
a wholesale system of spinting away southern
slaves.


And yet, Mississippi standing before the
American public, as the exact counterpart of
northern abolitionism, has the effrontery to talk
| Of boiling the Union in the event of the cleo
| ton of a Black Republican President in 186Oi
when the great body of the people would
be at a loss to decide which would he the
greater calamity to the republic,--the triumph
OF the Black Republican doctrines, or those of
the Mississippi school of mad-caps Maine
Age.


The paper that gives vent to such calumy
and vituperation as the foregoing is the lead
ing organ Of Donglas and his faction in Maine,
who, we regret to say have obtained full con-
troll of the Democratic organization in that
State. There is no excuse for the fabrication
that the Democracy of Mississippi declared in
their State Convention G;o e,rou or o,,o..:.o.
the slave trade" and the Age repeats it only
to STIR up the prejudices of the ignorant and
tanatical masses who are in the habit of read
ing its columns. With no less truth does.it
assert that the Democracy of Mississippi have
resolved in favor of a Congressional slave code
for the territories - and Of piece with its ac-
curacy in its statement Of facts is the logic of
its assertion that Mississippi sentiment as ex-
pressed in her resolutions, is "the exact coun-
terpart of northern abolitionism"


Of course We do not copy from the Age
with view to formal refutation of its false
hood, sophistry and slang, because our words
would never reach its readers, but to enforce
the idea we have advanced in favor of a clear
and explicit declaration of the principles ofthe
Democratic party when it meets in Conyen-
ton at Charleston. The identical views of
the Age will have their representatives. in that
body. If these last are Democrats of the "na-
tionar' faith, the Mississippi Democracy are
not; and the lines must be drawn so as to
place the question beyond the remotest posi-
bility of a doubt. Suppose the points of DIFF
ference are held in allegiance, or kept in the
back ground 'for the sake of harmony" and
"expediency," will not the quarrel break out
sooner or later T? When Mississippi comes to
ask for the protection due to the property of
her citizens in the common territories, while
under federal jurisdiction, will she not be told
by the Goldfish Democracy in whose name the
Age speaks that she is violating the platform
Of the party and that "the triumph of Black
Republican doctrines would be no greater
calamity than that 'of the Mississippi mad
caps p Under such circumstances, what
would Presidential victory be worth would
not the men of the Age school who for the
sake of public plumber helped to win the elect
ion.unite with the Black Republicans to defeat
the just and constitutional measures of pro-
lection demanded by the South ? And more
than all, would they not do it as Douglas and
his confederates did during the last Congress,
in the abused and desecrated name of Democ-
racy? If these men have resolved upon a
course of hostility to the South, let them at all
events be deprived of every pretext for say
ing that their infamous schemes are derived
from legitimate construction of the platform
of the national! Organization. Let us have a de-
claration ofprinciple suited at Charleston to the
requirements ofthe times, the meaning of which
engenuity itself cannot pervert to accomplish
the aims of the wicked