On Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea.
At Serenade, at Portland, Maine.
At Portland Convention, Maine.
At Belfast Encampment, Maine.
At Belfast Banquet, Maine.
At Portland Meeting, Maine.
At Fair at Augusta, Maine.
At Faneuil Hall, Boston.
At New York Meeting.
Before Mississippi Legislature.
&c. &c.
BALTIMORE . . . PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO.
MARBLE BUILDING, 182 BALTIMORE STREET.
1859.
To the People of Mississippi.
I have been induced by the persistent misrepresentation of popular Addressesmade by me at the North and the South during the year 1858, to collect them,and with extracts from speeches made by me in the Senate in 1850, to presentthe whole in this connected form; to the end that the case may be fairly beforethose by whose judgment I am willing to stand or fall.
Jefferson Davis.
In the Senate of the United States, May 8, 1850, in presenting the Resolutionsof the Legislature of Mississippi:
It is my opinion that justice will not be done to the South, unless from otherpromptings than are about us here—that we shall have no substantialconsideration offered to us for the surrender of an equal claim to California.No security against future harassment by Congress will probably be given. Therain-bow which some have seen, I fear was set before the termination of thestorm. If this be so, those who have been first to hope, to relax theirenergies, to trust in compromise promises, will often be the first to sound thealarm when danger again approaches. Therefore I say, if a reckless andself-sustaining majority shall trample upon her rights, if the Constitutionalequality of the States is to be overthrown by force, private and politicalrights to be borne down by force of numbers, then, sir, when that victory overConstitutional rights is achieved, the shout of triumph which announces it,before it is half uttered, will be checked by the united, the determined actionof the South, and every breeze will bring to the marauding destroyers of thoserights, the warning: woe, woe to the riders who trample them down! I submit thereport and resolutions, and ask that they may be read and printed for the useof the Senate.—(Cong. Globe, p. 943-4.)
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