Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-06-27
SoUTHER PROJECTS.

Our readers are aware (remarks the Baltimore
American,) that intima,ions have been given in
some quarters Of design on the part of certain
Southern politicians to Dissolve the Union-or in
other words to form Southern Confederacy
Mr. BENTON charged such design upon Mr.. Nc
DuFFic In open Senate; and we do not doubt but
Mr.. BENTON believes firmly in the existence Of
such project, and is persuaded with equal GER
taln'y that the Secretary of State is at the head
| Of it.
we wish at present to call attention TO certain
proceedings in South Carolina at several public
meetings recently held in that State; and to note
the significant fact that the Richmond ENQUIRER.
IN publishing such portions Of those proceedings
as Indicate approval of the nominations of Pork
and DALLAS, omits entirely certain other portions
which point to other purposes than those of a
mere political contest. The Enquirer, we infer,
| Is not prepared to adopt the extreme IDEAS and
! dangerous designs which seem to be CONTEMPLATED
| by its more Southern allies.
| AT the meeting in Sumpter district, S. c.. the
following resolution adopted, being the fifth
| Of a series:
| SIS. Resolved, That we regard the opnos,;o,
10 annexation by portion of the people of these
! Ch''eu states OH account Of the existence of
| slavery In ieXas, an unwarrantable attack upon
| southern rights guaranteed 10 us by the cons,itu-
'io"; rights which we are determined at all ba.
Laros 10 maintain In spite of resistance either a.
broad or al home"
AT the BarnweIl meeting in the same State one
OF tue resolutions takes the ground in regard to
the annexation oil Texas, that "its final rejection
is an evidence of that increasing hostility to the
institutions OF the South, which has already sha
Ken The confidence of our people in the patriotism
and hdelity of our northern brethren, and which
may render II necessary for us Gin the words of
our own declaration Of independently TO provide
new guards Tor our future security"
We suhjoin one of the resolutions adopted at
the meeting in EdgeGeld:
"kesoved, That the grounds upon which This
annexation is mainly resisted compel us to cons-
ger inns measure as a question as TO the lnainie-
nance oil slavery. guaranteed TO us by the const-
tn,ion; and we avOw our determination to main.
tam inns institution against all the attempts of
aooiiions's IN our own country or elsewhere:
ana we shall not resist the separation from the
Union oil such States as denounce the slayrhoid.
ing members OF the conlederacy as unworthy of
connection with them, and avow the purpose of
not toera,ng the admission into the Union NJ an,
new slaveholding country
Another of the resolutions at this meeting calls
upon the members of Congress favourable to an
nexa'ionto stake steps for assembling Conven-
ton of the States friendly 10 annexation"
But the South Carollnian, the organ of these
mal-conients, published at Columbia. submits a
more regularly digested plan of proceedings
thus:
= vi. 10 call upon cur delegations in CONGRESS-.
, u IN session, or our senators, if they be at the
Seat OF government, TO wait on the Texan minis
Sfr..t., .,,,l,I
tialon WIN other powers, until the southern
States shall have had reasonable time TO decide
, upon their course
az. That object secured, convention of Tho
people oil each State should be promptly called.
10 ueiioerate and decide upon the action to be Ia
Ken ny the slave States oil the question Of annex.
atom; and TO appoint delegates to convention of
ue slave States, with instructions to carry into
elect The behests of the people
-. mat convention Of the slave States by
ociegations from each, appointed as aforesaid.
should be called, TO meet some central position
TO take into consideration the question of annev
ing lexas 10 The Union, if the Union will accent
IL; or, the Union will not accept it, then of an.
neXIng Texas TO The southern States.
! "a. That the President of the United States he
requested by the general convention of the slave
States. TO call Congress together immediateIv.
when the final issue Shall be made I'M, and the a.
tentative distinctly presented to the free States
elmer TO admit Texas into the Union or To pro
coed peaceably and calmly to arrange the terms of
dissolution Of The Union"
We find these things in the Washington Globe
OF Saturday. That journal declares that the is
sue OF annexation as necessary .to the main,e.
nance OF Slavery was made by Mr.. CALHOUN
hinself In his Pakenham letter, evidently for the
purpose of furnishing his partizans in the South
the means Of rallyng party, and getting up
sectional feeling between the South and North, to
answer the very purpose 10 which it is now ap-
piled. The Globe asks
| DO Mr.. CALHOUN and his friends imagine that,
by exciting sectional feeling in the North, and
provoking hostility by fostering designs against
the Union, they will be most likely 10 attain the
ends they profess 10 have at heart--that is. TO
unite the northern democracy in support of an
nexaiion, and The election Of Gov. Polk TO The
presidency"
Mr.. CALHOUN is probably stirred by restless
anxiety to be ruler in some way or another. If
he intends to put himself at The head of a move
ment to form Southern Confederacy, with the
expectation of being at the head of The Confede
racy, he would do well 10 considlr little befo,e
entering upon such project. He came safely
out Of one periious crisis, for which, for the rest
of his life, he ought 10 express thankfulness to
Henry CLAY and the Wings of 1882.
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