Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-08-01
ANTI -DISUNION MEETING.

| hNe'-DiSCNbON
! The meeting OF the citizens Of Davidson coun.
~, CTenn.) at the courthouse ON Saturday was
large and highly respectable and enthusiastic
and Notwithstanding the infammatory exclama-
lions of the Union ("what passions ought to be
h'ndIed by the wicked attempt TO infeyIere,") it
went oil with the utmost harmony as well as ami
nation.
DIR. }. T.. Manlove presided, and John Reed
and Preston Hay, Esquifes, were appointed Sec
retaries.
F. CORN, Esq. explained the objects of the
meeting in ain able and eloquent speech, to which
we wish our fellow citizens Of all parties could
have listened He was repeatedly applauded.
DIR. John Shelby then submitted the following
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted
Whereas at several public meetings recently
held IN the South resolutions have been adopted
urging with more or less directness the assem-
bling OF Convention of States friendly 10 the
Immediate annexation Of Texas at Nashville
some lime In August next; and whereas it is APP
parent from the resolutions themselves and the
speeches oil Some OF its prime movers in those
meetings, and the comments of public journals
friendly TO them, that the Convention they pro-
pose TO hold in this city was contemplated rs a
mans foWards an end-lhat end being 10 present
deliberately and formally the issue, "annexation
OF Texas or dissolution of this Union.''
And whereas, further, it 10 manifest by all the
indications given from the most reliable sources
OF intelligence, that there is party of men i'm
another quarter Of this nation whom declaring
INA" 1.-THE only True issue before the South should
he Texas or disunion," and in proposing the line
OF operation indicated by the South Carolinian,
their organ published at Columbia, South Caro-
ina In the following words, viz: 'rhat the
res lent 0Ef I,.f
the General Convention of the Slave States to
call Congress together Immediately, when the
FINAL ISSUE Shall be made up, and the alternative
distinctly presented to the free States either TO
admit Texas into the Union or to proceed peacea-
bly and calmly 10 arrange the terms of dissoht-
non n " me Union ARE influenced by sentiments
ana opinions directly at Issue with the solemn OBJ
legation OF the citizens of every State TO our Ma
tonal Unon-sentlments and opinions which, if
not depressed and condemned, may lead to the de-
struction of our tranquility and happiness and TO
the reign of anarchy and confusion. Therefore.
we, the citizens Of Davidson county in the State
oil tennessee feel ourselves called upon by these
demonstrations TO express, in clear, decided. and
nnequivocal manner, our deliberate sentiments in
regard to them. And upon the momentous ques-
ton here involved we are happy to believe there
Is no material division of sentiment amonp The
people of This Stale.
The citizens here assembled are 7snnesSseans;
they are Americans. They glory in being ci,i-
zens OF this great Confederate Republc; and,
Wheiher friendly or opposed TO the immediate an
nexation OF Texas, they join with decision, firm
ness and zeal in avowing their attachment to our
glorious, and, we trust, lmpregnable Union, and
III condemDng every attempt 10 bring its preser-
walton into issue or its value into calculation.
Under these impressions and with these feel
lngs, regarding with deep and solemn interest the
circumstances under which this new Issue NAV be
Iona mr. NJ md oil h,,,
OF the high responsibility to his country imposed
on every American citizen, in the language Of the
Immortal w Washington, 'to frown upon the first
dawnings Of every attempt 10 ALLEVIATE any portion
oil our country from the rest, TO ehfeebe the sd
cred ties which now link together the various
PaIts," we hereby adopt and make known, as ex-
pressing our deliberate sentiments, the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That, while we never have n;erfered
and never will interfere with the arrangement of
any OF the parties divided on the general political
questions of the day, and while we absolutely re-
pei the charge of designing any such interference
as totally unfounded and unjusiiable, yet when
we see men of any party and any quarter of This
nation announcing as their motto s'rexas or Dis.
union," and singing out the city of Nashville as
place OF general gathering in order to give for
mality and solemnity to the presentation Of that
issue, we ieei 1t to be not only our sacred right
but our solemn duty TO protest, as we do now pro-
test against the Dissertation of the soil of Tennes-
see by any set of men holding within its borders
Convention for any such object.
| Resolved, That when our felow-ctizeps of any
Stale come hliher as Americans, loyal TO our glo-
Tious Union. they will be received and welcomed
! by us with all the kindness and hospitality which
should characterize the intercourse of band OF
brothers, whatever may be Our differences on po-
liIcal subjects; but when they avow their will
lingness TO break up the Union rather than fail 10
accomplish favorite object, we feel bound TO tell
J them this is no fit place to concert their plans
Resolved that we entertain for the people oil
South Carolina, and the other quarters in which
this cry OF Texas or Disunoh'' has been raised
feelings Of fTaternal regard and affections that we
sincerely lament the exhibition by any portion oil
them OF disloyalty TO the Union, or disposition
TO urge Its dissolution with a view to annexation
with Texas, 1t not otherwise obtained; and tina
we nope returning sense of what is due tt
themselves, to the other States of the Union, iC
The american People, and to the cause of Ameri
can liberty. viii! prevent them from perseverina
IN urging the issue they have proposed
The meeting then Adjourned Banner.
Lecturer said lately that an Old Bachelor is a LIv
ING LIBEL on his father and mother Ladies SUE him