The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-29
From He Richmond Enquirer DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
 A meeting of the Shockoe Hill Democratic Association of the city of Richmond, held on "Wednesday evening, the Sd instant, Major Charles II. Hyde in the chair, the following resolutions, offered by Thos Ritchie, were adopted and ordered to be published:
 ReSofrcd, as he sense Of his meeting, That the remuneration of Texas 10 the Uui- ted ates is a measure required by the best interests of the Union.
 Resoleed That such measure, at this time, is consistent with the soundest princi- peseof international law, and is not yiolative of the faith of the United States 10 Mexico.
 ReSofred, That the efforts of Great Britain to acquire political feolhold, and a com merria control over 1FeSas, and her indirect interference with the municipal institutions of Texas, i'll relation to slavery, furnish strong and additional inducements to the United States to obtain the re-possesson of terri tory which once constituted part of our Union, which was most unwisely and un- warrantably transferred to spain (not Mexico) by the Florida treaty af lS19 and which ac- cording to the then avowed doctrines of Henry Clay, could not be ceded away by treaty to any foreign power.
 ReSolUed That we protest against the pro- ceedings of the anti-annexatlon meeting which took place in the city of New ' ork, on the 2Ith Of April-that we deeply regret some of the sentiments which were expressed on that occasion by it's president, Albert Galatin, esq. and that we solmnIy protest against the 10th resolution, which would cut off the Southern people from an equal participation of the be- neiits of any annexatlcn. That resolu- ton is calculated to place the Southern and Southwestern States under the ban ofthe re- pubic-by peremtorily requiring in any event @proper guards (to be erected) against slayerv,n and by unqualifedy forbidding the admission of any slaveholdihg State that may be established within the Territory ol Texas, and the more especially, as that Immense re oion which extends from Missouri to Oregon. is north of about the Beth degree of latitude marked out by the Missouri compromise act of Henry Clay, and destined to the special uses and behests of the non-slaveholding States, who may carve out not only sfour States.n but ns many others as their own in- terests or their love of power may prompt them to establish within that extensive terri tory; thus overhrowng the whole balance of the constitution, and subjectmg the South ern States to the tender mercies of the abol- llonists of the North
 l Ieesolped, That the remuneration of Texas will not extend the mass of slavery, nor null 1 tply the number Of slaves, inasmutch as the | laws of the United States would be more efli- cient in limiting the slave trade dnd prohibit ing the introduction of slaves from the coast of Africa, than those of Texas could possibly be.
 Resolced, Flat some of the positions in MT. Clay's letter of the l7th April are calcu- lated to countenance the same idea which IS incalculated in the resolution of the maeting of New York--to abridge the capacity of Texas for being in any respect d siavchoid- inc region-to counteract the spirit O. the compromise of the Constitution. And we not only protest against any such partial doctrine, but will resist it's establishment and l that 1t fills us with astouishmeut that any sanction to such doctrine should have been afforded dy a man who IS candidate for the Presidency, and himself resident of Ken lucky and slaveholder
 Resolced, That the Democratic Central Committee be requested forthwith to issue an Address 10 the Democratic party of Virginia. urging the serious and prompt expression of their opinion on the subject of a re annexation of Texas to the Union-the propriety of re- lieving their delegates to the Baltimore Con- vention from the instructions which now bind them, leaving them to the exercise of sound 1 discretion, or even to instruct them, If they deem it expedient to do so, to cast the vote of Virginia in favor of men known and pledged to be in favor of annexation, and Of other action which they deem proper and efficient, in uniting the Democracy of the State m the great and vital object of defeating the election of Henry Clay.
 CHARLES II. HYDE, President.
 JOHN LYNCH, Secretary.