The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-11-06

Al q large aud respectable meeting OF tne De'
mocracy Of Madison County, held At the Court
House on Monday the Goth inst, the meeting
was, on motion Of E. II. Powell, organized
BY the appointment of the following ofhcers'
viz: Col. DAVID M. FULTON, President
LEWIS FINLEY, ] ,HN B. Moons, VIM, HARRkLp'
and FaANKMN Love, vice-Presidenis, and A /.
p. Hill and E. d. WARD, Secretaries; Col.
Fulton, on taking the Chair, explained the oo-
| iect Of the meeting in neat and appropriate
manner, calling upon the Democracy to rally
around the standard bearers selected BY the
Baltimore Convention.
On motion, 4 committee Of five was sppoint-
ed to report preamble and resolutions sx-
pressve Of the object and sense OF the meet
ing; under this resolution the chair appointed
Owen Vanvacter, A. n. Handy, Dixon Hall,
E. II. Powell and Thos. Grafton. During tho
retirement { the committee, Col. VIM. Nc
Willie, one Of the Democratic Electors, being
loudly called for, addressed the meeting at
great length and with signal ability. He CON-
menced by reviewing the career, both military
and civil, Of Gen. Cass, his character as a sol
der evinced in the war of 1912, and his still
greater excellencies in the more elevated
sphere Of high civil stations, both at home and
abroad commenting with grea, force on the
eminent services he had rendered his country
while Minister to France, in defeating the
Quintuple Treaty by which an attempt was
made to interpolate the right Of search into the
maritime code, which owed it's failure mainly
to the timely exertions of Gen. Cass.
He then traced the career of Gen. Butler
the heightened and chivalrous character Of the
whole Butler family-the conduct of young
Butler in our "second War Of Independence"
whilst a mere youth, and his martial bearing
| in the Mexican war, in the meridian OF his
days. His high civic qualities and pure demo-
cratic principles, constituted, however, the
largest share of his well earned fame. He
then read the Platform of Democratic princi-
Piles as laid down by the Baltimore Conven-
ton, and commented at length on the slavery
resolution, laying great stress on the TACT that
whilst our party in the north might be some
what divided on the subject of the Wilmot
Proviso, yet most of the leading northern
Democrats, Gas Cass, Buchanan, Dallas, Han
negan, Douglass and others,) had come out
manfully in defence Of Southern rights, not q
single Wing north of Mason and Dixon's line,
had voted with the south upon that question,
or had dared to raise his voice in our favor.
The no partysm Of The Democratic Wigs"
next come under his schorchng review, and
their affectation Of neutrality was fully ex-
posed.
after abiding to the opposition Of the Wings
to the Mexican War, and their inconsistency
in first denouncing the War and then select
ing as their standard bearer, one who owes all
his distinction to the accused war they have
go often condemned, he closed with spirited
appeal to the Democracy to stand fast to the
time honored principles Of the party.
The committee having resnEned, the follow
ing Preamble sfazRsrr1 ~ reported
through their ell 19fegs md
(The PreauaH = "a
able crowded 4 til ~ || = gill
appear in our nz n n:
Mr.. Franklin a. - ned
tina. he had cone Pslkssn
Of the Democratic pdst ,ow his adj
heson to its old principlsA but Begged leave
to decline making speech on the occasion.
On motion of A. H. Handy, it was
Reso'ped, That the Mississippi Creole IN
Mssissippian, be requested to publish the pro-
ceedngs of this meeting
D. M. FULTON, Pres't.
E. D. WARD,} Secs.
A. P. HILL,