The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-02-02
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:. accurate, siaies the following facis concer n
- ing meeting Of tho committee Of fifiee
n: on the 25,h ult.
~ delaware, Maryland, Kentucky ON
All Mississippi were no, represented. MI
W Clayton refused positively 10 pariicipai.
Is and no substitute appeared in his STEAD
" Mr.. Pearce, Of Maryland, who had bee
substituted for Chapman, declined the bo
10 nor in formal letter. Mr.. Peyton, G
,e Kentucky, who had been named in plac
Of Mr.. MOrehead, failed TO attend, and Mr.
Foote, was absent. Mr.. Kaufman, Of ifex
as, appeared in lieu Of Gen. Rusk. Al III,
T. opening oe the meeting, Mr.. King, Of Ala
d was called to the chair, and Mr.. Bcrrier
u renewed the motion which he had offered
4 in caucus on Monday night, for the ap
j. pon!ment Of a sub committee Of I've, Il
9 prepare an address to the people Of the
T United Sfnies, and net TO the South alone
! as was proposed BY Mr.. Calhoun. The
proposition prevailed, and tho following
> gentlemen we're appointed Messrs. Berri.
; en-, Calhoun, CabelI, Atchisoa and Bayly.'
The same authority, in a previous let.
ter, gives the following as the vote in he
meeting &c Soulht m members on Monday
the 18Th, by which Mr.. Calhoun's address
10 the committee Of fifteen was adopted;
AYES-Messrs. Clayton. spruance. Pearce.
X. Johnson, Roman. L,gon, Chapman. Nc Lane.
Chrisfsld. Flournoy, Gogein. Psndleton. Me.
Dowell, Fulton. Ciingman. Barringer. Daniei
! Mckay. Berren, T. U. King. J. W. Jones, Lump.
i'm atI he IL
kns. Metcalf, Underwood. Boyd. Morebcad, Bell,
Cooke. Crozier. Thomas. Gentry, Barrow, ilas.
kell, BOniin. Clbell, Rusk, Houston, Kaufman.
P,Hsbury-44
NAYS esrrs. Mason, Hunter Atkinson,
Meade, Bscock, Bayly. Bedinger, Thompson. W.
Brown, Venable. Butler. Calhoun. Wallace, Simp
son. Woodward. Holmes, Rhctt, HARRISON, liver.
son. W r. King. Fitzpatrick. CAVE, Harris,
inge, Peyton. Davis, Foote, I. Thompson. Feath
erston. II. .. Brown, Downs LaSers, Uarnan.
son. Morse, Turney, Hill, Stanton, Atchison,
Borland. R.W Johnson. Nes,cot, and Yuee-a2
Mr.. Morehead, Of Ken, offered some
moderate Resolutions, upon which Mr.. Cal.
houn commented as follows:
When the resolutions (snys " Indepen.
dent ~ had been read and submitted, Mr.. ?
Z. rose under feelings Of Unsurpassed ex.
element. lie declared, if vote was press Z
ed, he would offer an amendment asserting
that dissolution of the Union was prefer.
able to emancipation Of the Slaves. No
test was taken, and the resolutions went To
the .uble, with others offered by Mr.. Rusk,
embracing the same general view.
The resolutions Of Mr.. Rusk, and some
circumstances concerning them. are given
in the following extract from the CORES.
ponden, in the Pniladelphia Ledger:
The poin, which MIR. Calhoun expected
TO carry was the adoption Of the address,
and its signature by all the members pre-.
sent. He was at once resisted by such
men as Clayton, Gentry, Stephens, and
-.s---sz- sstse- 49,. .s.,s,oucr ne
mos, dreaded was that Of Texas and Flor.
ida. Between Mr.. Calhoun and the Sen.
ators from Texas there had existed con.
GOODNESS ever since the vote on
The Oregon bill Of the last session; but
Mr.. Calhoun had hoped al least TO divide
The Senator's from that State, and 10 win
onc of them over 10 his views. In this he
,ignally failed. Gen. Rusk is said to have
with manly frmness, that he
could only listen TO MIR. Calhoun, as the
Of the latter was couched IN
respectful terms, bu, that as man he Could
not be driven or made to sign an instru.
men, which he condemned.
. II Mr.. Calhoun meant TO denounce him,
he was ready to defend himself. lie was
quite willing to have his motives compared
with those of others. Gen. Rusk would,
in no case, look on the dissolution of the
Union bu. as the greatest calamity that can
belall The whole country. Tie could not
an address that, in the slightest de.
gree, referred or pointed to il as a RENE.
dy. The man was not born that could
surround him with suiiicien, terror To quake
him sign such an instrument and II every.
body else signed i, and acted upon it, he
would father, Ia a civil war, draw the
sword in defence Of the Union, than he
guilty OF 40 OF, dlsarpro,cd Of by his
conscience.
Yet, with ali this manly devotion to the
Union, Gen. Rush is not less ardent. tho
discreet, in his defence Of Southern rights
and compromises of the Constitution, as
you may see from Ihe following resolutions,
rhich rsrs proposed By him, as subsii.
rutc for Mr.. Cafhoun's address: (
/. Resolped, That this country look up !
on the Union as the only safe guarantee of
Republican and Constitutional liberty.
2. Reso'ped, That a strict adherence to
the letter aud spirit Of the Constitution, in
all its compromises is our only safety.
8. Resolved, That il is Inconsistent. with
the broad principles of justice, and palpa !
BILE infraclion on the spirit Of the Cons''td.
lion 10 exclude by Legislative enac,men.s,
any portion of the citizens of the United
States from full and equal participation
ia the benefits Of any territory acquired
by the common blood aud treasure Of all
the States.
A. Resolped, That in our capacity as rep.
resentasives, we would firmly resist all at.
tempts at partial, and therefore oppressive
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