Democratic banner., 1849-07-30

adopted, without a dissenting voice. The
resolutions are as follows:
l. Resolved, That the exigency of the
times renders it necessary that the people
of Missouri should assemble in primary
meetings. and express their sentiments on
the great and absorbing question which now
agitates our whole confederacy, and threat
ems to shake it to the very centre-to wit,
that of Slavery and the doctrines of the
WIlmot Proviso.
2. Resolced, That the true construction
of the Constitution of our General Govern
ment, leaves with the people of each Ter
ritory the right to say, when they fern their
State Government and ask for admission
into our common Union, whether slavery
shall exist in their State or not; and that it
is no ''dogma" to deny the right Of Congress
to interfere, either by resolution or other
wise, on such subject.
3 ResoLred, That we regard the Proviso
introduced into Congress by Mr.. Wilmot,
pending a bill to appropriate money to car
ry on the Mexican war, as the true Sire
brand" which now disturbs the quietude Of
this nation; and that the Accomac and Mis-
souri, resolutions are only in vindication Of
the South, and her constitutional rights, as
sailed by that Proviso.
4. ReSJiced, That the constituents has
the right to instruct the representative !;
and that the representative is bound BY the
instructions Of his constituency, is a time
honored maxim in our Government; that
the General Assembly of each State has
the unquesti6nable right to instruct their
United States Senators; and that an appeal,
BY a Senator to the people, from such in
structions as the General Assembly may
think proper to give, is as unprecedented as
it is imprdcticabLe.
8. ResOhned, That our heretofore distin-
guished and highly esteemed Senator,
Thomas H. Benton-in refusing to obey the
instructions of the Missouri Legislature,
passed at its last session, upon the subject.
Of the "Wi!mot Proviso," his appeal from
those instructions to the people, (still hold
ing on to his seat in the Senate, and by the
doctrines he avowed in his speech at Jefer-
son City on the 26,h of May last-has for
feited that high confidence and esteem in
which he was held BY the people of Missou-
ri up to the period Of his delinquency, and
that hereafter between him and us there
can be ono communion, no compromise, no
caucus"
6. ResOiUed, That the effort of Senator
Benton to shift the true issue in this great
contest, by endeavoring TO make it a con-
test between himself and Mr.. Calhoun, "a
man VIGOROUSLY unpopular in Missouri, y
by endeavoring to make it a contest between
Union and Disunion, instead of a contest
between the fanaticism of the North, con-
tending for a usurpation of power, against.
the slaveholding States of the South, stand
ing up for their constitutional rights and
and equal justice,-lowers Linn from the
high stand he has heretofore occupied as an
American Senator, and sinks him to the low
degree of a contemplate political trickster
seeking the Presidency-places him, in fact,
upon the same political platform laid down
by the Buffalo Convention in lS4s.
Z. Resokred,' That we most heartily ap-
prove and endorse the Resolutions of in
struction, passed at the last session of our
State Legislature, upon the subject Of Sla-
very and the Wilmot Proviso.
s. Resokced, That we will support no
man for any Office whatsoever. nor patron
ize any newspaper editor, who may favor
the doctrines Of the Wilmot Proviso.
9. ResoLved, The we tender our cordial
thanks to Senator Atchison, for his bold and
manly course, in the United States Senate
and out of it, OH the Slavery question and
feel gratifed to find that he has obeysd and
ri NOTE BY THE SEcRErARY.-Messrs.
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