The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-04-27
Central meeting.

~ Will DE btBH4DY ttp suH AA. INV NtNAtAH r Il
day, tia, gssntlumeuof BO(H political parties, Of
great weight and purity d character, have uni
ted In a reddisitiOn for meeting Of citizens in
this place; on the 5th Of May, to take into con-
~siideratiOn The best method Of defending the
constitutional rights Of the South; against the
threatened and increasing iHroadsot Northern
fanatics. DatiRg Tie progress OF the efforts to
Ee. signers to ihs cali, we have heard il inti-
mated that Ii is d portion Of aLocOiocO system
Of intrigue to m AXE political capital, by excl
ting high sectional feeling at the North and
the South; and thereby embarrassing tho adj
ministralion Of Gen, Taylor, by disuniting his
iriends,aRd making a mutual cooperation and
cordial understanding between them a neral
impossibility. We have heard il intimated that
the resolutions intended 10 be submitted to the
meeting here were prepared in Washington
CITY BY a member Of the late central political
tract society and that at the time hey were
despatched to the South; ga free soil platform
was despatched to the North from the same
laboratory; pledgihg The people in TINT section
in favor Of the other e3treme-the Wilmot
Proviso, and to al anfelehtiRg OPPOSITION to the
extension Of slavery into any new territory now
free. We have heard it intimated that men
who were "colm as a summers morning. when
their party President sanctioned the Wilmot
froviso in the Oregon bill, could be oily sim
ulating a panic when they pretended to be up
prehensive the South would be irrCtrievably
ruined by old Zack's following his example:
AS General Taylor was elected on high con-
sentative grounds, and as the Wing party is
essentially a conservative party, we have heard
it said that policy, prudence and even self
preservation, required that it's members should
do nothing calculated to show q want Of conf
dence in the President Of their choice, or
which, by q fair implication, was calculated to
give weight to the pretended suspicious Of his
Southern opponents, that he was not to be
trusted on q question on which he is so deeply
and vitality interested by birth right, by resi-
dence and self-interest, as that of the preser-
walton Of the exclusive constitutional rights OF
the South over the institution of slavery. We
know that that game is being played by despe-
rate political gamblers; who would willingly
see the vessel of State go to wreck, if they
only thought it would enable them to make a
cotk-bout for themselves out Of the s%ptinters
But we know a majority Of the signers OF the
call, and can iearlessly say that no such motive
governed them In afi4ing TO it their names
FkSy love lie Unioh, &ha il is because they
j love it, and ate d6tetMiRed; iii the language d
old Hickory, "that the Union shall be Preserv.
ed" at all hazards, that they have lent the
movement the sanction Of their names and
their influence. From the temper in which il
is written, and the high character Of a majority
Of those who have signed it, we are convinced
thul il covers no sinister or %ulterior party de-
|, sign as far as they are concerned, and that, in
the hands Of such men, it cannot possibly ter
> inmate in that description Of Quattlebum-ry
or bombast, which has hitherto made similul
meetings in South Carolina ridiculous, and
flied with regret the hearts Of judicious mer
. who were innoCehtly induced TO extend to
them in advance, their cOuntenance and suPo
port.
We hope the proceedings viii ombody q
c firm, but digni6ed remonatfance against the at
. tempt to place the Southern States in the atti-
tude Of dependence upon the whims or prcIu-
dice Of their Northern cO-Associates; as we'll as
against the moral or constitutional right Of the
latter to press their notions Of P~roPriety upon
equals under a political compact; (the result Of
4 mutual concession and compromised in wIicf
: the absolute and exclusive control over thsil
domestic institutions ID reserved to the people
Gfoa6h State in their sovereign capacity.
In this view of the question, we hope there
J will be- q full attendance, and that no citizeI
9 will 90 10 tho meeting under the impression
that he is Compelled, as a matter Of COURSE, rC
I sanction whatever may be offered by an ind
:, vidual, or presented by u committee, whether
couched in such terms as will reflect credi,
c on the wisdom and patriotism Of those present
or not. In taking i%nitiatOry steps in q move.
9 ment, the end Of which no man can %foresee, il
. is the dictate Of prudence as well as Of Patri-t
, ism, that every citizen should do bis avn think
ing and his W ting.-SoUtbrOn.