The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-02


Dr. VIM. SLAVES as Morchnn5,..
md Geo. Stesf the LegisIan0i'e- A R.
he Chairman, yis ans Of Vernon and pr.~ rv,' :
he expediency Of il Hall this day. some Of
The Legislature Of our stathe chair, cord. il
purpose Of enacting laws proNg whole va
Their ingress Of slaves INTO our Statby Or TWEEN
On motion, the following petitiehseamer
Governor Offered by Mr., W. j.. DenSdead
was read and unanimously adopted, as express
sive Of the views Of this meeting. The petit
ton is signed by forty citizens Of Madison
county.
10 his ErcelencyJ. W. Matthews,
Governor Of he State IF Mississippi;
The undersigned petitioners, your fellow
citizens, residing in the State, and feeling a
deep interest in our institutions, and abiding
confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the
iunctionares selected by the sovereign peo-
pie to guard their interests, beg leave most res
Pecttully to represent, that they view with
alarm, the efforts now being made by the abo-
l~itionlsts of the North, to interfere, by legis-
>lation, with the rights Of the South. They
have seen with feelings Of deep modification
an effort to dissolve our glorious Union, by
abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia
and applying the Wilmot Proviso to our terri.
torial organization of New Mexico and Cali
ornia.
As the result of such action on the part of
our bretheren at the North, we have seen ef.
forts made by the border States Of the South
to call conventions and manunit their slaves by
constitutional laws, and preparatory thereto,
holding out encouragement to their citizens
TO send their slaves to the South, in order !hai
there may be as few negroes among them a
the period Of their legal emancipation as pos
sible.
The States of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri, where slavery has ceased to be
profitable, from the uncertain tenure by whicl
they are held, are now throwing an immens,
black population on the extreme southern
States, which is destined to ~incresae with i'm
mense %rapidity, until our State will be overrul
with a population that will constitute the mos
dangerous of all enemies we will have to en-
counter.
When the present border Statesshall havI
emancipated their slaves, they will in tim,
join the Northern Confederacy, until the [day
will come when we or our children shall hav,
to meet this question as citizens of a borde
State, and when, too, the black population il
our midst will present the most appalling obsta
Gle to our success.
If we are destined to be overwhelmed b,
our enemies, we do not desire to be driver
from our homes and the graves of our dead
which will be the inevitable consequence ofar
issue to be met with the abolitionists in oui
rear, and crowd of folon slaves, which they
have forced upon US, in our midst.
To avoid this evil we hold it 10 be our duty
t. keep these slaves in the States north of us,
in order to force those States to stand between
us and those desperate fanatics who seem re.
solved to crush US.
By forcing those States to retain their slaves
within their own borders, they will never con.
sent to manumit them, as they cannot PERM.
them to remain amongst them as free negroes
and thus their interest will remain identified
with ours, and they will be forced to stand BY
our side in the struggle for the constitutional
rights of the south.
Impressed as we are with these views, an,
the Importance of some immediate actor
we respectfully request of your excellenc,
to convene the Legislature at as early da,
as possible, in order thatthis important matte
may be submitted to them for the purpose o
e%liciting such action as their wisdom will die
tate.
Dr's. J. W. Phillips and G Stokes, BY invi
%tation, addressed the meeting, and called tn
good people Of our State to meet the crisi
calmly and firmly.
Dr.. II. G. Blackman offered the following
Resoled, That should the Governor refus'
to call the Legislature together immediatel
he good people of this State be, and are here
by requested to hold primary meetings, an
express their views on this all important sub
ject.
Re%sOlUed, That the thanks Of the heotini
be rendered to the gentlemen who have favor
ed us with addresses to-day.
ResOEved, That the Mississipian and South
ron Of Jackson. and all the newspapers Of tn
State who feel willing, be requested to pub
lish the above.
w. L. BALFoUR, Chm.
Gro. STOKES, Sec'y.
Vernon, Jan, Goth, l849.