Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-01

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claims, and holicr in their nature than any
other which the Constitution can boast.-
Those rights may not be changed-even by |
a change of the Constitution. They are out
of tie reach of the nation. The confederacy
may dissolve and the Constitution pass away,
but those rights will remain unshaken-wil
exist while the South exists-and when they
fall, the South will perish with them"
8. That to procure unity and promptness
of action in this State, this Convention rec
ommends that a central or State association
be formed at the Capital, and affiliated coun-
ty associations within the several counties of
the State.
10. That we recommend TO the Legisla-
ture of this State, that at its next session, a
law be enacted, making it the duty of the
Governor of the State, by proclamation, TO
call q general Convention of the State, and
TO issue wIits of election based upon the rR-
ito of representation in the Legislature, upon
the passage, by Congress, of the "Wilmot
Proviso," or any law abolishing Slavery in
the District of Columbia, or prohibiting the
slave trade between the States, to take into
consideration the act of aggression, and the
mode and manner of redress.
IL. That n committee of six be chosen by
the Convention TO prepare an address to the
people of the slaveholding States. -
There is nothing here, certainly, that will
set the Mississippi afire and the dnimuS of
the Convention is made more manifest by
the statement that the minority of the BUSH
ness Committee protested against the 9TH
Resolution, which only proposed to call a
Convention next summer to deUiSc and
adopt some mode Of resistance" TO the aggres-
sions upon the slave system; and that the
Convention adopted the LIST Resolution, which
the Business Committee did not report. This
does not look much like a readiness on the
part of the people of Mississippi TO dissolve
the Union. The majority of the Business
Committee, moreover, reported the follow
ing Resolution, which the Convention reject
ed:
5. That the right to organize States in the
territories of the United States, is limited to
the citizens of the United States, and that the
attempt now in progress by the present oc-
cupants Of California-most of whom are
MeXicans, Indians, negroes, and renegades
from every European country-to iolst a
Constitution and Government without taking
the oath of allegiance to the United States
without any intention of becoming perma-
nent citizens of the country and without
that territorial pupilage through which our
territories of the United States have passed
is q fraud upon the citizens of the United
States, and ought to be resisted by sucl
means as a Convention of the Southern
States may deem advisable.
This resolution embodies the views of Mr.
Calhoun, and its rejection has saved the Con.
%vention from the dilemma in which it would
have found itself involved by the last intelli-
gence from California. In short, even if
Convention, which could count delegates
from thirty only of the sixty counties of the
State, may be taken as a fair specimen of the
opinions of the whole people of the State
the Resolutions which were passed commit
them TO nothing but a future Convention te
" devise and adopt measures of resistance
Should that Convention ever be held, it will
probably adopt a string of Resolutions witt
ms many words and as little meaning.