The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-31
A. N. WORTHY,
JOHN KEY,
BIRD FITZPATRICK, Com.
WIN. M. MURPHREE,
j. McCALEB WILEY,

BIRD BIRD F FIJI; Com.
WIN. M. MURPHREE,
J.McCALEB WILEY,
RATIFICATION MEETING Voice Of lie Empire
Cou,ay--A very large and respectable meeting
of the citizens of Marshall county, without res
pect to party, assembled at the Court House in
Holly Springs, on the 18th July, 1850, to ratify
the proceedings of the Nashville Convention.
Upon motion of Capt Taylor, Roger Barton
was appointed Chairman, and J. IL. Fitzpatrick,
Secretary.
After brief explanation of the objects of the
meeting, by the chairman, the following COM
mittee was appointed to draft a preamble and
resolutions, to wit:
James III. II. Taylor, John B. FAINT, ]. C. Hol-
land, John Gibbons, Henry Moore, Peter w.
Lucas, Hugh Mcbride, Matthew Hearn, Maj. T..
Null, and w. s. Randolph
The following preamble and resolutions were
reported by said committee
Whereas, A Convention of the Southern
States of this Union, convened at Nashville on
the lst Monday of June, $780, to take into con-
sideration the course of action which it became
the said section Of our common country to take
in1 the present unhappy controversy which is
agitating us in relation to our Southern institu-
ti0ns; and whereas, we, a portion Of the people
of Mississippi, feeling deep interest in all that
relates to this question, as it involves 30 largely
our rights of property, rs well as our future
peace and security, having assembled together
to express our opinion as to the action of said
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, be it
l. Resolred, That the resolutions adopted by
said Convention, express, in our opinion, in a
plain and forcible manner, a just sense of the
rights of the Southern people, and of the princ-
h pies upon which they depend.
2. Resolped, That whatever difference of
opinion may exist in relation to the address ac-
companying said resolutions, either by members
of said Convention, or the individuals Of this
meeting, we hope and believe they will be seen
to be such as do not affect substantially the
merits and truth of said paper, and that the OBJ
jects Of the promoters of said convention, so far
us they seek an equality of rights and privileges
under the Constitution of our common country,
will be seconded and sustained by every man
having an interest therein, without regard to po-
the sympathies of the enlightened and just
throughout our country and the world
g. Resolred, That our thanks are due, and
are hereby rendered to the members of said
Nashville Convention, for the ability and deyo-
ton to our rights manifested in the proceedings
of said body.
The above resolutions were enthusiastically
received by the audience, and passed with only
one vote in the negative.
A motion was then made to appoint COM
mittee of ten to draft resolutions approving of
the course of Senator Davis, and our Represent
atives from this State, and express disapproba-
ton of the course pursued by Gen. Footc.
Upon the suggestion of Mr.. Clapp said com
mittee was appointed entirely of Democrats, as
he was Democratic Senator, and they alone
responsible for his election.
The committee, after retiring, reported the
following preamble and resolutions:
The committee to whom was referred the res
olution directing them to draft and report reso-
luti0ns expressive Of the sense Of this meeting
in regard to the course pursued by the Senators
and Representatives from this State in Con
gress, upon the subject of the aggression COM
mitted by the Northern people upon the rights
of the Southern and slaveholding States, and
upon the various measures which have been
proposed upon the subject of slavery, have di-
rected me to report the following preamble and
resolutions, to wit: H.
Whereas For a series of years the people of
the Northern States have manifested DISPOSE
ton to intermcddle with the domestic institution
of slavery in the Southern States, and have fol-
lowed up that disposition by a variety of acts
aggressive towards the rights of the South, and
indicative of settled determination ultimately
to abolish slavery which exists by law and the
Constitution, and in open defiance of the guar
antees of the same, and against the expressed
wishes of the Southern people; and whereas,
tho people of the South, influenced by their love
for the Union and peace and concord, have hith-
erto forborne to do more than quietly to re-
monstrate against the unauthorized acts of their
brethren of the North; and whereas, resolutions
of this character proved wholly unavailing in
staying the hand of aggression and outrage, un-
til at last, seeing that forbearance only encour-
aged and emboldened their enemies, the people
of the Southern States determined to submit no
longer to such outrages, but in primary meetings
in nearly all of the slaveholding States, resolved
to take the question Of their rights into their
own hands, and the determination was emphati-
cally expressed throughout the South, that any
further measures of aggression on the part Of
the North, would be resisted at all hazards and
to the last extremity" And whereas, a full rep
rescntation of a majority of the Southern States
convened Mt Nashville, on the LIST Monday in
June last, rcaffirmed by suitable resolutions the
sense of the Southern people on this moment
GUS subject; and whereas LASTLY, the delusive
measure reported by the Committee Of Thirteen,
to the Senate of the United States, rs means
of compromising the question between the North
and South, received the explicit condemnation
of that body. and that condemnation has been
sanctioned and ratified by the unanimous vote of
this meeting-therefore.
Resolred, That we have viewed with extreme
regret the course pursued by the Hon. II. Stuart
Foote, one of the Senators in Congress from
this State. in the support and sanction he has
afforded to the bill called the Compromise bill,
as reported by the Committee of Thirteen |; that
in giving said measure his support, as he has
done; he has aided in carrying into effect the
rcry measure against which the slaveholding
States have so loudly demonstrated, and has
grossly misrepresented the wishes and interests
of his constituents In view, thereto e, of the
great interests at stake, and the imminent peril
in which the interests of our State and of the
Union is involved, we hereby invite the said
Foote to resign the sect that he now holds in
the Senate of the United States, and hope that
similar resolutions may be passed in every
county in the State