The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-23
Opinion in Alabama.

1 We have already noted the counties in this State
which have expressed strong disapprobation o.
Mr.. Claws quasi compromise. II has been said
that the wings of Alabama favor this measure.
This assertion is efectualy silenced by the coun-
ties alluded to. Wilcox, which is one Of them, is
generally considered o wing county; Macon, an
other, is wing by vast majority. AT the last
congressional election the vote In it was, 1893
wings and 672 democrats. In each ofthese coun-
ties, the meetings were called without distinction
of party. The officers and committees were halt
wings and half democrats, and the proceedings
were adopted without one dissenting voice.
We have now to add Talladega, another wing
county, to the list. On the LIST inst. meeting of
its citfzens, called and organized were the meet
ing above alluded to, was held at the court
house The resolutions which It adopted are as
follows: $40 autW i@aaanf i a3l''
81 Resolved, That we approve the proceedings
Of the Nashville Convention, and hereby ratify
the same.
q go Resolped, That the resolutions adopted by
the Nashville Convention present correct expo
ston of the rights of the South, and Of the prin-
said resolutions are hereby adopted.
49, Resolved, That thep plan originally reported by
the Committee of Thirteen to the Senate Of the
United States, usually termed the Compromise,
possesses no virtue to allay the agitation which
threatens to destroy the rights of the Southern
people and to disrupt the Union, but is fraught
with mischief to the South, and surrenders princi-
Piles for which we have at all times commended. BY
that plan the South is required to yield to the unjust
exactions of the North, without receiving any
equivalent whatever; by it's first part all the vast
territory obtained from Mexico by conquest, treaty
and purchase, is given up to abolition. BY Its I'd
part, and large portion of Texas, about as far
south as Montgomery, Alabama, is given up to
abolition. By its Sd part, Texas bonds to the
amount Of about ten or fifteen millions Of dollars,
formerly worth about ten cents in the dollar, are
sadded upon the treasury Of the United States, to
be paid in full out Of the public money collected
from the South as well as the North. This is of
ferred to reconcile Texas to the surrender of her
territory to abolition uses; by Its 4th part, the
work OF abolition is actually begun. 'ltproposes
to abolish the slave trade in the District Of Column
bia and free the negroes sold in violation of the law
thus giving Congress jurisdiction and passing an
act OF pospe abolition Of slavery under particular
contingencies In other words, what citizen Of
any siave-hoIding State may no'c lawfully do, is
prohibited in the future under penalty ofLosing his
properfu, by law passed to please abolitionists.
Il tthe pretended compromise is a comprehen-
sive scheme of emancipation. - IN Oh
"a. Resolred, That we hold our LIBERTY, PoLITI-
CAL EouAIrrY, and our INDEPENDENCE as above
all price: and we cannot and will not sacrifice them
for the sake of continuing any Union winch is
controlled by abolition majority lreckless alike
of the Constitution which formed that Union
and our feelings, peace, rights, and honor) and
welded by such majority for the destruction of
sixteen hundred millions Of slave property, and the
degradation Of the white people of the South to a
level with the negro race.
as. Resoiped, That whenever an abolition major
iy in Congress, by aid of the interference of any
officer of the Federal Government, or in any other
mode. shall deprive us Of the inestmable right or
political equality, and appropriate 10 shsnselves
the vast territories Of the United States (the COM
mon property of all the States)--itis in their
Government, not ours, Then weshall be COM