The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-24
!, Mississippi.
From, he Alabama STATE Ga=eits.

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/ furnished in full, we concluded to wait for them
4 From some inadyertence or mistake they have
/ not vet come to hand so that we have thought
best to give the resolutions, and with such an ae-
count Of the meeting as we have received orally
Gen. C. M. Jackson and Dr. Moody, presided
and Dr. Joseph DeJarnett and W. Clark, acted
as Secretaries -ag...
/ The resolutions found below, were introduced
by Maj. Boiling Hall, rs chairman OF tho con-
mittee TO draft them, and were adopted with but
a very few dissenting voices. The meeting has
been represented to us as the largest ever held
at Kingston. Speeches Were made by Governor
Fitzpatrick, Col. Thomas Williams, Col. Yancey,
| Col. Stoors, Maj. Boiling Hall, Rev. Mr. Perham,
Col. Geo. W. Gale, and Others. Great una
| nimity and enthusiasm prevailed; every one
seemed animated with determination to resist
the late aggressions upon the South, in some
form or other. t.... %aa
| Here are the resolutions E... ..%r4
Whereas, it is clear, that tho government of
| the United States have commenced system OF
partial and unconstitutional legislation on the
subject of slavery-which has thus far proved
destructive Of our rights, politically, equals in
the confederacy; of our interests Us having some
IL or ID hundred millions of capital invested in
that description of property; Of our safety, be-
cause the moral weight of the government is
lent to discredit and degrade the Shareholder,
thereby giving encouragement to insubordina-
ton, sedition and rebellion, on the part of the
slave; and inasmuch as the people ofthis county,
irrespective of party, have heretofore declared
their opposition to such measures, and their de-
Termination to resist them. And whereas, from
the various propositions offered for the conside-
ration of the late legislature of this State, all
containing the words and the spirit of resistance
to such legislation we have right to believe that
not only our own county, but our whole patri-
otto State with us, feels the necessity OF action,
to maintain our self.respect, our consistency,
our rights and our safety. Therefore,
/ /. ReSoLued, That in expressing our hostility
to the Wimot Proviso, or any kindred measure,
we meant no abstraction, but the substantive fact
of exclusion from the common territory of the
United States, of ourselves with our property
and institutions by the Federal Government,
whether by direction or indirecton in its action.
2. Resolved, That we recognize the purchase
of one hundred thousand square miles of slave
territory of Texas for the large sum of ten mil
lions of dollars-six millions OF which, at least,
to be paid by us of the South, to be converted
to Free-soil-as a substantial Wilmot, in form
too odious even to have been conceived by
Southern men, and too monstrous in its iniquity
TO be acquiesced in.
8. Resolved, That we regard the running OF
the boundary line Of Texas on the parallel OF
So deg. 80 min. to the 1913 longitude, so as to
leave small strip of Free-soil territory between
slave soil and Mexico, rs the virtual accomplish
ment of the design to isolate the South by sur
rounding her with Gordon Of free States.
4. Resolved, That in the admission of Cali
fornia, we recognize the passage of the Wilmot
Proviso, and we defy reason or ingenuity to
show any other cause why she was admitted
than, that she carried in her constitution the
provso or its kindred measure.
5. Resoluea, That in the action which has
been taken by Congress- in relation to the terri
tories, we appreciate the forbearance Of the coun
sells of Messrs. Clay and Webster, who have
refused to apply the Wilmot Provso by name,
preterring rather to accomplish their end by Gre
ating public opinion-(which, though false, is
too strong to be braved by haZarding our pro
perty against IT'D that the laws of Mexico abol-
ishing slavery are in force In those territories
and then refusing to correct it by declaratory
act of Congress. They are content with sub
stantive Wilmot We contending for right
will defend that right against aggression under
whatever name, or in whatever form it may as
sail us.
6. Resolved, That the abolition of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, is in bad faith
to the slaveholding States as it brands the deal
ing in that property as infamous, and takes from
it that protection guaranteed to it by the Con
stitution, and willingly extended to all other
kinds of property by Congress.
7. Resolved, That in the bill for the abolition
of the slave trade in the District of Columbia,
we recognize the first exercise of an usurped
power on the part of Congress to emancipate
slaves, and view this in conneXion with other
measures passed by this Congress, as intended
to prepare us for its exercise more fully hereaf-
ter by emancipation in the Forts, Dock-yards
Arsenals, and finally in the States themselves,
g.. Resolued, That the war on our institutions.
has commenced we have been beaten on every
issue made prohibited the enjoyment of any
of our recent acquisitions from Mexico one
hundred thousand square miles of slave terrific
ry wrested from us Judgment made in the
District of Columbia. Our out posts are driven
in; the foe is on the walls of our citadels, the
contest is hand to hand, man to man, for our fire.
sides, wives, and children"
9. RESOLVED, That the proposition of Seward,
and the subsequent proposition of Hale, to abol-
sh slavery in the District of Columbia, together
with the speeches of Dayton, Baldwin, and
Pennsylvania, in the House, clearly indicate that
a quiet submission, peaceable submission, will
not appease the hungry spirit of Aboltionism.
| Their course is, and has been onward from con-
quest to victory.
10. Resolued, That the legislative department
of the Government in its three branches of Pre-
sident, Senate and House of Representatives is
against us sixteen States, majority of the
whole are against us, fifteen millions Of the
twcnty-four, comprising the Federal population
are against us, and that without hope of change,
all of the usual means of resistance to unjust
and unconstitutional legislation have faied-yet
we will not despair, though clouds and darkness
lower over us, we will remember Washington at
Valley Forge, Marion in the swamps of Pedee,
and more recently the gallant Texans fleeing
from desolate homes before the ruthless Next
can.
IL. Resolred, That rs this is a common cause,
We do not claim for ourselves the right to dictate
the mode or measure of resistance, but hold our
selves prepared to act in harmony with our
friends, whenever Alabama, alone, or the South
unitedy, shall take position.
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