The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-03-16
U|snrnation nd Frahd.

startled attic assumption Of
power by hat body, and the reasons as
signe for il, in the matter Of the Nash.
Vile convention. 1t seems that the two
branches, by joint resolution, agreed to
Ia convention and elect delegates
10 this convention, and the principal
reason assigned for this was, that the
people would not turn out in many Of
The counties in sufficient numbers 10 give
moral force and respect 10 the delegates
who might be elected by such meager
minorities. We do net say this reason
was given in these precise words-but
in substance it was given by more than
one Of the leaders Of the movement, and
was the only reason that had truth and
weight in it, We do not intend 10 show
here The violation Of the constitution
which was SO manifestly p%erpetrated by
the Legislature-they had the honesty
not TO pretend that they had any constr
sIitutional right 10 take such action.-
We only intend to point out a few facts,
showing a series Of frauds and usurpa'
tions upon the people. The first fraud
is this. The Legislature, at great ex.
pense, caused to be printed and circula-
ted throughoutthe State, what p%urpOrts
and p%retends to be an authentic account
Of the proceedings o. acentral meeting at
Jackson last summer. and Of the October
convention, in the same place. In these
proceedings, thus published at the ex-
pense Of The State and by the authority
Of its Legislature, we do not find a sim
gle a%llusion TO the California question,
and one would naturally suppose that it
was not alluded to in that convention. =
And set, in that very convention, we find
it was taken up and discussed. The
committee appointed to prepare resolu-
lions reported one in substance that the
admission Of California, under a consti
tuition formed by IFS then population,
would he,a fraud upon the South. This,
and another resolution was objected to
in a minority report signed by Messrs.
Dabney, Winchester, GuloN! Zone ofthe
leaders in the new movementl BOine, etc.
We give an extract from the report:
The fifth resolution in effect declares, that
the rassage Of a law admitting California into
the Union, AZ the next session Of Congress, I'M
der o constitution made by the present popula-
ton Of California, would be a ffand upon the
slave States under it's constitutional power to
admit new States into the Union. aud should be
resisted by the slave States, equally with laws
abolishing slavery in the territories, the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and all places within the
exclusive jurisdiction Of Congress, or in the
slave States themselves. No such question
has been before the people OF this State, or any
other otIhe slave States, so faTas we are aware.
Nor do we believe il would be eoncurFed in
by the people Of this Stateg Of either party ,
much less by the people Of all The States. To
MAXI such an act Of Congress an issue between
tie non.slave States and the slave States, upon
which united resistance from the latt is TO be
made on the ground Of fraud in the f"rmer in
the exercise Of constitutional power, would be
to place the slave States upon a less lofty atti-
iude OF clear and indisputable right than that
which they hold on the questions Of uncOnsti-
l%utional laws, which Immediately OF remotely
attack the relative social inequalities Of master
and slave, and the social and political existence
Of the slave States as States.
II our recollection serves US right, the doe
trine that the present population of California
and other territories have the right to settle thu
question Of the existence Of slavery anon"
themselves, by adopting a State constitution
originated with Distinguished Senator Of TIL
North in opp osition TO the WilmotP roviso par
~, tho Obo!itiOnistS and iree-soilers.
And SO much weight had this repor
that this convention ofthe people admit
ted the correctness Of the doctrine an
did not include the ad mission oil CalltoI
MIA among the grievances Of the Soutl
his was fraud the frst-sending fort
to the people a false record-endeavorin
TO make the impression, at home an
abroad, thatthis question had not bee
acted on and settled by the Supren
/, power Of the State, the people in cOnye.
ton assembled.
f Fraud end. This same peoples CO
vention elected twelve delegates al
d twelve alternates to attend the Nash vii
q convention, with full powers and instru
n lions as to their duties. The delegat
t. were elected or selected by the two pa
ties respectively, each party s%electir
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