The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-12
From The Southern .4ppeai.

COUNTY MEEriNc.-At a meeting of the citizens
of Yaobus!a county, Mississippi, wlthou, dis
tincti"n Of parties, held in Coaeeve, on Saturday
the Eth INST
On motion Of &. G. Martin, esq, Hon. Thos
Carbry was elected President, and Dr. p. w. Wood
and Mr.. - Nicholson, Vice Presidents. Mr.
Nicholson not being present, Col. l.. Cleveland
was elected in his stead, but declined to act in
consequence ofi health. Mr.. Joel Hill was then
called upon to act as Vice President, and took his
seat. The chair then appointed Il. J. y. Bridgers
and B. Il. Cleveland, Secretaries.
On motion Of Mr.. 1'iIla w. Carr, the following
| portion Of the Farewell Address Of Gen. Wash
ington, was read by one of the Secretaries -
"ln contemplating the causes which may dis
iurb our Union, 1t occurs, as a matter of serious
concern, that any ground should have been fur
nIshed for characterlslng parties by geographical
| lmInations-Northern and Southern Atlantic
| and Western: whence designing men may endcavor
to excite belief that there is real difference of
local interests and views. One of the cNpedients
OF party to acquire influence within particular
districts, Is to misrepresent the opinions ard aims
Of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves
too much against the ,iealouses and heart burn
ings which spring from these misrepresentation :;
they tend to render alien to each other those who
ought to be bound together by fratcrnal af
fiction. The inhabitants four western country,
have lately had useful lesson on this head, they
have seen in the negotiation by the Executive,
and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate,
Of the treaty with SPAIN and in the universal sat
islaction at that event throughout tn" United
States, II decisive proof how untounded were the
suspicious propagated among them, oi policy
in the General Government, and in the Atlantic
States, untriendy to their interests to the MIssis
slppt they have been witnesses to the formal Jon
of two treaties-that with Great Britain, and that
with Spain, which secure to them every thing
they could desire in respect to our foreign rela-
nrfIv ,ErN,, gha,. ",n
it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation
Of these advantages on the Union by which they
were procuredi Will they not henceforth be
deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who
would sever them from their brethren, and con-
meet them with aliens?
"fo the efficacy and Pernnanency of your Union, a
government for the whole is Indispensable. No
alliance however strict between The parts, can be
adequate substitute; they must inevitably expe-
rience the infracions and Interruptions which all
alliances, in all time, have experienced. Sensible
OF this momentuous truth, you have improved
upon your first essay, by the adoption Of a consti-
tuition Of government better calculated than your
former for an intimate Union, and for the effca-
clous management of your common concerns
ms Government, the offspring Of our own choice
unlntuenced, and unawed, adopted upon full in
vestlgation and mature deliberation, completely
free IN It's principles, in the distribution of its
powers, uniting security with energy, and contain.
ing within itself provision or It's own amend
ment. has just claim to your confidence aud your
support. Respect for its authority, compliance
with It's laws, acquescence in its measures. are
duties en- oined by the fundamental nlaxims of true
liberty. The basis of our political system is tn,
! right of the people to make and to alter their con
| stltutions of Government, but the constitution
which at any time exists, ill changed by an ex
pllcit and authentic act Of the whole people, il
sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea .
the power, and the right Of the people to establish
government, pre-supposes the duty Of every in
dlvidua to obey the established government
! All Instructions to the execution Of the law:
all combinations and associations, under whuteve
plausible character, with the implied design to di
rect, control, counteract, or awe the regular de
liberation and action Of the constituted authorities
are destructive to this fundamental principle, anc
OF fatal tendency. They serve to organize factor
to give II an artificial and extraordinary force, tc
put m the place OF the delegated will ofthe nation
the will OF party, often small but artful and
4 enterprlsIng minority OF the community and &C
cordlng to the alternate triumphs Of different par
ties, TO make the public administration the mirror
of the ill-concerted and homogeneous projects Of
faction. rather than the organ Of consistent and
wholesome plans, digested BY common counsels
and modified by mutual interests.
"Howevcr combinations or associations OF the
above desert pton may now and then answer pop
uler ends, they are likely in the course Of time