The southern press., 1850-08-31
70 sks Editor. qf th< Sostker~ Prc.s.

To he Editors qf Me Sostkeyw Prcss.
GENTLEnKH: have just returned from the
Southern Rights meeting, held on tbs 29d ult., in
Macon, and supposing you might be interested
in having an early account Of what took place,
have concluded to give you this hasty account.
FIrst, ~ to the number You may set it down,
for certainty that not less than between Eve and
six thousand people were drawn together from
the interest excited by the call Of this meeting.
Every body knows that the backward state Of
our crops, the large meeting in Atlanta last week.
and the extensive practice which rather injudi-
ciously obtained throughout the State, in the
primary meeting. OF detailing certain number of
delegates 70 represent the county masses, instead
OF sending down the masses hemseipes, were the
causes which conspired to make the attendance as
small az five or six thousand Ex-Governor
Mcdonald. and Judge Strong e Whig) presided,
divided to politics. The speakers, al The stand
were Messrs. Rhett, Of South Carolina. Yancv
aud Cochran, of Alabama, and Colouitf. Stiles
aud Jones, besides numbers Of other gentlemen
from both parties, who addressed large and en-
thusiastic crowds in different parts Of the c;tv.
You will see the resolutions, as they will be sent
to you by order Of the Convention. We think
you will approve them fully. as
But the thing that you and your readers will
be most curious to learn, will be, what demonstra-
tons Of the popular feeling were made, that fore
shadows the action Of the State Of Georgia upon
the anti-slavery controversy now raging over
ths whole land. We will not attempt, by the
slightest coloring or distortion Of the events of
yesterday, to misIead you or your readers, or TO
deceive ourseiues or anybody else. Throughout
the whole day we were perfectly astonished at the
rapid strides which. in short time, (since the
loss of the Clay "biH Of sale, the public feel
ing had made towards extreme measures de-
clare to you, gentlemen, that no speaker stood
the least chance Of engaging the attention or the
sympathy 1--WE might say the respecD Of the crowd
L -" L.. .~r<y "a IL -
temporary policy. Not speaker ever dreamed
of wishing to counsel less than the Missouri line,
and that as an uitmatum II would have been a
rash thing if he had. More than once, by ire
pressible outbursts, signs were given Of what was
in that mass Of burning hearts. The submission
press will be swim enough to give these incidents
to you with all their Embellishments The vote
was taken after the three first speeches. upon the
resolutions, and passed without the first voice
being raised against them. So the people knew
what they were doing.
We heard the matter OF our State Convention
alluded to time and again-we heard from the
stand suggestions of our duty to the South, in the
event Of the admission Of California, and plans Of
State action proposed, and assure you If there
Was in that crowd one solitary man that
thought we were gong to" extremes, I" he felt
the crowd to be too uncongenial to let his notions
be known in any mode of dissent. We send you
our name to this paper, and if what we tell you
turns out to be false, we are willing to be a
marked man by the g Press from this out.
Mark what we tell you, Georgia has made up
her mind. Her people have got to believe that
this Cove -nment means to live by plunder of the
South She isnow fully satisfied that the lying
cant of Yankee statesmen about I" Free-soil, and
6 down-trodden humanity, !" means that it is very
convenient to make Southern men, in every pos
sible way, /" hewers of wood and drawers of
water" for their blood sucking constituency, and
she does not mean to submit to it. Let Congress
dare Yes! yes yes let Congress dare to pass
the California bill, and upon the spot Governor
Townes will rally this State in Convention, and
when it is convoked, a rush of bitter consuming
vengeance will go up to .Milledgevile, that will
make the dollar mongering, cyphering, spawn Of
soisteang patriots, count the cost Of their dis
honesty. ss s4 1855
We believe that if it were ever suspected that
in the event of the admission Of California, Gen
eral Townes would not can the Convention, this
country would be made too hot to hold him. But
no man doubts our Governor He is just the man
for the place.. We for one, are very Indifferent
whether the matter now in controversy are ever
healed or not. For it does seem to me that the
anti-save States have committed the unpardona-
BILE sin against the South. For years and years
their venalty, their unblushing disregard Of poEf-
ical PERJURY have been too deliberate and have been
too grievious in their influence on our peace and
happiness to give us the least hope of any
thorough neioration But rest assured or one
thing, that if she stands alone, Georgia will quit
the false and huckstering pack unless she is
sured in the enjoyment Of her rights under the
Constitutions; and we have heard five hundred
men in the lasttw two days say, that when the Con-
and that step is to be out Of the Union. Congress
may bully Carolina with her three hundred and
fifty thousand, but if the Government is keen for
a frolic, let it try our quality. H..