The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-31

that the It'll resolution be laid on the table /;
which was lost
After some discussion upon the resolution, in
which Messrs Davenport, Tarpley and Work,
took part the question was taken on its adop-
ton, and decided in the affirmative, Mr. Fearn
dissenting.
On motion of Col. C. 8. Tarpley,
Resolred, That the Mississippian and the
papers throughout the State, be requested to
publish the proceedings Of this meeting.
The meeting then adjourned
JOHN l. GUN, Chm.
E. P, RUSSELL, Sec'y.
From the Sapannah Georgian.
Public Meeting-The Nashville Conven-
ton.
In pursuance of call made by many citizens,
inviting all persons approving Of the proceed
ings of the late Nashville Convention, to meet
at the Exchange Long Room on Tuesday even
ing, the 23d inst, at half-past eight o'clock, a
large number Of the citizens Of Savannah con-
vened at the appointed hour and place, when
on motion, DR.. James p. Screven was called to
the Chair, and Montgomery Cumming appointed
Secretary. The Chairman of the meeting hav-
ing stated its object on motion of John Bilbo,
Esq, the Chairman appointed committee of
ten, to report suitable resolutions for the cons-
Iteration of the meeting.
The following named gentlemen were ap-
pointed said committee, John Bilbo, John Bos-
ton, Andrew Low, DR.. r. ID. Arnold, r. G.
Guerard, Oetavus Cohen, f. ]. Harden, Joseph
Lipman, MIR. ]. Buckner, c. A. Lamar. The
committee RETIRED and during its absence, the
meeting was addressed by s. Y, Levy and John
M. Millen, Esqrs., in reference to the great SUBJ
int H., Al "a
South, and its duty in this crisis, in appropriate
apd patriotic speeches
The committee having returned, reported
through their Chairman the following preamble
and resolutions:
Both the crisis and the consequently excited
state of public feeling throughout the South,
demand everywhere full and free expression
of public opinion. af eat
Hitherto the voice of submission, or Of COM
promise equal to submission, has been ever
loudest in our midst, deluding the North as to
the state of public sentiment in the South, and
Strengthening the arm Of the oppressor to acts
Of further aggression. The occasion now calls
for more decisive stand, and it behooves all
who believe submission has ceased to be vir-
tue, and further surrender Of their rights to be
a disgrace to themselves and crime against pos
terity, calmly yet firmly, to speak in the cearest
accents of warning to the ear of the aggressor.
We believe the prevalent opinion now
throughout the South to be that the Senates
Compromise is no compromise at all. It takes
from us the whole of California with it's almost
illimitable boundaries, and leaves New Mexico
and Utah to be the subjects of like fraudulent
admission to State sovereignty, during the next
session of Congress. 1t seeks to bride Texas
to surrender Of vast portion of her slave Ter
ritory for the purpose Of annexing it to juris-
dictiop where it will inevitably become free soil
1t abolishes the slave trade i'm the District of
Columbia, District which as trust property is
common to the Union, and finally tends to prac-
tice deception upon the South, by making o
matter OF Compromise ofthe clear Constitutional
right which we have to the aid Of Congress in
Congress in recovering our fugitive slaves.
Feeling therefore that the Senate's adjustment
instead of closing will widen the breach between
the North and the South,
IL is therefore Resolued, That we fully endorse
the positions assumed in the resolutions passed
by the patriotic assembly lately convened at
Nashville, and tender to the members thereof
and ability with which they discharged the du-
ties that devolved upon them.
Resotred, That in agreeing to take the Mis-
souri, Compromise, we do so only because such a
basis has been heretofore acquiesced in as a
means Of preserving the Union.
Resolred, That any Compromise that yields
more on the part Of the South than the Missouri
Compromise, or of which that Compromise is
not the basis, is oppressive and degrading to the
slaveholding States rs equals with the North in
the Confederacy, and as binding one portion of
the Confederacy, to a state of AFFECT dependence
upon the other
Resolred, That under the present crcumstan-
ces OF the country and the known want of pro-
per representative population within its borders,
the admission of New Mexico MS State, would
justify the most extreme measures on the part
Of the South.
RESOLVED, That the course pursued in Con-
gress by our Senators and several of the Repre-
sentatiyes from this State, upon the slavery
question, and especially by the Hon. Mcpherson
Berrien, and the Hon. Joseph w. Jackson,
prove them warm and devoted patriots, worthy
the confidence of the whole South, and the es-
TEEN and appreciation of their immediate con-
stituents
The chairman then announced the preamble
and resolutions as reported, to be before the
meeting and open for discussion. The resolu-
tons as reported by the committee, were then
advocated by John Bilbo, Esq DR.. r. ID. Arnold
and Edward J. Harden, Esq, in eloquent and
appropriate addresses, fully sustaining and sup
porting said resolutions. After which the pre-.
amble and resolutions were unanimously adopt.
ed by the meeting.
On notion II Was t0s s." 'flH r