The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-19

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Mr. BUTLER Then draw the inference
that the people from Massachusetts would not
claim salvage.
Mr. WINTHROP. Well, Mr.. President, we
have had the tragedy, ard now lsuppose we are
having the farce. II
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEETINGS.
THE LINE CREEK REsoLUTIoss.-Th senti-
ments OF the patriots-the sovereign people, not
The toliticians-of portion of Macon, Pike, and
this county, will be found in our columns to-
day. Let demagogues, submissionists, Free
sellers and Southern traitors read in them the
alternatives to which brave, highminded and
patriotic freemen may be driven by continued
assaults upon their rights.
The Journal may pirate about their intoler-
ance but it will not alter the course of these men,
Ii they have become ntolerant, who have as
sisted and made them so! Surely these very
men, against whom they have finally been dri-
ven to level their darts If their pockets are
made to suffer for the license Of their tongues,
they have themselves alone to blame for it,
We had intended adding some extended com
ments upon these proceedings, but our space abb
solutely forbids it. We would say, however,
that these resolutions are entirely the offspring
of the people. No man who has ever held pub
lie Office had anything whatever to do with
them, We mention this fact as important proof
Of what we have had frequent occasion to re-
peat, viz: that the politicians were in the rear
of the people upon this question. This is true,
not only with respect to the people of Line
Creek, but OF Lowndes, Barbour, Henry, and
every where that we have een.-lllonigou
(Ala) Advertiser 9' Gazette,
Z SOUTHERN Mass MEETING ON LINE CREEK
On Thursday the 9th inst, the citizens Of
Montgomery and the adjoining counties, met on
Line Creek, to discuss the causes of alienation
unhappily existing between the different portions
of this confederacy--to take cou sci one with
another, in reference to the best method of re-
dressing the wrongs now being inflicted upon
the honor and the interests of the people Of the
South by dominant and tyrancal majority, and
to pass resolutions declaratve of their most sol
emn convictions upon the momentuous ques-
tons now at issue.
The meeting was organized by appointing the
following gentlemen as officers
Presidenis.-Dr. James w. Pierce and Geo
Merriwether.
Vice Presidents-Henry M. White, esq !,
Christopher Tompkins, Capt. James May, Maj.
John White, James Reynolds SEN, William B.
Gilmer, esq.
iSecretaries-Geo c. Freeman, Benjamin j.
Baldwin.
The object of the meeting was explained by
DR.. Merriwethcr.
Addresses were then delivered BY the follow
ing gentlemen.
Jefferson Mobiles, esq, Montgomery city; Gen
Geo. W. Gum, Tuskegee; Governor Bagby,
Montgomery Col Seibels of the Advertiser
and Gazette; Judge Mays Montgomery Gen.
Walker, Macon county.
The following resolutions were reported by
DR.. Pierce, chairman of the committee, and unan-
imously adopted
Whereas crisis has arisen in the political af-
fairs Of our country, which requires on the part
Of the South, firm resolves, and decisive action
was portion of the people of Alabama, with
out disttton Of party, in primary convention, do
put forth to the world our sentiments in the fol-
lowing resolutions
Resotred, That The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor pro-
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people"
Resolred, That ours is not a consolidated gov
crnment but federal republic, with limited
powers, the States having delegated to central
federation, such powers only as were necessary
to " secure domestic tranquility, and promote the
general welfare OF all the States.
Resolred, That as sovereignty is inaliendJle,"
in a contest between the General Government,
and one or more of the States, each party being
co-equal, and having no common umpire between
them, each has right to Judge of the violations
of the fact, us we'll as the "mode and measure
of redress"
Resolred, That the continued violation of the
Federal Constitution, by the people of the nom
saveholding States, their State Legislatures and
members in Congress, calls upon the aggrieved
and weaker section, to recur to first principles
to hold up before our oppressors the tatterred
charter OF our rights to exhaust all the means of
redress within the terms of the Constitution, and
when these fail, to provide new guards for our
future security.
Resolred, That if the dominant abolition ma
iority of the North continue their aggressions
upon the Southern States the latter must shortly
determine for themselves the sad alternative of
qui tly passing under the yoke of their masters,
or boldly Withdrawing froma confederacy, alien
to them in interest and feelings, and which uses
the bond of union, as means of defrauding
them of theic most inestimable rights, and pri-
vileges.
Resolred, That with the North the Constitu-
ton is dead letter-that paper guarantees and
parchment restrictions are but cobweb barriers,
when the end to be attained is power and plum
der-that the right to our slave property Is not
only stipulated in the Federal Constitution, and
is coeval with its adoption, but existed when
we were colonies-that the robbing of the
Southern people during the last thirty years, by
the people and States of the North, of at least
twenty-five millions in slave property, would
have caused n declaration of war between
foreign States--that the slaveholding States
should require forthwith of the North, q con-
vention of all the States so to amend the Con-
stitution as to add more checks for their future
rights, or else they will seccde from the confe-
deracy.
Resolred, That IN the Southern Convention at
Nashville, we saw the first germ of union and
harmony---that in its recommendations, we saw
a platform on which all Southern men could
stand; and that its future deliberation and de-
cisions in defence of Southern interests, will
bind us until the end, unless they recommend
submission.
Resolred, That as Congress endorsed the
right of Texas TO the Territory claimed bv her