The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-03
politilal Department. !
TENNESSEE FOR THE CONVENTION.
VIZ take the following extract from the last
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VIZ take the following extract from the last
Nashville Union:
The Democratic party of Tennessee is unan.
imously in favor of the Southern Convention.
and is taking means to be fully represented
in it.
For time, about the close of the session of
the Legislature, we feared that only the Demo.
cratic party of the State would be represented
in it. These fears are dissipated. Within the
last few days we have learned enough to know
that strong and irrepressible feeling in favor of
the Convention is rising among the Wings Of
this vicinity. Many in this county will cor.
daily join the Democrats in the appointment Of
delegates Such, also, we know, is the condi.
ton Of things elsewhere throughout the State
We believe that by the lst of June, the submis.
sionists will be in contemplate minority of
their party. and have learned to regret the in.
fatration which has driven them to prove false
to the right of their own section of the Union
and false to their own earlier aud noble In.
stincts.
The Memphis Enquirer leading Wing pa.
per of Tennessee, speaks out in the following
words:
The question now is whether the Southern
States will agree to further concessions to
oppose constantly increasing aggressions. OF
whether they will boldly proclaim and sustain
their constitutional rights. The object of the
proposed Nashville Convention is to settle this
question--and if the States there represented
shall determine to submit and become obedi.
ent slaves, they will agree and put on their
"iron necklaces" if not they will devise and
recommend the "mode and measure of re.
dress" which the people should adopt This
Convention will claim no legislative or Other
authority. They will be the representatives of
an oppressed and aggrieved people, and viii
only suggest the remedy, and the people will
act. We will not fatigue the reader. This Is a
fruitful theme. We shall from day to daypre
sent to our readers some of the reasons which
influence us to advise the people of the South
to act. The prating about treason and danger
to the Union is mere pretence, We shall un-
dertake to show in our future numbers, that the
only salvation of the Union consists in an en-.
ergetic effort on the part of the Southern people
to preserve the constitution-the only bond Of
union-pure and uncontaminated from the touch
of the foul destroyer. The real traitor is the
man who coalesces with the enemies of the
South and ISLANDERS her friends. The people Of
the South, without distinction OF party, will re.
member these pretended friends, who speak
loud words for the Union, and at the same time
stab her best friends by false charge of treason
FLoRIDA--THE SOUTHERN CoNvEHrrov.--
The people of Florida are manfesting becom.
ing sepsitiveness to the tame and submissive
couhsels of Gov. Brown. Public meetings are
being held in various parts of the State and the
resolutions which have come to US show that,s 5
the people are taking the management of their
affairs into their own hands. Large assemBla;
ges convened in Jefferson, Jackson, and ottr
populous counties, at which strong resoluti9Hs
were adopted approving of the Southern Con-
vention, and measures taken for the appoint
ment of Delegates A very numerous, meeting
was held at Tallahassee on the 25th IlE: when
it was recommended that Middle ahd. West
Florida should each send two Delegates, and
East and Soath Florida one each, niakingSix;
from the State, and suggesting that they :'be
elected by the people in primary meetings.
The Pensacola Gazette, which opposes the
Convention, admits that the most distinguished
men in the State are operating with the mas.
ses in favor of these movements. We have
no doubt but that tho people of Florida will
stand by their Representatives in Congress, not.
withstanding the croakiugs Of an imbecile Gov.
ernor.
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