The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-10-10
sournnRN R1aHTs MnurrNa.


on Monday of o'clock p. NJ. and organic
zed by calling Hon. Z, &. Wilkinson TO the
chair and appointing D. Walker, Secretary.
The chair submitted for their consideration
the following resolutions, to>wit:
lst Resolved that the best mode of ascer-
tanning the object and meaning of a law is to
consult its preamble, since the makers of a
law are supposed to express in it's preamble
the very purposes and motives which led them
TO propose and adopt il, and that this is rule
of construction as applicable to tho constitu-
ton of the U. S. as any other law.
End, Resolved, That the main objects of the
constitution were to establish justice" insure
domestic tranquility, promote the general well
fare, and to secure to ourselves and TO our pos
terity the blessings of equal rights.
3rd, Resolved, That experience proves that
the constitution properly administered, and
faithfully executed, is fully adequate to effect
its objects, and that until time comparative
ty recent, it fell in no way short of the expec
tations OF its illustrious founders, dispensing
equal and impartial justice, promoting the
general peace, prosperity, and welfare; and
ditfusing the blessings of liberty and safety Of
persons and of property throughout the whole
land.
4th, Resolved, That now, although the letter
ofthe constitution is the same, its spirit is en-
trely perverted, its objects lost sight of and
disregarded, its intents baf2ed and mainly de-
feated by an overbearing and reckless maj GRITTY,
which appears to scorn alike the restraints of
law and justice when they interpose between
them and the fulfillment Of their purposes Of
lawless ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, oppression, spolia-
ton, contiscation Of property, and the utter
wreck and ruiu of the minority
9Th, Resolved, That the Justice which the
constitution designed to establish is now syst
ematicolly and constantly defeated, domestic
tranquility, so far from being promoted is dis
turbed and troubled, almost destroyed in the
administration Of the government, the gen.
eral welfare made to mean the partial welfare
of a secti nal majority, the blessings of equal
| liberty is denied to us, and the fate of colon
lists, dependents, and interiors, inevitably
awaits our posterity unless it is ayerted by our
determination aud courage,
| 9th, Therefore Resolved ThLt the constitu-
| ton has failed to secure the ends for which it
was adopted, for we are plundered of cur prop
! erty, disturbed and harrassed in our social re-
! latous, denied the common rights and equal
! privileges of American citizens, insulted, de-
rided, threatened and reyilcd by the majority;
we enjoy neither fraternity, equality, nor
equal liberty iE the Union; the Union has
therefore failed.
eth Resolved, That in the language of the
| declaration of Independence, ''When a long
train of abuses and usurpatioGs, pursuing in
Variably the same object, evinces design to
reduce people under absolute despotism. it is
their right, it is their duty to throw off such
government and to provide new guards foI
their future security
/ pozOI,+a1 Och That 4Lo roo-a e 81 -
meeting that the Governor should recommend
to the legislature at its extra session to pass a
law calling State convention Ito assemble as
early as conveniently toconsult about the mode
and measure otredress.
9th Resolved, That we approve the resolu-
!. fions and address the Nashville Convention.
.SNthev concede too much, but the refusal Of the
asonable offer embraced in them, puts our
enemies further in the wrong, and shows
that they are deaf alike TO the voice Of reason
aud TO the claims of equality and justice, anC
that it gives to US the great advantage in thi.
: dispute of position of moderation, forbear'
arce and even ola disposition to compromise
away portion of our rights for the sake o.
peace and quiet
10Th Resolved, That the chairman appoint
delegates TO represent this county in the mex
: Southern convention whether held at Nashville
or elsewhere.
lI.h Resolved, That the State of Mississippi
is sovereignty, that her people owe obedience
to the general government but that they owe
allegiance to her, and that this duty OF allegi
ance TO their State is paramount to any and al
claims of obedience from any quarter; tina
} the condition of the Union is but aseompac
E and covenant between sovereign States, tina
> the powers that made it can unn1ake it wheI
Ia In1, ~ 4rv "A
peaceablv at any time, without opposition O
complaint, and in the language of Jefferson t.
Judge of all infractions of the compact, and Q
+. the mode and measure of redress"
! 18th, Resolved, That certain reciprocal
rights and duties existed between these State
anterior to the formation of the Federal com
: pact; they are the same that now exist between
~1Hndependent friendly communities all over tn
world, that among them was the right to eXac
full and impartial justice in their intercours
d with each other, that no where does the censti
: tuition give to Congress the power to legis at
in disregard of this right: That if it has tn
Il power therefore TO admit California as Stat
into the Union, it had no right to cxercis
this power in the manner that it did, and ths
such admission was violation Of the rights
the South as unjust and fragrant as if it had in
e volved confessedlY, direct and apparent il
:. fraction of the constitution, and that it is on
right and duty to resist it by all the means
d which we would resist any of the most palp,
o BILE violations of the constitution involvin
: equal injustice, and consummating the sam
: mischief and iniury.\
z Resolution ID Dye. Barksdale) That upo
the ratification of the treaty Of Guadalupe FL
dalgo, the eminent domain of the territory a,
quired under that treaty belonged to tbs State
of the Union, that sovereignty is il
separable from the States and that nor
{ whether aliens or citizens could RICH
y. fully exercise any function of sovereignty u
% less authorized by the States-that the Stat
have only authorized Congress TO do SO, al
u not emigrants into the territory without Il
le express permission of Congress, that the pc
>, pie of California therefore in forming a COVER