Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1850-11-21
From the Republicans private Dispatches.
Nashville Convention.
NASHVILLE Nov. III

NASHVILLE Nov. I1-6P. N.
The celebrated Secession Convention as.
senbled to-day.
Governor McDoNALD, of Georgia was
made President. He made an eloquent nd.
dress sma ttering strongly of secession.
On accoun, of the absence of many Del.
egatcs, hourly expected TO arrive in town,
the Convention adjourned until tomorrow
at IL O'Clock NJ.
There were present about fifty Delegates
in all.
The following gentlemen are in the city
TO attend the Convention: Ex-Governor G.
G. Clay, of Ala; G. w. Calhoun and y. +.
jameson, ID. $. Otterson, j. n. Whitmore,
Drayion Nance, II. G. Young, X. Barnwe!l
Rhc,t, Col. Gregg, Mr. Pickens, Langdon
Cheeves, GIRLS. 5. Chestnut and Bradley, of
South Carolina; Gen. Gordon, of Va; Gov
Mcdonald of Ga: Gen. Hanna of South
Carolina and also number of others.
The President of the Convention in his
opening address said that, if Congress had
thought proper TO pass the measures re-.
commended by The first Convention, thai,
another meeting would not have been nee
essary; but as Congress had disregarded
the Convention and passed measures antag.
onistic directly to the South, the Conven-
ton, in sovereign capacity of the ndividu
al Delegates, without the call of the previ-
Gus President of the Convention, had ro.as-
sembled, and would endcavor to meet the
crisis thrust on them by a tyrannca Con.
gress, or sever themselves.
NASHVILLE, Now IL.
Gov. Mcdonald not being present, Hon
Chas A. Mcdonald was elected Presid ent
In short speech, on taking the chair, he
minated that the South, on account OF
the late action OF Congress, could now hold
the North East, and West, as brethren in
name, only, but not in truth and affection
NAsmvI LIE Nov. l3
The following new delegates appeared:
From Georgia seven; Mississippi nine;
Florida, three; South Carolina, two.
! The States being called for, they were
presented by Messrs. Clay of Alabama.
and Dupont of Florida.
The following States are represcnted
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, in
all about 6odelegates.
The document from the Alabama Dele
CATION presented by Gov. Clay, is very
lengthy, and Of the most ultra character.
10 abolish Slavery, or the Slave trade
in the District of Columbia--to regulate
the sale or transfer of Slaves between the
States-to exclude Shareholders with prop
er,y from the Territories to admit Cali
InIn he, al,
case, we hold to be all parts of The same sys
TEN of measures, and subordinate TO tn,
greater end they have finally in view, which
Is openly avowed to be the total overthrow
"i =. tiiution every where.
After the exposition and Declaration o
Rights, for which we have room only 70
, the foregoing extract--a string of res
oluiions lollows:-
R6Smrcd, That, as sovereign party t.
the constitutional compact, each state q
the linton has right to Judge of any il,
traction OF the Constitution committed b
their common agent the General Govern
ment, or by their copariners in the conicde
racy OF the other States of the Union; an
that whenever, in the opinion of any State
other States shall be dissolved, she has
= RICH, peacably to secede from the u Mon.
ResolUcd, That any attempt on th
part OF the General Government, or of tn
other States OF the Union, to coelce a SC
E ceding State into the Union. would be
manifest interference with her reserve
rights, and gross act OF understandable az
erosion and usurpation, inconsistent wit
the plain terms of the constitutional com
pact between the States; and we recon-
mend the Southern States distinctly to dc
e clare their determination, in case of an
e interference, to support the seeding State.
by all the resources within their power.
u Rcsoircd, That all the anticipated evil
to the South, which occasioned this Con
vention to assemble, have been realized
= the Southern States have been degrade
E from an equality with the Northern State,
: by being excluded from colonizing wit
{ their institutions any portion of our terri
tories. The Wilmot Proviso is virtual
? extended over California, by the act @
r Congress admitting her as State into :h
-, Union, with a Constitution excluding Sla
. very, and by the laws OF Mexico whic
Congress refused to alter, and which tn
Executive of the United States, by the off
GERS lac has the power of appointing, cal
y enforce. The South is also excluded from
d Utah and New Mexico. Congress has in
teriered with slavery in the District c
Columbia by aboIishing the slave trad
therein and the act PASSED by Congress
more ei'cctually to enforce the cons,itu
tlonal guarantee Tor the recovery or recap
y ture OF fugitive slaves, is being virtual
G nulliIiGd by Tie nennln nf the NnrihnrI