The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-20
c OR r f S p O N ID Il N c E,
For The Southern Press.
Public Meeting in Halifax, Va

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! AT large and respectable meeting Of the peo-
lple of Halifax, irrespective of party, held in the
vicinity of Brooklyn, on Monday the 9Th July,
1850, Thos. w, White was called to the Chair,
and George p. Richardson appointed Secretary
Upon motion of Col. l.. Edmunds, the following
gentlemen were appointed by the Chairman a
committee to draft resolutions for the action ofthe
meeting, to wit Henry Edmunds, Littleton Ed
munds, David Chalmers, William Wilson and DIR.
Robert G.. Jennings. VS. i.If n g3
And by motion, the Chairman and Secretary
were added to the committee, who after retire
ment and free discussion, reported the following
resolutions ~
Resoired, As the opinion of this meeting, that
the bill now pending before the Senate of the
United States, called the Compromise BILL is any
thing else than fair adjustment OF the question
now at issue before the people of the United
States. -
Resolred, That the territory lately acquired from
Me; co by the common treasure and valor Of the
people Of the United States, belongs of righ
equally to the people of all the States of the Union
and that no power under Heaven has the right t.
appropriate this property for the benefit Of one
portion of the Confederacy to the detriment Of
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Resolued, That as it is a generally admitted fact
that the Congress of the United States has no
right under the Constitution to interfere with the
question of slavery within the States of this
Union, wedeem it to be equally unjust and uncon.
stituonal for Congress to make any disposition OF
the territory belonging to the people of the United
States which will tend to destroy the value Of
slave property in the slave States 4'@ i6@
Resolved, That the people from any of the States
of this Union have the right to emigrate with
their slaves and other property to any part Of the
territory lately acquired by the treaty Of Guada-
lupe Hida!go, and now belonging to the several
States, and that it is the duty Of the Federal Gov
eminent to protect them in the exercise of such
right
Resolred, As the opinion of this meeting, that
the people from the States Of this Union, who
have gone to California, together with a mixed
mass of loafers and squatters from every portion
of the habitable globe, have no more right to APP
propriate the territory Of California to their excl-
sive advantage, and settle the organic laws of the
land to the exclusion Of the people of other
portions Of the Confederacy, than they have to
appropriate private and individual property to
their own purposes. 2# afliE fgfaI ZE8tN
Resotred, That we cannot regard the fugitive
slave bill as any concession from the North to the
people OF the South, inasmuch as we dc not ask
Legislative provision for constitutional rights
Resofred, Ihas we cordially approve of the
course Of our Representative from this District,
upon all these questions, and we cannot forbear
expressing our surprise, regret and pain, at the
course OF other Representatives from the South,
who have abandoned us in the hour of need 81
Resolved, That the secretary be requested to
send u copy of these resolutions to our represen-
tative from this district, and also, to the South
e'r Press at Washington, for publication, and to
such papers of this State as he may find conye-
nient. Eft
...e ,.e THOMAS w. WHITE, Chairman.
GEo. RICHARDS, Secretary