The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-09-12
RESOLUTIONS OF THE RAY
MOND MEETING.


We come into this meeting not as wings
not as democrats, but as southern men,
We know no party on the vital question Of
southern rights, aud We will permit no par
" OF faction, or leader Of either 10 absOlve
US from our just allegiance to our state and
the south. We unite here as a band OF
brothers at the common alter of our coun-
irv. We are threatened by common dan
gers, and bound to one common duty, and
one destiny awaits US all, We are resell
we'd to mako a common cause in defence of
The Institutions, the rights liberties and in
dependence guaranteed 10 US by the con-
s%titution Of our fathers-therefOFe.
i. Resolved, That the rail- ying principle
and cry of the south is: The Unicn cfthe
south to SAGE the union; but the Union to
be saeed, must be the Union lchicS the
co institution formed, and not a central
Despotism.
Q. Resolved, That this meeting fully ap.
prove the address add resolutions Of the
Nashville convention, and will maintain
and defend the principles and determine
lions therein set forth.
3. ResolUed, That the ownership sove-
reicnty and dominion ofthe territory OF the
United States not within any State limits,
belong to and are vested in the people Of
the several States Of this Union, tobe dis
posed Of by them in accordance with the
provisions of the constitution Of The United
States, aud therefore neither the inhabi-
tants, Of the territories before their Organi-
cation, nor territorial legislature afterwards
have power to prohibit African slavery
therein, until duly organized and empow-
cred TO form a state constitution, with a
view 10 admission into the union; and that
all exercise of such assumed power by the
inhabitants Of territory is TevolutioDa Y
and in open violation of the rights Of the
people Of the slaveholding States.
4. ResoEped, That the attempt OF a por-
ton ofthe inhabitants of California to usurp
dominion over h atextensivp territory, and
to adopt therein a fundamental law, ex-
Guiding forever the STAKEHOLDER and his
property, is an act Of usurpatiqn and injus-
tice, which so far from inviting the couu-
tenance and sanction of Congress should
receive their unqualified rebuEe and rep
rehension.
S. ResolDed, That any act Of congress ad-
hitting California as State with the boun-
dariesa aud constitution now claimed andIthus
sanctioniug the irregular, illegal and unjust
act'of deprivirg the people offfteen Of the
States of this Union of their eqnal right to
the enjoyment Of theil common property
would be a gross outrage upon the consti-
%tutional rights Of the south, and should new
er be submitted to.
6, ResoLUed, That the employment Of
slave labor 10 California would be highly
beneficial to the whole Union, in more ra-
pidly developing the rich mineral Iesour:
ces of that country, by a permanent and
6xed system Of industry, and would be es-
p%ecialIy beneficial to the slaveholding States
by opening a new and very profitable field
for the employment Of slave labor, there
by tending to enhance the value OF slaves
and to extract surplus labor from the
growth ofour great staple, now Cutting
the market of the world, For these rea
sons also the arbitrary and unjuSt exclu.
sion Of slave property from that territory,
would not only be a violation Of our rights
as equal members Of the conIedeTacy, buI
highly injurious to our property interests.
7. ResolDed, That The final enacments
BY Congress Of the Senate bill to admit
California into the State, would be equiv
alent to the passage Of the Wilmot Provi-
SO and therefore, and for the reasons above
set forth, it would be in the language Of The
, Mississippi Convention and of the Legis-
laIOre, such a breach oftbe federalcompact,
i, as 10 that event will make it the duty, as
il is the right Of the slave holding States
and their domestic institutions.
8. RESOLVED, That inasmuch as the legis-
laturs olthe state Of Mississippi, 10 carry
ing out the will OF the people as expressed
ia the October convention, resolved, after
iull consideration, that the Stale Of Missis
f sippiwill stand by and sustain her sister
States Of the south, in whatever course Of
action may be determined on by the con-
E %vehtion Of slaveholding States to be held
at Nashville, &c, and thereby the acts Of
said convention became the acts Of the
State, it is the duty Of every faithful and
true Mississippian to maintain and defend
the position Of the State against her enc
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