The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-11-26

| Union, which we were entitled to as political
equals under the Constitution. Our peace has
been endangered by incendiary appeals. The
Union, instead OF being considered a fraternal
bond, has been used as the means of fstriking at
our vital interests.
The admission of California, under the cir
cuustances of the case, confirms All unauthor-
ised and revolutionary seizure public domain,
and the exclusion of near half the States of the
Contedemcy from equal rig hts therein-de
stroys the line 36 80 which was originally ac-
| uuiesced in as matter of compromise and
peace, aud appropriates to the Northern States
100000 square miles below that line, and is so
gross and palpable violation OF the principles
: Of justice and equH Htty as to shake our conf
dence in any security to be given by that ma
iority who are now clothed with power to
Govern the future destiny of the Confederacy
The recent purchase of territory by Con-
gress from Texas, as low down as 81 deg. on
the Rio Grande, also indicates that the boup.
diaries of the slaveholding States are fixed
and our doom prescribed SO far as it depends
upon the will OF dominant MAJ jority, and moth
ing now can save US from a degraded destiny
but the spirit of freemen who know their rig hts
and are resolved to maintain them, be the con.
sequences what they may.
We have no powers that are binding upon
the States we represent: But in order to pro-
duce system and concerted action, we recon-
mend the following resolutions, viz:
| Resolred, That we have ever cherished, and
do now cherish cordial attachment to the
constitutional Union Of the States, and that to
preserve and perpetuate that Union unmpaired
this Convention originated and has now Reals
sembled
Resolued, That the Union of the States is
Union of equal and independent sovereignties
and that the powers delegated to the Federal
Government can be resumed by the several
States, whenever it may seem them proper and
necessary.
Rcsolred, That all the evils anticipated by
the South, and which occassioned this Con-
vention to assemble have been realized by the
failure to extend the Missouri line of Compro-
mise to the Pacific Ocean. By the admission
of California as State. By the organization
of Territorial Governments for Utah and New
Mexico, without giving adequate protection to
the property of the South. BY the dismem.
berment of Texas. BY the abolition OF the
slave trade and the emancipation OF slaves
carried into the District of Columbia Tor sale.
ResoIred, That we earnestly recommend to
all parties in the slaveholding States to refuse
TO 20 iuto or countenance any National Con-
vention, whose object it may be to nominate
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency of the United States, under any party
denomination whatever, until our Constitution
al rights are secured.
Resolrpd, That in view of these aggressions,
and of those threatened and impending, we
earnestly recommendto the slaveholding States,
to meet in Congress or Convention, to be
held at such time and place as the States de-
string to he represented, may designate, to be
COMPOSED of double the number Of their Sena-
tors and Representatives in the Congress of the
United States entrusted with full power and
authority to deliberate and act vita the view
and intention of arresting farther aggression,
and if possible, of restoring the Constitutional
rights of the South and il not to provid. for
their future safety aud independence.
Resolped, That the President OF this Con.
Convention be requested to forward copies of
the foregoing preamble and resolutions to the
Governors Of each Of the slaveholding States Of
the Union, to be laid before their respective
Legislatures at their earliest assembling.
Mr.. Gordon, of Virginia, moved the previous
question, and on a call of the States, the follow
ing was the result:
Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia.-G.
NEG GAT1vn-Tennessee-
The question then recurring on the adoption
Of the report of the Committee, it was adopted,
as follows:
AyE-Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississip-
p South Carolina and Virginia-6.
NAY-Telnessee-l.
Mr.. Donelson Of Tennessee moved a recon-
sideration of the vote.
The President decided the motion out of or
der, as the State from which the mover was
delegate had voted in the negative
Mr.. Clay, of Alabama. moved an adjourn
ment sine die; which was carried; when the
President pronounced the Convention adjourn
ed.
There are now three Southern candidates
for the Presidency spoken of, Messrs. Clay,
Benton and Houston. But for these and some
half dozen candidates for the Vice Prcsiden.
cy, from the same section, all looking to the
North for votes, there would have been no such
compromise attempted, as has been inflicted on
the South. tl.-Southern Press.