The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-05-30

Bocock, H. A. ~EdmuDdsOn, Jeremiah
Morton.
North Carolina Willie P
Magnum; Representatives., T. A. Cling
man, A. w. Venable, w. S. Ashe.
South CarOlina-Senators A. P. But
Eler, F. H. Gilmore; Representatives, John
Mcqueen, Joseph A. Woodward, Daniel
Wallace, VIM. F. Colcock, James L. Orr,
Armstead Burt, Isaac E. Holmes.
GeOrgid-Senators, John Mop. BerrieD,
VIM. C. Dawson; Representatives, Joseph
w Jackson, Alex. H. Stephens, Robert
Toombs, H. A. Harrison, Allen F. Owen.
Alabama--S Senator, J. Clemens; Repre-
sentatives, David Hubbard, F. w. Bow
den, s. w. Tnge, W. J. Aston, s. w.
Harris.
Mississippi Senator, Jefferson Davis;
representatives w. S. Featherston, Jacob
Thompson, A. G. Brown, w. Nc Willie.
LOuisidaa-Senators S. U. Downs,
Pierre SOule; Representatives, J. H. Har-
manson, E. LaSere, Isaac e. Morse.
Administration Solan Borland, W
X. Sebastian; Representative, William R.
Johnson.
Texas = representatives, volney E.
Howard, d. s. Kaufman.
Missouri-Senator, D. R. Atchinson;
Representative, James S. Green.
Kentucky Representatives, II. H. Stan
ton, James L. Johnson.
Tennessee-Senator Hopkins l.. Tur-
ney; Representatives, James H. Thomas,
Frederick P. Stanton, c. H. Williams, J.
G. Harris.
Florida - Senators. Jackson Morton,
David l.. Yulee; Representative, E Car
rington Cabel.
And upon motion, the meeting adjourned.
HOPKINS L. TURNEY, Chm.
Attest; WIN. }. ALsroN, sec'y.
Address 10 the People Of The Southern
States.
The committee to which was referred the
duty Of preparing an Address TO the
people of the ~slave~holding States upon
the subject of a Southern organ, to be
established in the city Of Washington,
put forth the following:
Fellow CrTlzENs:- number o. SEN
ators and Representatives in Congress
from the SouIhe IN States OF the con(eder-
acy, deeply impressed with a sense of the
dangers which besel those States, have
carefully our means Of self-de-
within the Union and the coustitu-
lion, and have come TO the conclusion that
| is highly important 10 esta blsh in this
a laper which, without reference 10
party, shall be devoted 10 the
lights and interests of the South, so far as
hey are involved in the qsestIons growing
'uI of African slavery. To establish and
maintain such apaper, your support is me-
and accordingly we address you
N the subject.
In the contest now going on, the consti
ulional equality Of fifteen States is put in
Some sixteen hundred millions
worth Of negro property is involved, direct
Y; and, indirectly, though not less surely,
n incalculable amount of property, h 9TH
r forms. But 10 say this, is to state less
han half the doom that hang, over you.
Four social forms and institutions, which
the European and African races
MO different classes, and assign 10 each a
IiFerent sphere in society, are threatened
overthrow. Whether the negro is to
'ccupy the same social rank with the white
nan and enjoy equally with him the rights,
privileges and immunilies Of citizen shin;
n short, all the honors and diguities Of So
iety, is question Of greater moment than
ny quest ion of mere property can be. n
Such is the contest now going on-a Il
ontest in which public opinion, if not the y
levalllng, is destined to be a most pro- f
n'nent force, and yet no organ Of the '
nlted interests of those assailed has as n
ct been established nor does there exist +,
ny paper which can be the common me. II
Ium for an interchange of opinions Ii
nDngst the Southern States. Public Fl
Union as 1t has been formed and directed Vi
the combined Influence of interest and W
'%eJudice, islhe force which has been most ec
'aInst US in the war now going on against U
e institution OF negro slavery; and vet al
e have taken no effectual means to make be
ID maintain that issue with it, upon which OF
y safety and perhaps our social ex- eH
depends. Whoever will look W,
the history Of this question, and to tn
circumstances under which we are sti
W placed, mutt see that our position is tn
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