The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-12
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SOUTHERN MEETING IN CHicor CouNrY.-At
an adjourned meeting of the citizens Of Chicot
county, held in pursuance of notice, at the Court
house in the town of Columbia, on motion of
mously elected Chairman, and SAINT w Cooper,
Secretary.
MIR. A. II. Davis and Isaac Baker having been
appointed at previous meeting to prepare and
submit resolutions for the consideration of this
meeting, the latter gentleman (Mr. Davis being
absent) being called on, submitted the following
resolutions
Resolued, That deploring the unhappy contro-
yersy now pending between the Northern and
Southern States, anxious that that controversy
should be brought to speedy and an amcable
adjustment, and believing that union and concert on
the part Of the South, and full and fair express
sion Of their rights and Of the wrongs which they
suffer, constitute at this crisis the best if no, the
only means Of awakening our Northern brethren
to sense Of the injustice they are doing us, and
thereby of staying their hands, we, Wings and
Democrats assembled, approve of any and every
means of collecting the general sense of the
Southern States upon the subject, and giving it
full expression.
Resolved, That looking with pride to the fact
that the original Southern States made the cause of
Boston the cause Of all; and to the further facts
that we have had no Shays Rebellions, nor Wits
key Instructions, no steathy trensons, lurking
under Hartford conventions, and that IN all her
wars with foreign powers, the South has stood
| by our whole country in the hours of her utmost
| need; we deem it beneath the fame of her sons,
civil and military, to make verbal protesaons of
patriotism and love Of union, and regard with con-
tempt all charges of disunion designs as intended
merely to deter the Southern States from assem-
bling our fathers of the revolution assembled
to express their grievances.
Resolved That the excitement Of our Northern
neighbours on the subject of one Of the domestic
relations existing in the Southern States, over
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no control, commencing as that excitement did,
about the time Of the emancipation act Of Great
Britain, in regard to her West India colonies,
and the visit of one Thompson, an emissary
of an East India society in London, falsely repre-
sentirg that he sent here by the pious ladies of
Glasgow, to make gentle remonstrancc on the sub
ject of slavery, when the books of that East India
society show that was paid several hundred pounds
for his mission here, taken IN connection with the
further fecs that this is the same society which
sent emissaries to France in 1889, TO procure an
emancipation act for Hay, the successful rival of
the East Indian company in the production of In
dgo Coffee, and Sugar, and which sent, MS is sus-
pected, one Oge to that island with arms to dis
tribute among the negroes previous to the insur-
rection there, and that this is the same society
which sent emssaries to Demerara and the West
India Islands, who produced the Instructions
there which preceded the emancipation act, and
the downfall of those islands.
In connection with the further fact that about
the time Of that act and the visit of the emmsary
Thompson to this country, an act was passed by
British Parliament constituting the Lord President
of mcconnell the Lord Prvy Sea, the first Lord Of
the Treasury, the principal Secretaries OF State,
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, officio Com
mssioners for the affairs of India; with authority
to administer oaihs Of secrecy and to appoint Sc
cret committee who shall take an oath of secrecy,
and that about the same time our consul at Liver
pool and another American citizen were questioned
before committees of Lords, Commons and Privy
Council whether the slaves of Louisiana can read;
whether they could, and angry discussions were
going on fn Congress, the state of slavery could
endure there; whether there was free circulation
of publications on the subject there; whether I'M
mediate abolition has ever been warmly advocated
therc whether the magistrates would suppress
abolition publications, and whether If emancIpated
thew could be induced to work for wages, and
with the further fact that the Southern States,
against which this excitement has been raised, is
the successful rival of the same East India CON-
pany in the production of cotton, as Hayu was OF
indigo and Demarara and the West India islands
were of sugar; that this excitement so commence
ing exhibited itself in the rapid formation of aboli
ton societies, the establishment of abolition pa
pers the publication OF abolition tracts, pamph-
let's and school books the movement of travelling
agents with these tracts, books and pamphlets
throughout the Southern States, the holding Of
public meetings on the subject throughout the
Northern States, the support and establishment of
abolition puIpits, the assembling Of conventions
MS in Ohio and Buffalo, and the passage Of insult
ing resolutlous by the legislatures Of every North
ern free State. We deem it high time for the peo-
pie Of the Southern States to meet and endeavor to
ascertain the true cause of this hostility on the
part of our Northern brethren, the point of sub
mission to which they expect US to descend, the
ends they aim at by their thefts, depredatons and
denunciatlops, and the best means of awakening
them to the fact that they acting under the in
stigation of people who are alike enemies to them
and to us.
Resolved, That under the federal Constitution,
Congress has no power to determine what shall
or shall not be property, butts bound to give pro-
lection to the properly as well as the persons Of