The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-03-29
From The NGtcheZ COuTaeT
A Rally for the Union!

Natchez on Saturday, the 9th instant, inpur-
suance Of call of the friends Of the integ-
rity of the Union, who are not opposed to
the admission of California, the following
proceedings were had;
The meeting was organized by the elec-
ton of DR.. STEPHEN DUNCAN, Presi-
dent; JOHN r. STocKMAN and ISAAC LUM,
Esqrs., were chosen Vice Presidents, and E.
B, Baker and John Fleming Secretaries.
The following preamble and resolutions
were introduced by B. Pendleton, ESQ., and
seconded by Col. Adam L. Bingaman, and
adopted:
WHEREAS, The people Of California have
$50 far as we know and believe by their
own free and independent action, and with
out the exercise of any undue influence Ell
ther on the part of the past or present ad-
minstration,) formed State constitution;
and now claim, according to the stipulations
of the treaty by which She was acquired,)
admission into the Union; and aChereaS, it
it would be alike impolitic and unjust to at
tempt to fortify our own rights by trenching
upon the rights of others; and aUhereas, it is
the duty of all good citizens, cordially, to
unite in patriotic endeavors, to calm the ex-
citement which pervades the country, which
blazes in our national councils, and would
seem to portend dissolution of the IN
ion and the consequent prostration Of our
free institutions; and Whereas, it is hoped
and believed that the admission of Califor-
MIA, upon such terms and under such regu-
lations as Congress in their calm and tenn
perate deliberations, may deem proper le-
gally to impose, would pave the way to a
satisfactory adjustment and final settlement
Of this vexed question Of our IL lis, and
tend to the preservation and perpetuity Of
the Union; therefore.
Be 1t ReSoIred, That the clause in the
Constitution Of California which prohibits
the domestic relation Of slavery within her
borders, should form no obstacle to her full,
| free, and prompt admission as an integral
and equal member of our confederacy; and
that we do not deem such admission to
be question of unconstitutional aggression
| by the non-slaveholding States, on the rights
of the slaveholding States, but we consider
/ it mere question of expediency, the
agitation of which is calculated to create
division instead Of united action on the
part of the South,
Resolved, That the failure of Congress to
provide civil government for California,
fully justified the people Of that Territory,
in endeavoring to provide one for them
selves and applying for admission into the
Union as State.
ReSolUed, That we cherish the Union as
of princeless value; that we will zealously
cooperate in all efforts towards its preser.
yation and perpetuity, as our most precious
inheritance, SO long as it secures those
rights which are guaranteed to us by the
Federal Constitution; and that we will ne.
yer renounce it until those rights are clear.
~ and paIpably violated.
ReS0LUed, That although political prece
dents, clothed in the venerable habiliment;
of time and sanctioned by the weight Of pa
triotic and revered names. are entitled t
our deep consideration and respect, ye
they ought not TO be deemed, as Of unques
tionable authority and binding force; ant
that the adoption by Congress of the ordin
ance of 'S7, in the form Of the Wilmot Pro
viso, would by US be deemed an unwarran
table and unconstitutional usurpation, on he
part, Of power, vested exclusively y in th'
territories of the Union at the time of tht
formation Of their organic law, an insulting
imposition of degrading disabilities on tht
people of the southern and Southwestern
States, and total prostration Of our constl
tutional equality, to which, as American
citizens-worthy of the name, We ough
not, and cannot be expected, patiently ant
pusilanimouslv, to submit
Resolved, That Congress possesses NJ
constitutional power to interfere with TIT
traffic in slaves, between the several States
ResoiUed, That the abolition by Congress
of slavery in the District of Columbia, with
out full remuneration to the slave owner
therein would be unconstitutional, and al
act of fragrant injustice; that to abolish
without the concurrence of the State Mary
land, would be an unscrupulous violation
Of implied faith; and that to abolish II
without the consent of the people of tn
District, woul be tyrany Of deep and un
doubted dye.
ReSoEued, That it is the daty of Con
gress to pass such an act as will secur
to the citizen the full benefit of the pro
vision of the constitution, regarding tn
) reclamation of persons held to servic
or labor in one state, escaping intoanother
and that our Senators and Representative
; in Congress from this State be solicite'
to use their best exertions to procure en-
actments which viii most efectually ac
complish this object; and resolued titrthe'
that the outrages repeatedly committed b
portions of our fellow citizens of the non
/ slaveholding States upon our character
| and rights as Shareholders. and the legis
, lation Of several of those States obstructin
: the recovery ofour slave property with
! their borders, are subversive of rights SO
: ernnly and explicitly guaranteed by th
constitution, and at war with the splr
| which formed, and which alone can pre-
/ serve that sacred instrument, tending
J. with fearful rapidity, to ALLEVIATE one sectio
s of the Union from the other, and to seve
the bonds by which we are united people
ResoIred, That the citizens Of each an
: all the States have an equal right to trans