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lngs OF very large and respectable public meet
ling held in Benton county, Alabama. The
Huntsville (Alabama) Democrat, one Of the
ablest and most influential papers in North Ala.
bama, thus expresses the feeling Of mingled in
dignation and resolve, which animates that sec
ton of the State: .'t
ONE HUNDRED CHEERS FOR BENTON County,
1t is highly gratifying to us to give place to
the proceedings of such meetings as the South.
ern Rights meeting III Benton The resolutions
are Judicious, moderate; and en'nently Southern
in their to- and conceived in the lofty and in,
dependent spirit of freemen, who scorn submis-
SION To wrong and outrage, perpetrated in utter
disregard OF their natural, inalienable and con,
stitutional rights. What a contrast do they
present to those meetings. which assemble to
rejoice over the preparation of these wrongs, to
glory over Southern defeat and degradation, and
to shout hozannas to the glorious Union, ia
which the South is indebted for her present hu.
initiating condition. Union Of Northern Free.
sellers and Abolitionsts with Southern dupes
traitors and submissionists to build up Federal
consolidated dynasty to ride rough-shod over
the Constitution of our fathers and destroy al
its guarantees of separate State sovereignty and
protection of Individual rights and property
What merited rebuke have the freemen OF
Benton bestowed upon Alexander White, that
Federallst dyed in the wool, whose ill-judged
zeal in behalf of an unconstitutional Union, has
led him out Of his own county Of Talladeoa
(where he was twice signally rebuked by the
indignant voice of her noble sons) into other
counties, to preach that submission to deliberate
premeditated, long continued wrong, insult and
oppression is the highest duty of patriotism
If this be patriotism, what traitors where
Washington Jefferson, Madison, Henry and the
host of spirits in Revolutionary times, who
deemed the patry stamp and tea taxes oppres
sive, and the yoke of British tyranny, as evinced
by those taxes, too CALLING TO be borne, aud
worthy of the most determined and bloody re-
sistance! If the Northern abolition hive do not
recede from their present position, we will be
called upon by the sternest duty of sell. preser-
walton, of affection for our families, of philnn-
thropy, of patriotism, to follow the examples of
our fathers. We are more and more convinced
almost every day, that these are the sentiments
of the masses of our people. Let the North
beware how she hazards the putting of the last
pound on the camel's back which breaks 1.-THE
next act of injustice and oppression may prove
the last. The Southern people are being more
and more aroused to the sense and injuries they
have received. Caesar had his Brutus, Charles
the First his Cromwell, George the Third" his
| Washington-May that consolidated essence OF
Free soilism, abolitionsm, and federalism, King
Union Creason |. treason mot yet, Mr.. Sub
missionist- May King Union "proft by their
example. 1t that be treason, make the most of
it," ar.
The same spirit also burns brightly in the
southern section of the State, although the sub
mission and Northern influence about Mobile
and Montgomery, is leaving no stone unturned
to subjugate the true Southern population, to
the will of the Northern majority.
The Mobile Register, thus records an effort of
this kind
The people of Dallas have been in motion, in
reference to the great questions of the day. A
public meeting was held at Cahawba, on the 4th
inst, of a" the friends of the Union, disposed to
acquiesce in the recent measures Of Congress"
1t was organized by appointing William S. Phil
lips and DR.. Adams, chairmen. As soon as this
was done, Messrs &. w. Gayle, Beenc, Byrd,
and Loder, upon the part of the Southern Rights
men," enquired into the objects of the meeting,
so as to learn whether all persons, without dis
tinction of party, who were anxious to save the
Union, and yet were firm ard unfiinchng in their
advocacy of Southern rights, could participate in
the proceedings They were answered that all
who professed desire to save the Union, and
who conducted themselves with courtesy, could
be heard. A committee of fifteen was then ap.
pointed to prepare resolutions to enable them
to do VIII ch, the meeting took recess. During
| this recess, another meeting was convened, and
Hudson Powell. esq, appointed chairman. The
Hon. +. w. Bowdon, being present, was called
upon, and delivered lengthy and eloquent
speech against supineness in the South. He
thought the repeal of the Fugitive slave bill
would be the first act Of the grand drama to be
performed in the National Theatre, at Washing.
ton, this winter.
was re-organized, and the committee reported
resolutions of "a decidedly submission charac.
ter" For these, J. A. Loder esq, offered set.
which advocated non-:cquiescence." Consid-
cradle debate ensued, and the substitute was de-
cded to be out of order. Upon this, Col. Jas.
II. Campbell called upon the friends of the sub
sttute to withdraw; whereupon about two hun
dred persons, said to be more than half the as,
semblage, withdrew to the street, and, amid
shouts of "Southern rights" organized another
meeting, with Col. James II. Campbell as Chair
man, and DIR. English as Secretary. Mr.. Lo
der's resolutions were now proposed, and unani-
mousy adopted; after Which, Col. George J. s.
Walker, Col George w. Gayle, and w. A.
Beene, esq.,, made speeches, In which they
viewed secession as the only probable ultimate
remedy" Meanwhile, the other meeting was
addressed, among Others, by Col. Bethea, of
Wilcox, and adopted its resolutions. The next
day Southern Rights Club was formed, with
Col Walker and Mr. Loder as Presidents, and
Mr. Bowdon made another speech.
We have not seen the resolutions of either of
these meetings, and cannot, therefore, comment
upon their character. The above account we
have CLEANED, as chroniclers of the times, from
the correspondence of the Montgomery Atlas.
W' The Boston Alias accounts for the defeat
of the Wing party in Massachusetts,, by saying
that it was not sufficiently evolutionary.
awe have been whipped this year, because a
majority of our people have been made to be-
lieve that the Wing party has been false to the
great question Of human freedom; and they
have had some reason to believe so. And if the
same course is pursued by the Wing party, if
means are not taken to disavow all such desire,
and to plant ourselves upon the old and ever
honored platform of freedom, we shall not only