The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-03-16

The southern Conrentinn.

iast wv weeks must now be convinced, If he
were not before, Of the unimportance if nc, in.
exPediency of the holding the Nashville con.
VentIon for the objects heretofore set forth.
nd what are those objects? B. reference
to the proceedings of the meeting at Jackson,
MISS, where the project Of this convention was
hrst proposed, we learn that its main purpose
is to bring the Southern States in united action
'tO depise and adopt some means of resistance 10
Northern aggressions.5
This, as is apparent TO every candid mind, is
the expression Of the.ultra feeling Of the South
on the slavery question; this is the expression
in which the dominant maiorities Of the Legis-
latures Of Alabama, South Carolina and Geor-
gia have cCneurred; but, il is n assumption 10
say that there is 10 concurrence in it BY the
largest portion Of the intelligent and patriotic
citizens Of those or of any one of the southern
States. They do not see that northern ssag
gressions" are Of such characterize TO require
''resstance'' by convention Of the whole
south. In what do those ''aggressionsr con-
sst? Has the north deprived US of the rights to
''life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness''-
guaranteed by the constitution of the Union =?
Are our social or political privileges so in
fringed that we must take immediate steps to
redress our wrongs? And how is it proposed
to redress these wrongs-to ''resst'' these sag
gressons" Bysmeetings at Nashville, making
a abudget cI Iinfammatory speeches, md adopt.
ing string Of treu endous reeoTutions--alI on
paper. This is The 'mode' of resistance: they
cannot be invested with any right TO go beyond
this.
The widness, not to say Stiffness, OF this
project, is lieved scarcely by single feature
Of gravity attaching to it, One week ago we
thought that the convention would certainly
be held on the lst of June, as ploposed and it
might be important to send to it as delegates
from this State men Of comprehensive patriot
ism, enlarged craftsmanship and eminent abil-
ity-not to aid in doing good, (for, as we con-
ceive, no good can come of the convention,)
but nspreuenttng euil. Weare now Of different
opinion, We have doubts as to whether there
will be convention in Nashville on the lst
Of June; it will certainly not be convention
ofthe southern States: for, unless present in>
dcations mean nothing, not one-half Of the
southern States will send to it delegates, and,
from those States, these delegates will be cloth
ed with only such power as the Legislatures
transcending their constitutional functions
may confer upon them. South Carolina, GeOr-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, and,perhaps A Fkah-
sas--we mean the Legislatures, notth people,
Of those States-may possibly send persons TO
the Nashville conventions; but Virginia, Mary
land, North Carolina, louisiana, Texas, Mis-
souri, Kentucky, and TENNESSEE (at whose
capital the Convention is proposed to be held)
will have no delegates there. Will such q
Puny assemblage Of persons as this be regarded
as ConUention Of The Southern Sta es? Will
the inAammatory speeches and laundering res.
oIutions Of such an assembage OF persons as
this be sufficient to stay ''the aggression OF
the north?" The whole thing is too ridiculous
to talk about.
But, in our opinion, as before remarked, this
convention will not be held in Nashville in
June. 1t would be remarkable and unheard-
Of movement, that these persons from othel
States should assemble at the capita and uror
the soil Of State that discounterances, in tnt
most decided terms, the convention and tht
object it proposes to accomplish. In wha
spirit could these Legislative delegates pro
ceed to hold their sittings and adopt their reso
tons in the midst of the citizens Of a foreign
State between whom and themselves there ex
listed no sympathy of feeling, no correspon
dence Of action? Tennessee has refused 10 ap,
point delegates to This ssOnrentton, In addition tt
positive refusal by both branches Of the Le-
gislature the follwing resolutions were adopted
almost unanimously, by the most popular branch
Of it just previous to adjournment:
THE resolutions alluded to we published a
few weeks ago.
We are glad (says the Republican Banner
after quoting these resolutions,) that, so far
Tennessee has had no part IN this matter. She
has refused by her Legislature to recognize il
and wisely too, and it is for the people here tc
irown upon it as it deserves. In the purposes
avowed by its projectors, she can have no par
iicipaton. Her State capital, il is true, may
be desecrated by men who under the influence
: Of mistak en- zeal, or worse, parricida wishel
to blot ou; the National existence, may com.
here, but she, we cannot doubt, will in ait pos
: sible ways enter hersolemn protest against thu
: whole movement, and we envy not the future
of those, who forgetting the devotion Of thu
? Great men whose last resting place is beneatI
her sod, shall be found consOrIing with thos
: who would rend in pieces the glorious flag un
. der wheh her patriotic dead gained the laurel
which now cluster about their tombs.
: In the glowing language Of the resolution