Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-12-07
From The N. Y. Express.
Nashville Convention.

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not adjourn without making provision for an
other Convention, composed of delegates from
the Southern States. We give below the res
olutions signed by all the members present
except the Tennessee delegates. The place
for holding the new Convention is Montgome-
ry Ala, but the time we have not seen men
toned. 1t will be seen that the most system,
attic steps were recommended to cut off al
business intercourse with the North Thss
recommendations are now practically enforce
in some parts OF the Southern country. TIL,
recommendation not to go into National
Convention upon the subject of the Presiden-
cy is also a mischieVous feature of the pro-
ceedings.
In order to produce system and concerted
action, we recommend the following resolu-
tions viz:
RESOLVED, That we have ever cherished and
do now cherish cordial attachment to the
Union, which the Constitution of the United
States created: and that to preserve and
transmit such a Union, the convention origi-
mated and is now re-assembled
RESOLVED, That the Union of these States
is Union of equal and independent Sover-
eighties; and that the exercise of powers del
egated to the General Government can be re-
sumed by the several States, whenever it may
seem to them to be proper and necessary.
RESOLVED, That we deem it unnecessary to
notice the various acts of aggression inflicted
upon the South. A simple reference to the
wrong perpetrated since the first meeting of
this Convention will suffice; and they are
1. The failure to extend the line of SO de-
grees 80 minutes, north latitude. to the Pa
cific ocean.
2. The admission of California as State.
3. The organization of territorial govern
ments for Utah and New Mexico, without ad-
equate protection TO the property of the SOUTH
4. The dismemberment of Texas.
5. The abolition of the slave trade in the
District of Columbia.
Upon these facts we solemnly abjure the
people of the South to unite in one concentra-
ted effort to save the Union and the Consti-
tuition. We recommend to them to go into
Convention, and each State to determine her
position on the questions and exigencies of the
crisis With the northern majority and the
Federal Government fatally determined upon
the destruction of the Institution, on which
our existence depends, we have nothing, save
only from our own unity, resources and
strength. When these shall have been ex-
hibited, possibly the North may recede. The
unity of the South may save the Union of the
States.
Resozred, That in view of the aggressions
and outrages inflicted upon the south and
those threatened and impending, we recon-
mend that each of the Southern States in the
mode she may adopt, do appoint delegates to
a General Convention of all the assaied states
to be held at---on- Of
clothed with full authority to deliberate and
act, with all the sovereign power of the peo-
pie, with a view, TO arrest further aggression
and restoring the constitutional rights of the
South-if possible-and if not, then to pro-
vide for the safety and independence, of the
South in the last resort.
ResolUed,- That we urge, as a defensive
course, forced upon US by our assailants, and
as not only unavoidable but essentially Just,
that the Southern people do Immediately a
dopt the following protective measures:
/. That every county, district parish, or
other civil division of each of the assailed
States, do hold a primary meeting and form a
society or association, TO adopt and effectuate
any and all lawful measures and means,
whereby the resources of the south shall be
employed toward domestic manufactures and
lIe' ali SOSIeil
commercial and political intercourse between
the South and the North shall be wholly sus-
pended, until the North shall become prepar-
ed to concede and guaranty to the South the
full measure of her constitutional rights
2. That such local societies do appoint and
empower committees of vigilance and safety,
each to exert observation over its locality in
respect to incendiaries and incendiary publiea-
tions, phamphlets and papers; to bring such
ncendiaries, or the disseminators of such pro-
ductions to public justice; and to act general
ly as policemen in respect to the assailed in
stitution of the South.
8. That it is incumbent upon the southern
people to build up Southern institutions and to
foster Southern literature, by giving all posi-
bic preference to them Especially we would
discourage the expenditure of large sums by
our citizens in their towns to the North and
East, preferring not to favor those who return
our graiuities by wrong and insult
Resotued That we earnestly recommend to
all parties in every State of the South to re-
fuse to go into or countenance any National
Convention whose objects may be to nominate
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency of the U. States, under any party de-
nomination whatsoever, until our constitution
al rights are secured.'
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