The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-26
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The Nashville Convention.

The Nashville Convention.
The following gentlemen were members OF TN the
Southern Tssn m"aasx e sh;s month";
V;,ein;a- Willoughby New ton. 4. II. Clayerook,
VIM. F. Gordon, w. O. Goode, Thomas >. Ghoson
and Beverly Tucker. =,
Sntk Cayoinu-L. Cheves, r. w. Barnwell, ].
II. Hammond, Samuel Otterson, John a. bradley, =.
w. Whitner, A. C. Young, Maxey Gregg, James
Chestnut, Jr., w. J. Hama, R. F. w. Aston. F.
W. Pickens, Drayton Nance, G. A. Trenholm. VIM.
Du Bose, J. F. Jamison and R. Barnwell Rhett.
Geors;a-Walter T. Colquitt. Chas J. Mcdonald,
H. L. Benning, NJ. ]. Crawford. Obediah G. Gibson
Jas. w Ramsey, Obadiah Warner, Simpson Fouche,
Gen. Robt Bledsoe, Andrew H. H. Dawson and DR..
J. G. McWhorter. -,
.anbamn-Gov. B. Fitzpatrick. John A. Campbell,
John A.. Winston, l.. p. Walker, Nicholas DAVIS
Jas. Abercrombie, w. M. Murphy. S. 3: Beth'a, b.
Boykin, G. w. Guyon, S. Buford. r. Shorter, Geo.
CoIdthvaite. ]. s. Hunter, Daniel Coleman, VIM.
Cooper, r. Chapman, Thomas A. Walker, u. >.
Walden, John Erwin and w. M. Byrd.
Mi.s;.sippi-Judge VIM. L. Sharkey, c: r. smith,
A. NJ. Clayton. ]. w: Mathews, y; J.; WORD, =. L.
F2or;da-Col. B. NJ. Pearson, James Hernandez.
A. ]. Foreman, @. H. DUPONT, ]. F. Mcclellan and
E. e. Cabel.
Tsra.-J. p Henderson.
.arkansas-J. H. Powell.
We omit the names of one hundred delegates from
Tennessee. We notice among the names, General
Gideon J. Pillow, Vim. H. Polk, General Robert
Armstrong, Gov. A. v. Brown, A. 0. P. Nicholson,
v. H. Stevenson. A. J. Donelson, Andrew Jackson.
The following are the Resolut ions adopted on the
occasion:
1. Resolued, That the Territories of the United
States belong to the people of the several States Of
this Union as their common property that the c'ti'
hovA TO fo mi.
crate with their property to these Territories. and
equally entitled to the protection of the Federal Gov
ernment the enjoyment Of that property long
the Territories remain under the charge of that Gov
eminent.
2. Resolved, That Congress has no power to ex.
clude from the Territory of the United States any
property lawfully held in the States Of the Union,
and any act which may be passed by Congress to
effect this result is pain violation of the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
3. Resolued, That it is the duty Of Congless e e
provide proper governments for the erriories since
the spirit of American Institutions forbds the main
tainance Of military geyehments in time Of peace,
and az all laws existing in Territories
belonging to powers which interfere with the
i1i Of religion. the freedom of the press
9s fial by jury and all other rights OF persons and
property rs secured recognized in the Constitu-
ton of the United States necessarily void so soon
a. such Territories become American Territories, 1t is
the duty Of the Federal Government to make early
provision for the enactment Of those laws which may
be expedient and necessary to secure to the inabl
tants of and emigrants to such Territories the full
benefit of the constitutional rights We assert.
4. Resolred, That to protect property existing in
the several States of the Union the people of these
States invested the Federal Government with the
powers of war and negotiation, and Of sustaining
mics and navies, and prohibited to State authorities
the exercise Of the same powers. They made no
discrimination in the protection to be afforded or the
description of the protection to he defended, nor was
it allowed to the Federal Government to determine
what should be held as property. Whatever the
States deal with as property the Federal Government
is bound to recognise and defend as such. There
fore it is the sense Of this Convention that all acts
of the Federal Government which tend to denation-
alize property of any description recognized in the
Constitution and laws of the States, that discr.
mate in the degree and efficiency of the protection
be afforded TO it, which weaker or destroy the
title of any citizen upon American Territories, are
plain and palpable violations of the fundamental law
under which it exists.
S. Resolved, That the slaveholding States cannot
and will not submit to the enactment by Congress
OF any law imposing onerous conditions restraints
perty into the Territories of the United States. to
any law making Determinations in favor of the pro-
prietors of other property against them.
6. Resoed, That it is the duty of the Federal Gov
ernment plainly to recognize and firmly to maintain
the equal rights of the citizens Of the several States
in the Territories of the United Staes and to repu-
diate the power to make discrimination between
the proprietors of different species Of property in
Federal Legislation. The fa6llment of this duty by
the Federal Government, would greatly tend to re-
store the peace Of the country and to aay the exas-
peration and excitement which now exists between
the different sections of the Union. For it is the
deliberate opinion of this Convention that the toer
ance Congress has given to the notion that Federal
authority might be employed incidentally and indi-
rectly to subver weaken the institutions existing
in the States confessedy beyond Federal jurisdiction
and control, is a main cause of the discord which
menaces the existence of the Union and which has
well nigh destroyed the efficient action of the Federal
Government itself.
7. Resolred, That the performance of this duty as
required by the fundamental law of the Union, the
equality Of the people of the several States compos
ing the Union be disturbed without disturbing
the frame of the American institutions. This prin
cpe is violated in the dennal of the citizens Of the
saveholding States Of power to enter into the terri
tories with the property lawfully acquired in the
States. The warfare against this right, is war
upon the Constitution. The defenders of this right
are defenders Of the Constitution. Those who deny
Or impair its exercise, unfathfu to the consttu
tioa and If disunion follows the destruction of the
right, they are the disunionists.
8. ResOlred, That the performance of its duties
upon the principle We declare, would enable Con-
gress to remove the embarassments in which the
country is involved. The vacant territories of
the Unied States, longer regarded as prizes for
sectional raPacity aud ambition, would be gradually
occupied by Inhabitants drawn to them by their in
terests and feelings. The institutions fitted them
would be naturally applied by governments formed
choice OF their constituents. The community would
be educated and disciplined under republican ad- |
minstration in habits of self fgovernment, and fitted
TOR an association State, and to the enjoyment of