The North-Carolina standard., 1850-03-06

and one by dropped from their spherethat those
stripes furnished by internal stre-that the
Union is shivered and scattered abroad. Let us say
to the South, will do you justice-our judcia ~
shall do you justice. Let US say and DO this, and
the Union shall not be dissolved. The South shall
be bound up with the North in the hopes of those
who are 70 come after us-who are to live in peace
and pros perity under Union. Let us pledge our
'' ives fortunes and our sacred honor" that moi
star shall be obteratsd not stripe erased from the
glorious flag that now waves over our Union."
THE POSITION OF TENNESSEE.
Certain Wings and Whig presses, opposed to the
Nashville Convention, but who deem it most prudent
to manifest their opposition only by hints and inuen-
does, are receiving much comfort about this time
from rumors and misrepresentation to the effect that
Tennessee had declared against Southern action and
refused to be represented in said Convention. We
publish article to-day, our first page, from the
Nashville Union, which sets this matter right. 1t
will be from that article that Tennessee will be
represented in the Convention, the result of the joint
action of the people of that State in their primary
capacity; and that proposition which had passed
the Democratic House Of Representatives, directing the
Governor to appoint Delegates, ,oas defeated in the
Whg Senate, by the votes of two Senators represent
ing Democratic Districts.
These misrepresentation Of the position of Ten
nessee in relation to the Nashville Convention, have
also been noticed in the Senate of the United States
by MI. Senator Turney. On the 25th of last month
that gentleman gave the facts in the follows
"Mr Turney said he desired to say a few words
in correction OF an article which appeared in the
National InteLgenccr of Saturday, which article
tained misrepesention of the action of the Legs-
ature of Tennessee, the subject of the southern
convention. (The article was ready
etofo nntrn in n4nv Firct
it untrue that any such article appeared in
the Nashville Union, stated in the Integeneer. The
Nashville Cnion on the contrary, advocates the hold
ing of the southern convention. The National Intel
igencer made, doubtless and unintentona mistake in
atlbuting this article to the Nashville Union Again,
the resolutions of the Legislature of Tennessee,
published in this article repubshed in the Intelligent
Ger, were not the resolutions passed by the Legsla-
ture. Part of them, and the most important part of
| the whole Of them was omitted. The part omitted
was in these words:
6 kesolred, That tho only method in which the
Union be presrved in its purity is to resist, at
all hazards and to the last extremity, any attempts
| to violate the terms of the compact
The statement, also, that the Legislature not only
failed to appoint delegates to the southern convention,
but pronounced against the holding of the convention.
was false-entirely false. The history of the proceed
ing of the Legislature of Tennessee, in relation to
the southern convention was this:
The Democrats had majority in one house, and
in the House-which were the same as had been
adopted in Mississippi, with the exception of the
relating to the admission of California-providing
for the appointment of delegates to the southern con-
vention. These resolutions were passed by strict
party vote. In the Senate the Wings proposed res
olutions which were finally adopted by both houses.
In opposing the resolution to appoint delegates to the
southern conventions the Wings took the ground that
the question of appointing delegates to that conven-
ton should be left to the people; and that ifthe people
did think proper be represented in that convention,
they should choose the delegates themselves. In
Tennessee the southern contention not denounced
by either of the two parties. The people of Tennes-
see were much in favor of preserving this Union
as any other, but they would maintain their rights.
Mr. Downs asked the Senator whether there was
any truth in the statements of the newspapers that
the municipal authorities of Nashville intended to pre-
vent the meeting there of the convention also,
whether the statement true false that General
Armstron has declared his intention to use his
sword in suppressing the convention.
Mr.. Turney said the people of Nashville were will
ing that the convention should meet there's they would
afford the convention every facility. He had con-
versation with General Armstrong on Saturday, in
which the General told him he was in favor of the
convention, and would use his influence with the
people to have delegates sent there.'
This then, explodes the whole tissue of falsehoods
of the Nashville Banner this subject, so eagerly
caught up by the National Intelligencer and repeated
by its faithful echoes in all directions. The Nash
Vile Union adds:
"On one point, the Banner may cease to congrat-
ulate itself. Although the whig Senate, msrepre.
sen,ing majority of the people Of the State, refused
to concur with the House of Representatives in pro-
viding for the appointment of delegates. the people
will be true to themselves. The Banner will soon
hear voice from the sovereigns. Tennessee wiH6e
represented. And woe to the politicians who shall
attempt stife her voice at this great crisis, when
her rights and honor are attempted be traded away
by scheming politicians -
Tennessee Wings, was no longer ago than October
last strongly in favor Of the Nashville Convention;
and at that time it said:
1--WE hope before the time arrives for the sitting
of the Convention that the princp reasons which
induced it to be called will no longer exist but new
ertheess view of other questions relative to south
ern interests-the movements now making towards
emancipation in the border States, &c., &C., ,oe hope
the Convention may be fully represented; and on be-
half of our citizens we safely promise them cor
dial .Oecone to our midst
A Convention, then, at the time proposed, can do
no harm. ~ We are willing to see such men
as Judge Sharkey and others, whose patriotism is
undoubted take counsel together tn relation to the
rights and interests Of the SUuth.'
Since that time 's change has come DER the spirit
of it's d.eam." Its pet Neil S. Brown, who was
rejected by the people of Tennessee for Governor,
because he preached up submission to Northern ag-
gressions, having been appointed Minister to Russia
by Gen. Taylor, that paper changed its tune. 1t
was no doubt given understand that the Nashville
Convention was odious to Gen. Taylor, and that it
could not hope to prosper in his eyes, long it
favored such a measure.
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