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

ed to concentrate our Military forces. Such Roads
had been found to be worth all the forts and arsenas
that could be built.
And if the Central Road had been built, our VOL
unteers, instead of marching hundreds of miles in
mud to get to the place of rendezvous, could have
been mustered in time to have participated in all the
glories of Scott's campaign.
In his advocacy of this work, he wa jealous be-
cause he knew he was right; and he thought and
hoped that he actuaed by the pure and patriotic
motives which Influenced Volunteers to plant our
national standard the ramparts Of Vera Cruz. and
wave the stars and stripes the Halls of the Mon
tezumas in the Capitol of Mexico.
A STRANGE MISTAKE!
The leading article in the Banner of yesterday
contains certain errors, omissions, and mistakes,
which cannot permit 60 abroad out of the State
without correction. The article is headed, "The
Southern Convention-Tennesseea against it''-and
the article goes on to state that
"The Legislature which recently adjourned refus-
ed to countenance the proposed Convention here in
June-retused to appoint Delegates to ion the
trary condemned its purposes as set forth by some OF
its advocates, in the most decided Manner"
The Banner must know that this statement is cal
culated to convey entirely erroneous idea of the
true state of the case. The fact is, as the Banner
we'll knows, that the Democratic House Of Representa-
tires passed resolution requesting the Governor to
appoint delegates to the Southern Convention, which
resolution was rejected by the auhig Senate. The
fusah of which the Banner speaks, was, that pa
per well knows, simply the refusal of whig major
ity in the Senate, made up of men ,0ho srepresent-
ed democratic districts, to with the House In
this state of facts, is it fair and honest for the Banner
to call the action of the whig Senate the voice OF
Tennessee! Have not much more right to call
the action of the House a decision of Tennessee in
favor of the Convention, than the Banner to call the
action of the accidental whig majority in the Senate
decision against it! Why, at least could not the
Banner have been honest enough to have told the
,Dhoke truth, and to have stated that the resolution
passed the House ?-the House, which represented
the majority of the people of the State expressed
in the election for Governor, the main Issue in which
election was this identical slavery question The
the of that body altogether too infamous for
any body to hold up its action as expressive of the
voice of Tennessee. Should the article from the Ban
appear in the papers of other States we beg the
friends of the South those States to notice the fact
that the Democratic House of Representatives, rep
resenting the voice of majority of the people of the
State expressed in the election for Governor, a.
dopted the foilo,uing Resolution:
IS Resoired, That we request the Governor to ap-
point two delegates from the State at large, and two
from each Congressional District, irrespective of
party, and recommend to the people of each coun-
ty, to appoint one or more to attend the conven-
ton, to be held in Nashville the first Monday in
June. $780,
This resolution was killed in the Senate, by the
votes of Messrs. Gillespie and Tpton whig Senators
the fact, Banner.
But further: The Banner copies part only Of
the resolutions which were passed in both Houses
on the day of adjournment, prefaced as follows:
Gas strong indication of the feelings which pre-
vailed in that body, the Lower House just before its
adjournment, passed by an almost unanimous vote
the following resolutions, which were introduced by
Mr.. Allen!
The resolutions, 40 published in the Banner, fol-
low: .
Resolred By the General assembly of Me Slate Of
Tennessee, That the chief source of happiness and
prosperity of the people OF the United States both
individuals and as nation, has been conferred by
and through the union Of the Staes and the adoption
of our sacred Consti'ution-the adoption of which
was effected by the compromises and concessions OF
And,
Resored, further, That the continuation of that hap
piness and prosperity, and liberty itself depends
upon the perpeuiy of the Union, one and indivis-
ble. That the destruction of the of liberty in
our own beloved land will eonne its effects to
the borders of the home of Washington, but would
sound the death-kne of liberal government in every
part of the civilized world.
Reso!red, firthcr That the patriotic people of the
State of Tennessee, deprecating the sad effects of
dsunion of these States, to themselves, to their chill
dren, and to the world; and, also, feeling sacred
tionary fathers, will stand by and defend the Union,
IS at all hazards, and to the last extremity
1t is true that the foregoing is copy of the reso-
lutions introduced by Mr.. Allen. But is mistake
that they passed the House or Senate in the above
shape. The last resolution amended in the
House, before it was put upon its passage, by the
addition of the words,
".qnd that the only manner by auhich the Union can
be PRESCRIBED TN its original purity, to secure to the
States their by RESISTING,
AT ALL HAZARDS AND TO THE LAST EXTREMITY, any
and all attempts to voaie the spirit and intent Of it,
priuis;ons."
As amended, and as adopted, the resolution reads
Resoued further, That the patriotic people of the
State of Tennessee, deprecang the sad effects of
disunon of these Saes themselves, to their chill
dren, and to the world and, also, feeling sacred
regard to the memory and services of their revolu-
tonary fathers, will stand by and defend the Union,
"at all hazards and to the last extremity: find thai
the only manner by ,Uhich the Union be preserved
in its original purity to the seucra! ate
their constitutional rights is By RESISTING, AT ALI
HAZARDS AND TO THE LAST EXTREMITY, any and al
attempts to riole the spirit and intent Of its provisions
/ We beg the Banner to correct its copy.
! But more than this: Mr.. Perkins, of Williamson
one of the leaders of the whig party in the House
himself introduced in that body the following resolu
tion for which all the wings who present at the
time voted, substitute for the original resolution
"That the admission or exclusion of slavery, o.
its sale or transfer from State to another depends
exclusively upon their own peculiar laws; and any
act of Congress prohibiting or obstructing the same
would be Unconstitutional unjust and oppressive,
which the south could not submit without 2olitica
degradation, and which should be promptly resisted
"That we leave it to the people of this State, Il
take into consideration the proposed convention to b
held at Nashville in this State, on the first Monday
of June, 1850, to consider, devise and adopt sucl
measures as they may deem right and proper unde
gates from each Congressional district as they ma
deem expedept to represent them in said convention.