Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-03-15
For the Journal.

JOHN SHEPARD, Sec'y.
For the Journal.
Men Mt the South with Northern Preferences.
Mr.. Editor: Among those who may be cassed az
coming under the above description it may not be A.
miss to place the Editor of the Chronicle The whole
slaveholding community at present convulsed
with that natural excitement which unprovoked and
dangerous aggression will always produce in gener
Gus minds No where has the feeling been
generally and forcibly expressed by of both par
ties than in this Congressional District The South
people, smarting under of the most in
tolerable insults, call for the Nashville Convention
to deliberate upon concert of action, and to pre-
sent remedy The counties of this district, met in
Convention, endorse the call, and appoint delegates
Their prompt, energetic and decisive action, is cal
culated if left undisturbed by the contemporaneous
commentaries of the Chronicle, and his brethren of
that ilk to be productive of the most beneficial re-
suits upon the minds of the Northern people. The
suspicion that its action not harmonious, nor
unanimous; that its elements were not rightly and
fairly composed, comes with i'll grace from South
ern man, a Rhode Islander, who pretends to rep
resent and expound Southern feeling. We protest
against it, The Chronicle does not represent the
views of any large number of our people The Nash
Vile Convention is endorsed and approved by most
of all parties who have the intelligence to dis
Germ their rights, and the spirit to maintain them
| The Editor of the Chronicle has discovered a
Mares nest. But if he thinks it will in any way dis
turb the universal the prOprety of the Nash
Vile Convention exhibited by the feeling at the late
District Convention, and declared in the resolu
tons adopted by that body, and all the district
in the primary meetings of the people, Ba5~'cih the
exception of federal Brunswiek ~Essa he is welcome
to the " bit of secret history so trumphanty trum
| peted forth in his last paper.
I II Is alleged by HIM that OnsIow resou tons
we're prepared by residents of this town, and passed
by a meeting which not convened for the pur-
pose of discussing the slavery question but for to-
tally different purpose and further, that the latter
part of the 4th resolution stricken out
Let it be granted that these allegations are true
Do they in any manner, conduce to establish the
position nsnuated by the Chronicle, that the people
of Onslow, any other county in this district
opposed to the meeting of the Nashville Convention
this being measure which that paper has opposed
and still opposes with all the original and auxiliary
aid at his command. Had the resolutions been pre-
pared at Loochoo in China, and the meeting orig-
nally convened to discuss the price of putty, any
other measure, and even the 4th resolution been
mended as claimed, it must still be regarded the
deliberate sense of public meeting of the citizens
of that county, upon the particular question, and to
| the same effect.
But the statement that the meeting not
preSy called for the discussion of the slavery ques
ton and for the purpose of considering the aggres
sons of the North, is simply untrue.
1t is true that there joint object stated in
the preliminary and that this matter hap
pened to have been the first discussed, but the sub
ject of Internal Improvement was not more the OBJ
ect of the assemblage, than the discussion of the
slavery question. The latter, being the most inn
portant was the last taken up The resolutions
prepared for discussion and amendment as is cusoma
ry before the meeting assembled. There is nothing
uncommon in this. l venture the assertion, that
there are very few political meetings if any, held
where so important matter is left for hurried, sx-
temporaneous decision and that on the contrary it
is always adopted as the better plan and Isl indeed
promotive of more intelligent and deliberate action
1t is therefore, reflection upon the people of Ons
low, nor the Committee that after discussion
and amendment, they adopted set of resolutions
which had been prepared beforehand and offered in
the Committee room for their acceptance and appro
val Still less is it any reflection upon the gentle
man who prepared and presented them. Whom
them does the Chronicle mean to strike What as
founding disclosure does he claim to have made!
The veriest tyro in politics knows, that the reso-
buttons of public bodies always the result OF one
more separate deliberations more the better
and when being deliberately presented, and after two
very full discussions they adopted as the express
sion of the views and feelings of the body whose ex
ponent they to be, it is usually left tor the
profundty of such antiquarians as him OF the enron
icle to seek the source from which they originally
n emanated. 1t is matter of indifference whence
p these resolutions came by whom penned' OF unael
e what circumstances they were presented. ne lac
% is undisputable, that they were soiemny adopteo
and presented to the world the views OF the people
of onslow by public meeting of the citizens called
two weeks before for the purpose of discussing the
d very questions involved in them and such they
are entitled full weight deliberate expression
le of the views of portion of the Southern communi
ty and will be SO regarded, notwithstanding the
r commentary of the Chronicle.
IS The attempt to destroy their influence as an OK
preston of the popular feeling in that county, is
great failure, that persuaded that the Jec'
I. ing of the people went beyond them 8. $50.
F. CONEENTIONlST..