The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-19
From the Rome (Ga.) Souihsrner.
Letters Received at the Kingston Mass
Meeting.
ATHENS, Sept. goth, 1850.

GENTLEMEN: | would gladly lay aside any
impeachment of a personal nature, and embrace
the privilege of your kind invitation, to mingle
with our friends of Cherokee at Kingston, on
the Goth instant, to consult upon the Rights
and Wrongs of the South" But l am de-
prired OF this pleasure, from previous engage
ment to be in different part of the State ut
that time.
The permanent interest and character of our
beloved and glorious State, is suspended upon
the action of her people, ut the present solemn
and important crisis, in her political history.
Upon the action of Georgia hangs the ques-
ton, Ito great extent,) shall the slaveholding
States of our Confederacy maintain their indie
pendence and equality in the Union, or shall
they submit to degradation, inferiorty and the
lasting reproGch Of an enlightened world!
Our territorial rights have been wrested from
us by the oft repeated Intervention Of the Con.
gressional and Executive acts of the Federal
Government. These hgh-handed acts of usur-
patton, in connection with the avOwed intention
Of our Northern assailants to deprive us of our
slaves, Us well as our lands, by the arbitrary
force of numbers regardless Of our Constitu-
tional Compact-is to my mind altogether in
tolerable and beyond indurance.-Our wrongs
are greatly aggravated in various ways. A
our degradation and ruin, but they have artfully
and skifully produced n powerful detection in
our own Southern ranks. This detection has
been produced by the bestowal of the high
offices of the Federal Government on Southern
men, who were popular party leaders in the
Southern States. And thus we see extensive
and baneful divisions amongst ourselves ut the
present time.
Enough is already known in Georgia, to guard
the public mind, against trusting at the present
time, to any office holding or olfice-seeking as
pirants whatever. Most of the leading politi-
clans of Georgia, are in favor Of unconditional
submission, to Northern aggression and are
satisfied with receiving 1.-The best they can get"
The constant cry of Union, Union, glorious
Union--is the mere catch word, of the gross
violators of our constitutional rights. Union is
Il glorious aud harmonious word to my heart
and ear; but when used to defraud and cheat,
| loathe the sound. Union Of the South, is
what | now most ardently desire, and thai
would save the Federal Union. But this union
we shall never have, so long as we have so many
Southern men, aspiring to Federal offices.
trust the manly and praise worthy stand taken
by our last Legislature, may be sustained by the
people, in an anticipated Convention. ! disco
yer, that those who were the warm advocates of
the Missouri Compromise formerly, have most
of them changed their ground, and are now in
favor of what they call non-intereention. This
is after we have lost the whole of our Mexican
Territory-by the direct Intervention of Con-
gress and the Federal Executive. First, by the
Federal Intervention we are DISTINGUISHED of all
our territorial rights, and then urged and admon-
ished to submit quietly, and comfort ourselves
on the Southern doctrine of non-interremion
which being Cassqfed and Ioylorised, means
nothing more nor lcss-than that the Federal
Government may at its pleasure disfranchise the
South OF all her rights, and the love of the glo-
rious Union, and u division of the spoils of
Office is ample satisfaction to Southern patriot
ism. look to Cherokee for the maintenance
of our equal rights. And
Remain yours truly
WILSON LUMPKIN.