The North-Carolina standard., 1850-03-20
THE GRANVILLE MEETING.

! THE GRANVILLE MEETING.
Southern Rights Meeting was held in Oxfors
on the 5th instant, which was addressed by Gen
Saunders, John Kerr, Esq.of Caswell, and others
and at the conclusion Of the discussion, it was de-
ermined, upon division, not to concur in sending
Delegates to the Nashville Convention. We have
not seen the official proceedings but the Times has
an account " Of the Meeting furnished it, it says
by a reliable friend.
Gen. Saunders and Mr. Kerr were, we learn, both
waited upon and addressed the Meeting by request
We understand that the remarks of Gen. Saunders,
as furnished by the Times Correspondent, are no,
correct in every particular but that color and tone
have been given 10 them considerably variant from
what they really were. We learn that an officer of
the Meeting is in possession of what Gen. Saunders
did say, accurately reported and of course his re-
marks will appear with the official proceedings, the
publication of which has been rendered necessary by
this {" account" in the Times.
Gen. Saunders advocated the propriety of sending
Delegates to Nashville. giving his for this
course Of policy; but Mr.. Kerr, we learn, opposed
the proposition in vehement terms, and denounced the
Convention as having been gotten up by Southern
agtaors and Souhern Disunionists - for the worst
Times, he said he had never known of but one 9TH
er such Convention in the history of this Govern
ment, AND THAT WAS THE HARTFORD CoNvENrIoN.' -
We can very readily perceive how Southern men
may differ, and honestly and patriotically differ as
to the propriety of sending Delegates to Nashville.
There are some among US who believe that the peo-
pie ought to speak out their sentiments and announce
their final determination this question through pri-
mary meetings and Legislative bodies while others,
constituting very large majority, are in favor of
Southern union on the plan of the Nashville Conven-
ton, as the result Of primary meetings and Legsla-
tive action. We hold to the latter view of the subject.
We are in favor of the Nashville Convention not for
Disunion purposes, but to the Union, by banding
the Southern people man in its defence, as it
ought to be administered, and in defence of their
rights. In the language of Gen. Foote few days
since in the Senate:
"This convention was recommended by the State
of Mississippi, as have several times had occasion
to here, not for dsunOn ptrposes-not for the
purpose of adding to the unhappy excitement now
exsting-not for the purpose of raising up insupera
BILE obstacles Of any kind to the ultimate adjustment
of the pending questions but for the purpose Of hold
ing calm fraternal, and patriotic counsel, and, by
imbodying the whole moral force of the South in ia
of such fair, reasonable, and constitutional meas
ures of redress and prevention as the crisis might
seem TO demand, to rescue the Union from impending
jeopardy, eectually shield the honor of the South
from menaced dscredit and secure the slave States
of the republic that perfect domestic security to which,
by the constitution itself, they undeniaby entitled
Such, according to my understanding Of the matter,
is the attitude of the State of Mssissippi-such the
objects of the Nashville Convention, the holding of
which, hope, still may be rendered unnecessary by
the adoption of certain healing measures here, which
beginning, think, TO be generally regarded
than likely to be ultimately matured and carried
into efect.''
We approve every word of the above. Senator
Fooe has spoken truly, sensibly, conclusively. We
are with him in this matter, as in others, and We
would cheer him in his noble efforts to adjust for
ever this unhappy controversy. But what shall we
say Of those in our midst who uncharitably sus-
pect the motives of their felowcitizens, who brand
"treason" this effort to unite the South, and who
compare this Convention with the Hartford Conven-
ton! Such characters well described by Mr..
Toombs, of Georgia, Whig and gallant defender
in his place, in the House, of Southern rights. Mr..
Toombs says:
"He who counts the danger Of defending his own
honor is already degraded; the people who count
the cost of maintaining their political rights
ready for slavery. The sentiment of every true
man at the South will be: We took the Union
dhu 'Hc OOhousuuou soEcsHei-"S " III "oso wv" VI
we will have neither. This cry Of the Uniin is the
masked battery om behind vhich the constitution and
the rights of tie South to be assailed. Let the
South mark the ,vho Is for the Union at every
hazard and to the last extremity; when the day Of her
peril he ,vM be the imlafor Of that historical
character to ,chom til: gentleman from Penn,yirania
{ Mr.. MeLanahan) referred, "the base Judean who,
far thirty pieces Of siuer, tarew awny pearl richer
than oil his tyibe.''
Aye, we say lot the South "mark" him, no
matter to which party he belongs! We censure
no man for his honest opinions. We question the
patriotism of no man who doubts the proprety of
sending Delegates to Nashville, and who at the
same time is in favor of Southern union some
other plan or in some other way; but we have no
respect for submissionsts like Stanly, for those
who, like Kerr, denounce he friends of that Con-
vention as "agtators" " and "Disunionists." They
are The trailors if there be any they the Arnods
and the Georgeys of the time, whose praise is pol
luton, and whose counses would, if carried out,
ultimately lead to the ruin of the South and the dis
solution of the Union. In the language of Mr..
Toombs we say again, Is mark " such men!
DISTRESSING ENGLISH.
We copy the following Editorial, Uerbatim et lit
erat;m from the last number of the Edenton Senti-
mel. We beg readers to believe that this paper
is written for, set up, corrected worked off, and cir
cuated in the full blaze of the nineteenth century,
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