North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-21
MEETING IN CHoWAN.

| The citizens of ChowAn County, pursuant to pre-
yious notice, assembled at the Court House In Eden
ton on Monday the Cd instant, when DIR. Thomas D..
Warren called to the Chair, John II. Leary and
Joshua Skinner appointed Vice Presidents, and w.
A. Littleiohn and Thomas Fl. Leary, Jr., appointed
Secretaries.
The Chairman having explained the object o: the
meeting, Fl. w. Collins, Esq, made an address on
the slavery issue and moved the appointment of a
Committee OF fve to draft resolutions expressive OF
the sentiments of the meeting, whereupon the Chair
appointed the following gentlemen to constitute that
Committee: Hugh w. Collins, Alexander Dixon,
Thos. W. Hudgins, Lucus J. Johnson and T. G.
Manning. -,---
The Committee after a short consultation, reques-
ted leave report adjourned meeting on Friday
the 9th inst, which being granted, the meeting adj
journed to that day. n
I FRIDAY, Dec. 9th.
In consequence of the session of the Superior
Court the meeting potponeG until the next day.
SATURDAY, Dec. 7th.
The meeting was called order by the President,
and II. w. Collins, Chairman of the Committee,
presented the following preamble and resolutions
On motion of James Norcom, Esq, the vote
taken the Resolutions sing y and they were unan-
imously adopted.
States have for years past been Increasingly di
ected the restriction of slavery, and the desruc
ton of slave labor-to the exclusion of Southern
from the enjoyment of territory acquired by the
mon blood and of the whole nation and which
belongs equally to the citizens of all the States. to
the abuse Southern men, and Southern institutions.
Therefore, Resolrcd, That deploring the unhappy
controversy now pending between the Northern and
Southern States-anxous that that controversy should
be brought TO speedy and an ami,able adjustment,
and believing that union and the part of
the South and full and fair expression of their rights,
and of the wrongs which they suffer, constitute at this
crisis, the best, If not the only means of awakening
our Northern brethren of the injustice they
doing us, and thereby Of staying their handswe,
w higs and Democrats assembled, approve of every
means of collecting the general of the Southern
States upon the subject and giving it full expression.
I'd. ReSoiUed, That, looking with pride the fact
that the original Southern States made the cause of
Boston the OF ALL and that in all our
with foreign powers, the South has stood by
whole country in the hour of her utmost need, we
deem il beneath the fame of her to make verbal
protestations of patriotism and "loye of Union, -
and regard with contempt all charges of disunion de-
signed intended merely to deter the Southern States
from assembling as our fathers of the Revolution as
sembled, 10 express their grievances. ilt sf-s3 r
Sd. Resolved, That the Constitution provides that
persons " held ser ice labor in State, under
the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall be de-
lyered up claim OF the paryto whom such service
or labor may be DUE, that il is the duty of Congress
TO provide means whereby this constitutional provi-
may be carried into eect that this duty has been
discharged in conformity to fundamental law, and that
the provisions of said law obligatory upon, and
should receive the support of the whole nation.
4th. ResOkDed, That the Abolition mobs and riots
the Fugitive Slave Law, and their Abolition Con-
ventons, and the continual agiation OF the slavery
ISSUE will, if persisted in lead to the total alienation
of section of the Union from the other; that
respectfully warn Northern brethren that at
tempt to repeal, failure enforce the Fugitive
Slave Law win unite the South In determined oppo
si,on. and hostility that section Of the Union and
that The repeal OF that law. its modification in any
material particular, viii result inevitably In dssoiu
ton Of the Union. s l,,zsst-