The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-25

The Mississippi convention, however, as the
result OF its deliberations, recommended that q
Convention OF Slaveholding States should be held
at Nashville, Tennessee, on the first Monday in
June next, TO devise and adopt some mode Of re-
sistance 10 the aggressions of the non savehoding
States" &c.
This recommendation has been received with
satisfaction by South Carolina, and provision has
been made for the appointment of her delegates
Georgia and Alabama have followed suite Geor.
gia is disposed even TO go farther A bill has beer
introduced into her Legislature TO strengthen the
military arm Of the State, and provide for the de-
fence of her people
In Virginia, resolutions pedging the State to the
policy of the Nashville convention have passed both
branches of the Legislature.
The resolutions of the southern States and those
in the Virginia Assembly, generally declare that
such convention should be held, in the event that
Congress cnacts the Wilmot proyiso, or abolishes
slavery in the District.
This proviso, it is we'll understood, has no appli-
cation TO the existence of slavery in the slave
States; but is intended solely for the Territories
about to be organized, or those Territories which
may apply for admission into the Union as States.
Whether Congress, when organizing territorial
government, has the power to prohibit the intro
duction OF slavery into such Territory, is de-
batable question. Many statesmen and politicians
denying. and many equally talented affirm
ing that Congress can exercise such prohibiting
power. Congress has upon more than one occasion
exercised the power as a condition upon which a
In maintaining their respective sides of this ques
ton, the North and the South have each lost their
temper, and each party now seeks
"By blows and knocks,
To prove their doctrine orthodox"
Such being the true state of the case-and we con
slider the above candid exhibition of the whole
matter--it may be asked, what can the Nashville
convention do to aid in the settlement of consti-
tutiona question? II is certainly not the purpose
of those who are the prime in favor of this
assembly, to meet merely for the adoption Of a few
resolutions expressive of their views and feelings
but the convention being composed Of delegates
regularly chosen in pursuance of legal authority
and acting under general and unlimited power
Is evidently intended to consummate a scheme
whichpoliticians have even now agreed upon. That
scheme is dissolution of the Union, and the estab-
lishment of southern confederacy.
The evidence Of such purpose is most palpable
Grave members Of Congress from their places in the
temple of liberty, with cool composure calculate the
value of the Union, and with confident assurance
predict the most unbounded wealth and prosperity
to the southern fragment of our dismembered EN-
pire.
southern paper in Wilmington, North Caro-
lna holds the following significant language:
'' What is the remedy? tits southern confede-
racy with capital at Ashevillc, or somewhere else
on the mountains where the lines Of Georgia, South
and North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
meet.
!" What will the southern convention do? We
hope to have no more barren addresses. Ifthat il
all the delegates intend, they had better stay al
home. If they will methodize plan to dissolve the
Union, will hail them.''
II this is TO be the character and design of the
Nashville convention we want none of it, and shall
therefore eschew 1t as an abomination.