Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-11-28
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.

bic aud resolutions were passed under
the Previous Question" by special ar
rangement of the majority, thus sitting
the views of the minority. The vote
was taken by States, and resulted as
follows: Ayes--Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina
and Virginia. Nays-Tennessee. All
honor TO Tennessee!
The preamble and resolutions are as
follows,and were teiegraphed exclusive.
~ for the Republican,
We the delegates assembled from por
lion OF the States OF this confederacy, make
this exposition Of the causes which have
brought US together, and Of the rights which
the States we represent are entitled to under
the compact ofthe Union. We have amongst
US two races, marked by such distinctions Of
color, physical and moral qualities, as for
ever forbid their living together on terms Of
social and political equality. The black
race have been slaves from the earliest sets
Element OF our country, and our relations OF
master and slave have grown up from that
time. A change in these relations must end
in convulsion and the entire ruin Of one or
both races. When the constitution was
adopted, this relation OF master and slave,
as it exists, was expressly recognized and
guarded in the instrument.
Ii was great and vital interest, involving
our very existence as separate people then
as we'll as now. The States OF this con-
ledaracy acceded 10 that compact, each one
for itself, and ratified it as States. If The
non'slaveholding states who are parties 10 the
compact disregard its provisions, and ems
danger our peace and existence by united and
deliberate action, we have right as states,
there being no common orbiter, TO secede.
The object Of those who are urging the
Federal Government in its aggressive policy
upon our domestic institutions, is, beyond all
doubt, finally to overthrow them, and abolish
the existing relation between master and
slave. We feel authorized 10 assert this from
their own declaration, and from the history
of events in this country for the last few
years.
To abolish slavery, Or the slave trade in
the District Of Columbia; to regulate the sale
and transfer Of slaves between the States; 10
exclude Shareholders, with their property,
from the Territories; to admit California,
under the circumstances OF the case, we
hold to be all parts Of the same system OF
measures, and subordination to the end they
have in view, which is openly avowed 10 be
the total overthrow OF The institution. We
make no aggressive move. We stand upon
the defensive. We invoke the spirit Of the
Constitution, and claim its guarantees. Our
rights, our independence, the peace and ex
istence of our families, depend upon the is
sue. The Federal Government has within
few years, acquired by treaty and By
triumphant war, vast territories. This has
been done by the counsels and The arms Of
all, and the benefits and rights belong alike
and equally 10 all the States. The Federal
Government is but the common agent oil the
States united, and represents their conjoined
sovereignty over the subject matter granted
and defined in the compact. The authority
it exercises over all acquired territory, must
in good faith be exercised for the equal
benefit Of all the parties. To prohibit our
citizens from settling there with the most
valuable part Of our property, is not only
degrading TO us as equals, but violates our
highest constitutional rights! Restrictions
and prohibitions against the slaveholding
States it would appear to be the fixed and
settled policy Of the Government, and those
States that are hereafter 10 be admitted into
the Federal Union, from their extensive
territories, will but confirm and increase The
power Of the majority, and he knows little
OF history who cannot read our destiny in
the future If we fail to do our duty now as a
free people. We have been harressed and
insulted by those who ough. to have been
our brethren. in their constant agitation Of
a subject vital 10 US and the peace OF our
families. We have been outraged by their
gross misrepresentation OF our moral and
social habits. and by the mannsrsin which
they have denounced US before the world
We have had our property enticed of, and
the means OF recovery denied US by our CO.
States in the Conlederacy. We have been
denied our rights in the Territories Of the
Union, which we were entitled TO as politi'
cal equals under the Constitution. Our
peace has been endangered by incendiary