The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-19
sourHEaN sieHrs MErriso AT RAyMonD, MISS
Great gathering Of the people Of Hinds Couaty.

Great gathering Of the people Of Hinds Couafy.
At meeting Of the citizens of Kinds county,
irrespective OF party, held at the courthouse in
Raymond, on Monday, the I'd day of September,
in pursuance Of call previously made, for the
purpose Of ratifying the proceedings Of the Nash
vile Convention and defending the constitutional
rights of the South, at which large concourse OF
the planters and voters of the county, to about the
number Of six hundred, assembled.
! On motion of DIR. Rossman, Col. VIM. Smith,
of Clinton, was called to preside, and Judge A.
| Hutchinson, of Jackson, and Capt. Reuben N. .
Downing, of Raymond, to assist vice -presidents
and T., p. Russell, of Jackson, and N. p. Ward,
OF Raymond, to act as secretaries
| Col. Smith, on taking the chair, IN erse but
noble manner, expressed the object and necessity
of the meeting. As decided and uncompro-
missing wing on the ordinary issues, he now felt
constrained to say, that at the present crisis, all
allegiance to party must be abandoned, and that
| all the friends of the South must now make com
mon cause, resistance and defence against North
ern aggression. Enthusiastic cheering greeted this
address
Gen. John M. Duffield moved that committee
be appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of
the sense of this meeting, which was adopted.
Gen. Dufheld, chairman, Col. G.. s. Tarpley,
a. nj. Newman, DR.. VIM. S. Jones, II. p. Mills,
pr. w. Rossman, Charles l.. Smith, John p.
Martin, John A. Gibson, DR.. ID. o. Williams,
ID. ID. Boykin, G. r. Clifton, and q. A. Crdde,
were appointed the committees who retired
| Governor John Anthony Quitman being pre-
sent, by reclamation was called to address the
meeting. Nc attempt of the recording secretaries
can, of courses be adequate to give either the sub
stance OF his remarks. or their deep and thrilling
effect upon the audience. He has been one Of us
for thirty years-Southern rights were alike his
wrongs to the South were alike wrongs to him.
10 the institutions of this section so long and
now so desperately assaulted, we were indebted
| for the great blessings of actual equality and
/ ah p1l IN eyp nj in
from tchite Slavery and the anarchy it has brought
| TO Europe, and is bringing into the Northern sec
uon lie enumerated our wrongs, and exhorted to
unity and to Union, which the Constitution formed,
as the only resort left to At each of his
pauses the cheer and the shout went up. This
man. in the early day of mississippi was her
honored and accomplished chancellor; he led
company to assist Texas in 1886; he led a brigade
at Monterey, including the Mississippians and
Texans; he led division up to Chaputepec, car
ried the fortresses and gates of Mexico, and
| planted the stripes on her capitol Well may Mis-
slsslppi be proud of her accomplished and chval-
| rous standard bearer.
| The committee appeared, and by their chair
man, submitted for adoption the following pre-
amble and resolutions:
| We come into this meeting, not as Wings, not
as Democrats, but as Southern men, We know
no party on the vital question OF Southern rights,
and we will permit no party or faction, or leader
or either to absove us from our just allegiance to
our State and the South We unite here as a
band of brothers at the common altar Of our coun-
try. We are threatened by common dangers, and
bound to one common duty, and enc destiny
awaits us ALL We are resolved to make COM
mon cause in defence of the Institutions, the
rights, Liberties, and independence guaranteed to
us by the Constitution Of our fathers--therefore,
/ /. Resolved, That the ralying principle and cry
of the South The Union Of the South TO sape the
Union; but the Union to be saped must be the Union
tphtch The Constitution formed, and not Central
Despotism.
2. Resolved, That this meeting fully approve the
/ address and resolutions of the Nashville Conven-
ton, and will maintain and defend the principles
and determinations therein set forth.
/ 3. Resolved, That the ownership, sovereignty
and dominion of the territory Of the United States,
not within any State limits, belong to and are
vested in the people of the several States of this
| Union, to be held by them in common and to be
disposed of by them in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Constitution Of the United States and
therefore neither the inhabitants Of the territories
before their organizations nor territorial legisla-
lures afterwards, have power to prohibit African
slavery therein, until duly organized and empow-
/ cred to form u State constitution, with view to
admission into the Union; and that all exercise OF
such assumed power by the inhabitants of terri
4 tory is revolutionary and in open violation Of the
rights of the people Of the slaveholding States.
i A.. Resolved, That the attempt of portion OF
4 the inhabitants of California to usurp dominion
/ over that extensive territory and to adopt therein
a fundamental law, excluding forever the slave
| holder and his property, is an act Of usurpation
and injustice, which far from inviting the coun-
tenance and sanction of Congress, should receive
their unqualified rebuke and apprehension.
/ 4. Resored, That any act of Congress, admit
ting California as State with the boundaries and
constitution now claimed, and thus sanctioning
the irregular, illegal and unjust act Of depriving
the people of fifteen of the States of this Union of
their equal right to the enjoyment of their COM
mon property, would be gross outrage upon the
constitutional rights ofthe South and should never
be submitted to.
S. Resolped, That the employment of slave la
Dor in California would lie highly beneficial to the
whole Union, nmore rapidly developing the rich
mineral resources of that country; by perma-
nent and fixed system of Industry, and would be
especially beneficial to the slayeholding States, by
i opening new and very profitable field for the
employment of slave labor, thereby tending to
enhance the value of slaves, and to extract surplus
labor from the growth Of our great staple, now
Cutting the market of the world. For these rea-
sons also the arbitrary and unjust exclusion of
slave property from that territory would not on
ly be violation of our rights as equal members
Of the Confederacy, but highly injurious to our
? property interests.
i g. RESOLVED, That the final enactment by Con-
gress Of the Senate bill to admit California as a
State, would be equivalent to the passage of
reasons above set FORTH it would be in the language
Of the Mississippi Convention and OF the Legis-
lature, g such breach Of the Federal COMPACT,
in that event will make it the duty, as it is the
right of the slavehoding States, to take care OF
their own safety, and to treat the n-slavehold
ing States enemies to the slaveholding States
and their domestic institutions
z. RESOLVED, That inasmuch as the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi in carrying out the
will Of the people as expressed in the October
Convention, resolved after full consideration that
the State of Mississippi will stand by and sustain
her sister States OF the South, in whatever
of action may be determined on by the Conven-
ton Of slaveholdng States to be held at Nash
vile, J" &C., and thereby the acts of said Con-
vention became the acts of this State, it is the
duty of every faithful and true Missssppian
to maintain and defend the position Of the
State against her enemies and defamers, and
not to aid, abet and encourage them in their as
sauts upon our rights.
Which we're received.
i The Chairman of the committee, though in
faehIa health made n mos feeIino and nj