The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-23

requesting me TO address my answer To you. /
am at the point of leaving for Columbus, and il
is not probable that shall be able to visit Will
mngton at the time mentioned. Should be at
my home, however, shall be glad to be with
you and join in earnest condemnation of law
which | believe to be unconstitutional, unjust,
dishonoring to the free States, and to every free
citizen. Yours, truly,
s. p. CHASE,
w. II. Tlinghast.
Then upon call of the meeting, the Fugitive
law was read.
The committee then submitted resolutions.
The preamble and resolutions are as decided
as the letters Of Messrs. Campbell and Chase.
On account of their length, we are forced to
omit portion of them.
Resolred, That we regard those who voted
for the passage of the Fugitive law, rs vile pan
derers to the slave power, traitors to the cause
of human freedom traitors to the constitutional
| right of our Government, traitors to their God
and to humanity, and unworthy of the confidence
and respect of an enlightened and free people,
and pre-eminently worthy of political damnation.
Resolved, That as the right of the slave to his
liberty, and the free pursuit of happiness is I'M
impaired by the atrocious enactment by which
he is sold in bondage, we will aid and assist the
fugitive to liberty, hereafter, we have been
proud to do heretofore, whether he be black
white one from Ireland, Hungary or Poland, in
defiance of all the enactments of all the govern
ments on earth.
Resolved, That if the Southern man-thief or
| his Northern tool shall attempt, among us, to
seize the fugitive or enforce the penalties of this
nefarious law upon our own citizens, we will
make common cause in resisting it by all right
| full means
ReSoLrcd, That should any Of our citizens
prove base enough to accept office under this
Fugitive law, and try to enforce it, we will use
our very best endeavors to enlighten the public
sentiment upon the enormity of their crime, as
to make the country too hot to hold them, and
to rank them among man-steaers, woman-whp-
pers, and cradle plunderers, where by their atfn-
ties they will rightly belong.
Resolred, That, it, as our laws declare, it be
| piracy to seize upon a man in Africa and trans
port him as slave to America it is equal piracy
and should be as penalty dealt with, to seize
under any circumstances, upon man in Ohio
and carry him as slave to Kentucky, Maryland
or Virginia.
Resolved, That we are not yet prepared to recog
nze rs masters the members Of the Congress of
the United States, and therefore do not approach
them with the voice of entreaty, but demand of
them, the immediate repeal of this most Infamous
and diabolical law.
Resolped, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,
and forwarded to the member from this District,
with the request that he present them at the
earliest opportunity Us our most earnest protest,
against this outrage upon liberty and abuse Of
) humanity, with which the nation is at Present
|, disgraced.
i eY~ The Richmond Times which occasional
ly plucks up spirit, and pitches into it's North
ern brethren, though apt to make the amende
to them the day after, by abusing the Nashville
Convention or some other Southern movement
contains the following warning:
The MEETING IN PRINCE GEoRGE.-We were
not in attendance at Prince George Courthouse
on Thursday, but learn from gentleman who
was present, that highly respectable "non-n-
tercourse meeting was held which adopted re-
solutions to be binding soon as they shall re-
|, ceve the signature of certain number Of citi-
zens. As it is utterly impossible at once to
break up business intercourse with the North
there being many indispensable articles which
are now not furnished at the South-these re-
solutions very properly enumerated certain ar
tices which we make here, and which they
pledge the signers not to buy, if imported from
the North. Such, for example, as agricultural
Implements axes, &c. boots, shoes, carriages.
harness, &c &c.-Petersburg Inteligencer of
SATURDAY.
We have not yet seen the official report of
the proceedings in Prince George. The resolu-
ton pledgng the signers not to use certain ar
ticles of Northern manufacture, is step precisely
such as was adopted in the Colony of Virginia
before the war of independence. This circum-
stance may induce those Northern fanatics, who
expect to maintain the Union as the engine of
aggression, to consider what they are doing
tba fnr tbn
Prince George meeting until we are more fully
informed as to it's transactions
EY" North Carolina, though apparently cool.
is yet animated by the right spirit, if the tone Of
her press be correct criterion-and we know
of none better
The Newbern Republican gives submission
neighbor this plain talk
The Lincoln Courier denounces Southern
Rights Meeting held in CASTOR county recently,
as milk and water affair; and such, from the
published proceedings it seems to have been.
Two resolutions were passed declaring that the
meeting evil stand ready to cooperate in any
constitutional measures of redress the South
may adopt,"-and that "if steps are not taken
to repair the wrongs inflicted upon the South
by the passage through Congress Of what has
been called the slavery bills, the people should
seriously consider the propriety OF suspendlng
| all business intercourse with the aggressive
fanatics Of the North" Such resolutions as
these do not embody the views and feelings of
the South, and injure rather than promote her
cause. As for redress, we see but one way to
obtain it, and that is outside of the Constitu-
ton we have had quite enough of "constltu-
tional measures of redress.
t-5g1 The Savannah Ne,cs says
! A Union meeting, similar to that recently
held in New York, is proposed in Boston 1t
will be too late to have any effect on the
Georgia Conventional election. 1t would take
some pretty strong paper resolutions to coun-
terbalanee the effect of their recent notification
of the Fugitive slave BILL and the recent cleo
ton of the notorious Abotionist Horace Mann.