The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-28
From the Macon (Ga.) Tsiepraph.

The REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF 33.-TC
the exclusion Of much other matter, we give this
morning the report and resolutions Of the com.
mittee of thirty three, appointed under the reso
luton Of MIR. Jenkins, as reported by the com
mittee, and as finally adopted by the convention
By this time many Of the readers of this paper
are familiar with this report. Each mind has
received its own impressions, and each has de-
duced its own conclusions from this important
document. AS grave State paper, rejecting
the sovereignty of a great State like Georgia, il
is not destined in our opinion to take very higl
rank. And while no one can read it without
being struck with the extreme care and adroit
ness with which it is written, none can fail tt
perceive that it was prepared for just such expo
sitions as occasions might require. Every though
expressed, seems to have been pondered, anu
every word uttered, weighed in the balance o
the incest prudence There is no drectness, nc
ardor Of feeling, no glow of thought, no force
Of expression everything is calm, cool, and cal
culating, But nothing else could have been ex
pected from the school Of politics of the lead
ing minds which controlled the convention. A
more Objectionable document in our opinion, not
only to the minority, but to large portion oil
the ma ority, when they come to examine it close.
ly, was never written in Georgia. But we have
neither the room nor the tune to review this pa
per as it deserves, this morning. We shall how.
ever, pay our respects to il at length, hereafter
and although our friends were denied the poor
privilege of discussing it in convention, thank
God we can appeal to higher and juster tri,
bunaI, the forum of the people.
AS regards the resolutions, we have but a
word to say this morning. They, like the pre-
amble, we fear, are intended for exposition. The
substitute adopted for the fourth resolution, in
stead of strengthening the original, makes it. if
possible, more vague and general in its charac-
ter The change was made as the debates will
show, and which we will publish at an early
day, simply to evade the responsibility, of the
legal question of the power of Congress over
the subject of slavery in the District of Colum-
bia. Thus has Georgi' thrown away her last
chance to have her rights respected in the
Union,-without further agitation-the repre-
sentatives of her people met--to take such steps
in solemn convention, as would convince the
North that she was in earnest, and induce Con-
gress TO respect her rights; and they have sepa-
rated without doing any thing but pass few
intangible resolutions Under the name Of
UNION, UNION, Capitalization and aggression have
triumphed over Georgia. The rights and ihst-
buttons of her people are left at the mercy of an
elective despotism, which rules at Washington,
without check--RIGHT has surrendered to
MIGHT. The truth of these assertions will be
conceded by all before many years have elapsed,
and then-will the action of this convention be-
come source cfodum and appropriately, which
will never be exhausted, and a fountain of death
to every man who has drank thereat,