The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-17

NORTH CARoL,NA-SouTnERN RtcnTs MEET
| ING.-At meeting OF the citizens OF Chowan
county, in the town Of Edenton, on Saturday the
7th inst, the following resolutions reported
by II committee appointed for the purpose, and
were unanimously adopted. They breathe the
right spirit and are to the point. We noticed
with pride, the names of some Of the most ln1u
entail and conservative citizens of Eastern Carroll.
ma taking a prominent part in the deliberations Of
| the meeting. Indeed, the "Old North State
seems to he fully alive to the dangers Of the crisis,
and we calculate much good to result from the de-
termlned action she Is now assuming. She Is
slow to anger, but powerful when her wrath is
once aroused
Whereas, the efforts Of the on-slaveholling
States have for some years past been increasingly
directed to the restriction Of slavery, aud to the
destruction of slave labor-tO the exclusion Of
Southern men from the en- oyment Of territory
CURED by the common blood and treasure Of the
whole nation, and which belongs equally to the
citizens of all the States, to the abuse Of Southern
men, and Southern institutions.
Therefore Resolred, That, deplorng the unhappy
controversy now pending between the Northern
and Southern Statc3--unXious that that contro,er.
sy should bc brought 10 Il speedy and all nmcabIe
ad ustmen, and believing that union and concert
| on the part Of the South, aud full and fair en-
preston Of their rights, and &C tho wrongs which
they suffer, constitute at lhis crisis, the best, itMot
the only means OF ava kening our Northern hretiI-
rem to u sense Of staying their honds-we, Wings
and Democrats assembled, approve "fevery means
| Of collecting the general sense of the Southern
States upon the subject, and giving full express
sion.
%. Rcsolrrd, That, looking with pride to the
| fact that the original Southern States made 9Th"
cause Of Boston, the cause of all, and that III all
our wars with foreign powers, the South has stood
by our whole country in the hour Of her utmost
need, we deem It beneath the fame OF her sons to
make verbal protestat!ons Of patriotism, and
! "love of lniun," and regard with contempt all
charges Of disunon designs as intended merely to
deter the Southern States from assembling, as our
fathers Of the Revolution assembled, to express
their grievances.
| 3d. Reso,red That the Constitution provides
that persons held to service labor in State
under the laws thereof, escaping into another,
shall be delivered up on claim Of the party 10
whom such service or labor may be DUE that 1t
is the duty Of Congress to provide means whereby
this constitutional provision may he carried INTO
effect; that this duty has been discharged in con-
formity to fundamental law, and that the proyI-
sons Of said law are obligatory upon, and should
receive the support Of the whole nation.
lth. ReSolred, That he abolition mobs and riots
in the Northern cities, for preventing the execr-
ton of the Fugitive slave law, and their abolition
conventions, and the ntnual agitation Of the sIa
very issue, will, if persisted in, lead to the total
| alienation Of one section Of the Union from the
! other; that we respectfully warn our Northern
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force the Fugitive slave law, will unite the South
in determined opposition and hostility to that sec
ton of the Union, and that the repeal of that law
! or its mod fcation in any material particular, will
result inevitably in a dissolution Of the Union.
9Th Resolrcd, II at the Legislature be requested
to use all constitutional power vested in it to tax
all Northern goods and wares brought to this
State for sale, and that our Representatives and
Senators are requested to support measures for
that object.
9th. Resolrsd That the citizens throughout The
State, and especially the merchants and farmers
be urged to cooperate with us in our efforts tt
throw off our dependence on the North, by givin!
preference to Southern bottoms in all cases o
shipping, by encouraging the direct importation
Of foreign goods into Southern ports, and by Civ
ing their aid and support to Southern industry
and manufactures.
9Th. Resolved, That contingency may arise
when the arms # the State may be required IN
defence of her rights, the Legislature be requested
to make immediate investigation into the condition
OF our military stores, TO supply all Deficiencies
therein, and TO pass such acts IN reference % oo'