Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-04-17
The DiSuniOn Convention.

The State Of Tennessee having fairly
spewed up the seeds of the proposed
Disun:on Convention. there are some IN
dications that Mississippi will ask to have
them planted in her bosom. and allow
them to germinate there. This would be
worthy Nc. il would be nnwor
thy even the State of the Great Repudia-
tors. The matter has begun at Jackson,
the seat of government, where the Mis-
sissippian' newspaper invites the Dele
gates that may be appointed to the Dis
union Convention, TO meet.
more ridiculous specimen of the po
litical fizzle than this Southern Convention
has become. we do not recollect. The
people for whose advantage it was osten-
sibly gotten up, are washing their hands
of it as fast as they can, and prominent
politicians, who show as well as straws do
which way the wind blows, are conceiv
ing a holy horror at the very thong ht oft.
The crv of mad dog" has been most ef-
fectualv raised after it, and every one
who possesses the fear Of political hydro
phobia. is for going out Of its way as fast
as possible Not only individuals repu-
diate it, but towns; and not only towns, but
States-as Tennessee, kentucky, Mis-
souri,. &c.
A Arecent number Of the sJournal and
Messenger" of Macon, Georgia, states
that a meeting Tor the appointment OF
Delegates, which was to have been held
in that city, "was attended by very few
individuals of either party" and adjourn
ed over three days. At the expiration Of
that time. the bells rang for its re-asse!n-
bling. when not a soul appeared even to
keep company with the man who shook
the metal! The same paper says: I'VE
understand that efforts made in Monroe,
last week. TO get up preliminary meet
ing of the people. to promote the objects
of the Convention. proved entirely abor-
tive: and that the meeting did not take
place for the very sufficient reason, that
no one would attend it. The citizens o1
the several Cherokee counties, without
distinction OF party. have met and disap-
proved the action of the Legislature il
regard to the Southern Conven ion.
The Southern Banner Of Athens
Georgia. states that when the day and
hour arrived for the holding of a meeting
in that city with reference 10 the appoint
ment Of delegates. ''some half dozen per
sons were in attendance, which numbe
in the course of quarter Of an hour wa.
increased TO sixteen, The town bel
was rung by the marshal, but all in vain
The people would not come-and ihos.
who we're present concluded it was bes
to break up without any action whatever.
In Maury County. Tennessee. sec
ond attempt was made to appoint dele
gates on the lst of April bu, i, failed a
had the former one. The people woul,
not do it-having deliberately resolved
TO show .',he whole world and the rest Q
mankind" tha, they were neither ''Apri
fools nor as mad as March hare.''
i The St. Louis Union congratulate
itself and its readers that Missouri is fire
of the Convention Fever, and says: 81
those delegates of Southern citizens VII
had designed assembling a, Nashvil
persist in carrying out that design. le
them spare the South the disgrace of thei
treason by Withdrawing the title the
have applied to the proposed assemblagt