The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-24
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.

| IUBLIC MEETING IN MlSS1SSlPPL-AI puDllc
meeting of the citizens of Natchez and Adams
county, who are in favor of sustaining the
rights of the South against Northern aggression,
and approve of the proceedings of the Nashville
Convention, held at the Court House in the city
Of Natchez, on the 9th day of September, on
motion Of Gen. Robert Stanton, Capt John b.
hewitt was called to the Chair, and on motion
of Maj Richard Edward, William r. Mellen was
appointed Secretary. On motion Of Col. l.,
Sanders, Jr., Gen. Felix Huston was invited to
address the meeting; whereupon Gen. Huston
came forward and made powerful argument in
| favor of the South presenting a united and firm
| front against all further encroachments of the
! North upon our rights.
| Gen. Huston was followed by Col Sanders
and Gen. Stanton, in brief but eloquent re-
marks.
| Col. Sanders presented the following resolu.
| tons
1st. Resolred That the whole course of the
Northern States, for the last twenty years, in
relation to slavery, has been a violation of the
spirit Of the Constitution, destructive of our
peace, insulting to our feelings, embitterng our
social relations, keeping us on the defensive
and threatening the entire overthrow of oui
constitutional rights
3D. Resolred, That the continuance of this
price too dear for us to pay for the preservation
of the Union.
3D.. ReSolred. That whilst we desire peace
and harmony with our Northern brethren and
continuance Of the Union upon the principles of
equality and Justice we will not submit from
year to year to insults AID aggressions, which,
if persisted in and submitted to, will intimately
ruin u.s.
4th. Resolred, That we approve of the adj
dress and assent to the resolutions of the Nash
Vile Convention, which we think do not demand
as much as the South are entitled to but for
the sake of united councils and action we wave
our own opinions and assent thereto.
9Th. ResoLued, That we consider the admission
of California ut this time as a State, violation
of the Constitution, and equal in enormty to
the passage of the Wilmot Proviso
9th. Resolred, That the abolition of slavery
or the slave trade in the District of Columbia,
by act of Congress, would be an assumption of
authority by that body, to egislate adverse to
slavery, utterly incompatible with the honor or
welfare of the slaveholding States.
18th. Resolred, That we consider the title of
Texas to her limits, as declared by her laws, at
the time OF annexation, to be good against the
world, and that the State of Mississippi is
deeply interested in her title being maintained
and ought to sustain the same by arms if neces-
sary.
9Th. Resolred, That the attempt to bride from
| Texas territory now within the limits of slave
holding State for the avowed purpose of making
non-slayeholding States therefrOm, is mean
outrage which ought to be resisted by every
Southern State
9th, Resolred, That we have more to fear
from the money and patronage of the General
Government being exerted to break down sIa-
very than we have of its armed power.
Mr. Meen offered the following as additional
resolutions:
Res.ired, That the sovereignty of the Terri
tory ceded to the United States by the treaty of
Guadaloupe, was vested in the States of this
Union as joint tenants, and not in the General
Government, which has only charge of said ter
ritory trustee, with very limited powers
and that the exercise of sovereign power by
forming State Constitution, without q prior
grant from the States holding said sovereignty,
was revolutionary in its character, and an usur-
patton of power, which Congress, without the
assent of all the States has no right to sanction
by admitting such State into the Union.
Resolred, That each State has the right to
dictate the terms upon which she will dispose
OF her sovereign rights within said territory !;
and, In the absence of any constitutional pro-
vision, we are willing that said territory should
be equally divided between the North and the
South, or by the extension of the Missouri Com
promise line to- the Pacific.
Resolred, That as the Constitution of the
United States gives no power to Congress to
legislate upon the subject of slaves, or slavery,
except to carry into effect that section Of the
Constitution which relates to fugtives, and in
default of a convention or congress- convened
for the special purpose, we are willing that our
Congressional delegation should act as commits
J sioners for the purpose of making such divisl