The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-27

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the meeting at some length In support OF the reso
lutiohs as reported by the committee. His speech
was both eloquent and powerful He skilfuly
delineated the rights Of the South, strongly in.
voked the people to maintain them, and severely
rebuked our oppressors.
| The meeting also called upon Gen r. G.. Earle
who responded in speech full of true Southern
tained the rights Of the slaveholding States con-
tended with great force, boldness, and energy,
that those rights should be maintained at every
hazard and at all events. Ae
| All the speeches met with expressions of APP
probation from the meeting, and were greeted
with applause.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted
The following committee were appointed by the
Chairman under the 4th resolution.
w. r. Davis, j. Forney, John Foster E. T..
Smith, and G. C. Whatley.
Upon motion the proceedings of the meeting
were ordered to be published. The meeting adj
IJourned to meet on the 22d inst.
E.. l.. WOODWARD, Chairman
WIN. III. FoRNEY, w. b. WAYNE, Secretaries
Extract of letter received in this city from a
gentleman residing in Columbus, Ga.
.We had glorious day of it on the 10Th. We
held meeting Of the 80 or fight boys; yes, and
girls too, for there was at least 500 of the best
mothers and prettiest daughters that boased a
home IN the sunny South, who graced the meeting
by their presence. The ladies are decidedly with
us, and don't believe that there is man of them
but would shoulder musket il, i'm defending ut
all hazards, their aid should be required /" in the
last extremity" We had from 1000 to $500 of
the bone and snew; these, and the enthusiasm,
exceeded the most sanguine expectations Of the
most ultra Southerner. The quiet Of month
ago has been succeeded by a reaction that makes
the heart of the patriot glow with ioy and Georgia
in
repe the ISLANDERS of the Northern press, which, in
various quarters Of the State, has labored to pro-
duce an Impression that the paucity of our votes
was an indication Of the public pulse, as opposed
to the Nashville Convention. The people of
Georgia are fully up to the ultimatum of the
Nashville Convention; and unless that is accepted
by the present Congress, think they will 60
back to where they ought to be now. They will
insist on rebukng the fraud perpetrated in the
organization of California; insist on her being
remanded to Territorial condition, and having
the mines left open to the STAKEHOLDER for rea-
sonable time at least, that legitimate and not
fraudulent expression Of opinion can be had on
the subject Of slavery in the formation of the
Constitution
Upon the Texas question there is but one
opinion: her cause is the common cause Of the
South, and, whenever call is made for volunteers
to sustain the jurisdiction of Texas to the Rio
Grande, they will go from this State by thousands,
must be dead letters upon the Statute Book--they
cannot be carried into effect. - Charleston Mer-
curry.
ANOTHER LINK BRoKEN.-The correspondence
which has heretofore existed, by an interchange
Of delegates, between the General Association Of
Massachusetts, (CongregationaD and the Old
School General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church, has been broken off, in consequence Of
the interference of the former body with the latter
on the subject of slavery. The Assembly, after
passing resolution to the effect that such inter-
to an interruption Of the correspondence between
the two bodies, appointed Rev. DR.. Baker
Of Texas as their Delegate to the Assoca-
ton, but he declined, and the subject was then
laid upon the table, The Association at their
meeting since held, passed resolution that al
yet being in doubt whether the General Assembly,
by their recent action, did not intend to discour-
age such continuance, they would omit appoint
ing delegate until the views of the Assembly
should be more distinctly developed The Pres
byterian, the organ of the General Assembly after
giving sketch of the proceedings of the Assoc
citation, speaks of the suspension of the cores.
pondence as "settled fact,'' and expresses
belief that it "will never be renewed, unless the
Association retract.o 1t is not at all probable
that the Association will retract. They are not
in mood for so doing. We may therefore con-
slider the correspondence as broken off; a result
more to be regretted in political than in
clesiastcal point of view. The Methodist and
Baptist churches have already been sundered by
this question Of slavery; the Presbyterian church
was divided partly on this ground; and now oc-
ours new rupture of relations from the same
cause Every such incident is the breaking Of a
strand in the cable which binds North and South
in unity. When certain number Of strands
shall be broken, the rest will give way, matter
of course, unless some Of the broken ones shall,
in the meantime, be restored, or others substituted
in their place The political strands apparently
as much shattered as the ecclesiastical. II is time
for men who love the Union, to rally in it's de-
fence.--Nsp York Journal Of Commerce.