Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-16

which may have been or may be raised, organized,
and officered, under the authority of any of the
States" to be employed in the State raising the
same, adjoining State, and not elsewhere, ex-
cept with the consent of the State raising the
same"
We are not disposed to recommend, for imita-
ton, under similar circumstances, the organization
Of such Conventions as that of Hartford. Such
Conventions are more likely to embarrass the
General Government than to lead to any result OF
benefit to the States who party to them. But,
having since that day had opportunities OF knowing
personally several of the leading members of that
Convention, (by their coming into the National
Councils from their respective States, and by other
opportunities, we are satisfied that their motives
were not unpariotc, being rather to quiet the ex-
isting excitement in New England at the pressure
OF war excluding the people from the ocean, so soon
following the Embargo, than to stimulate it; to
dissipate the existing discomfort, rather than to
concentrate it; to prerent its breaking out in any
form of hostility or resistance TO the Government
OF the Union. No .unpreudiced and attentive
reader Of the above proceedings Of the constituent
bodies of that Convention fail to remark that,
SO far from exhibiting any hostility to the Union,
they are altogether deferential and respectful to-
wards it. Their delegates are to meet and confer
with delegates from other States. This conference,
though upon matters of deep interest to them and
their sister States, is to be consultation merely.
The Convention is clothed with no political power;
it is to exercise no other authority than to recon-
mend subjects Of action for the several States in
terested and that action is to be all subordinate TO
the Constitution, and to be in no respect incom-
patble with due regard and devotion to the Union.
Nothing is said or proposed Of separation from
the Union, or of Northern Confederacy, or of
any other than constitutional action.
If, with such objects, SO limited, SO subservient
to the Constitution, SO respectful to the Union, the
g Hartford Convention y has become by-word
and term Of repreach, let us now inquire, upon
such evidence as is before u.s. whether the mode
of composition, and the objects of the proposed
NASHVILLE CONVENTION are such as to exempt it
from just condemnation by contemporary public
opinion.
The Hartford Convention was measure con-
ceded by the State Legislatures to the irresistible
prayers of the People of the several States repre-
sented in it. The Nashville Convention was not
called for by the People, but originated see the
seventh of the Resolutions of the Mississippi State
Convention in the Address Of the Southern Con-
vention of Members of Congress to the People !;
who, it may be confidently said, would not other
wise have been likely to think Of such thing
| The first State in which the People moved in
the matter was the State Of MISSISSIPPI. AT a
meeting Of the citizens Of /" Central Mississippi"
held at the seat of government Of the State on the
7th Of May, the assembling Of State Convention
was recommended, to be held on the first Monday
in October, and was held accordingly. The same
individuals took the lead at both meetings.
The Resolutions agreed to at the State Convention
covering the whole grounds upon which Missis-
sipp in the first instance, called upon the other
slaveholding States to send Delegates to Conven-
ton TO be held at Nashville it is thought proper
to publish here, at length, the substantive portion
Of them. They are as follows:
l. Resolred, That continue to entertain devoted and
cherished attachment the Union but desire to have
| it was formed and not engine of oppression.
2. That the institution Of slavery in the Southern States is
left by the constitution, exclusively under the control Of the
States in which exists part OF their domestic policy
which they and they only have the right regulate, ABOLISH
pepeuae they may severay judge expedien and that
all attempts the part Of Congress others to interfere with
this subject either directly indirectly in violation OF the
constitution dangerous the rights and safety of the South
and ought 10 be promptly resisted
g. That Congress has power to pass any law abolish
ing slavery in the District of Columbia or to prohibit the
slave trade between the several States prohibit the intro
duco of slavery into the Territories Of the United States
the passage by Congress Of such law would not
only dangerous violation Of the constitution, but would
afford evidence Of fixed and deliberate design the part
of that body interfere with the institution Of slavery in the
States.
A. That we would regard the passage by Congress Of the
Wlmot provso" (Which would in effect deprive the c-
zens of the savehodng States Of equal participation in the
territories acquired equally by their blood and treasure
unjust and insulting discrimination, TO which these States
cannot without political degradation submit and to which
this Convention representing the feelings and opinions OF the
people of Mississippi solemnly declare they will submit
S. That the passage Of the Wmot proviso Of any law
aboishng slavery in the District Of Columbia, by the Con-
gress the United States would of itself be such breach
Of the federal compact in that event. will make it the
duty is the right Of the slavehog States to take
Of their safety and to treat the non-savehodDg States
enemies to the avehong States and their domestic in
stitutions.
g. That the Legislature is hereby requested to pass such
laws as may in their opinion be best calculated to encourage
the Of citizens Of the avehodng States with slaves
| to the new Territories Of the United States.
T. That in Of the frequent and increasing evidence Of
the determination of the people the nonslavehodDg States
to disregard the guarantees of the constitutions and to agae
the subject slavery both in and out Of Congress- avowed
for the purpose Of eecng its abolition in the States and
also in of the facts set forth in the late Of the
Southern Members of Congress- this Convention procaims
the deliberate conviction that the time has arrived when the
Southern should take counsel together for their
IF has