Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-05-18
THE "NAsHyILLE CONVENTION" AT IT'S
INTENDED HOME.
PROM rHE NASHVILLE BANNER OF NAr Z.


The Conpentioniss Routed Horse Foot and Dragoons'
Davidson County andhe Capital Of Tennessee against h
The great trial of strength on the question o
Convention or no Convention came off yesterday
| MONDAY, May 6th) for this county, after full no.
| tice of the time and never party more com
pletey beaten than the very few here, who, as i
appeared, favored the movement to appoint Dele
gates. The proposition had been on the tapis foi
several weeks and the battle therefore fought after
understanding and on its full merits and more compe,
defeat be hardly imagined than the chronicle
This County Convention called Irrespective of par
y" and organized by the selection of A. j. DosELsos
Esq, ex-Minster Berlin, for President, VIM WILLIAN
and FnASK McGAvocK, Esqs., Vice Presidents and Gen
EDwIN HICKMAN Secretary, the meeting being held ir
the Court house
The PRESIDENT having stated the object of the Conven
ton as among other hn appoint delegates Davidson
county the proposed Southern Convention, committee
appointed to report preamble and resolutions for the
action of the Convention.
The committee having retired for the purpose, after short
interval returned with set of resolutions the purpor
which consisted in recapuaon of the wrongs and grcv-
of the South approval of the proposed Convention
in June this point and provision for the appoint
ment Of delegates represent Davidson county in it.
Mr. E. R. EwISG thereupon and offered as an
amendment the resolutions reported by majority of the
committee the resolution which follows:
Resolved, That is the sense Of this meeting that IL is
nerpedent at present to appoint delegates TO represent Da-
vidson county the Southern Convention, proposed to be
held at Nashville on the lst Monday in June nert.
Mr. EwISo, as the minority of the committee, supported
his amendment in eloquent and orcbe Speech and the
debate further participated in by Messrs MosELEY,
SoUrHALL and HALE, who opposed the amendment and by
Messrs EwING and JoHS HusH SMITH, Esq, who sustain
ed it. The former contended that the meeting called by
the friends Of the proposed Conventions that they alone should
speak for it admitting the that they
numbered-the latter insisting that, Davidson county
to be represented, every voter had right to act
The PRESIDENT took occasion also explain the motives
which had induced him to sign the call for the Convention
and recognised the of all present upon the ques
tons presented. ~
The question being finally put the overwhelm-
iugy in favor Of the amendment offered by Mr. Ewing and
the question being then taken adjournment of the
ing sine die it carried with scarcely dissenting voice.
The President gave notice that meeting would be held
after the adjournment Of those favorable the object of the
first cal-viz to appoint deegates-and few only in
parson fingered behind, and into organization.
We did not remain long enough what they did, but
shall probably find out by the official proceedings before
next issue,
Thus has the Convention project fallen leles in the CAPT
tai Of Tennessee, the speakers in behalf of having admitted
over and that they outnumbersd-that "nAJo-
RITY WAS AGAINST THEM" ..# 81.
We congratulate the people Of Tennessee this result
The action had here by the people has finally demonstrated
that they do not sympahze with those who would go outside
the constituonwho would pass by the Supreme Court
and the other remedies provided for the settlement of the
questions issue seek in irresponsible of poi
tcians for relief from the evils which aict the body
polite. ....'
Withou, undue ezutaion over those who have found
themselves far, very far wrong in their estimates of
public opinion, may yet be permitted congratulate the
people of Tennessee that the spirit which animated the
ing here in 1884, when notification raised its ces, to meet
merited rebuke, is not dead vet. t.s H.. H."@