The southern press., 1850-09-09

between the United States and Texas, is sub
ieet properly belonging TO those two powers
but in the event that the General Government
should use any coercve measures, either by force
of arms or otherwise, 10 compel a settlement
adversely to the will and interest of Texas, he7
cause shall be oar cause, and her fate oar fate
s.. Resolred, That in relation to the District
of Columbia, we hold nOo rs we have erer held
that il is unconstitutional for Congress to inter-
meddle with the subject of slavery.
DR.. Jones said that he had some other resolu-
tons which he would not read, as others con-
tanning mainly the same doctrine would be of.
fe-ed, whirh the Doctor supported with short
but spirited address, in which he took strong
grounds for the South. Clearly defining the
positions which every Southern man ought to
assume and stand by, to secure our rights and
save the Union.
/ At the close of Dr. Jones remarks, John r.
Cochran, esq, offered the following resolutions,
in addition to those already before She meet
| ing:
| ]. Resolped, That we cherish sentiments ,-of
profound regard and attachment to the Union OF
these States, and that we look upon their disso-
luton as an evil paramount to all others, save
only deprivation Of our rights, equality and
honor.
2. Resolred, That in agreeing to the Mis-
souri, Compromise line as basis of settlement
of the slavery question, we do so with the &C.
press propismn that all territory south of said
parallel of SO deg 30 min, shall be free for the
citizens of the sIaveiolding States to settle there
with their slave property, without jeoplrding
their rights to hold the same to nd udication il,
the Supreme Court AMI by thus acquiescing
in this line of settlement we do not concedc to
Congress the power to legislate upon the sub jcct
of slavery in the Territories, but surrender so
much and no further solely for the sake of the
| Union.
stand ready to support and sust lin the State and
the South in whatever course size may deem il
her duty t. pursue in the last extremity,
4. ReSnred, That we highly approve Of mass
meetings Of the people TO consult upon their
rights and mode Of redress of their wrongs.
Ana that we hereby nominate every citizen
of this county, Il delegate to the Mass COnven-
ton to be held at Macon on Thursday the 22d
inst.
These resolutions he e. r. Cochran,) desired
might be connected with those already before
the meeting, which was very readily accepted by
DR.. Jones.
Mr.. Cochran then briefly glanced at the history
of Northern aggression and Southern endurance
and pointed 10 the marked Southern ultimatum
as the only ground the South could occupy
He had sickrned ut the cry Of "disunion" by the
ubmissionists-and if it did come to that, he
preferred it to dishonor-he secuted the craven
admis; ion Of some, that if that event ever came
that "the North w.uld have the stars, and the
South the stripes" that Southern men wore
no such jackets, and that the North would find
it so when she attempted to put them on.
\ fu) and fran 6SruSsion ,uns than inyitp1
and DR.. Dupree of Twggs avaied himself of the
invitation, and addressed the meeting ut length,
in which he took the ground Of non-ntervcntion
rs the greatest calamity that could fall upon the
South--char@ ed the doctrine of the Missouri
Compromise as tending to dsunion-he took up
the deiunct "Omnibus bill'' and discussed I'll its
parts separately, and concluded by declaring
that the bill came entirely up to his IDEAS of non.
intervention, and with an appeal to the people
not to sustain the Missouri Compromise.
Col. A. f. Cochran replying to DIR. Dup-ec
said that he would show by the arguments of
his distinguished friend that he Duprce) not only
favored Intervention, but was Il disunonist, of
the worst kind--he would refer only to one
measure of the Compromise Bill, and that was
the abolition of the slave trade in the District of
Columbi,. which measure proposed to give abso-
lutte freedom to every slave offered for sale in
delegated, but reserved to the States Of Mary.
land and Virginia. in the ccssion of that district
to the United Statrs--he had no fears Of dis
union--a prompt and united resistance by the
South was sufficient to secure our rights.
DIR. Jones again followed in an extended reply
to DR.. Duprec, in whic|, he showed the utter
ins Efficiency of the Clay Compromise to satisfy
the South, and pointed to the line of 363" vita
slavery guaranteed and protected South Of that
! line, as the most extreme concession which the
South could honorably accept
Mr. G.. G. Bcal expressed his dissent to some
of the Resolutions, but declined voting for or
against them.
Mr. n. Murphy, said that he could not sub
scribe to the doctrincs-he was for non-inter-
vrnton and nothing clse-wns opposed to ult-
m rtumS and sine Qua nons
Ga motion, the preamble and resolutions We're
then taken altogether, and adopted without 4
Il dissenting vote
On motion it was
Resolred, That copy of the proceedings be
forwarded to the Macon and Mli!ledgrvlle papers
with request to publish.
The meeting then adjourned
JOEL RIVERS, ! cho;rm
JOSEPH HILL. o"0""'
n A. CAEswELI' Secretaries
A. Y. McCARDEL, { "'''''' ''''
MEETING IN McINToSH-At q large and re-
spectacle meeting held at the Court house in
Darien, Sept =, 1850 pursuant to public invita-