The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-02
SOUTHERN SENTIM EMIT
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SOUTH ERN SEN Tim ENT.
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On the 25th inst, the great Southern meeting
was held in Henry County, ratifying the late
Nashville Convention, and when i say great,
do not misapply the term, a an evidence, at the
early hour of ten A. NJ, three thousand souls
assembled around the altar of Southern Rights
which they worshipped with the most apparent
devotion. Never was there witnessed such
concourse Of universal opinion in the county Of
Henry, they stood in silence breathing forth
love for our Constitutional rights, convincing
every observer that they were no longer going
to yield to Northern aggression, but individu-
ally and collectively adhere to the following re-
solutions which We're unanimously adopted:
SOUTHERN MEETING IN HENRY CouNTY.-A
mass meeting of the citizens of Henry county
was held at Abbeville on the 25th of July 1850,
in accordance with the arrangement of pre-
vious meeting held on the LIST inst, to take into
consideration the action of the Nashville Con-
vention and to ascertain completely the senti-
ments Of the people of Henry as to the great
crisis which threatens the loss of her dearest
Constitutional rights and most sacred honor.
A large concourse of citizens assembled num-
bering as estimated by many at near 5000 per-
sons, many persons from the surrounding coun-
ties and from Georgia attended, thereby evincing
the great interest felt elsewhere in the great
struggle for Constitutional rights. The assem-
blage was called to order, and George w. Will
liams, Esq, and Gen. A. ]. McAllister were
selected to preside over the deliberations Of the
meeting. Messrs. James Pynes, w. H. Wood,
Joseph Lawrence, ard Maj III. L. Chitty, were
designated as Vice Presidents, and Daniel Me-
Crimmon and James A. Clendnen, Esqrs., APP
pointed Secretaries.
On notion, committee of twenty-one gem
tlemen, to wit:
John w. Harper, Chairman, A. McAllister, j.
A. Clendinen, Sidney A. Smith, E. W. league,
Joseph Watson, Robert Kennedy, John A.
Wood, w. T. Kirkland, IT, Y. Smith, j. Ben
nett, s. b. Watson IT, Battle, j. B. Applng, J..
Murphy, L. Bird, j. Wood, W. Stewart, c..
Gals, Il. Chambers, and j. Wilcoxon, were APP
pointed to draft and report resolutions for adop-
ton.
AT the meeting Of the committee two Of the
above named gentlemen to wit: Sidney A.
Smith and Maj. John p. Appling were released
by request from acting on said committee and
there being two Others absent, the residue of
the committee unanimously reported through
the chairman, J. w. Harper, Esq. the following
preamble and resolutions:
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
We the people of Henry County, in conven.
ton assembled, pursuant to public notice, in
view of the perilous condition of the country
and the threatened destruction of the equality
of the Southern States in our Federal Union, do
hereby publish and declare,
i. That we approve, endorse, and ratify the
resolutions and address adopted by the the
Southern Convention, recently assembled at the
City of Nashville.
2. That the bill now pending before the
Senate of the United States, known rs the
" Clay Compromise Bill" and recommended as
an adjustment of the great question now dividing
the Northern, and Southern sections of the
Union is wholly unworthy the name of a Com
promise bill, and ought to receive the unan
nous opposition Of the entire people of the
Southern States.
3. That the people Of the Southern States are
entitled with the people Of all the other States
to an equal participation in the territories o.
California and New Mexico, acquired by the
common blood and treasure of the whole coun.
try, and that to acquiesce in such legislation by
the Congress of the United States, as would
deprive us of such equality would be to submit
to the dictation of a fanatcal and dominant ma
jority unworthy of our common ancestry, ant
j disgracefu to us and to our posterty.
a. That out of love and veneration for tina
Union which was ordained and established b,
the patriots Of the revolution, and to preserv,
and perpetuate it to our children as a gloriou!
Inheritance Of freemen, and forasmuch as thu
South has acquiesced for long series of year:
in such division, we will consent to division Of
the common territory of the Union by an extern
sion of the Missouri Compromise line of SO de
grees 80 minutes North latitude to the Pacific
Ocean, with n clear recognition of the right o.
the Southern people to migrate with and EMO,
their property of every description south Of tina
line, and that our Constitutional right of equal
ty in the public domain, or division of thu
same as here indicated, we never should, W.
never can, we never will surrender ame
| g. That attempts now being made in New
Mexico to rob our sister State Of Texas of he
soil and jurisdiction east of the Rio Grande are
insurrectionary and rebellious on the part Of the
people of that country, and if sustained by the
authority Of the Federal Government should
meet the firm resistance not only Of Texas but
of all the Southern States which have with
| Texas common interest and common destiny
g. That our Senators in Congress be requested
and our Representatives instructed to advocate
the ultimatum laid down in the above resolu
| tons.
hat VIC iSoPo'u " Why N''li hi''Ni'
! by our fell W citizens OF Eufaula, for Distric
Convention to assemble at Clayton, on the frs
Monday in September, to fill up our delegation
to the Southern Convention which will re-as
semble at Nashville ard that Maj H. f. Chitty
II. e. Owens, J. Bennett, S. A. Smith, ]. Muir
ply c. Oats, A. c. Gordon, J. B. Appllng, Jno
w. Harper, J. A. Clendinen, ]. Pynes and VIM
H. Wood, be appointed as delegates to represen
the county of Henry in said District Conven
| ton. ,tH .s -rat. g .a.
Eloquent, patriotic, and "soul-stirring' speech
es were delivered by George w. Williams, Esq.
of Henry, Col. j. J. Seibles. of Montgomery
Coils. p. t. Sayre, j. G. Shorter, and James J.
Pugh, Esq., of Eufaula.
On motion, the reported resolutions were
unanimously adopted by the meeting.
On motion of Col. A. McAllister, it was or
dered that copy of the proceedings of THU
meeting be sent TO the several papers of the dis
trict, with request to publish them.
! A large and well arranged barbecue was pre-
pared for the occasion, and all passed off in thu
most felicitous manner.