The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-02
to the platform established by the Nashville Com

TO the platform established by the Nashville Con
vention, and will maintain its enactments with
the Southern States to the last extremity
| 2. RESOLVED, That should we accept the Mis-
souri, Compromise" we do so purely as peace
offering, and we would only accept il pith it dis
tinctly and plainly understood, that slavery might
go to every inch south of it and that the South
ought not to accept any line south of the Mis-
souri, line.
! 3. Resoired, That this Union is already dis
solved, when it once fails to protect the rights
of one section from the encroachment and rob
berry of another, it ought TO be dissolved.
| A. Resolred, That the Committee of Thirteen's
Compromise, and the Presidents plan, are the
offspring of infamy, and their offer to us is an
insult upon the generosity and forbearance of
the South
5. Resolred, That we pledge ourselves, in con-
junction with our Southern sister States, to
maintain the sovereignty of the South, or perish
beneath her ruins.
! 6. Resoired, That our immediate representa-
tive in Congress, Joseph W. Jackson, deserves
the praise of all parties, for his abe faithful, and
unflinching zeal in the maintenance of our
rights.
| Z. Resolred, That we condemn the conduct
OF the Government in its late instructions to
Col. Monroe, to wrest part of Texas from her.
and then maintain it at the point of the Federal
| bayonets
| s. Resolped, That we entirely concur in the
action contemplated by Texas to maintain her
rights, at every hazard and to the last extremity.
8. Resolred, That we will not stand silently
by, with folded arms, and see one of our sister
States despoiled Of her rights, and IL decision
OF right is to be tested in powder and ball,
I. instinct will point our position in the lines of
| Texas
The meeting was addressed by NIessrs. ]. b.
Hayne, w. G. Conner, and Colonel Lawton
Singleton, in n calm, dispassionate, dignfed and
patriotic MANNER and the speaker respectively
were listened to with the most marked and abb
sorbing attention We had the good fortune to
be present on the occasion, and we would not
do justice, public journalists, were we to with
hold from our readers the fact, that in the alb
sence OF all factions, violent and undue excite
ment, a feeling of the most intense anxiety for
the perpetuation of the Union pervaded the
whole meeting, accompanied with a firm deter
mination to sacrifice and rend asunder every
vestige of that glorious instrument, rather than
longer submit to the degradation wantonly i'm
pose upon the South by Northern fanatics, or
submit to further encroachments from people
that have all to lose and nothing to gain by such
severance.
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following resolutions, presented by w. c.
Cooper, Esq, Representative of Scriven county
in the last Legislature were read and unani.
mously passed; after which the meeting nd.
journed: aaas
Resolrcd, That while we disapprove and con.
denim the action of the great body of the people
at the North, on the rights and institutions OF
the South, vet we entertain feelings of the ut.
most kindness and fellowship towards such OF
them who, with us, are contcnding for stric,
construction of the Constitution, by which equal
, Justice will be secured to both sections of the
, Union @
Resolred, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Savannah Georgian ant
a copy of them transmitted to our Representa-
tive in Congress, Hon. Joseph W. Jackson, also
that all papers in the State, friendly to ou
JOHN CAMERON, Chm.
E 5Sas b. M 1osrs' Secretaries.
UNION MEErING-WHGs AND DEMocRAr,
. SHOULDER TO sHouLpER.-Strange as it may seem
we permitted our paper to go to press last week
without announcing the union of the politica
l parties of Lafayette County, on the momentum
slavery question. Two or more unsuccessful AT
tempts had been made to bring about this union
' and by many, (but not by us,) il was almost en-
tirely despaired of. On the 1lth instant, the tw
! parties came together and shook hands, like
band of brothers, the .uiSsouoi Conpr0m,ise as
the platform of Southern rights. There was no
the slightest jarring or division in the committee
that drafted the report, in the meeting tina
adopted the preamble and resolutions. All was
: union and harmony 1t gives us unalloyet
. pleasure to announce this event to the world
f which we believe, will have decided tendency t.
bring about harmony and concert of action, in thu
other counties Of the State The people Of Lafa
yet,e are aroused to a deep sense of the dangers
which threaten their peace and safety, and hay
now shown that they are willing to lay dow
2 their party attachments to save the South from
speedy and utter ruin. Let all the counties Of thi
State, and Of the Southern States but initiate tn
r proud example which we have set, and all will b
well. SEVEN MILLIONS of men, united, de
termined, and true to themselves, can successfully
assert their rights. Keep il before the peopl
that the Wings and Democrats Of Lafayette ar
united, without any REIMBURSEMENT of politica
principles (.uiss.) Organize. g.sis
;; From The Columbus Times.
; We submit then, that it is too late for the
Patriot to question the principle of Southern
political union, which is the basis of the Nash
vile platform. 1t is too late to ask ''cui bono Z?
when we take our stand on that platform Thu
" Patriot" and the Times" are both enlisted un
!, der that flag. We cannot serve two masters
we must choose between the God Of countr,
and the MammOn of party. We can have NJ
divided allegiance. The new cause is CRANE
enough to absorb every feeling, and to commant
every pulsation Of true Southern heart. Divi
sion has been the bane, union is only the anti
: dote We must take tho ortidotn mr. in tb