Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-08-31
THE TIMES TERMS.
THE MACON MEETING.

We have, in the Georgia papers, which the
Southern mail has tardily brought us, accounts of
the mass meeting of all the people OF that State,
which was called to meet at Macon, on Thurs
day, the 22d inst, the day when the people of Vir-
ginia were quietly electing delegates to Conven-
ton for the purpose of remodelling their State
constitution, without the remotest reference to
such contingency as the breaking up of the
Federal Government, and all its intimate relations
to the polity of each one of the States. In high
sounding phrase, the report before US commences
thus:
con Thursday morning, the citizens of Georgia
concerned at the large and e1tensioe warehouse of
MesSrs. Field Adams and proceeded TO organize
they meeting The meeting was opened with prayer
by Rev. Mr.. Martin. Ex-Governor MCDONALD and
Judge u Is. STRONG were appointed Presidents"
Either the citizens of Georgia. must have
been suddenly and unaccountably diminished in
numbers, or the goodly town of Macon must have
one OF the most extraordinary warehouses in this
or any other country The popular vote of
Georgia in 1848 was 1889. Counting none
but voters as citizens, it would seem that these
92,339 were actually assembled at the ware
house of Messrs. Field & Adams but other chro-
nicles assure us that the number that really
met together reached only $780, by the largest es-
innate. A committee was appointed, as usual, to
draft resolutions, with Ex-Gov. Mcdonald as
chairman. During its retirement we are told that
"the meeting was addressed by Hon. R. B. Rhett
of South CAROLINA, in an eloquent and patriotic
speech, insisting on Southern rights the Missouri
Compromise to SO deg. 80 min, as the utimatum,
rallying the people to stand up to their principles
and to defend their rights as attempted to be in
vaded by Congress, the Administration and the
North, to the last extremity. The speech was
loudly applauded throughout; three hearty cheers
were given at the conclusion"
We subjon the resolutions which the commit
tee reported, and which, it is stated were adopted
by reclamation
ResOlred, That we approye the Resolutions and
Address OF the Nashville Convention and recommend
them to the cordial support ofthe people of Georgia
ReSotued, That in recommending the people of
Geor9Ia TO aequiesce 10 the application of the Mssou
ri COMPROMISE line 36 deg. 30 min to the Territories
OF the Qnlled States with recognition of slavery
South OF that line propose the acauescence for the
sake OF the peace oil the country, and the preservation
oiihe Union.
Resoiced, That it is the Constitutional right the
citizen TO be protected in the enjoyment in the public
Territory, OF any property which, by the laws Of the
State, OF which he is inhabant, he is authorized to
own; aud to withhold from him this protection is to
debar him OF Constitutional right.
- hesotped, That the admission of California into the
ohion, with her pretended organization, will be the
sanction oil the most unluslhabe aggressions OF ntru
aers upon the public Territory the rights of fifteen
sovereign States OF the Union
hes0lred, That the Territorial policy of majority
OF the TWO Houses. Of Congress is to prevent forever
the admission OF another slave state into the Union,
supVerl e rights OF the South in the public Territories
and eventually to abolish slavery in the States thus
converting Government which was established for |
the protection OF all, into engine of attack and
spoliation OF portion of It's members