The southern press., 1850-09-05
Ratification Meeting.

A large and respectable meeting, irrespec-
tive of party, in pursuance Of previous no.
tice, was held at Macon, Clarke county,
(Georgia,) on the 5th instant, for the pur-
pose Of ratifying the proceedings of the
Nashville Convention. On motion of Jas
S. Dickson, Esq, Thomas Matlock and
Hardy Fluker, were called to the chair, and
Samuel Forwood, and Thomas B. Savage
were appointed Secretaries. The chair then
in brief and appropriate manner explained
the object Of the meeting. On motion of j.
S. Dickinson, Esq, committee of ten, with
out distinction Of party, was appointed by
the chair to draft a set Of resolutions, ex-
pressive Of the sense of the meeting. The
chair then appointed the following gentlemen
as said committee:-James S. Dickinson,
John w. Ports, r. B. Patterson, w. r.
Hamilton, T. B. Pace, B. J. Goodloe, Cy-
rus Allen, W. A. Morris, VIM. Larimore
and T. B. Rivers. The committee having
retired, A. J. Sa1old, Esq, read the address
and resolutions of the Nashville Convention,
and addressed the meeting. The commit
tee, through their chairman, reported the
following resolutions, which after an address
in their favor, were unanimously adopted:
l. Resolred, That we have beheld with
infinite pleasure and satisfaction, the irmaess
and moderation, the digniied forbearance,
the judicious determination the wise con-
clusions, and the clear and unanswerable
reasoning, exhibited in the proceedings, ad-
dress and resolutions of the Nashville Con-
vention, and we hereby cdopt and ratify the
same.
2. Resolued, That the bill, reported by
the Senate Committee of Thirteen, is not
calculated to allay the excitement which now
prevails-possesses no power or virtue to
heal the dissensicns between the North and
the South, and restore harmony to distract
ed people. But is pregnant with evil,
fraug ght with mischief, dangerous to the South,
and swrenders principles for which the
Southern people have at all times and under
all circumstances, contended.
3. Resolued, That the people of Clarke
county are opposed to the bill reported by
the Senate Committee of Thirteen, (known
as the Compromise Bill, because it proposes
that all the extensive territory acquired from
Mexico, by treaty, conquest, ,and purchase is to
be surrenderedto Abolition because it propo
ses to take from Texas 125 900 square miles,
over which the institution Of slavery now
extends, for the purpose of converting it into
free States. Because Texas bonds to the
amount of ten or twenty millions Of dollars
are to be saddled upon the public treasury,
to be paid to their full value, out Of the pub
lie money, collected from the South, as well
as the North. Because it proposes to abol-
ish the slave trade in the District of Colum-
bia. Because it provides that when fugi-
tive shall declare that he is free man, the
claimant shall enter into bond to secure to
the fugitive trial by jury in the State from
which he has fled, and this is required
by the stakeholder, Notwithstanding it is
written in the Constitution so clearly that he
"who runs may read" that the fugitive slave
is to be delivered up on claim of the party"
4. RESOLVED, That the people this county
are opposed to the Compromise plan, so
called for other reasons--that it is one-sided
matter-that it takes all, as it were, from the
South, and gives nothing, absolutely moth
ing, in return-thst it establishes a Gordon Of
free States around US, that by its provisions,
California with her unwieldy dimensions,
and with clause in her constitution prohibit
ing slavery is to be admitted into the Union,
with all her imperfections, and in such a