The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-14
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I. NJ. HUDGINS, Secretary.
RESOLUTIONS.

Resolred That the territories of this Govern
ment are common property, belonging to eac!
! individual of the Union particularly, and every
one conformity and that Congress has no righr
! to discriminate either in the persons that go, Il
| the property they carry, to these territories.
That it is the duty Of Congress, rs the trus
tee for all the people, to lay off the public do.
main into convenient boundaries, to form prorel
territorial Governments "a each portion becomes
settled prohibiting or excluding nothing0 fo,
the regulation and government OF those y h,
migrate to these territories; and in due tim,
authorize them to form constitution and appl,
for admission as State, prescribing nothing bu'
their boundaries, their population, and their con
stituion-that it shall be republican.
That Congress cannot delegate any of these
powers to any other person, nor refuse to exer-
else them promptly on all necessary occasions.
without committing breach of the trust re
posed in it by the constitution, which creates
it the trustee of all the people; and to this ex
ercise of power, the people in this section Of tho
Union will ever cheeriully submit.
That Congress did, ut the last session of III,
thrteth Congress, fail 10 perform its appropriate
duties by establishing territorial governments
whereby the Southern p ople have suffered Sc
rious wrong and irreparable loss.
a violation of al usage, precedent or custom
unparalleled, and without example in the annals
of the country, with constitutional requirements
neglected, and irregularities connived mt, and the
ordinary pupilage and training waived just be
cause she had prohibited slarery IN her constitu
ton.
That the precedent thus set is Of evil tenden-
cy, because it admits that the inhabitants Of II
territory are free to act they please, and indie
pendent of Congress- and that California could
with the same propriety, have claimed and organ
lied our whole Mexican acquisition, as the boun-
Diary she did establish for herself.
That in considering the means used, and the
influences brought to bear, in inducing the for
nation of a constitution, and in admitting Cali
fornia as n State, we feel quite as indignant as
if the Wilmot Proviso had been attached boldly
and in direct ter,Ds,-believing that this result
has been consummated by the planning Of those
who wished to gain the advantages of the APP
plication of the Wilmot Proviso, without in
curing the responsibility of directly attaching it,
That the Sodthern people could not constitu-
tionaliy have been excluded from the territories
and the vast mineral wealth Of California and
it having been done u,,constuut'ona!ly they ought
not to submit to it, and in so doing Congress
has violated her delegated powers.
That as u means OF defence against the studied
aggression of the Northern people upon South
eru institutions, we heartily tpprove OF the
meeting of the late Nashville Convention; and
we agree with the doctrine of the address and
resolutions of that convention, that, while Con-
gress has no power to egslate upon the sub
iect of slavery, yet as compromise and to re-
store peace and harmony TO the country, we
would be willing to submit to the Application OF
the Missouri Compromise line extended west
ward to the Pacific Ocean, on the parallel OF &c
deg. 80 min.
That we approve of the re-asscmbling of said
Nashville Convention according to adjournment
and that we appoint c. s. Jones, esq, a delegate
thereto, with instructions to recommend to the
Governors of all Southern States, if Texas
should refuse the proffered boundary, and hostile
steps should be taken, TO convene the Legisla-
lures of their respective States to consider the
emergency.
<s~Among the prizes offered this year by
the Cincinnati Art Union, is the Greek Slave OF
Powers, which. we believe, is the most valuable
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