The southern press., 1850-09-05
From the Kosciusko Miss.) Chronicle.
Ratification Meeting.


Pursuant to notice, large and respect
able meeting assembled at the Court House
in Kosciusko, on Saturday, the 18th instant,
and organized by calling Judge S. N. Gil
LILAND to the chair, and requesting DR.. K.
P. JONES to act as Vice President. W. p.
ANDREWS and w. d. Roy were appointed
Secretaries.
On motion of Col S. Durham, it was
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint
committee, to consist Of eleven, who shall
report suitable resolutions for the considera-
tion Of the meeting also, to whom all other
resolutions shall be submitted.
The following persons were appointed said
comm ttee: S. Durham, VIM. Dodd, Elijah
Sanders, Eli Nichols, p. w. Lowe, f. Fri
day, B. Westbroek, w. K. Johnson, Joshua
Brooks, Garner Dotson, and DR.. G. B. Gal
loway.
The committee retired, and during their
absence the meeting was addressed in an
able and lucid style by Messrs. John B.
Hemphill and Josiah p. Campbell.
Messrs. Henry Gray and Jason Niles
were called upon, but declined speaking.
BY request, J. P. Campbell read the re-
solutions Of the Nashville Convention. After
the lapse of some further time, the commit
tee returned and made the following report:
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
We, citizens of Attala county, in general
meeting assembled, in view of the distracted
state OF the public mind, the danger which
threatens the destruction Of the most impor-
tant rights and interests of the Southern
States, and the integrity of the Federal
Union itself, do hereby declare and assert the
following principles and propositions:
l. Resolped, That we ratify and adopt
the resolutions and address Of the Southern
Convention, and thank the Mississippi dele
gates for the zeal, ability ard fidelity dis
played in the cause of the South.
9. That the Federal Constitution and the
laws of the Southern States recognize slaves
as property, and that any and every act of
the General Government, whether of commis
sion or omission, by which the Southern peo
pie would be shut out from as free and full
enjoyment of the territories as their North
ern brethren, is gross violation of our
rights, to which the South ought not to sub
NIT.
8. That it was and is the duty of Con-
gress to provide territorial governments for
California, New Mexi"o, and Utah, in such
form and with such provisions as would Sc
cure to the South, as well as the North, an
unrestrained and unrestricted entrance into
all of said territories, and the enjoyment of
slave property carried into the same.
4. That the refusal Of the last Congress,
under the influences Of popular sentiment at
the North, and resolutions Of the legislatures
OF the free States to provide such govern
ments, thereby OPENING the door and induc-
ing the formation of State constitutions pro-
hibiting slavery, first in California and then
in New Mexico, has operated to exclude
the South from all Of said territory as efec-
tuay as the Wilmot Provso, and deserves
the unqualified condemnation, and ought to
meet the firm resistance Of every Southern
man.
$. That we cherish warm and unaf
fected respect and attachment to the Con-
stitution of the United States and the Fed
era Union, and We are ready to defend and
maintain the same both against foreign and
domestic aggression, as long as the great
ends and objects OF their formation are sub
served, u: equality Of burthens and equal
i:y Of rights to all sections.
6. That to yield to the demands of the
Northern States, now urged in Congress,
to surrender up to them, either in form or
substance, the whole Of the common terri
tory, to give portion Of Texas, now slave
territory, to Freesoil, and to allow Congress
to abolish the slave-trade in the District OF
Columbia, and to set free all slaves that may
be carried into it for sale, would be dis
honorable submission on our part, would In
vite and encourage further aggressions from
them, lead either to speedy dissolution OF
the Union, or the total destruction of the
institution Of slavery in the Southern States,
or to result still more appalling-a servile
war and determination OF the white or black
race throughout the South
= That to avert these calamities, to COM