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NORTH CAROLINIAN.
Vgm. II. Hayne. Editor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, n. e.
JUNE 90, 1860
ADDRESS OF THE NASHVILLE coNvEN-

ADDRESS OF THE NASHVILLE CONVEN-
TON.
20 the people of the slaueho7ding States.
The address is too long to occupy Eve columns
Of our paper, unless it were Of more monen-
tous and immediate Importance to the people.
We shall give only the heads, points and conclu-
slOnS.
The address processes to show the condition of
the slavery question; to assert the rights of the
South, and to demand their recognition BY the
general government.
The address dates the agitation of the slavery
question 1G years back, to the time when the
people Of other States began to petition Congress
on the subject of slavery. 1--WE should date it
back to the foundation of the government At
that time however, they commenced the agita-
ton of the abolition Of slavery in the District of
Columbia The address then gives sketch of
the history Of the agi tation up to this time.
The South is reviled and denounced in Con-
gress and every where, on account of the insti-
tuition of slavery, and the nonslaveholding States
stand combined to undermine the rights of pro-
pertv in slaves Concession the part of the
South only euboldens the North to make further
demands. The great end being the abolition Of
slavery in the States, the efforts TO plish
it will never cease and when time shall give
the uonslavehoiding States preponderaEce Of
three fourths 0; the authority of the government,
the constitution will be altered and slavery pro-
hibited
The following sentence in the address con-
tains solemn and deplorable fact, verified and
attested by the history Of parties in the South !;
and many politician in the South will read it,
who, if he have sense enough to understand the
application, will feel keenly alive to the justice
Of the rebule. It reads thus:
If from the past transactions we have
narrated, we learn our condition in the
Union, they teach Us also that our past
policy of non action and submission to ag-
gression cannot bring us peace and safety.
open to agitation on the subject Of slavery.
if the Southern States had moved with
energy to avert state of things unconsti-
tutional in itself, and surel tending to bring
the slaveholdng and n-slaveholding
States into collision. although late. it mi ght
not have been too late to stop subsequent
encroachments upon our rights. But the
Southern States were passive; and their
forbearance has had the effect of inspiring
the Northern people with the belief either
that we value union with them more than
we value the instituti on ot slavery, or that
we dare not move from conscious ina
biIity to protect ourselves. You have un-
generously stood still whilst your supper
ters and the defenders of the constitution
in the Northern States. in their efforts to
protect you from the agitations Of slavery
in Congress, have been politically annihi'
lated, or have turned your foes. You have
tamely acquiesced. until to hate and per.
secute the South, has become a high pass
port to honor and power in the Union.
The address then argues that where two bodies
of people Of opposite interests, live under one
govern iEent the DONNA Mt interest will oppres:
the other, and aggrandize itself at the expense
, of the other. To submit. therefore, the ag
gresslons will be to civ up to gradual annihla
ton. The minority owe it to themselves and t.
the constitution, to maintain their rights. How
shall their rights be maintained? The ballot boz
is Intellectual Congress has thus far failed to d.
it, The compromise bill before Congress
fails, to 40 it. Here the address gives sketch
of the provisions of thei compromise bill. How
the rights of the minority shall be maintained
the address does not state, but should inter
that the writer's considered separation the only
available and reliable means.
The Missouri compromise is then named a:
the utimatun, the only proposition which
will be acceptable to the South.