The southern press., 1850-10-30
southern Rights Meeting at Vance
mississippi.

day at 4 o'clockP. NJ. aud organized by calling
Hon.. Il. q. Wilkinson to the chair and appoint
ing ID. Walker, Secretsry. The chair submit
ted for their consideration the following rcsolu-
tons, to-wit:
l. Resolved That the best mode of ascer-
taining the object and meaning of q law, is to
consult its preamble, since the makers OF law
are supposed to express in its preamble the very
purposes and motives which led them to propose
and adopt IT. and that this is rule Of constrtlc-
ton as applicable TO the Constitution Of the u. g.
as any other law
q Resolved, That the main objects of the
Consultation were to establish Justice insure
domestic tranquility, promote the general well
fare, and to secure to ourselves and to posterity
the blessings of equal rights
8. Resolved, That experience proves that
the Constitution properly administered, and
faithfully executed, is fully adequate to effect
its objects, and that until q time comparatively
recent, it fell in no way shorte Of the expec-l
tations Of It's illustrious founders, dispensing
equal and impartial justice, promoting the
general peace prosperity, and welfare; and
dffusing the blessings of liberty and safety of
persons and Of property throughout the whole
land.
A. Resolred, That now, although the letter Of
the Constitution is the same, its spirit is en-.
tirely perverted, its object lost sight Of and dis
regarded, its intents baffled and mainly defeated
by an oyerbearing and reckless majority, which
appears TO scorn alike the restraints of law and
Justice when they interpose between them and
the falfillment Of their purposes of lawless ag-
grandizement, oppression, spoliation, confisca-
ton of property, and the utter wreck and ruin
of the minority.
5. Resolred, That the justice which the Con-
stitution designed to establish is now systema-
tically and constantly defeated; domestic tran
guilty, so fur from being promoted Is disturbed
and troubled, almost destroyed in the malad-
.ministration Of the Government, the general
welfare made to mean the partial welfare Of a
sectional majority, the blessings of equal liberty
is denied to US, and the fate Of colonists depen-
dents, and interiors, inevitably awaits our pos
terity unless it is ayerted by our determination
and courage.
6. Therefore resolved, That the Constitution
has failed to secure the ends for which it was
adopted, fol we re plundered of our property
disturbed d ha rassed in our social relations
denied the coAmon rights and equal privileges
of American citizens, insulted, derided, threat
ened and reviled by the majority; We enjoy
neither fraternity, equality, nor equal liberty in
the Union; the Union has therefore failed
q
claration of independence, .when long train
Of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same object, evinces design to reduce a
people under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty to throw off such govern
ment and to provide new guards for their future
security.
8. Resolped, That it Is the sense Of this meet
ing that the Governor houd recommend to the
legislature at its extra session to pass law call
ing State convention Ito assemble as early as
to consult about the mode and
measure OF redress. ga
9. Resolred, That we approve the resolutions
and address Of the Nashville Convention, they
concede too much, but the refusal Of the rea-
sonable offer embraced in them, puts our enemies
further in the wrong, and shows that they are
deaf alike to the voice OF reason and to the claims
of equality and justice, and that it gives to us
the great advantage in this dispute Of position
of moderation, forbearance and even Of d dispo-
sition to compromise away portion Of our
rights for the sake of peace and quiet.
10. Resolred, That the chairman appoint six
delegates to represent this county in the next
Southern convention whether held at Nashville
or elsewhere.
IL. Resolred, That the State Of Mississippi is
a sovereignty, that her people owe obedience to
the General Government, but that they owe alle-
glance to her, and that this duty of allegiance to
their State is paramount to any and all claims Of
obedience from any quarter; that the condition
Of the Union is but compact and covenant be-
tween sovereign States, that the powers that
made it can unmake it when they please, have
the right to withdraw from it peaceably at any
time, without opposition or complaint, and in the
language of Jefferson, to Judge Of all infractions
of the compact, and of the mode and measure Of
redress" 5 @ y
| l2. Resolred, That certain reciprocal rights
and duties existed between these States anterior
to the formation Of the Federal compact; they
| are the same that now exist between independ
ent friendly communities all over the world,
that among them was the right to exact full and
impartial justice in their intercourse with each
other, that nowhere does the Constitution give
to Congress the power to legislate in disregard
Of this right: That if it has the power therefore
to admit California as State into the Union, il
had no right to exercise this power in the man
ner that It did, and that such admission was a
violation Of the rights of the South as unjust
and flagrant as if it had involved confessedly, a
direct and apparent infraction Of the Constitn-
ton, and that it is our right and duty to resist II
by all the means by which we would resist any
Of the most palpable violations Of the Constitu-
ton involving equal injustice, ana consummat-
ing the same mischief and injury.
Is. Resolped, (By E. Barksdale,) that upon
the ratification Of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hi.
dalgo, the eminent domain Of the territory ac-
quired under that treaty belonged to the States
of the Union, that sovereignty is inseparable
from the States and that none (whether) aliens
or citizens could rightfully exercise any function
of sovereignty, unless authorized by the States
that the States have only authorized Congress
to do SO, and not emigrants into the territory
without the express permission of Congress, that
the people Of California therefore in forming a
government for themselves, to influence forever
the political condition Of that territory, were
guilty ola gross usurpation Of sovereign powers
that belong alone to Congress or the States, that
their act was void and not capable Of confirna-
tion by Congress. u
Ia. RESOLVED (By E. Barksdale,) that the peo-
pie Of California, would have preferred its adj
mission into the Union as State, with circum-
scribed and moderate limits, and that the people
south Of SO degrees 80 minutes Of north lati.
tude were opposed to its organization as a
State by the present Congress, but that the
members Of the convention of California, were