The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-26


be for some time to come, even should such
conjunction arise as l have supposed.
From the Mobile Tribune.
OPINIONS IN THE COUNTRY. the It'll inst, a
meeting was held at Abbevle, Henry county, in
this State. Major G.. w. Williams was chair
man and B. III. keiser, secretary. A committee
of twelve was appointed to prepare resolutions,
and to allow it time, the meeting adjourned till af
ter supper. The preamble is long and striking,
but we have space only for the resolutions, which
are as follows. We extract from the Abbeville
Banner:
LIST. That MS we have entreated the North to
stop in their march of aggression, and warned
them against the consequences of their wild fana-
ticism, and as all our entreaties and warnings
have been disregarded and despised by them, that
the time has arrived when the Southern States
should cease to reverence the union with the North
should at once adopt measures Of determined re-
sistance, and "provide new safeguards for their
future security" And that it is the firm convic-
ton of this meeting that secession by the South
ern States from the Confederacy, is the rightful
and efficient remedy, unless our constitutional
rights of equality in the Union are restored and in
future properly respected.
I'd. That we heartily unite in the call made upon
the Governor to convene the Legislature of Ala
bama, to determine the measures proper TO be
adopted by the State for the maintenance Of her
honor and the rights Of her people.
3. That we look with pride, and satisfaction to
the re-assembling Of the Southern Convention at
Nashville during the next month and earnestly
hope that they may, in their wisdom, recommend
such means shall be etfectual in restoring the
Government to the sphere of the Constitution, or
securing to the Southern States withdrawal Of
their delegated authority and rights from Union
which has ceased to answer the ends for which it
was established, and become an engine Of robbery
and oppression.
Il staI
From an interesting letter in the Montgomery
Advertiser we extract the following account of the
public ceiling in the section of country where the
above meeting was held
Since left Pike have found the people every
where right on the Southern question. Resistance
| to the aggressions just perperated by Congress,
in the admission Of California with her enormous
boundary, for the avowed purpose of excluding
Southerners from emgrating to any portion Of
that vast territory with their property, and the
abolition Of the slave trade in the District ofaCo
unbia, is the determination open and avowed-
Of more than nine-tenths Of the people of Pike,
Coffee, Dale, and Henry. And be assured, that
the tenth men excepted-if there be such-has too
much prudence to exhibit colors. As party on
that issue, they cannot be rallied. Be assured, Il
more Jealous people Of the rights of their section
of the Union, are not to be found in any portion
Of even the chvaIrous State of South Carolina.
At the meeting in Cofee-the proceedings Of
which, you have doubtless already published-F.
S. Jackson, esq.,, of your city, made bold and
determined fight; but it no go; his sophistry
fell dead it passed from his lips. 1t was pow
erful effort and worthy Of better cause. l am
truly sorry for the position politically this speech
has placed him in before his former numerous po
tical friends in Coffee-they stood aghast, as it
were, with surprise at the man, as though at a
loss to determine whether he not mad, or in
sane. The people Of Coffee, Wings and Demo-
Gratis, have made up their minds to meet the issue
Their resolves are but the index of their senti-
ments They called upon the executive to act; a
refusal to respond affirmatively will not soon be
forgotten.
their fints picked; and stand ready to do their
duty. On the first day of the Court MONDAY of
last weekly they had regimental muster for re-
view, which brought out some six or seven hun
dred of the soveregns of old Dale. At the conclu-
sion of the parade, and previous to treaking the
regmental lines, Col. Hughes, to test the feeling
of the regiment, called upon all those who desired
the reassembling Of the Nashville Convention,
and who were determined to sustain its recommen-
dalton at all hazards, to step forward five PAGES
and no sooner was the word given than the entire
line, as far as the request could be heard, stepped
forward in solid column. Such is the feeling in
Dale.
Last Saturday visited Columbia, the former
seat Of justice OF Henry county, and attended the
regmentnl review at that place. found there a
few Hard sympathisers. They are not sufi+
GENTLY numerous, however, to do serious mis-
chief, being in number, comparatively speaking,
to the masses who sound, less than corporal
guard
The muster here on Monday last brought to-
gether an immense concourse Of the people Of
Henry. ! found but one sentiment among them;
a determination to maintain their rights at what
ever hazard to the Union.