The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-05

Strengthening the arm of the oppressor to acts
of further aggression. The occasion now calls
for more decisive stand and it behooves all
who believe submission has ceased to be virtue
and further surrender of their rights to be a
disgrace to themselves and crime against pos
terity, calmly, yet firmly to speak in the clearest
accents Of warning to the ear of the aggressor-
We believe the prevalent opinion now through
out the South to be that the Senates Compro-
mise is no compromise at all. II takes from us
the whole of California with its almost illimita-
BILE boundaries, and leaves New Mexico and
Utah to be the subjects of like fraudulent adj
mission to State sovereignty, during the next
session of Congress. 1t seeks to bride Texas
to a surrender of a vast portion OF her slave
Territory, for the purpose of annexing it to q
jurisdiction where ii will inevitably become free
soil. 1t abolishes the slave trade in the District
of Columbia, a District which as trust property
is common to the Union, and finally tends to
practice a deception upon the South by making
matter Of compromise of the clear Constitu-
tional right which we have to the aid of Congress
in recovering our fugitive slaves.
Feeling, therefore, that the Senates adjust
ment, instead of closing will widen the breach
between the North and the South,
Is therefore Rcsolued, That we fully endorse
the positions assumed in the resolutions passed
by the patriotic assembly lately convened at
Nashville, and tender to the members thereof
our warmest gratitude for the dignity, firmness,
and ability with which they discharged the duties
that devolyed upon them.
Resolred That in agreeing to take the Mis-
souri, Compromise, we do so only because such
basis has been heretofore acquiesced in MS a
means of preserving the Union.
RESOLVED, That any compromise that yields
more on the part of the South than the Missouri
Compromise, or of which that compromise is
not the basis, is oppressive and degrading to the
| slaveholding States as equals with the North in
the Confederacy, and rs binding one portion of
the Confederacy to a state of abect dependence
upon the other.
Resolued, That under the present circumstances
OF the country, and the known want of proper
representative population within its borders, the
admission of New Mexico, as State, would
justify the most extreme measures on the part of
the South.
RESOLVED, That the course pursued in Con-
gross by our Senators and several of the Repre-
sentatlves from this State, upon the slavery ques-
ton, and especially by the Hon. John McPher-
son Berrien and the Hon. Joseph w. Jackson,
| prove them warm and devoted patriots, worthy
the confidence Of the whole South, and the es-
teen and appreciation Of their immediate con-
stitaents.
| Resolred, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the papers of the city, and
that copy Of the same be transmitted to the
Hon. John Mcpherson Berrien and William C.
Dawson, our Senators in Congress, and to the
| Hon. Joseph w. Jackson, our Representative, to
be laid before the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. '@
After number of addresses by gentlemen
present, the question was loudly called for and a
division ordered, when, without count, the
chair declared the substitute carried, an over
whelming majority voting for it.
The thanks of the meeting were then voted
to the President and Secretary, for the able dis
charge of their respective duties.
! 1t was also resolved that the proceedings OF
the meeting be published in ertenso in the pa
pers of the city
| After which the meeting adjourned in the ut
most harmony and good feeling. ...
w. THORNE WILLIAMS, Chairman.
THos Ii. HARDEN, Secretary. a"t .-aa.