Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-10
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT AS TO THE
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.


TO keep them hereafter advised of the manifesto
tions of public opinion in the Southern States,
with regard to the expediency of the Nashville
Convention. Believing that thorough union of
sentiment, in regard to. any measure undertaken
for the benefit of ALL is indispensable to its sue
cess, it is, in our judgment, highly important to
know whether there is in the South such union
of sentiment concerning the Nashville Conven-
ton. We proceed then, in the first place, to re-
gard what is taking place in Georgia, the State
whose Legislature has exceeded all others in the
strength of its resolves, placing the admission OF
California under any circumstances, on par with
the enactment of the Wmot Proviso.
GEORGIA.
The papers bring us scarcely any returns of the
popular vote taken on the I'd inst. throughout the
State, for the election of delegates to Nashville.
In brief statement, which we published yester-
day, it should have been said that in the city of
Savannah, the vote was for Hon. ]. H. Copper,
(Whig) Ala for Hon. Geo. M. Troup, Dem }
ABB. There was Of course no opposition to those
gentlemen, and to this circumstance the Savannah
Georgian chiefly attributes the snallness of the
vote but that paper admits it to be the sentiment
of many of the people of Georgia, that the Nash
vile Convention is not necessary or expedent, I'M
der present circumstances. The general indiffe-
renee on the subject was strongly manifested by
the defective representation OF two preliminary
district Conventions, held one at Gainesville and
the other at Cassville for the purpose of nomna-
ting candidates. The &c Southern Banner says
of the Gainesville Convention
"Only four counties of the nine composing the
Sixth Congressional district were represented. They
were Walton, Jackson, Hall and Habersham. The
Wings represented only from the counties OF Ha-
bersham and Hall There not quorum of the dis
tict present. and hence Mr. Thurmond Of Jackson was
opposed to the nomination..
How far the Cassve Convention should be
considered indicative of public sentiment favour
able to the Nashville Convention, we may Judge
from the following extract of the reply of DR..
Miller of Glass; to the committee who informed
him of his nomination by the Cassvie Conven-
ton:
very sensible of the distinction conferred by the
selection, and regret that cannot accept frankly and
without reservation. But the fact that only portion
oil the counties composing the district represented at
Cassville, and some of them but partially ,ustes the in
terence that the people of the remainder either desire
representation in the Southern Convention quite
indifferent upon the subject"
AS the very remarkable failure of the people of
Georgia to second the recommendation of their
Legislature, in regard to the Nashville Conyen.
ton, has an obviously important bearing on the
policy which other Southern States may think it
expedien to pursue, we extract, from the Nillege-
nile Recorder, a journal of much ability and per-
fectly true to the Southern cause, the following re-
marks, which throw much light on the results of
the late election, or more properly 7ao-eleclion.
That paper of the I'd, says:
This being the day fixed by law for the election of de-
legates to the Nashville Convention, it remains to be
how far the people partake OF the feeling of the
late Legislature in regard to the matter That there has
evidently been marked Indifference, perhaps we
should accurately describe the feeling by the term
rePugnance to the measure at this time, must be appa
to all observers The larger portion Of the Wings
have felt that most OF the OF the late session,
and this among them, more the offspring of par
tzan than patriotic spirit The course of the Demo-
cratic majority the heartess distranchisement OF the
Wing portion OF the citizens Of the State-their
contemptuous rejection in the Senate, of Mr.. Jen-
kins Resolutions for the dscarding of all party
ties in relation the vital subject Of the South,
holding those only friends who with
herethe Of the Democratic press, at least in
fuental portion OF it, in relation to the noble Southern
stand OF Toombs, Stephens and Owen at the COM
nencement of the sesson-the avidity with which Gen.
Taylor was and has been assailed on all and every
pont-these and OF other pal abe partzan de-
monstratons even in connection with the great subject
of the day. have created they could not but create
strong and controlling impression on the mind OF the
Wing party that they, and the great Southern question
ITSELF sought only be made OF tor the SubEer
Venee OF party ends.
Onthe other hand the Democratic party itself is and
has been on this measure very greatly divided We
this almost every where in the action OF that party in
relation to their nominations. In the largest Democra
tic District, Tor instance at the late nominating conven
ton, not one half the counties of the District was
presented In another, second only, if equal in de-
1nocrac strength to the other land united constituting
the great strength of the Democratic party in Georgia.
there stres and heart bungs upon this question of
the most serious knda testying that the action OF the
recent Legislature at least part meets with but little
favor from the Georgia Gibraltar OF Democracy, the
upper and Cherokee country.
How Tar the popular vote under these circumstances
will carry out the OF the Legislature will short
y be seen II it fails, to us seems altogether likely
from all appearances the Democratic party will be
taught wholesome lessonand that is, that even the
most purely Southern question: in order to insure union
OF the people must be scrupulousy severed from all
mere party purposes-to connect the two is but invite
defeat and insure disaster.
The Recorder however, it is proper to say, ex-
presses for itself the view that the Wings should
take part in the Convention, IN order to arrest
mischievous counsels.
FLORIDA.
A public meeting, held in Gadsden county, re-
Gently appointed delegates to an intermediate Con
vention, to assemble at Tallahassee, for the pur.
pose of appointing two delegates to Nashville
In Jefferson county also, on the goth March, at
mass meeting, resolutions were unanimously
adopted for taking part in the Tallahassee Con-
vention, and moreover recommending the next
General Assembly, to make appropriation for the
pay of the delegates TO Nashville, and thanking
the Senators and Representatives from Florida for
their late letter to Gov. Brown. In Tallahassee
on the 28th March, an adjourned meeting of the
people of New Leon was held. Col. Robert
Gamble was called to preside, and committee
reported resolutions declaring it expedient for Flo