The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-06-25
Address of the Nashville Convention,

Address of the Nashville Convention.
But for the great length of the address of the
5 Convention recently assembled at Nashville we
should publish it entire. We are able to give only
synopsis. The address is made " to the people of
, Maryland, Virginia. North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Louisiana Texas, Missouri, Mississippi and
Arkansas"
1t sets out by reference to few past transact
tons connected with the slavery question says that
the agitation of the subject in Congress began six
teen years ago; the object Of which, without dis
guise, was to overthrow slavery in the States The
presentation of petitions against slavery, chiefly in
the District Of Columbia the hiring OF editors and
| lecturers to excite public sentiment against the
institution Of slavery forming organizations for the
carrying of Of slaves, and the enactment Of laws by
| non-slavehoding States to prevent recovery by
their owners the separation of the Methodist and |
Baptist churches the opposition OF the Northern
States to the Mexican war, and their present deter
minaton to appropriate to themselves all the terri
tory acquired by it, " not from lust of power
but further step in the progress of things aim
ing at the abolition of slavery in the States by the
extension and multiplication of nor. slaveholding
States in the Unon'-all these things are referred
to as marking the progress OF the slavery agitation
and as rendering mperatively necessary the use of
decisive measures by the South to prevent further |
aggression
The present condition of the Representatives in |
Congress from the South is dwelt upon. They are |
represented as suffering reproaches and contumely
reviled chilled by sense of humiliation at the
insults daily received as the representatives of a
saveholding people, until % Congress has become
little else than grand instrument in the hands Of
co. 10 ~
| (says the Address, you were to yield every thing
| the North now requires-abolish slavery in the
| District of Columba-submt to be legslated pirates
| for conveying slaves from one State to another
| let trial by jury and the writ Of habeaS corpus,
wrest from you in the Northern States every iug-
tive slave-gve up all your territories TO swell
| Northern arrogance and predomnance - would
| things stop there These all means aiming at
one great end--the abolition of slavery in the
States. Surrenderlng one OF these means you will
but intiame the power by which another will be
| exacted-and when all conquered, will the evil
be arrested? In fifty years, twenty non
slaveholding States may be added to the Union
whilst some which slaveholding, may
! become non-saveholdng States There then, will
be no need, as now, openly to put aside the const-
tuition to reach their object. Ii they will design to
do it, the non-slaveholdng States will then have
the power by two thirds in Congress and three
tourths OF the States, to amend the constitution,
and then have its express sanction to consummate
lin what way shall the Southern States preserve
the Constitution and protect themselves The
Address answers that. when. in a government like
ours, a constitution is violated by majority fxvho
alone can violate it in matters of legislationA il
cannot be restored to its integrity through the
ordinary means of the government; for. these
means being under the control of the majority. are
not available to the minority. The Representa-.
tives of the South in Congress, have done all that
men true and faithful to the interests of their ron.
+ stituents could do but the tide of Northern az
gression, year after year, sets more and more
strongly against us 1T is clear" SAYS the Ad-
dress, that the ballot-box in the South is power.
less for its protection
The Compromise Bill, before the United States
Senate, is strongly condemned. The reception of
California as a State, into the Union, with her
Constitution excluding slavery, is denounced as
violative of the rights of the Southern States.
The ground is taken, that those bv whom CaEfor-
MIA has been settled constitute neone in No nro-
ner sense of tho term h., ~. a;,;.o,, - ~.
States or conntr;es fror, Ill a., 80.
and IN which tbsv s,;II o,,,o ,La;r ,IIo..;,. W.,
Congress attempts to carry ont and confirm The
acts of these individuals. erecting California into a
State and excluding slavery tberefrom II i ,ho
same thing as If CopgrAss had ori,,;,olI,, nsso !.
law to this effect ,ybor, The in,ersn,io ~ a.
individuals 1t will he reoarded as a ,;r,r,I ov,o,,
sion of the Wilmo nroviso ovo, ,l;s ,ar,i,or,, -
the mode of doing which" saws the Address