Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-05-21
From the Richmond Wing.
The NashyllIe Convention.

Int NdbufAhO bVA'@n~Ah'
Mr.. Langdon, the Editor Of the MobiR
Advertiser, is publishing in his paper, a
series of able articles in opposition TO th thus
Convention, under his own signature
They have already reached the 9th NO.
and he promises TO continue them. He
says, that though the scheme appears to
have originated with Mississippi Its ac-
tual conception Is due to South Carolina.
According to him, ever since the days of
the Proclamation and Force Bill, there
have been a number of restless spirits in
that State, who have entertained the de-
sign of dissolving the Union, and estab-
fishing a Southern Confederacy on It's
ruins. The Nashville Convention scheme,
he adds, originated with them, sis the
work of their hands" In proof of this
assertion, he produces the authority ofthe
Nashville Wing, which made the charge
specifically, and which was not denied
by any paper in Mississippi. On the
contrary that charge was endorsed by the
Vicksburg Wing, which paper states, that
prior to the meeting of the Mississippi
Convention, in October last year, MIR
Calhoun addressed letter to Col. T.. 5.
Tapley, a prominent Democrat, and a
member Of the Central meeting held at
Jackson last May, in which he advised
lst. That Mississippi being deeply IN
terested, should take the lead.
Q. He suggested Convention Of the
Southern States.
8. That the action Of the October Con-
yen,ion should be followed by action of
ths6asate Legislature.
xzhat he sa,c no hope from The
NUM-that the crisis ,Could probably
consein less than t,OelUe months.
@Upon certain events, secession was
the only remedy.
his stated as strong presumpuve evi-
defSce, that Hon. ID. Wallace, member
of Congress from South Carolina, was in
Jackson during the sitting Of this Con-
vention, and was invited TO take his seat
within the bar. The Vicksburg Wing
SAYS that all these matters, (the letter
to Col. Tap,ey--the originaton OF the
scheme in South Carolina, &C. have been
long understood in that part OF the coun-
try, and it adds that Mr.. Calhoun wrote
a similar letter 10 another gentleman In
Jackson, a Wing. The fact that the
charge has not been repelled by any press,
or public man IN Mississippi, seems to
place the origin Of the scheme in South
Carolina. Mr.. Laugdon says, that a
member of the Mississippi Senate was in
Mobile short time since, and that ne full
~ confirmed the above statement, adding
thatthe fact Of such letters haveingbeen re-
ceived, was well known in Jackson last
winter. and that the Conventlonisis never
denied their existence. He iniers that the
Convention was pre-eminenily the tcork
of politicians, and that the people bad
nothing to do with it. He concludes this
No. with the following observations
rIndeed, will be perceived by the a.
hove extract that the Vicksburg wing
speaks of il as well ascertaineo fact that
the idea was first suggested by MIR. CaI'
houn, who managed, through two others,
TO getup no. party meeting of few pol.
i,iclans at Jackson, the capital OF the State,
Inv whom tue important subject was first
hroached to the people of Mississippi
And wha, is more significant still, the
lion. MIR. Wallace of South Caroline.
WAS on ia. o,vt to manage and direct tho