The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-27
SOUTHERN MEETINGS.
LABAMA eENTINdENT.


SOUTHERN MEETINGS.
.faN ALABAMA SENTIMENT.
We append the following articles from induen-
tial Alabama Journals.
From the Coiasabsts (Ga) Sentinel
Free Barbecue.
.Mis,ouri Conpromise Mass Meeting ofle People
sst sS, an Right
In accordance with the call and notices previous
ly given, at an early hour on Tuesday morning,
our streets began to be crowded with thousands OF
people who had come TO take counsel together
upon the vital question that pervades the country
About 10 o'clock, there assembled in Smith 5
Ware House large mass of the people variousy
estimated at from 1000 TO 5000. All classes and
ages of both sexes poured forth to hear the thrill
ling eloquence that rang through the arches of the
large building in defence OF Southern rights and
Southern honor. Large number Of ladies from
town and country graced the meeting with their
presence, and the various speakers received their
sweetest applause in the approving smiles Of the
fair daughters of the South. As one Of the
speakers said, g when we have the ladies on our
side we are bound to be right" and there were
many true-hearted Southern matrons present on
Tuesday, who had rather see their dearest lying
dead at their feet, than TO have them degraded,
wronged, insuted, oppressed by the long con-
tnued and increasing aggression of foe IN or
out Of the Union. XXX
The meeting was organized by calling Col Van
Leonard and Judge Iverson to the char Presi-
dents and eecting Messrs. Archibald Kimbrough,
Thos. Livingston, John b. Dozer, Ben. Doles,
VIM. b. Roqumore, Robert Carnes, Judge Rem
froe, HI. King, Wilson Gaudey, Lorenzo Monroe.
O. Sapp, Frank Snead, Silas McGrady, James
Cook and Thos. Motley, as Vice Presidents.
IL is impossible for us to give even q Synopsis
of the patriotic speeches delivered Suffice it to
say that they all breathed the true sentiment of
tachment to the Union of the States as long as
that Union observes our rights and renders us the
protection we haye right to claim, but resistance
" to the last extremity" whenever it is welded by
ruthless majority Of the Northern fanatics to
work out our disgrace and destruction.
Col. Iverson set the ball in motion in his own
inimitable style. The South lost nothing in his
hands.
Then came the Hon. G.. E. Thomas, who in
speech of some length, entertained the vast crowd
with an eloquent and close argument setting forth
in striking and impressive manner his views
upon the wrongs and remedies Of the South.
The following resolutions were introduced by
Judge Thomas, which speak for themselves and
need no comment from us: atG
We, citizens of Muscogee county, in general
meeting assembled, in view of the distracted state
Of the public mind, the danger which threatens the
destruction of the most important rights and in
terests of the Southern States, and the integrity
of the Federal Union itself, do hereby declare and
assert the following principles and propositions :
LIST. That the Territories acquired from Mexico
are, and Of right, ought to be common soil, open
equally to the occupancy and enjoyment Of the
people of all the States of this Union with their
property of every description. b1s
Cd. That the Federal Constitution and the laws
Of the Southern States recognize slaves as prop
erty, and that any and every act of the Gen eral
Government, whether of commission or omis-
sion, by which the Southern people would be
shut out from as free and full enjoyment Of these
territories as their Northern brethren, is a gross
violation Of our rights, to which the South ought
not to submit. .assq So
Sd. That it was, and is the duty of Congress,
to provide territorial governments for California,
New Mexico, and Utah, in such form, and with
such provisions as would secure to the South, as
well as the North, unrestrained and unre-
sricted entrance into all of said territories, and
the enjoyment Of slave property carried into the
same. m a5
4th That the refusal of the last Congress, un-
der the influences OF popular sentiment at the
North, and resolutions Of the legislatures Of the
free States, to provide such governments, thereby
opening the door and inducing the formation Of
State constitutions prohibiting slavery, first in
California, and then in New Mexico, has opera
ted to exclude the South from all OF said terri
tory as effectualy as the Wilmot Proviso, and
deserves the unqualified condemnation, and ought
TO meet the firm resistance of eyerySouthern man.
5th.. That we cherish warm and unaffected
respect and attachment to the Constitution Of the
United States and the Federal Union, and we are
ready to defend and maintain the same, both
against foreign and domestic aggression, as long
as the great ends and objects Of their formation
are subserved, viz: Equality of burthens, and
Equality of rights to all sections.
9th, That to yield to the demands ofthe North
ern States, now urged in Congress, to surrender
fO ,pIfh in hea he uyhn
of the common Territory-to give portion of
Texas, now slave Territory, to Free-Soil-and
TO allow Congress to abolish the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, and to set free all slaves that
may be carried into it for sale, GALL Of which is
embraced in and will be effected by the measure
now under discussion in Congress, commonly
called the Clay Compromise Bill,) would be a
dishonorable submission on our part, would invite
and encourage further aggressions from them,
lead either to a speedy dissolution of the Union,
or the total destruction of the institution Of sa
very in the Southern States, or to result still
more appalling, servile war and determination of
the white or black race throughout the South.
It'll, That to avert these calamities--to COM
promise and settle for all the strife between
the North and the South, and to prepetuate the
Federal Union, we are willing to acquiesce in a
division of the Territories between the two sec
tiohs upon the old Missouri Compromise line Of
SO deg 80 min. north latitude, with protection to
the enjoyment Of our slave property south of that
line--a line, which, although it yields up more
than we retain, we are yet willing to adopt for
the sake of peace, but from which we will never
be driven.
9th. That the political questions which have
heretofore divided us sink into insignifcance
when compared to the momentous importance of
those which we are now assembled to consider,
and thatthrowng aside all party preudices and pre-
ferences we will unite in the maintainence of the
principles and positions herein asserted, sat all
hazards and to the last extremity"
Resolved, That this meeting cordially respond to
the call made by our friends at Macon, for MASS
MEETING at that place of the friends Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise line, to be held on the ODD Of
August, and urge the people to attend the same en-
m1sse.
Resolved, That copy of the following resolu-
lions, and other procediegs Of the meeting, be
transmitted by the presiding officers to each of
our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
ALFRED IVERSON p..,,.
VAN LEONARD. e''"e'A'
JoHN E. DAVIS, S,cre,o.;,s
A. II. CooPER.
Major John H. Howard, in his terse, strong,
style. backed by the resolutions,