The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-09

oA-TIAp m3tttaf e ~ lonthefa siefts party
~ son.t9s NlliAh Mo sdjortnsd over from
iast Tnesdsy. esassaea at the Court houss
1t ID o'sssk on Saturday the 18th ult, Va.
organized BY calling Col John Quinn to the
chair snd appointing James II. Warren secretary.
Ths committee appointed at the previous
meeting charged with the duty Of reporting to
On adjourned meeting series Of rssolutio ex-
Press,vc Of the principles and policy of the
Southern rights party Of Muscogee county, au-'
nouncsd its readiness to report.
Mr.. WIN. II. Chambers, for reasons given was
excused from the committee.
IN motion the following report was submitted:
hesotoed' That we recognize, to the fullest ex-
tent the doctrine laid down by the Georgia con-
vention Of last December in these words THE
Constitution Of the United States il in its terms,
bond OF political union between separate SOW
ereignties"
VI. That this is but the reiteration Of doe
tsine which has at some time or other been
ai1rmed In words or deeds by almost every
State IN the Union, and which has been main
tanned with peculiar unanimity, consistency and
tenacty by the slAveholding States ever since its
first PRONUNCIATION by Mr. Jefferson in the Ken
lucky resolutions Of 1913 and 1899, in the fol-
lowing words:
Resolved, That the several States composing
the United States Of America, are not united on
tho principles of unlimited submission to their
general government that by compact under
the style and tile Of constitution for the United
States and of amendments thereto, they consti-
tute general governpent for special purposes
delegated to that government certain definite
powers, reservng, each State to itself the resid-
nary mass Of right to their own self.govern-
n,en.: and that whenever the neral govern
ment assumes undclegntcd powers, its nets are
unauthoritative, void and Of no force; that to
this compact each State acceded as State and
a. an integral party-that this government,
created by this compact was not made the ex-
elusive or final judge of the extent Of The powers
delegated to itself Since that would have made
its discr ton, and not the Constitution, the mea-
sure Of it's powers--but that as in all other
cases of the compact among parties having no
common judge, each party has an equal right to
Judge for itself as we'll of infractons, as of the
mode and measure Of redress"
Sd. That in no State, however, has this doc
trine been received with 80 singular and marked
favor as in the State Of Georgia, at least ever
since the reconstruction of political parties
therein occasioned by the great tariff controver-
sy of 1882 and 1888, when the foregoing reso-
luton and the othe of the Kentucky series,
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drawn by Mr. Madison, were specially adopted
by both of those parties, and made the corner
stone of their respective creeds whereby was
exhibited the rare spectacle of two great oppos
ing parties, agreeing thoroughly in doctrine and
differing only in the propriety Of its practical APP
plication to the case in hand.
4th. That it is necessary consequence from
this doctrine, TINT each State has the right to
secede FROM the Union whenever in its judgment
the occasion requires it: and that any attempt
by other States or the general government to
prevent by arms the exercise of the right in a
case in which the seeding State deemed the
measure the only remedy to save itself, not only
merely from political degradation, but from the
horrible fate Of St Domingo, would be an act
of wrong and Outrage, RS much greater than the
attempt of Great Britain to subjugate the thir
teen colonies of their Declaration of Indepen-
dence, as the right of desperate Sovereignty
to withdraw from confederacy, is clearer than
that of coherent integral province to break off
from consolidate empire, and as the evil Of the
determination of people by the most horrible
of modes, is greater than that of trfing tax
upon the consumption Of an article to be con-
sumed or not at option.
5th That we rejoice to find in the following
resolution of the Georgia convention Of last
OeCctnOeT not Onty t0e StTOHpeSt Iulp iieu TecOU-
nization Of this right Of secession, but also the
express and particular recognition of the pro-
priety of its exercise in a number of specific
cases.
"Resolred, That the State Of Georgia, in the
Judgment of this convention, will and ought to
resist even ras last resort,) to disruption of
every tie which binds her to the Union. any ac-
ton of Congress upon the subject of slavery in
the District Of Columbia, or in places subject
to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompa ible
with the safety, the domestic tranquility, the
rights and the honor Of the slaveholding States,
or any refusal to admit as State, any territory
hereafter applying, because of the existence of
slavery therein, or any act prohibiting the intro
duction Of slaves into the territories of Utah
or New Mexico, or any act repeating or materially
modifying the laws now in force for the recovery
Of fugitive slaves" and we do not think we are
beyond this resolution when we say TINT if a
State may exercise the right in these cases, it
may exercise it in any.