The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-19

Southern ri hts party held on the 8 81 MAY, III
E.nou. Macon county, Alabama, the following
preamble and resolutions being brought forward
by Hon A. McCarty, esq chairman Of com
mittee, aud sustained by him ia an eloquent.
patriotic, and soul stirring speech, We're unani-
mously adopted
The committee to whom was referred the ad
dress OF the delegates Of the Southern rights
associations OF South Carolina, assembled IN
Charleston, TO the Southern rights associations
Of the other Southern States beg leave to re-
port that they have had the same under con-
sideration, aud that they cordially approve of the
| principles discussed and the spirit manifested by
said address. And for the purpose of giving a
general aud united response to the call OF the
Southern representatives Of South Carolina, we
would respectfully recommend the consideration
of this subject to the convention of delegates
from all the Southern rights assocatiors OF
| Alabama, to be held in the city of Montgomery
ON the "a Monday Of June next; in the mean
while, this association cannot forbear TO discuss
some Of the principles set forth in the address
and TO Indicate to South Carolina the course
| that we have determined upon, should She 10
the exercise of her sovereignty, determine To
| leave the Union. We agree fully in the fact as
set forth in the address, that the aggressions OF
the past are sufficient to Justify resistance, in
| deed if we intend to live as treemen ourselves.
and leave to our children after us our cherished
Institutions and liberties, there is no election
left u.s. The sectional, free-soil and abolition
majorties arrayed against us in every branch Of
| this government, present to our minds the worst
and most dangerous features of abolition ever
known in the history of tyranny. We are well
assured that this sec ional majority encouraged
by the victories of the past, and the tame spirit
of submission in the South, and urged forward
| by fanatcism, will stop at no bounds this side OF
| the utter abolition OF African slavery in the
| States.
| But will the "spirit of the vassal rise in pro-
portion to the indgnties heaped upon his head p
| We believe that it will not--There are even
| now among us hundreds and thousands of true
hearted Southrons, who feel the Impressions of
| the government as surely and as sensitively as
| we, who believe the North TO be so welded to
fanaticsm that she would not allow the South
ern States paaceably to exercise the right Of
sece ssion, and LOOKING to the position and cir
cumslances Of the Southern States, they fear
that we should be unable to cope with so for
midabe power. Thus hundreds and thousands
among u.s. are already bowed to the dust and
dispirited, and if we remain in the Union under
existing circumstances, for many years to come,
we are forced to the reluctant but overwhelm-
ing and humiliating convictions that the South
ern States will tamey and submissivey yield to
the North in one fatal hour, not only her pro-
perty in the States, but also her State sovereign
ties In looking around upon the Southern
States in this emergency, we deeply regret that
| most of them are divided in sentiuent and en-
gagged in contentious among themselves, while the
victorious enemy is gloating over the spoils Of
the last campaign and gathering up his energies
afresh for new onslaught upon our insttu-
tons.
Under the crushing reality of a picture so
gloomy and but feebly portrayed, this associa-
ton halls with unfeigned delight the course in
| dicated for South Carolina by the convention re-
Gently assembled in Charleston. The high and
| proud position of South Carolina is to us like
| the shadow of great rock in a weary land"
| under which the institutions of the South may
repose in safety, or around which the true heart.
ed Souherner of every State may rally to vim IL
cate his lost honor, and to recover and maintain
| his rights
| Notwithstanding South Carolina has been
tainted and jeered by Aboltionists of the
North, and by demagogues of the South, we are
! pleased TO see her moving on in the even tenor
of her way, refusing to return railing for rail.
| ing" demanding but simple justice from her
pressors and at every step proclaimipg her utter
Willingness, DY Htf ctfufSl utSift LOT sAi nOuOfd
BILE adjustment of the pending difficulties And
we cherish the hope that if South Carolina, even
with what aid she may receive from the South
| ern rights associations of the other Southern
States, will but stand firmly to the position as
sumed, demanding indemnity for the past AND
security for the future, she may recover for her
| self and for her sister States of the South all
| that has been lost. Why not
| The North has no real interest to serve IL
striking down our institution; but she has q
real practicable and felt interest in the preservh-
ton of the Union, and she must see that whene
| err South Carolina shall leave the Union, that
every Southern State must sooner or later rally
under the free institutions of South Carolina
rather than remain under the crushing despotsm
of the freesoil and abolition States. Verify, il
| it has already come TO that, that the Northern
| States love their cherished notions of abolition
better than their own great interest in the pre-.
servation of the Union, ii is surely time for the
| South TO look out new safeguards for her owr
interests. If the Northern States will delib
erately deny justice and equality to the South
ern States, with the serious fact of secession and
the consequent loss of property before them, il
would afford to the South new and overwhelm
| ing evidence of their determination to overwhelm
us and our institutions in one common ruin, an
| il would call upon the South with an appealing
voice, that would arouse every Southern man
having Southern heart in his bosom, to vindi-
cate the course Of South Carolina at every hsz
ard. In this view Of the subject, the members
OF this association are sincerely reioiced thai
South Carolina is to move forward and demand
the recovery of our lost rights, and security
against future aggressions. South Carolina Is
every way the fittest champion Of Southern
honor and Southern Rights. This proud posi-
ton is cordially awarded her because of her pasi
sacrifices in the cause of her country, and be
cause Of the unanimity of her citizens in their de
termination to resist the eneroachments Of the
North We are glad that the South is to have
a leader so firm and reliable in this the hour OF
her peril, and we are ready TO enlist under the
Palmetto banner, and to link our own fortunes
with the destiny of South Carolina, but we
know that we shall not offend against the pa.
triotic and determined spirit of South Carolina
when we assure them, that we would not be
willing to follow even In the course of South
Carolina, should that course lead to submission.
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