Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-12
Nashville NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Adopted a:
its Meeting in June 1850.

1. Resolced, That the Territories of the United
States belong to the people of the several States of
this Union as their common property: that the cti-
zens of the several States have equal rights to mi
CRATE with their property to the Territories, and
are equally entitled to the protection of the FEEDER
al Government in the enjoyment of that property
so long as the Territories remain under the charge
of that Government
9. ResoIOed, That Congress has no power to ex-
clude from the Territory OF the United States any
property lawfully held in the States of the Union,
and any act which may be passed by Congress to
etft ct this result is plain violation of the Const
tuition of the United States.
3. Resotued That it is the duty of Congress to
provide proper governments for The Terri ,ories
since the spirit of American institutions forbds
the maintenance of military governments in time
of peace, and as all laws, heretofore existing in
Territories once belonging to foreign powers, which
interfere with the full enjoymtn. OF religion, d {
freedom of the press; the tia by jury and all OH
er ri yhts of persons property as secured or fe-
cognised in the constitution Of the United States
are necessarily void so soon as such territories be-
come American Territories, it is the du.y of the
Federal Government to make such provision for
the enacsmt MT of those laws which may be expedi-
ent and necessary to to the inhabitants of,
and emigrants to such Territories the full benefits
of the Constitutional rights that assert.
4. Resol0ed, That TO project properly existing
in the several States of The Union The people o;
these State invested the Federal Government with
the powers of war, and negotiation, and OF sus-
tanning armies and navies and prohibited 10 State
authorities the exercise of the same powers
They made no discrimination in the protection to b.
afforded or the description of the properly to be
d Tended nor was il allowed by the Federal Govern
ment to determine what should be held property
Whatever the States deal with as property, the
Federal Government is bound to recognise and de-
fend as such. Therefore, it is the sense of this
Convention that all the acts of the Federal Gov
ernment, which tend to denational ze proper Of
any description recognised in the Constitution and
laws of the States or hat discriminate in the de-
gree and efficiency of the proe ction be afforded
TO IT, or which weaken and destroy the lille of any
citizen upon the American territories, plain
and palpable violations of the fundamental law un-
/ der which it exists.
| s. ResolUed, That the Slaveholding States can.
not and will not submit to the enactment bv Con
gress of any w-mposng ontrous conditions ol
restraints upon the rights of masters, to remove
with their property into the territories of the Uni
/ ted States or TO any law making determinations il
favor of the proprie ,ors of other property agains
| them.
| 6. Resolred, That it is the duty of the Fedora
| Government plainly TO recognise and firmly Il
maintain the equal rights of the citizens of tht
several States in the territories of the United States
and to repudidate Ike power to make discrimina
ton between the proplietors Of different species o
property in Federal legislation. The fuifllmen
tpf this duty by the Federal Government, wouic
greatly tend to restore the peace of the country
and to allay the evaporation and excitement which
now exist between the different sections ofthe Un
ion. For it is the deliberate opinion OF TINS Con
vention that the tolerance Congress has given the
notion that Federal authority might be employed
incidentally and indirectly to subvert or weaker
the institutions existing in the States confessedly
beyond Federal jurisdiction and CONTROL is mail
cause of the discord which menaces the exstenc'
of the Union. and which has well nigh destroyed