Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27

to prohibit the Introduction of slavery into the ter
ritories of the United States" ''Fhat we would
regard the passage by Congress of the |Wilmot
Proviso' as an unjust and insulting discrimination
to which the slaveholding States cannot, without
political degradation, submit and to which this
Convention; representing the feelings and opinions
of the people of Mississippi, soiemnFy declare they
a0H not submit Therefore,
Resoloed, /. That Congress has passed no law
inconsistent with the principles of the proceeding
resolutions; and that, therefore, no contingency
has arisen which excuse or palate the forcible
resistance to its action
2. That the late Compromise measures, adopt
ed by Congress, are constitutional enactments are
now the law of the land and impeTativey demand
the acquescence of every citizen of the .. States
so long as the remain unaltered or unrepealed
8. That the friends of the Union are the friends
of peace,-the friends of safety, prosperity, and
happiness of the people of Missssippi,-a we
are resolved, with the assistance of Almighty God
to preserve that Union, because we believe that
therein we shall preserve to ourselves the inesti-
mabe blessings of civil and religious liberty, be-
queathed to us by our forefathers; and as Amer
lean citizens duly appreciatihg the advantages of
that Union, we hold ourselves ready at all times
to respond TO the call of our common country, and
peril our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor
in its defence.
! 4. That whilst we acquiesce in the enactments
! of the last session of Congress, and feel strong
attachment and veneration for the Union estab
lished by our forfathers still declare that viola
tions of our rights may occur which would amount
to intolerablc oppression, AND WOULD JUS
! TIFY A RESORT TO MEASURES OF RESIS-
| TANCE amongst which are the following
L. The interference by Congressional legislation
with the institution of slavery in the States.
2. Interference in the trade in slaves between
| the States
/ 3 The abolition, by Congress, of slavery in the
District of Columbia.
4. The refusal by Congress, to admit
State into the Union on the ground of her tolera-
ting slavery within her limits.
5. The passage of any law by Congress prohib-
| iting slavery in any of the territories.
6. RFg-THE REPEAL OF THE FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW, OR THE REFUSAL, BY THE
| GENERAL GOVERNMENT, TO ENFORCE
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION FOR
! THE RECLAMATION OF THE FUGITIVE
SLAVES. -zxg But that we are now, and at all
times, opposed to any agitation, by conventions or
otherwise, OF these questions, reservng the mode
and measure of redress until such injury shall be
inflicted.
These resolutions were submitted to Gen. FoCte
for his approval. before they offered, and were
passed Immediately after the delivery, by him, of a
lengthy address to the Cony yention. 1t will be
seen that the repeal of the Fugitive law is emu
merated among the acts izzfzr which would amount
to intolerable oppression, -zEg and Ez5 justify a
resort to measures of resistance.EEF What these
measures of resistance are, easily understood
when taken IN connection with the words, @ intol-
cradle OPPRESSION, and the position taken by the
Foote leaders that there can be resistance short
of Lgt@dissolution of the Union. zsT
Those who vote the Foote ticket place them
selves, therefore, in this attitude. They will sig
nifty their willingness to break up the Union for a
law which has, thus far, proved entirely worthless
to the people of this State. The Foote party are
in the constant habit of asserting that the law is
faithfully enforced. For the sake of argument,
admit it. Now, let them point to a single instance
in which citizen of Mississippi has reclaimed his
runaway slave under it. There are very few slaves
that escape from Mississippi to the free States
and the few that do escape are generally attached
to plantations, live in towns, the Mississippi
river where they have occasional opportunities o
getting away on steamboats,. The slave owner
might, now and then, be enabled to recover his
property; but ask the masses of the State i
they are willing destroy the Union, and deprive
themselves of its benefits, merely for the sake o
a law which is attended with such little genera
advantage to the people of the State. The trutl
is the law passed chiefly for the benefit of the
> States bordering Oh the abolition States, Virgin
. ia, Maryland &c.-most OF the slaves that have
been recaptured under the law, belonging to cti
= zens of those States. We have carefully noteC
the cases in which it has been executed, and ther,
r are but three or four exceptions.
= But not done with the proof that Gen
Foote is pledged to destroy the Union if the law i
repealed or materially modified In his first speecI
after his return from Washington, he took grount
in favor of the Georgia resolutions and, as on
Of the nominees of his party for the convention il
l. the county of Kinds he declared, that, if elected
e he would for the adoption of those resolution
1T by the Mississippi Convention.
IS The fifth and sixth resolutions thus advocated
:, by Gen. Foote, read as follows. eve copy then
J as published in the Flag, fully endorsed by tha
paper
: Fourthly, That the State of Georgia, in th
h Judgment of this Convention, WILL AND OUCH
? TO RESIST, EVEN (AS A LAST RESORT
d TO A DISRUPTION OF EVERY TIE WHICH
$. BINDS HER TO THE UNION, any action
ar Congress upon the subject of slavery in the Dis
IN trict of Columbia in places subject to the uris
re dcton of Congress, incompatible with the safety
of domestic tranquility, the rights and the honor
SIS the slave holding States, or any act suppressln
I'd the slave trade between slayeholdng States, an
t. refusal to admit, State territory hereafter al
plying because of the existence of slavery therein
r, or any act prohibiting the introduction of slave
into the territories of Utah and New Mexico O
at ANY ACT REPEATING, OR WATERFALL
d. MODIFYING THE LAWS NOW IN FORC
We FOR THE RECOYE ERY OF FUGITIVE SLAVE
on FIFTHLY THAT IT Is THE DELIBERAT
to OPINION OF THIS CONVENTION, TIA