The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-13
Southern Rights Meeting.

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J. A. QUITMAN.
Southern Rights Meeting.
Alta meeting of the Southern Rights party Of
Leake county. Miss, convened pursuant to notice
at the Courthouse in Carthage, on the 10th day
OF April 1851, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to represent the county in the State
convention, to be assembled at Jackson on the
10th OF June, and to represent the county in the
convention to nominate Southern Rights can
cdate to represent the third congressional dis
trct OF Mississippi in the next Congress, and for
other purposes On motion, Mai. William Hall
was elected President of the meeting. and Robt.
Edwards and L. W. Cato, Vice-president !. and
w. b. Man and Lewis r. Edmonds, Secretaries.
The President having called the meeting order.
and L. w. Cato being called upon, arose, and
Npalned the object for which the meeting was
caNed; and in very effective and touching man
ner lluded to the wrongs imposed upon the
SoT/h, and the present crisis in our political af-
fairs After which, on motion, the follow ing
gentlemen were selected rs delegates TO the
State and District convention: DR.. Thomas M
Fendell, j. j. Miles, Lucius, Vanarsdale, Col.
VIM. p. Gill. J. b. Whitehead, Wiley White.
Richard McDuff, HARRISON Howard, George
Gray j. M. Hooper, Morgan. Stewart and Bea.
mar. On motion, the presidents and secretar-
les OF the meeting were added to the delegation.
On motion a committee five were appointed
to draft resolutions expressive Of the sense of
the meeting, consisting Of Everett, Lewis, It. p.
Marion, J. w. Perkins, John Hall, and John
Wilbanks. During the absence of the committee
which had retired to prepare resolutions, J. IT,
Ellison, esq, having been called upon to address
the meeting, responded in an able manner,
thoroughly dissecting and disclosing The enor-
mites Of. the so-caled compromise By this
time the committee had returned, who, through
their chairman, reported the following resolu-
tons, which were adopted by the meeting:
Resolred, That by the passage of the late
compromise bills, Congress transcribed the
powers delegated to it that, in the adoption Of
the Constitution, the States surrendered a por-
ton Of their sovereignty for the purpose of the
common weal--to protect the rights of citizens
in the several States, and secure their property
inviolnte from the menaces of foreign foes:
therefore, the omission of Congress to discharge
its duty by lroviding protection to our slave
property in the territories whereby our citizens,
with their slaves, have been excluded therefrom,
we believe to be violation of our constitu,
tional rights-an unjust, unwarrantable, and
basely discriminating derection of dnty-and
is, if not direct violation of the Constitution,
palpable perversion of its spirit and the object
for which it was founded.
Resolred, That the admission of California as
State into the Union, under all the circum-
stances, was, and is preiudicia to the rights of
Mississippi and her sister slaveholding States,
and therefore contrary to sec. g. art Nv of the
Constitution of the United States, providing
that in the admission of States into the Union.
Nothing in this Constitution shall be no con-
strued as to prejudice any claims of the United
States, or of any particular State"
Resolred, That while we are unwilling that
Mississippi should secede from The Union on ac-
count of the passage of the late compromise
bills believing the remedy, in the present con-
dition Of the Southern States, to be no better
than the disease,) we are not satisfied with them
as a compromise, and therefore insist on amend
ments to said bills that shall secure to the South
her equal rightsin the territories as well as else
where.
Resolred, That upon this grave and to the
Southern States, important question involving
their dearest rights, we have no political feeling
in common with those who attemp, TO smother
their Indignation at the enormties imposed upon
the South, under the syren song of " glorious
Union" and seeming insensibIe to the encroach-
ments of Aboltionists and Free-soiIers are in
tent upon nothing but building up political
party for their own promotion upon the desc
Grated blessings secured to us by our revolu-
tonary fathers
Resolred, That with these principles as expo
rents Of our tseed, we wish the delegate from
Leake county to the State convention to be as
sembed in November next, TO concur in adopt
ing such measures for the protection of the
rights of Mississippi as may be prudent and in
accordance with the views set forth in the fore
going resolutions, and best calculated to pro-
mote the common welfare of the slaveholdinp
States
The following resolution was presented and
likewise adopted by the meeting
Resolred, That the course pursued by the
Fillmore administration towards our distin-
guished and patriotic Quitman-the manifest
desire and hot haste to degrade him, and
through him the sove eighty of Mississippi, dis
close to us an effort to hunt down those true to
our interests, and has endeared him to rs Ten
fold more; therefore he is our choice for gov
ernor; and our delegates to the June conven-
ton are instructed to cast the vote of Leake
county for his nomination.
Everett Lewis esq. then being called upon,
addressed the meeting; and in one of his best
efforts anlmadverted upon the course pursued
by the so-called Union party, and indicated the
cause of Southern rights from the sanderous
aspersions Of traitor and disunion," in a man
ner well worthy of the cause and the occasion
By this time L had grown late in the day, and
many persons attending tie meeting, living in
remote parts Of the county, could not well re-
main longer, and upon motion. the meeting re-
solved itself into " Southern Rights Associa-
ton and adjourned to meet an indefinite time
at the call Of the officers.
Ordered by the meeting that copy of the
proceedings be transmitted to the State Gazette
and Mississippian for publication
w. M. HALL, President.
X. ~ Epw " ,Ta Vice Presidents
w. y. MANN, -