The southern press., 1851-05-14

another day.
| With very high regard Iremain
Your friend and fellow-citizen,
J. A. QUITMAN.
Southern Rights Meeting.
| At meeting of the Southern Rights party Of
I.eake 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
lconyention, to be assembled at Jackson on the
10th of June, and to represent the county in the
convention to nominate Southern Rights can
cidate to represent the third congressional dis.
trct of Mississippi in the next Congress, and for
other purposes, On motion, Maj. William Hall
was elected President of the meeting, and Robf.
Edwards and L. w. Cato Vice-president and
w. b. Man and Lewis T. Edmonds, Secretaries.
The President having called the meetingt order,
and L. w. Cato being called upon, arose, and
Nplainedsthe object for which the meeting was
caNSsd; and in very effective and touching man
ner lluded to the wrongs imposed upon the
Son1h, and the psesent crisis in our political af-
fairs. After which, on motion, the following
gentlemen were selected as delegates to the
State and District convention: DR.. Thomas M.
Fendell, ]. J. Miles, Lncius, Vanarsdale, Col.
VIM. P. Gill, J. B. Whitehead, Wiley White,
Richard McDuff, Harrison, Howard, George
Gray, ]. M. Hooper, Morgan. Stewart and Bea-
mar. On motion, the presidents and secretar-
les of the meeting were added to the delegation.
On motion. committee off five were appointed
to draft resolutions expressive of the sense Of
the meeting consisting of Everett Lewis, T. p.
Marion. J. w. Perkins, John Hall, and John
/ Wilbanks. During the absence of the committee
which had retired to prepare resolutions, ]. T.
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-called compromise. By this
time the committee had returned, who, through
their chairman, reported the following resolu-
tons, which were adopted by the meeting:
RESOLVED, That by the passage of the late
compromise bills, Congress transcribed the
powers delegated to it that, in the adoption of
the Constitution, thu. States surrendered 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
inviolate from the menaces of foreign foes
therefore, the omission of Congress to discharge
its duty by providing 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 derilection of duty-and
is, if not a 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 preudcial to the rights of
Mississippi and her sister slavehodng States,
and therefore contrary to sec. 8, art. iv of the
Constitution of the United States, providing
that in the admission of States into the Union.
@Nothing in this Constitution shall be so cor
strued as to prejudice any claims of the United
States, or Of any particular State"
RESOLVED, That while we are unwilling that
Mississippi should secede from the Union on ac-
count of the passage of the late compromise
bills (beieying the remedy, in the present con-
dition Of the Southern States, 10 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 attempt TO smother
their indignation at the enormities imposed upon
the South, under the syren song of +" glorious
Union," and seeming insensible to the encroach-
ments of Abolitionists and Free-soilers, are in
tent upon nothing but building MP a political
party for their own promotion upon the desc
Grated blessings secured TO us by our revolu-
tionary fathers.
Resolced, That with these principles ms expo
nents Of our creed, we wish the delegate from
Leake county TO the State convention TO be as
sembled in November next 10 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 10 pro-
mote the common welfare Of the slaveholding
States
The following resolution was presented and
likewise adopted by the meeting:
RESOLVED, 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 sovereignty Of Mississippi, dis
close TO us an effort to hunt down those true TO
our interests, and has endeared him to us ten
fold more; therefore he is our choice for gov
eruor; and our delegates 10 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 animadverted upon the course pursued
by the so called Union party, and indicated the
cause Of Southern rights from the slanderous
aspersions Of g traitor and disunion" in man.
ner well worthy Of the cause and the occasion.
BY this time it had grown late in the day, and
many persons attending the 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-
tion," and adjourned to meet an indefinite time
at the cal of the officers
Ordered by the meeting thnt a copy Of the
I'M ho II a Al. n
and Mississippian for publication.
w. M. HALL. President
r. ". Epw S.aTn Vice Presidents