The southern press., 1852-01-17

will be seen that terms were insisted upon by
portion of the party there, which prevented unity
Of action. The proceedings are not only inter
csting, but highly significant of the sentiment of
the strong States Rights men throughout the
South
PUBLIC MEETIEG.-ln pursuance OF the call,
previously published in the city papers, meet
ing was held at the circuit court room on Satur-
day evening the Sd instant At 7 o'clock, and
when there were only eLeuen persons in the room,
T.. Sanford called the meeting to order, by APP
pointing Col. ]. NJ Withers, chairman, and K.
l.. Perkins, esq, secretary. The chairman hav-
ing read the call for the meeting, J. i. Taylor
esq, offered the following resolutions
Resoiued, That the following named gentle
men be appointed by this meeting delegates to
the Democratic State convention to be held al
Montgomery, for the purpose of sending dele
gates to the National Convention, to be held at
Baltimore to nominate candidates for the Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency Of the United States: :
To wit:
Daniel Chandler, j. f Saunders, T. B. Bethea,
r. L. Perkins, b. Boykin, A. b. Meek. Hugh
Monroe, Charles Bancroft, Jones M. Withers
and Douglas Smith.
The chairman being about to put the resolu-
ton to the vote, Percy Walker, esq, rose and
claimed the right to express his views thereon,
and, after speaking short time, offered the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions, as substitute
for Mr.. Tayor's:
aThe Southern Rights men Of the city and
county of Mobile, aitor a season of unbroken
triumphs, employ this as fitting occasion TO re-
new their declaration of principles, and to de.
clare their opinions as to the course proper to
be pursued on the next Presidential election.
"The creed of our party is the primitive and
purely republican creed of the people of Ala
bama, and as has been from time to time pro,
mulgated by the unanimous voice of their con
stituted authorities. This creed we cherish in
the fullness of the spirit and the exactness of
the letter. We believe that the government OF
the United States is the result of compact be-
tween equal and confederated soveregnties;
that it derives all its powers from the States, the
parties to the federal compact, and is limited by
the plain letter of that instrument; and that the
exercise by the general government of implied
and constructive powers, has tendency to
destroy those rights which are reserved by the
States respectively, and are in their very nature
unlimited in extent, and unconstitutional in their
operation
in reference to the territories of the Union,
we hold that they are the property of the people
of the several States, conhded to the charge of
the federal government, as special and limited
trusts, for their common and equal benefit. That
the federal government has no right to prohibit
the citizens of the slave States from conveying
slaves TO those territories, and holding them as
property; but on the contrary, that as it is the
duty OF that government to protect such pro-
perry from seizure and confiscation on the
ocean, the common highway of nations, much
stronger is it the duty of the government to af-
ford them protection in territory which is the
common ground of all the States
I'm reference to the institution Of slavery in
the Southern States, the powers of those States
over it, and the encroachments and aggressions
of the peore of the non-slaveholding States,
through Congress- their legislatures, and the
action of individual citizens we hold that the
institution is domestic and internal, and sub
ject to the exclusive control of the States which
maintain it, That their right to maintain il is
not a proper subject for debate by the other
States of the confederacy. That the formation
of societies in these States to agtate for its
abolition, to spread incendiary and calumnious
publications in reference TO it the enactment
by their legislatures of laws to obstruct the re-
coyery of escaping slaves; the refusal by the
governors of some Of these States TO surrender
fugitives from justice, charged with the larceny
of slaves the attempt in nearly all to appropri-
ate the territories Of the United States, under
the Nilmot aud Oregon provisos; the over.
bearing and insulting tone assumed in regard 10
this institution, in resolutions and addresses Of
public men and assemblies, we, in common with
the general assembly Of Alabama, view with in.
dignation and sorrow, and assent TO the conclu-
sion that the political action Of those c,mmuni
| in F.f.r 10 fhis =. A.
becoming an ignorant, malignant and usurpne
fanaticism. Weall agree that the South cannot,
and ought not 10 submit to wanton agpressions
upon an institution 80 vital 10 il, from those
whom common political bond should have
made our friends and that Alabama should
act in concert, and make common cause with the
other slaveholding States for the defence, in any
manner necessary, Of the institution which i
common 10 them and us
ain reference &c the remedies for encroach.
ments upon the rights Of the States, we approve,
in common with the general assembly Of 1927.
Of the action Of the republican party in 1898
and 1892 and Of the resolutions Of Virginia
and Kentucky in that eventual crisis, and in the
words Of our State constitution, that the inhab-
| itants Of Alabama, in forming themselves into q
| State, and assuming a rank among nations as a
distinct people, were free and independent. That
their connection with the federal Union resulted
from their consent That no government, he Il
State or federal, has any authority over its eli.
zens against their consent For that all political
power is inherent in the people, and all free gov.
ernments are founded on their authority and in.
stituted for their benefit; and therefore they
have at all times an inalieniabe right 10 alter
their government as they may think expedieni.
Res0lued, That the system Of measures for
The admission Of California, the Acknowledgement
Of Texas and the formation Of governments in
New Mexico and Utah, in our judgment, is IL.
liberal, unfair and unjust 10 the Southern States
and violates their constitutional rights.
Res ired, That in the next Presidential cleo.
| ton we are determined TO pursue that course
which will tend most 10 give the ascendancy 10
the republican faith Of Alabama in the State and
the confederacy. That for this purpose We will
vote for ticket for President and Vice .Presi
dent, composed in any manner Of the names Of
Roger b. fancy, John NJ Berrien, Daniel l.
Dickinson, James X. Paulding, VIM. r. King
Jefferson Davis, William l.. Marcy, Thomas l.
Clingman, John A. Quitman, A. p. Butler, Geo.
AZ nalfao Guian and - Trousdst, and