The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-13
From the Montgomery Advertiser and Gazette.
Of the Alabama Southern Rights
Convention,
EVENING SESSION.
MONTGOMERY, March 4th, 1852


The convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Delegates not present at the morning SEES
sion were requested to come forward and enroll
their names ; whereupon, the following gentle
men appeared and registered their names:
Autauga county-A. G. Taylor, w. Ross, G.
G. Lanier, c. c.. Howard, L. Il. Robinson, John
NJ. Stoudenmire ID. Lamar, John Merritt,
Evans Pressly, VIM. Montgomery, l. II Afford,
Luther Rice, James Ii Rast, Jos. s. Reese, Jos,
H. Hall, Joshua White. C. C. Dickerson, A. C.
Love, J. f. Taylor, J. w. Gates, A. W. De
Bardeabon, Ii. ID. Holiness j. A MILESTONE M.
f. Freick, j. ID. Frelick, A. X. McWilliams, }.
b. Carpenter William Love.
Lowndes counfy-Goodwyn Nixon, w. r.
Hagood, L. c. Mccormick, II. w. Robinson,
Jas. X. Whitman, William F. LIE Sage, James
d. Mccall, J. ID. Nixon.
Dallas county-John G. Johnson, Littleton
Edwards.
Monroe counly-J. A. Wood, l.. r. More.
Barbour county-B. J. ]. Mitchell,
Montgomery county,. r. billiard, A. +.
Ponder james w. Pierce, james L. Waugh,
Junius w. Smith, X. Jones.
On motion Of NJ Noble, the invitation to
Southern Ri~h's men, members of clubs or
Others t" participate in the proceedings Of the
convent, n, was extended to all Southern Rights
men present uisPoseu ~ t"hc P"i' al VIC 'hoe'-
ing
The committee appointed to select vice
presidents, and draft rules for the regulation of
the convention, reported as follows
The committee appointed to select vice presi
dents of the convention and report rules for its
government, respectfully report Henry Holmes,
of Autauga; b. J. J. MITCHELL of Barbour; Lit
Teton Edwards, of Dallas; Morgan Smith, of
Lownd,s Jonathan Davis, of Macon; w. II.
Marks, of Montgomery; and DR.. Lawrence
Moore, Of Monroe; and offer the following reso.
lutions:
Resolred, That the rules of the house of rep
resentatives of Alabama be adopted for the gov
eminent of the convention.
Resolred, That the convention vote per capita,
but that any one member may require vote by
have Vote pffopofona to the naHfsf 81 s6 SSl
ern Rights votes cast at the last Congressional
election, in a ratio of one vote for every one
hundred, and additional vote for every fraction
of so and upwards; that is to say, for Autauga
6, Barbour IA. Dallas I, Lowndes 6, Macon 7,
Montgomery 8, and Monroe g.
The report was adopted
The committeeStpQinted to draft resolutions
for the action of the convention, reported the
following preamble and resolutions:
The abolition agitation, long continued in the
Northern States and in Congress, and the recent
alarming increase of its elements of power re-
sulting from its virtual monopoly of vast COM
mon domain, impelling us to organize in defence
of the great State right to manage our home af.
fairs, free from external force, or interference,
the Southern Rights party of Alabama an
nounces as its creed and course of action, these
propositions and resolutions, to wit
l. Resolred, That the inequality of different
races is an obvious fact.
2. Resolped, That when two races of mark I'd
diversity, and great inequality are found in con.
uection, nature indicates, and the good of both
requires the ascendency of the more inteec
tual.
g. RESOLVED, That such ascendancy can be
maintained in the South only by maintaining
the relation of master and slave
A. Resolred That this relation promotes
equality among the free by dispensing with
grades and castles among them, and thereby
preserves republican institutions; it prevents
the degradation of the whites consequent upon
equality with an inferior race, and affords the
African his only efficient school of progress
and is trust given us of Providence we NAV
not renounce.
5. Resolued That every community, with ad-
equate resources, and individualized by peculiar
customs or institutions, has, by nature, the inHe
rent sovereign right to dispose of its own do
nestle affairs, free from any foreign or antaeo.
nistic control.
6. Resolrea That the separate individuality
and distinctive features of such community can
be preserved only by its maintaining control of
its own deslinies, and management of it's own
peculiar affairs.
7. Resolued, That incongruites offend nature
that antagonisms cannot prosper together, nor
aayaral nf ciyili1 alton I'D. q.
same government, unless the peculiar rights and
distinguishing qualities of each have secured
them such equal privilege and protection in the
common jurisdiction that the stronger system
cannot override the weaker.
8. ReSotred That when in cOnfederacy of
antagonlstlc sy stems) a community, thus ndyid-
ualized succumbing to the prejudces of another
and stronger system of civilization, sacrifices
these principles to present ease, or temporizing
expedients and permanently acquicsces in the
idea that the interests or institutions that dstin
guish it, may be put under the ban of the con-
federacy, its individuality and light of self gov
eminent will soon decay, and its people become
tributary, AFFECT, and degraded
9. Resoired, That it is plain the system of
civilization obtaining in the North and in the
South, have, through agitation, become antago-
nis,ic and at war with each other; and, in every
collision heretofore, between the tw o, the South
has lost substantial vantage ground, while it has
gained only temporary respite.
10. ReSired, That all agitation is aggressive
and with more or less steady pace, must progress
from one conquest to another, till finally con.
summated, unless the agitation be utterly exiin-
guished. or the thing attacked, or Withdrawn
from its control.
IL. RESOLVED, That present indications are in
accordance with these laws, and show that the
truce is but temporary, and that the war of sys-
TENS among us is not ended.
H. ResoIped. therefore, That We, as Southern
Rights men, believing our system of civilization
S worth preserving, and believing il endangered,
pledge ourselves never to sleep upon our posts,
until every token of hostility disappears, or new
safeguards are provided for its protection. |