Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1852-05-20

When this result was announced
several of the Undersigned formally
Withdrew from the meeting. Mr. Cen
try, of Tennessee, then submitted the
following, to be added as an amendment
to the resolution offered by Mr.. Stan
Iy:
"ReSoZUed, That the whig members
of Congress, in thus recommending a
time and place for the National Whig
Convention to assemble, are not to be
understood as pledging themselves to
support the nominees OF said conven-
ton, except upon the condition that
the persons then and there nominated
as candidates for President and Vice
President shall be publicly and une-
quivocalIy pledged to regard the series
of measures known as the compromise
measures as final settlem ent Of the
dangerous questions which they en-
braced, and to maintain that settlement
inviolate."
Objection was made to the introduce
ton of this amendment, because IL ,caS
out Of order. The Chair sustained the
objection. Ap appeal was taken
from the decision of the Chair; and,
after some debate, the meeting sustain
ed the ruling of the Chair; thereupon.
the remainder of the undersigned for
maIIy withdrew from the meeting.
1t is officially announced that, after
our withdrawal, the resolution of Mr..
Stanly was passed; and then the meet
ing adjourned.
The foregoing statement exhibits
the character and order, of the pro-
ceedings which compelled the under
signed to leave the meeting of the 10Th
instant.
By reference to the list OF persons
who participated in these proceedings
it will be perceived that there was q
great disparity in the representation
from the free States and the slayehold-
ing States. We are authorized tc
state that several gentlemen from the
slaveholding States; belonging to the
whig party, declined to participate a
all in a meeting of which the result
was palpabIe, under the intimation oil
purpose advanced by the chairman a
the first meeting.
/ The meeting was composed of forty
six gentlemen from the free States
and twenty-one from the slaveholdinG
States. The vote is divided, forty-siA
to twenty-one-seven from each clas:
of States voting with the opposing sec
ton.
i The entire meeting was meagrt
majority of the representation classee
as whig in the Congress Of the United
:. States. The quota from the slave
holding States remaining in the meet
| ing after our withdrawal, was just one
fourth of the whig representation from
the slaveholding States. The determi
nation of the time and place for th'
; Wing National Convention MAY there
t fore Justly be considered as made by
the congressional representatives iron
: the free States.
! OF the members of Congress from
the free States present and acting il
| this meeting a large majority wer
i committed, by legislative action, a
: gainstthe compromise measures at thei
: passage, or have refused to express al
: intention to maintain and execute then
: since their passage. Among those VIII
took these proceedings Were some c
the most conspicuous opponents of tn
Adjustment, and most active agitator
of the North. OF the thirty-one REF
resentatives from the free States VIII
.fyoted affirmatively on the propositio
that the appeal do lie on the table, onl
three had recorded their votes in fave