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necessity of preserving unimpaired the rights of

necessity Of preserving unimpaired the rights oi
States respectively.
3. Resolved, That we hail with unfeigned
satisfaction, the recognition by the Democratic
Parties of Georgia and Louisiana, of the resolu.
adopted by the People Of Georgia assembled in
Convention in 1851 ; and, as We believe, South
Carolina, too, "will and ough. to resist, even
(as last resor) TO disruption of every tie
which binds her to the Union, any action oi
Congress upon the subject Of slavery in the Dis.
trict of Columbia, or in places subject to the
jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the
safety, domestic tranquility, the rights and hon.
or of the slavehoding States, or any act suppress.
sing the slave trade between tho slaveholding
States; or any refusal to admit as State any
Territory hereafter applying, because Of the ex-
istence of slavery therein; or any act prohibiting
the introduction of slaves into the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico or any act repeating OF
materially modifying the laws in force for the
recovery of fugitive slaves"
4. RESOLVED, That we sympathze with the
friends of the slavery cause in Kansas, in their
manly efforts to maintain their rights, and the
rights and interests Of the Southern people, and
that we rejoice at their recent victories over the
paid adventurers and fanatical hordes of North
ern Aboitionism. That the deep interest felt
and taken by the people of Missouri in the set
tlement of Kansas, and The decision Of the slave.
ry question in it, is both natural and proper |;
and that it is their right and duty to extend to
their Southern brethren in that Territory every
legitimate and honorable sympathy and support.
5. Resolred, That in the opinion of this meet
ING, the existence and progress of the organiza-
ton known as the Order of Know Nothings, is
opposed theoretically and practically to the
principles which have hitherto chacterized South
Carolina as a State, and the Southern Rights
Party every where, and render rally and reor-
ganzation of that party in South Carolina
matter of imperative duty with those who se-
main steadfast in the faith.
6. Resolred, That this meeting disapproves
utterly and entirely Of the introduction of re:
gious tests into the politics Of the country, and
believes such connexion opposed to the Con.
stitution Of this State, to the Constitution OF
the United States, and anti.American in spirit
and policy.
z. Resolred, That while we regard the facility
with which foreigners of all kinds arc admitted
to the rights of citizenship, and the abuses prac.
tised under the existing naturalization laws, as
proper subjects of legislative reform, we unhesi.
tatingly and uncomprosingly reject, as 4 remedy
the formation of secret affiliated political asso-
Citations, possessed of powers 80 novel and des-
potic as those of the order Of Know Nothings ;
and we utterly repudate the indiscriminate con-
demnaton, and unqualified exclusion from the
privileges of citizenship, of all foreigners what
soever, which is the practical result of the tri-
umph of the Order, as illiberal, unjust, unwise
and peculiarly Anti-American.
. 8. RESOLVED, That in addition to these strin-
gent objections, we arc opposed to the Know
Nothing Order.
Because by its secrecy and mystery, its oaths
and ritual it is calculated to promote insincerity
and duplicity, and to stiie the bold, open, manly
conduct and conversation which characterize the
man of honor and the freeman.
Because its tendency is to organize band OF
spies in every community, to watch the conduct
and catch the words of the unsuspecting, to be
foundation of political prescription and persecu.
ton.
And because its practices strike at social conf
dence, and all that is dear and valuable in the
social relation.
9. Resolred, That it is due TO the fratcrnal
harmony which hitherto has existed here, to the
future, yet certain perils, which rs citizens Of
these Slaveholding States we must meet, and to
TeSlSG WHICH SuCCcSSluliy lhCto ououio chiSe uu'
broken unanimity, that we should, with the ut.
most earnestness, appeaF TO those who have
been led into this Order, to come out from it
and strip it of its power to do evil, and to all, o
whatsoever political designation they may have
been, to unite in opposition to an organization
which, if successful, must PROSTATE the rights o
individuals and States: and in the obedience il
exacts TO the will of majority, extinguishes the
hopes and rights of a minority.
10. Resolred, That the Chairman Of this
meeting appoint Committee of one hundred
who shall be charged with the organization of q
Southern Rights Party, in opposition to the Or
der of Know Nothings.
Mr.. Hayne addressed the meeting at length
and with much ability, in examination and sup
port of the positions assumed in the address and
resolutions, and moved their adoption.
The motion was seconded by A. e. Magrath
ESQ.,, in an ab speech, in which he eloquently
aud strikingly contrasted the principles OF the
Know Nothing party with the fundamental doc.
trines of State Rights, and demonstrated theiI
fatal tendency upon Southern rights and South
ern resistance.
Gen. w. E. Martin followed ia some brief
pointed and happy remarks, closing with much
effect by quoting the sentiments of Washington
in favor Of religious federation.
The question was then taken upon the address
and resolutions, and they were unanimously
adopted.