Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-05

what party have afforded the great lights
and leaders of the movement? What were
Calhoun, and Hayne, and McDufie? What
are Pickens, and Rhett, and Cheves, and
Barnwell, and Mcdonald, and JEFF. Davis.
and Quitman, and Campbell and Gordon
of Virginia, and c. c. Clay, ST., and Gov.
Winston of Alabama, and Soule, and Hop.
Turney? Who composed the Southern
Convention which met in this city, and
supported in that body the following reso-
buttons:
! Resolved That the Union Of the States is a union
Of equal and independent sovereisnties, and that
I THE POWERS DELEGATED TO THE FEDERAL GOVERN
NEET CAN BE RESUMED BY THE SEVERAL STATES,
whenever 1t may seem " them proper and neces-
sary.
Resolved That all the evils anticipated by the
South, aud which occasOned this convention to as
semble have been realized by the failure to extend
the Missouri Compromise TO the Pacific Ocean; by
the admission OF California as State; bv the or
ganization Of territorial governments for Utah and
New Mexico, without giving adequate protection
to the property OF the South; by the dismember>
ment OF Texas; by the abolition OF the slave trade
anu Tue emancipation OF slaves Carried INTO the
District Of Columbia for sale.
ReSOLUed, That GDe earnestly recommend TO all
parties in the sLaCe-hoLding States, to refuse 10
go into or countendHce Ghy National ConUen-
ton, UL0se object noay be to nominate candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency Of the
United States, under any purity denomination
nhateUe1, until our constitutional rights are
secured.
RESOLVED, THAT IN VIEW OF The AGGREssIoNs
AND OF THOSE threatening AMI impending, We ear
'teStLy recommend TO THE sLAvEHoLDING STATES TO
MEAT IN A CONGRESS OR CoSvEETIoS, TO Blk HELD
AT SUCH TINE AND PLACE AS THE STATES
DESIRING TO BE REPRESENTED MAY DEo
lG ATE, TO BE COMPOSED OF DOUBLE THE
NUMBER OF THEIR SENATOR'S AND REPRE-
SENTAIIVES IN TIE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITED STATES, ENTRUSTED WITH FULL
POWER AND AUTHORITY TO DELIBERATE
AND ACT, WITH THEVIEW AND IN fENTI0N
OF ARRESTING FURTHER AGGRESSION, AND
IF POSSIBLE, OF RESTORING THE CONSTITU
TIONAL RIGHTS OF THE SOUTH, AND, IF
Nor, TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FUTURE
SAFETY AND INDEPENDENCE.
kesolved, That the President of this convention
be requested TO forward copies of the foregoing
preamble and resolutions to the Governors of the
saVeholding States of the Union, to be laid before
their respective Legislatures at their earliest
bling.
Democrats all. Who voted for the fol-
lowing resolution offered by that hOary-
headed traitor, Langdon Cheves, who de-
clared that "the constitution was fetid
mass which stunk in his nostrils."
ResoIUed THAT SECESSION BY THE sLAvEHOLDING
STATES Is THE ONLY REMEDY FOR THE AGGRAVATED
WRONGS WHICH THEY NOW ENDURE, AND THE ENOR-
NOUS EVILS WHICH THREA EN- THEM IN FUTURE
FROM THE UsURPED AND UEREsTRAlNED POWER OF
The FEDERAL GOVERNMEFT.
Democrats and none but democrats, for
none Others sat in the second session of
that band of conspirators. Who was the
only man who had connection with that
body, who dared to denOnce the action
which adopted the traitorouS resolutions
above ? 1t was ANDREW JACKSON DoNEL-
son, who was democrat while the spirit
of Jacksonism ruled the democratic party,
and held in check by its iron sway the de-
Structive elements which compose it, but
when that influence was gone, discovered
that it was becoming demOralzed and
abandoned it, and is to-day acting with the
party opposed to it. 1t was he who offer
ed the only true Union patriotic resolu-
tions which were presented to it. They are
in the following words:
ResoLved, That this convention recommends to
the States and people Of the South TO acquiesce in
the laws recently passed by Congress, as compro
mise of the differences of opuiOn growing out OF
the subject Of slavery.
Resolved That confding in the love of union
which animated our fathers when they framed the
federal constitution this convention will lot anc-
ipate Il Of action the part Of Congress or
of any OF the sovereign States which are parties to
the federal compact, which will justify extreme
measures in preserving the terms OF that compact
ReSolOsd That the iofbearduce manifested by
the people OF the South, during the recent crisis,
is the best pledge which they can give of their de-
termination TO maintain the federal constitution AS
long il is administered in good faith and should
not be mistaken Tor feeling of tame submission TO
further aggression upon their rights and privileges
That this iorbearance is not the less expressive OF
toe spirit of patriotic resistance which will unite all
the southern States, if the late laws passed by
Congress IN behalf OF the owners Of slaves, should
not be- executed, or should be modified in any man
ner to render less this description OF props
eIty.
ReSolU.d That the motto Of the Southern States
is perpetuty to the Union and to the Constitution
and that these States will look resistance, open
and undisgused resistance, as revolutionary rem-
edy, only when such an Interpretation OF the ieder-
al compact is enforced will place them on an
unequal footing as members of the cOufederacy, aud
will make the federal government the instrument OF
intolerable tyranny aud oppression.
Read these, and contrast them with those
which were adopted by the present sup
porters of Buchanan who composed the
majority of the convention.
This is the democracy which claims to
be national and boasts its power to save
the cOuntry-the democracy which has
been the author of all the evil which has
visited the country, and the only impedi-
ment which has retarded its progress to a
healthy and secure prosperity, and true
greatness and renown.
Something TO be Remembered.
The New York Express reminds its
readers that during the first sixty days af-
ter the nomination of Gen Taylor, he
could not have carried single Northern
State. He was denounced as save-hold-
era Mississippi democrat furnished the
Abolitionists with a statement that he was
the owner of FIVE hundred slaves-and
everything was done to prejudice the minds
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