Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-02-01
GeOrGin legislature.

The following resolutions were recently introduced
in the Senate of Georgia by Judge Cone:
Resolved, SEC |. That we have witnessed with
regret the repeated and continued failures of the
House of Representatives of the United States to
elect Speaker.
SEC. 2. That it is the duty of the members of that
body, who are opposed to the election of the section
al Freesoil ddate, to forge past differences to
uIite to meet to nominate, and to elect a Sneaker
SEC. 3. That the construction of the Clayton Bull
wer treaty by the President is right and according
to its plain and obvious meaning WE WILL sUs
TAIN THE PRESIDENT. We love reace, and earnest
ly desire its continuance. We will not avoid war;
if the protection OF the ghs and honor of the nation
demand it.
SEC 4. That the ability scith uhich the Presideat
in has late Message has set forth the true Constiu
tjonai theory Of the Government-he rights of tie
South IN relation to the institution of NdUery-and
the aggressiOns Of the North, and the for6earance and
endurance of the Sa upon h0t subject, as uorthy of
tie Chief Magistrate Of tile nation His VIEWS ARE
SOUND AND CONSTITUTIONAL. THEY COMMAND OUR
ASSENT AND RECEIVE OUR APPRECIATION.
SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Senate make
couy of these resolutions TO he transmitted to The
President and TO each of our Senators and Represen
latives at Washington
The Constitutionallst comments on these resou-
tions follows:
JUDGE Cones RESOLUTIONS We take pleasure
in awarding to the honorable senator from Greene
the need of praise justly due him for his manly and
patriotic tribute 10 truth and justice in his commen
daIOns OF the Presidents message. In the resolu
tons of Judge Gone are spoken the honest convic
tons of many members of the Know Nothing order
OF Geor2ia, Who while politically arrayed against
the administration, are unwilling to wage against it
factious and unscrupulous warfare They cannot
ignore The sound principles OF policy and constitu-
tlonal truth on which that administration is based
they cannot shut their eyes to the patriotic and self
sacrificing efforts Of the President studiously and
strictly TO cary "ut these pfinciples-they cannot,
as southern men, be insensible to the ordinary feel
ings of ra'efu admiration, which the manly, ma
ton course of the President awakens. Assailing
and assailed by abotiOni>m, which, folled and de
cated thus tar, yes in frantic rage the obstacles
opposing their career, the President stands between
them and the South impossible barrier and
hurls back from his lofty eminence defiance TO their
fierce onslaughts on our constitutional rights
"Thongh opposon to foreigners and Catholics
has of late, absorbed undue share of Judge Cones
efforts and energies, he is too much of democrat in
all his antecedents and past sympathles to be nsen
sible The good service in behalf OF sound prnci
Piles rendered the country by the preseAt admnistra-
ton His resolutions magnanmous recogni-
ton Of this fact
The resolution sustaining the Presidents con-
structon Cf the Clayton Buwer treaty, and plelgng
the support OF people the administration in de-
fence Of that construction, even to the extremity OF
war with England speaks, we believe, The unani-
nous sentiment of Georgia and the South, and of the
patriotic men of all sections"