Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-24
The New York Union Meeting.

city On the 18th, in pursuance Of a call sign
ed by upwards Of frenfy housond citizens OF
the place. The meeting was presided over
by Hon. DAN'L F. TIEMAS. assisted by nu-
'merous Vice Presidents and Secretaries. 1t
was not party, but peoples, demonstra-
'tion; and speeches were made by Hon. JAMES
Books, Ex-Gov. HUNr, Hon. JNo. a. DIX,
CHAs. O'CoxoR, Esq, Prof. MITCHELL. Judge
DEAN Rev. DIR. BETBuNE and others. Ofthis
meeting the Express says
"The august demonstration Of the New
York public, last night. we need not say at
the Academy OF Music, but ia all the streets
leading to or radiating from it, we have but
most sanguine anticipations even of those
who aever doubted it would be a great sue
ecss. 1t was one Of those grand events which
will live on the page of history. Whether as
regards numbers, spirit, honest enthusiasm,
and downright, genuine Jteling, we think We
speak within the bounds Of moderation when
we say, that no such spectacle iros eper icitnessed
in The Commercial Emporium b.fore. There was
heart to it, 1t was all earnestness, from be-
ginning to end. There was not the least col
or Of party spirit about it, not the remOiest
symptom of desire that we could detect,
on the part of any who took part III it, to
convert it to the smallest political or person
oil account. And yet, it so happened, that
men of all parties were there; men who,
hitherto, have but seldom been seen in pub
lie together-and probably never Oh the
same patform-but all animated, now, as II
by a common desire to show mankind-ior
onee-ibat when the Republic is IN danger,
her sons know how to come up, as one man,
TO the Rescue We cannot think OF single
important interest, in all this vast metropo-
lis, which was not represented in the multi
tude. aud which did not ind free utterance on
the the stage inside, or on the platforms out
In the open air.
There was no diversity of sentiment, no
difference of opinion, in regard to the bust
ness in hand. Never did speakers and listen
ers seem 10 US To be so in accord, in demand
Ing that the Union SHALL be preserved !;
that the Constitution, in all its parts, SHALL
be faithfully executed that the decisions of
the Courts, in reference TO the institution of
slavery, SHALL be scrupulously respected
that such outrages as those of Harper's Fer
nv, SHALL be viewed and punished as
crimes, against the North as well as the
South /; and that the idea of an Irrepressi-
Bile Conflict" between the two sections. is
held-as it ought to be held-in utter and
unqualified adherence.
"The moral effect of such manifestation as
this, on the part Of the leading city of the
Union, cannot but result in much good. 1t
will help to pour oil on the troubled waters
aud while tending to calm the misgivings in
be Southern mind, will do something 10 con-
vince the demagogues of the North that there
is a certain point beyond whicn. the people
are determined, their atrocious doctrines shall
not be pushed"
The following Preamble and Resolutions,
prepared by the Committee ofArrangemenls,
were adopted:
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, The people OF the United States
ain order TO form more perfect Union. cs-
tablish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility;
&c &c, as set forth in the Preamble of
the Constitution for the United States hare
ordained a Government OF non-slaveholding
and CT slaveholding States; and. whereas, the
Government is a Government of cOmpacts,
lst. In the clause OF the Constitution,
iArt |, Sec. ~ recognizing slaves as per
sons to be represented by their masters, and
a. property to be taxed upon these masters.
I'd In tn" clause tart. i, Sec. g., that
Congress shall have power to suppress insur
rectious.
Sd. Cart. /, Sec. 81, in prohibiting Con-
gress TO suppress the Slave Trade prior tn
1908, and in giving Congress the power to
impose a tax or duty upon each slave i'm
ported before that time, not exceeding ten
dollars for each slave.
4th. In the clause Cart. 4, Sec. p, to de-
liver up, on claim of the party to whom
slave service may be due, the person or slave
held to such service or labor.
5tb. In the clause Cart. 4. Sec. ~, upon
the application of any Legislator I, or Exc
cutive, of a State, To protect said State
against domestic violence.
And Whereas. The Federal Government
has, from its origin, been administered by
she Executive, by Congress. and by the Su-
preme Court of the United States, not only
In the letter, but in the spirit of these COM
pacts.
lst Before and after the old Confedora-
ton in the division OF the then unsettled
Territories, by d, claring all North of the
Ohio to be non -sla eholding, and all South
Of the Ohio to be slave holding.
I'd Iu the Ordinance, July Is, 1877. ma
king free, the territory. now Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan, but providing therein,
also, for the surrender of fugitive slaves.
3d. In the acis, President Washington mp
proving, admitting into the Union the Ter
ritory Of Kentucky, slaveholdiug. then the
property of Virginia. and afterwards the
Territory OF Farmland, slaveholding now
Tennessee, then, the property OF North Car
olina.
Adams approving. organizing the Mississippi
Territory, then belonging TO Georgia. now
Alabama and Mississippi, in which was es-
pecially excepted therelrom the anti-Slayery
clause OF the North Western Tcrriiory,-in
these words:
EXCEPTING and ExcIuDING the last article
OF the ordinance of 1881"
5tb. In the Fugitive Slave Law OF 1893,
George Washington approving, which passed
the Senate unanimously, and the House, ayes
IS, noes Z.
9th. In the purchase of Louisiana, Prcsi-
cent Jefferson approving, all that vast region
West OF the Mississippi, stretching TO the Pa
ei6c Ocean. and TO the British possession, all
of which Was under the laws OF Spain or
France, slaveholding. and larger in extent at
that time than the whole UniI'd States.
7th. In the treaty OF 1883 18th article) pro-
viding against the deportation Of slaves,
with the official correspondence of Washing
ten, Randolph, Governor Morris, aud John
Jay, thereon.
Sub. In the Judiciary act, 1889 (siih sec
tion) adopting the constitutional laws Of the
several States which recogulzs slaves as pro-
perry a. well as persons.
9Th. In the acts enumeraiing slaves for the
purpose OF direct taxation. especially the act
az ssi3, james Madison approving, which
assessed taxes upon the land. dneiiiag houses
end ssarss. at the value each OF them was
worth in money.
10th. In the treaty OF Gbeut OSLO, under