Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-18

and honors, and the Indispensable compile
nent to such preamble as this is the right
of each State to annul the compact of con-
federation whenever it shah solemnly deem
the same Incompatible with its liberty or
honor.
Resolved, That the citizens of the South
ern States are entitled to the amplest pro-
lection of their property, of all kinds, in
the States and Territories of the United
State and upon the high seas, and that the
failure of the Federal Government to give
such protection will justify the Southern
States in throwing off such government. =
Resolrcd, That we have read with amaze
ment and indignation the declarations made
by leading Northern Democratic Senators,
in the Senate of the United States, that not
q man will be found at the North to support
the claim of the South to protection of the
government, and against an act of the Ter
ritorial Legislature, either abolishing sla-
very or destroying it by hostile legislation
And in reply We here proclaim our unal-
terable determination to demand this pro-
lection from the government and that when
our plain constitutional rights are violated,
and find no protection in this government,
We will use our best endeavors to withdraw
from that government the powers which it
perverts to our injury"
This was reafirmed by a Convention in
Auburn on the 9th May following, which
nominated a candidate for Congress; and
by the State Convention in January which
appointed delegates to Charleston The
Democratic State Convention of Louisiana,
at Baton Rouge, March 9th, 1860, adopted
the following. reported by Ex-Gov. MouToN,
a delegate to Charleston: --
$50. That in case of the election of
President on the ayowed principles of the
Black Republican party, we concur in the
opinion that Louisiana should meet in coun-
Gil her sister slaveholding States to consult
as to the means of future protection. =" |
By the Democratic State Convention of
Texas, at Galveston, April, 1860:
eResolved, That in becoming member
of the confederacy, Texas parted with no
portion of her sovereignty, but merely
changed the agent through whom she
should exercise some of the powers apper
tanning to it. That should those powers be
used at any time to her injury or wrong,
should the Government fail to exercise the
powers which are delegated in good faith,
for the maintenance of her rights and the
rights Of her people, or should the COM
pact she has entered into with the other
States, through the bad faith of any of
them, fail to accomplish the object for
which it was formed, in any of these cases,
in which she alone can judge for herself,
the State of Texas possesses the full right,
as a sovereign State, to annul the compact,
to revoke the powers she had delegated to
the government of the United States, to
Withdraw from the confederaey, and resume
her place among the powers of the earth,
RESOLVED, That we regard with great aver
sion the unnatural efforts of a sectional
party at the North, to carry on an SIRE
pressible conflict" against the institution Of
slavery. and whenever that party shall sue
coed ia electing q President upon, their
platform, we deem it to be the duty of the
people of the State of Texas to hold them
selves in readiness to cooperate with our
sister States of the South in Convention, to
take into consideration such measures as
may be necessary for our protection, or to
secure out of the confederacy that protec-
ton of their rights which they can no lon
ger hope for in it,"
By the Mississippi Democratic State Con.
vention, July 5, 1859, re;iffirmed, Jan'y.,
1860: ...-
Resolped, That in the event Of the cleo
ton of Black Republican candidate to
the Presidency, by the suffrages of one por-
ton of the Union only, to rule over the
whole United States, upon the avowed pur-
pose of that organization, Mississippi will
regard it as declaration of hostility, and
will hold herself in readiness, to cooperate
with her sister States of the South, in what
ever measure they may deem necessary for
the maintenance of their rights as co-equal
mo Of hQ
It was in view of the Charleston Conven-
ton, and the Importance of bringing the
public mind up to the issue there intended
to be made, that Senator CLAY, of Alabama,
wrote letter from Washington on the I'd of
January, 1860, which was promptly pub
lished to his constituents, of which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
s'Why, you would ask, do not Southern
Democrats and Americans unite their votes
on some patriot of either party, and save US
from the dishonor and humiliation with
which we are menaced? The reply of either
side, probably, would be, it would democrat
ice, and, perhaps, disorganize our party
But you would rejoin, would you sacrifice
the South on the altar of your party? can
you not sink the partizan in the patriot,
when the enemy is at our gates!
Why may not address the same question
to the legislators of Alabama, to her people,
and to the entire Southern people? We are
confronted by implacable and powerful foes,
whose herald and leader declares we must
meet them everywhere in 'sirreconcilable
conflict" They are now struggling with
US, hand to hand, in the Capitol, for the
control of the Treasury, the Army, the
Navy, the Post Ofice-all the materials for
war upon the South. They hang in embat-
tied array upon our entire Northern bound
airy. Their emissaries are in our midst,
preparing torches for the incendiary and
daggers for the assassin. We cannot, if we
would, avoid the stcon1ict' they threaten.
We have been besieged and harrassed by
them for many years-have suffered sorely
from their ravages and sought no reparation,
but only future peace, Justice, domestic
tranquility and security for our persons and
our property. We have sought these by ar
gument, by persuasion, by eotreaty, but in
vain. Why, then, defer preparation for the
iohet the sword 0hen the trumpet sounds TO
draw if.'''
In addition all the facts we have given,
establishing beyond question deliberate
purpose, supported by systematic plan of
action, well digested and zealously pursued
to break up the Union and revolutionize the
government, it scarcely admits of doubt |
that there were members of Congress at its
last session who had resolved to keep that
body unorganized until its functions should
cease for want of sustenance, and thus af-
ford pretext for declaring the govern
ment at an end, and for proclaiming a
Southern Republic. This charge was sub
made by the True Delta, o dem
ocratic paper in New Orleans, as follows:
s'Such pestilent and vulgar demagogues as |
Senators Green and Slidell were kept as the |