The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-11-28
The Meeting on saturday Last.

NOTWITHSTANDING the inclemency Of the
weather, there was a large attendance of citizens
at the meeting on Saturday; and never before,
we presume, since the first organization of cur
county, did such entire unanimity Of sentiment
prevail among our people at public meeting.
The resolutions adopted by the meeting will be
found in another. column. They were unani-
mously reported by a committee Of gentlemen,
who, up to the date Of the recent Presidential
election, had acted with the late Democratic and
Opposition parties, and, after the fullest oppor
tunity had been afforded for discussion and
the meeting, precisely as they were reported.
No man had aught to say az itst them, or ex-
pressed a wish that they should be modified in
any particular, although free invitation was
extended, to any who might dissent from the
views presented in the resolutions, to participate
in the discussion. No ''gag-law" was resorted
to for the repression Of the opinions Of any who
desired to be heard, but the meeting was literal
" conference" Of the people, assembled for
the purpose of consulting in reference to mat
tiers in which all were felt to be alike and vitality
interested.
The character Of the resolutions indicates the
uninistakablc sentiment Of the meeting. Calm,
firm, dgnifed they breathe the cool determine
ton Of men who mean precisely what they say,
and who have too much selfrespect to employ
the language of angry excitement. They en-
boiy what, we doubt not, is the deliberate con-
viction of the great mass Of our people, who are
as far from being rtn-mad secessionists, per &C.
upon the one hand, as they are from being un-
conditional submissiOnists, on the other, but who
are keenly alive 10 the hazards of the present
crisis, and are resolved 10 act with wise DELHI
Grafton for the protection Of their imperilled
rights. -.- Sal.
Not the least pleasant and hopeful among the
incidents of Saturday was the frank cordiaIity
that marked the Intercourse between those who
have heretofore been widely separated by tie
animcsities engcndcred in party warfare. As If
by universal consent, &c seemed to be understood
that those partizan ennites were all to be buried
in a common grave, and that ''an era Of good
feeling should be inaugurated We trust that
the ancient party lines are now entirely obliter-
ated in lafayette, ard throughout the South,
and not merely Obliterated- but forgotten. Let
there be no reference to the past no accusations
and determinations as to the causes Of and re-
spOnsibiIity for, the existing and unhappy State
Of affairs; but let our entire people, like band
Of brothers who are knit together BY the ties Of
affection, as well as of a common interest and
common danger, consult, deliberate, and act, TO-
getler. There are two extremes Of folly, each
Of which is fraught with peril He who would
rashly take counsel only Of his rage, and be
guided only by the blind and headlOng impulses
Of passion, wanders as far from the path Of true
wisdom as does he who takes counsel only Of
his fears, and when his life is in jeopardy, tim
idly shrinks from endangering a finger for its
safety. Let all agree, il possible, as 10 what
shall be done, and then LET ell unite IN carrying
+ out the common determination.