The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-05
A Complete Failure.

ing had been heralded with imposing typo
graphical display for weeks in the Vicksburg
Wing, signed with long list Of prominent
names. And 10! the day arrived, but the
PEG; ls were wanting. Not single primary
meeting responded; and but FOUR out of the
si1ty counties in the State were represented,
and that too, By selfconstituted delegates, viz:
Kinds, Warren, Rankin and Adams Judge
Sharkey was there; Gen. Henry was there;
Mr.. Hillyer of the Natchez Courier was there
and Messrs Mayors, Cooper and Frantz, of
Rankin, were there, together with few 9TH
ers of lesser note Gov. Morehead of Ken
lucky, and Maj. G. A. Henry of Tennessee,
shelved and antiauated politicians who have
been dismissed from public service by the peo-
pie of their respective States, together with
Messrs. Sharkey, Hilyer and Cooper, We're
the orators of the occasion. We suppose
that nearly all of the "privates'' were "offi-
GERS" as the following lists comprise the only
names of persons we have seen in attend
ance at the meeting:
Gen. Partridge, one Of the committee of ar
rangements called the meeting to order, and
nominated for President Gen. Patrick Henry,
of Rankin county, who was elected by ac
clamation, and took his place on the Stand
amidst enthusiastic plaudits.
The following additional officers were then
elected:
VICE PREs1DENTs-Richard Cooper. of Ran.
kin; Daniel SWEET, of Warren; f. C. Wads.
worth, Of Warren; j. D. Shields, of Adams.
C. A. Reading, of Warren; I. s. Dabney, Of
II nds.
SEoRErAR1Es-John Armstrong. of War
rem; A. j. Frantz, of Rankin; James NJ.
Crump Of Warren; II. E. Barnes, of Warren:
5. C. Cooke, of Warren.
Committee on, Resolutions.
Col. Giles NJ. Hillyer, of Adams county
moved that committee of fifteen be appoint
ed to adopt resolutions expressive Of the
sense of the meeting The motion was man
imously adopted, when the Chairman appoint
ed the following gentlemen to asanpose the
committee:
Col. Giles NJ. Hillyer, of Adams; Geo. L.
Potter, Of Kinds; Alonzo G. Mayers. of Ran.
kin; William Mcbride, of Madison: ]. d.
Shields, of Adams; Benson Blake, of War.
rem; DR. j. j. Thornton. of Rankin: Up.
Waworth, Of Adams; Gen. B. S. Tappas,. of
Warren; Gen. Peter FairchiId, Of Warren !;
William Crutcher, of Warren; A. w. Brien,
of Warren; DR.. j. G. Newman. of Warren:
Daniel A. Ca&eron, of Waaen; l. NJ. Pat
ridge, of Warren
If there is in this list a man who voted for
Breckenridge and Lane in the last Presiden
tial election, We are not aware of the fact
While the movement is therefore utterly re-
pudiated and disregarded by the entire Msm-
ocratic party, it is safe to assume from the
meagre representation, that it represents but
an infnitesimal part Of the Bell pssty-say
not one in every hundred of the Bell voters in
this State.
The resolutions so far defer to the sweep
ing and irresistible current Of public senti-
ment against submission to Black Republican
domination as to admit THAT in the election
of Lincoln to the Presidency the SPIRIT OF
TIE CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED"-
and that "his nomination and election were e.
fected by combination of portion of the
States, c0nspiring together to obtain possession
Of the government for SECTIONAL PUR-
POSES, in avolced hostility to the interests
and institutions Of the other portion" In the
list Of grievances special mention is also made
of the notification by the Northern States q
the constitutional provision for the rendition o
fugitive slaves.
Among the remedies" for these evils, we
are told that there arc means within the
Uuion," which of themselves will stop the
wheels of government, revolutionize and de-
stroy it. Something too is said about "addi-
tional guaraa, ees" which everybody knows is
mere child's play. They deprecate the sep
arate secession of Mississippi" at this time, as
if they were in favor of merging her right Of
thought aud sovereignty irtto utirrr State
and investing it with the power of taking her
out of the Union. Mississippi can never go
out until she acts in her separate, sovereign
capacity, unless she is coerced out as con-
quered province by her sisters. If the authors
Of the resolutions meant to deprecate the es
adjustment of an independent Republic OIL
Mississippi, they were silly enough to raise
a man Of straw and magnify it into ., {hing Of
blood and life. The issue cannot be made,
and they know it They know that South
Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Florida, are ready
to go out of the Union and that the question i;
shall Mississippi resume her sovereignty and
go along with them. The people say yes,
despite the attempt of politicians to direct their
great movement into wrong channel under
pretence of opposition to Lincolnism.
we are rejoiced that this attempted demon,
stration was made at Vicksburg. 1t serves to
show its utter feebIeness and insignifcance as
compared with the GREAT POPULAR MOVE
MEST which is sweeping onward to its goal
with the impetuosity and irresistible power
Of an avalanche.
The following are the resolutions adopted
by this extraordinary meeting"
The Resolutions.
| Col. Hillyer, Chairman g the committee on
| resolutions, made unanimous report from
that committee, as follows:
| WHEREAS, The election of Abraham Lin
coin to the Pres idency of the United States,
| by sectional party advocating policy ayow-
edly hostile to the slaveholding States and
dangerous to their peace and security, has
produced a crisis which. endangers the stabil-
ity of the Union; and whereas, in conse-
ouence OF illegal acts OF Gertain Legislatures
of non slaveholding States. and of n.dny citi-
zens thereof conceived and done in utter dis
regard of the rights and property oil thu Ilave-
holding States, and OF citizens thereof, and Of
A. Ill rs he
tinued and renewed for many years, it is both
expedient and necessary for the slaveholding
States to take counsel together for the pre-
servation of their interests and their institu-
tons, and to procure the adoption Of such
measures or such amendments Of the Federal
Constitution rs will forever secure their rights,
put final period to oil slavery agitation, re-
store among the peopleof the United States
the peace and brotherhood of the happy days
of our fathers, and thus, if possible, perpetuate
the Union: therefore
Resolved, That in the election OF Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidency, we deem that the
spirit OF the Constitution was violates. even
though its forms and letter wero preserved
His nomination and election were effected by
combination of portion of the States Of
this Union, conspiring together to obtain pos
session OF tIle OOfeIHileIIS loT SeCIOHdl plr-
poses, in ayowed hostility to the interests and
institutions of the other portion. That such
a combination is yiolatiye of that principle of
the equality of the States. which 50 largely !
enters into the complex composition Of our
Government.
Resolved, That we are utterly opposed to
such combination on the part of any Of the
states, and will resist it to the utmost Of our
mower, and in every available way.
Resided, That We contend for every right !
and guarantee that the Constitution gives
that we will submit to nothing less; that we
ero willing to abandon none OF them either by
further compromise in the Union, or by Sc
oession from it that separate State seces-
SION Is deliberate abandonment OF all the
rights and interests secured by the yalor and
wisdom Of our fathers, and that revolution, in
orIer to be successful in the preservation Of
those rights out of the Union, should have the