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

whose duties shall be hereafter designated
by such assembly, which shall be convened
by the State Conventions at the city of CO.
| lumbia, 8. G..
In State Convention, there shall be a
| Goyernor,-one Lieutenant Governor
retaries, and one Treasurer, whose duties
shall be prescribed by said Convection
The State Convention shall be composed
of delegates from the County Conventions,
which shall assemble at the respective cap
| itals of those States participating in this
organization.
The County Conventions shall be COM
posed of delegates from the several County
| Clubs, which shall have a Chairman,|Sec-
retaries, and one Treasurer; aud shall as.
semble at their respective Court Houses, uu-
less otherwise determined by such Conven-
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The County Clubs shall be formed by five
or more members of this party, who have
previously pledged themselves to
| support the foregoing Preamble and Rsso-
lutions and signed this Constitution, who
shall elect one Leader,-Secretaries,s and
1 one Treasurer. - .
Art. 4. The officers of the General As
sembly shall be elected for and serve four
years, or until others are elected to their
respective Offices. +
The officers of the State Conventions
shall be elected for and serve three years.
The officers of the County Conventions
| shall be elected for and serve two years.
And the officers of the County Clubs shall
he elected for and serve one year, or until
others are elected to their respective offices.
Art. 5. No member of this Great South
ern Party shall recognize any previous par
| ty lines, but shall use his elective franchise
so as to accomplish, most effeetually, the
| objects set forth in the foregoing preamble,
| resolutions and constitution
Art 6. Any white Southern citizen or
| resident, over the age of eighteen years,
may become a member of this organization,
| by pledgiHg himself to support the forego-
| ing Preamble. Resolutions and Constitution,
and signing the same and his signature to
this constitution shall be a sufficient indi-
cation that he approves the said Preamble,
Resolutions and Constitution"
This branch of the disunion organization
differs from the Southern League" in that
it discards all former party allegiance and
| obligation, and takes higher ground. 1t
appears to have been designed, not merely
to influence publicepinion in favor of dis
union, but to have been so constructed as
to act as Provisional Government IN the
event of the success CT the project of dis
solution. The organization has a PREsIDEsT
as its head, and in each State there is q
GOVERNOR. Whenever separation shall take
place, these would at once assume the reins
of government, provide for the common de-
fence, levy armies, issue proclamations and
writs of election and take all the prelimina-
ry steps to the organization of Southern
Confederacy. 1t is elegantly written, and
ingeniously devised for these purposes
How far it was success we have no means
of knowing; but it is entirely certain that
it did exist, and the same men who gave it
their support are at this moment ready to
carry out the plan. And to our mind it is
equally clear that the numbers who sympa-
thised in the movement are great. I'm
questionably this whole scheme was fully
understood by Hon. ALFRED IvERsoN, of
Ca, and to it his language clearly points,
when he rose in the United States Senate on
the 9th of January, 1859, and spoke as fol-
lows:
s.Sir, there is but one path of safety for
the institution of slavery in the South,
when this mighty northern avalanche of
fanaticism and folly shall press upon US;
and that path lies through separation and
a southern confederacy. This is the great
ultimate security for the rights, honor and
prosperity of the South. Sir, there are
even now thousands of her sons who believe
that the slave States, formed into separate
Confederacy, and united under such a gov
eminent as experience and wisdom would
dictate, would combine elements of more
political power, national prosperity, social
security and individual happiness, than any
nation of ancient or modern times; and, sir,
among the number. 81
venture the opinion that in my oscn Stote, SO
well convinced are the great masses Of the
people of all parties that the anti-slavery
agitation is not to cease until the institution
is destroyed, If the question acas now put
,Chether The Southern States IL, q body should
separate and form a Southern Contederacy, a
majority rcould Uote FOR THE PI oPosTTIoN.
The election of northern
President, upon sectional and anti-slavery
issue, will be considered cause enough to
Justify secession. Let the Senator from
New York Mr.. Seward or any other man
ayowing the sentiments and policy enuncia
ted by him in his Rochester speech, be
elected President of the United States, and,
in my opinion, there are more than one of the
Southern States that agould take IMMEDIATE
STEPS toCards separation. And, sir, am
free to declare here, in the Senate, that
whenever such an event shall occur, for one,
L shall be for disunion, and shall, if alive,
exert all the poacers 1 may haze in urging upon
the people of nag State the necessity and pro-
priety Of an IMMEDIATE SEPARATION. 1
know, sir, that disunion is considered by
many as an impossible thing; many think
so at the South, and all the northern people
feel assured that the South can never be
driven out of the Union, no matter what
may be the aggressions upon their consti-
tutional rights. I trust and believe, sir,
that they viii find themselves mistaken,
whenever a proper occasion occurs. Sir,
1t is not so difficult matter to dissotre this
Union as many 6eIiere.'
We have heretofore given the resolutions
adopted by the Legislature of South Caro-
lima, and now give portions of those adopted
by the Legislatures of Alabama and Missis-
sippi. Among others, the latter, after fully
conourring with those of South Carolina,
adopted the following:
''Resolved, That the election Of Presi
dent of the United States by sectional
party, with views adverse to the institution
of domestic slavery as it exists in the slave
holding States and Territories, or of one
who is opposed to the grant of the protec-
tion claimed in the foregoing resolution,
would so threaten destruction of the ends
for which the Constitution was formed, as to
justify the slsveholding States in taking
counsel together for their separate protec-
ton and safety"
That of Alabama, after also indoors
ing fully the South Carolina programme,
added the following;