The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-01
Resistance to Black Republican Ag-
Observation-Disclosures Action of the
Mississippi Senate.

/ We have the unspeakable pleasure Of trans
ferring to our columns series of resolutions
upon Federal Relations, which passed the
Senate yesterday, and to announce their adop-
ton by o unanimous rote.
As a declaration.of principle upon the i'm
portant issue of protection to slave property
in the Territories, these resolutions are worthy
| of special commentator. But the features
which more than all will commend them to
the cordial approval of patriotic men, are the
affirmative response which they give to the in
vitation Of South Carolina for a convention of
slaveholding States, to concert measures for
the preservation of their independence as SOW
ereign members of the Confederacy; the dec
laration that the election Of Black Republi-
can to the Presidency, upon the principles of
the anti slavery organization, will justify the
measure Of dissolution; and the appointment
of special Commissioner to confer with Vir-
gina, whose sovereignty has been grossly
outraged, and whose geographical position and
historical anteeedents entitle her to the re-
spect which it is proposed to display towards
her by this action. The institutions of Vir-
GINA and Mississippi are the same They
have common interest; and it is wise and
proper conclusion, that blow aimed at one is
blow at the other.
The plan of action so distinctly set forth in
these resolutions, needs but the endorsement
of the popular branch of the Legislature, and
i6a aaaI0Eai q I'll, siassspaE, 10 sur,
ance that Mississippi, upon the great, para.
mount, overriding issue of the day, assumes
no hesitating or doubtful attitude-that con-
scious of the rectitude of her intentions and
the wisdom of her course, she is resolved,
with one voice and with one arm, if need be,
to maintain her inafienable rights and her sa-
cred honor, at all hazards and to the last ex-
tremity:
1st RESOLVED by the Legislature Of The State
of Mississippi, That the Constitution of the
United States recognizes property in slaves,
and the Government created by it cannot, nor
can any tribunal acting under its authority,
whether it be legislative, executive or judicial,
within its appropriate sphere, justly withhold
from the owners of slaves that adequate pro-
lection for their slave property, to which the
owners of property ofother kinds are entitled,
or which from its nature they may further
require to secure them in its possession and
enjoyment.
End. That the election of a President of
the United States by the votes of one section
of the Union only on the ground that there ex-
lists an mreconcilable conflict between the two
sections in reference to their respective systems
of labor, and with an ayowed purpose of
hostility to the institution of slavery as it pre-
rails in the Southern States, and as reeog-
nized by the compact of Union, would so
| threaten destruction of the ends for which
the constitution was formed, as to justify the
slave-h 3lding States in taking counsel together
for their separate protection and safety.
3d. That in order to be prepared for such a
contingency, Mississippi accepts the invitation
Of South Carolina to her sister slaveholding
States, to meet in convention; and proposes
| the first Monday in June next, and Atlanta,
| Georgia, as a suitable time and place, to meet
| to counsel together, and determine the action
/ they will take IN such an eyent-Which action
shall be reported to the Governor, who shall
convene the Legislature, if in his judgment it
may be required. And that this Legislature,
at its present session, proceed to elect seven
delegates to attend the Convention at Atlanta,
| Georgia.
4th. That Commissioner be appointed by
this Legislature, to proceed to the Capitol Of
Virginia, and express to the people of that
Commonwealth, through her Executive, the
Indignation that Mississippi feels at the out
rage committed in the recent invasion Of her
/ soil, and the readiness and determination of
Mississippi to unite with her, or any other
slaveholding State, in repelIing any assail-
ment of their people or their rights and that
| said Commissioner also present to her Execu-
tive copy of these resolutions, and invite her
cooperation in the proposed Convention.
9TH. That the Governor of this State be
requested to transmit copy of these resolu-
lions to the Governors of each of the slave
holding States Of the Union, to be laid before
tlseir laE,i- -.1Gt &-,i i2.eG their os-GPezE
ton