Gazette and sentinel., 1860-11-24

slavery from the land, bcggar You, and
make Won their vassals. Gentlemen tell
us to be calm, be iuict-wait TIL an
covert act" was committed. Do such
gentlemen know how the constitution
has been violated 10y that party Of the
North-how many of its States have
made it a crime for a citizen TO aid III
the execution of the Fugitive Slave
Law? How that party has excluded
your property in the territories that
its settled policy is to admit no more
slave States that its holy affairs have
been dcsccratcd to an anti-Slavcry God!
that its most solemn declaration has
| rome forth that this Government framed
bv our Revolutionary fathers, cannot
exist longer half free and half slave !!
Know they all this, and talk of waiting
for covert acts?' We interfere not
with those of the North and their III
stitutions they are enriched by means
Of the products of our labor, and yet
they would rob us of the material Tor
~cultivating IL soil! Where is the
pcople upon earth who have suffered
equal indignitics and injuries that we
have suffered, without rctal!atInS =
Loving the Union with a holy tcrvor
surpassed 10y no other section, we have
kept on complaining, always protesting,
but still hoping and holding back. But
the day of protests and complaints, and
alas ! of hope, has passed. The decla-
ration has gone back upon the winds
70 the North that there are to be 10
more cntrcatics--that the hour OF re-
~sistancc has come. Sirs, have you not
been told that this question Of making
Southern soil free soil, the North vii
prrss TO Ito last. Those Black Rcpub
licans boot at the idea Of our going ou'
of the Cnion-wc will back out, say
they've will eat the dirt first Tie
dissolution of this Union would be
great, a very great evil, but there Is
worsc-SubmiSsion. Submit now, an
, when, ever again, will there be Il chance
for bringing about Il union of the South
. Submit now, and the doors TO you
, slaves will be open. Submit now, an,
Lincoln in possession Of the Govern
: ment it'll eighty millions Of Black Re
, puJlicans to back him, his %inccndiar.
cmissarics and doctrines will ~percolat
through the South as water through tn
! pores of the earth, undermining on
principles and institutions, and s~ecurin!
us fatally in the web of Black Repul
lican decentralization and destruction
You will be bound to submit then, whc
you are throttlcd and fettercd, howevc
much you may be inclined to struggI
and resist. | would not be willing tina
; my adopted State should walk alon
out of the Union. Let those State
q around US go on in hosting the flag {
rebellion. We are with them. I'll
moment that the Government cndeavol
e to coercc a single State, then let Il
70 united banners Of the South float q
ID high in the majesty Of their might All
# defiance.
n This, though an Indifferent summar
4 of Mr.. Talbot's remarks, will give til
% reader some idca of their tenor.
H.. At the conclusion of Mr.. Talbots a
4 dress, Hon. V. j. DuPUY moved the ado
l. ton Of the resolutions.
Mr.. EsrEvAN moved to amend the
bove motion by reading and taking Il
4 vote of each resolution seperatel
which was carried.
, The President then rose to read Il
y resolutions, when Mr.. Talbot begged
il say, that the meeting being irrespecti'
Of party, the resolutions were 50 dra
, up. There was nothing of party" co
nected with them. The feelings and i
=, sues of the late election had nothing
;. do with the occasion and the princip
!. that brought us together now, tho
were for one ommon interest and ol
common cause.
4 The following Resolutions Of IL
u, Committee were then read by the Pres
= dent separately, and each enthusiast