Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-31
mass Meeting at Johnsonville. Bradley
 County.

Pursuant to previous call, the citizens of the southern portion of Bradley county met at Johnsville on the 2Ist of January 1861.
 The meeting was organized by calling James Il. Crawford to the chair, and an. pointing Sol W. Givens secretary.
 On motion of H. E. Rawls, the chair appointed the following committe: HB. hawls, Dr. Goudelock, James NJ. Gill. John Nj. Pagan and H. Rawls, to draft suitable resolutions expressive of the sense ot this meeting. Whereupon, the com. mlttee alter full deliberation presented through their chairman, H. B. Rawls, the following preamble and resolutions. which were read by H. B. Rawls, and unani. mously adopted
 WHEREAS, The present alarming crisis which exists, and the attitude of hostility assumed by the people of the northern States to the institutions of the southern States by the election of black republi can to the presidency upon sectional plat form demand of us firm and candid dec iaratlon of the course we are determined to purse, as a portion of the people of Arkansas, for the protection of our lives fortunes and sacred honor. That in order to secure so admirable an object, we have met, without the distinctions of party. and have adopted the following resolutions ex- presslve of our principles and opinions that
 
 conduct:
 Resolyed, 1st. That in our future action we will not be quieted by former party ties or affections, but will unite ourselves Tn one solid phalanx for the protection of southern rights and institutions against the encroachments of black republican rule whose avowed object is the overthrow of African slavery, and the equality of the southern States, and institute in lieu of the constitution of the United States the doc. Urine of a {" higher law.''
 2nd. That as citizens of the proud and chlvalrous State of Arkansas, we desire her to assume high and lofty position among her sister States of the South by placing herself in an attitude to secede inn med'ately, so as to have equal participation Tn the formation of southern confederacv.
 3rd. That we hail with unfeigned delight the noble and heroic stand taken by our sister States that have seeded, and send back our greetings to them-that sink or swlm, live or die, survive or perish, we will be with them in their gallant struggle for liberty and dependence-their destiny is ours.
 4th. That ir our opinion the legislature shonld have passed convention bill forth with, so as to have given the people of Arkansas chance to place herself side by s'de with her sister States, whose geoeraph- lcal position, if nothing else, will force her to be with Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina.
 5th. That in the event convention is called, we arc of opinion that our delegate from this county sheuld use all honorable means to place Arkansas upon an equal footing with her sister States that have so nobly seeded.
 9th. That we construe the quotation of resolution inserted in Judge Gould's let ter of the 18th inst, and his subsequent remarks into an indication that he will be controlled by the spirit of said quoted resolutions in his action as member of the State convention
 7th. That as we consider said resolutions inconsistent with the spirit of the platform adopted by the mass meeting at Warren, on the 7th inst-that Judge Gould, in the sense of this meeting, be requested to respond to the 7th resolution through the Warren Journal.
 oth. That the secretary be requested to forward acopy of these resolutions for pub lication to the Warren Journal and True Democrat at Little Rock.
 JAMES M. CRAWFORD, CA'm.
 SoI.. w. GIvENs, Sec'v.