Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-02-14
The snsnk,ng List Night.

lv respectable and attentive audience drawn together to
listen to an address by SamT Hail. Esq, Commissioner
from the State of Georgia to this State We think that
we simply state fact when we say that although of
course, there were many gentlemen present who may
have dssented from the views expressed by Mr.. Hall,
were disappointed in the ability and tone of the
able effort in which these views were embodied and set
forth.
Mr. Hall was introduced to the audience by o. P.
Meares Esq., in brief but felictous speech in which
he referred to the close connection between Mr.. Hall
and the people of the Cape Fearto the community of
interest between the States of Georgia and North Caro-
lima, and to the ability and acceptabity of the Envoy
whom Georgia had sent to North Carolina, and also to
the duty of North Carolina to take prompt action.
Mr.. Hall spoke of the pleasure it gave him TO stand
before North Carolina audience and to appeal to them
to renew and strengthen the bonds OF friendship and the
community of interest and Of feeling which had always
existed between their State and the State of Georgia.
great deal had been said about the cotton States, as
separate and distinct from the other Southern States
This not so-the people of the Gulf States and OF
those on the Atlantic coast South of this, generally
looked to Virginia, North Carolina, and the other older
States with something of al love and reverence, as
the homes of their ancestors, and not unequeny OF
their own boyhood and youth They were oah to sep
arate their destiny from theirs They hoped yet and
that at no distant day. to hail all the savehodng States
as members of the same Southern Oonfederacy
the inestimabe blessings of independence aud with a
career of prosperity and renown before them unequaed
in the history of the world.
great talk had been made about the re-opening of
the save-trade. That all without foundation. The
Cotton States themselves had laws against that-they
did not intend to reopen the savetade, and would not
do it. Georgia would rather have the friendship and
cooperation OF North Carolina, than enjoy all the pro-
fits that could possibly be derived from the slave trade
in the next hundred years to come.
I Mr. Hall said this movement on the part of Georgia
and the other Southern States not, as had been
sad "precptate movement. On the contrary, it was
the result of serious deberation after the most long
suffering patience had been exhausted He then made
brief but comprehensive view OF the progress of az
erosion and the growth of antsavery feeling from the
first, touching upon the opposition to the Louisiana
purchase sprngng from this sentimentO the passage
in advance of law prohibiting the importation of slaves
so to take effect the earliest possible day consistent
with the constitutional prohibition against such law
before 1908. He next touched On the Missouri Com
the pretext for the refusal to admit State because her
Constitution recognised the institution of slavery.
Coming down to recent times he referred to the
war with Mexico when Tom Corwin expressed the hope
that the Nexicans would welcome our brave soldiers
with bloody hands to hospitabe graves Our Northern
brethren although denouncing the and showing nc
great alacry in hocking to the standard of their coun
try showed great readiness to grasp at the prizes Others
had won, and introduced proviso to exclude the ct
zens of the South from carrying their property into any
of the territories to be acquired from Mexico He re
erred to the excitement of 1850 and the Compromise
of that year, whereby the South ugged out of Cali
ornia, Texas deprived of forty thousand square
miles of slave territory and the slave trade abolished
in the District of Columbia, the whole compensation fol-
all this being the passage Of fugitive slave law to dc
what the Constitution already expressly provided shoulc
be done, but which has yet been done, aud which
has been only snare and cheat
In the compromise of 1850 Georgia reluctantly &C
quiesced" but she determined then that sutrance ha,
gone far enough-she took her stand stating distinct.
that any further aggressons would be resisted tt
the disruption of all the ties that bound the State to tn
Confederacy. Tfat was a solemn declaration mad
years ago. The contingency contemplated had occur
red and Georgia had dissolved all the ties that bounC
her to the Coufederacy. She had declared herself indie
pendent OF the North and she would maintain her dec
laratou at all hazards.
Mr. Hall referred to the elections of 1852 and 1856
and to the legislation of 1854 repeating the Missouri
Compromise which legislation had since been sustane
by the decision of the Supreme Court The repeal 0
that compromise made the handle for a great out
cry he part of those who had habtuay disregarde
it provisions and who when the South offered to extenC
it to the Pacific, had rejected the proposition will
scOrn.
Mr. Hall argued the doctrine of the right of secession
at some length and with great cogency of reasoning
tracing the history of this question from the first
ganization of the Colonies sovereign States through
the confederacy and the inception of the Union under
the existing Constitution, quoting Alexander Hamilton
himself to sustain his views in favor of the sovert ntJ
of the States, and their right to decide for themselves
any infraction of the Constitution well the mode
and measure of redress. He spoke of the effort made
by Edmund Rando phi, of Virginia, to make the State
soVeregnties subordinate to the Federal authority anC
the resistance such attempt paying in this connexor
a merited compliment to Hon. James IredeIl of Norti
Carolina, then on the bench of the Supreme Court @
the United States.
Mr. Hall drew picture of the prosperity that wout
flow from the formation of Southern Confederacy-
He hoped to see mills manufactures and FORCES through
out Virginia and North Carolina and elsewhere in tn
South. The Cotton States would furnish market TO
all the breadstus that the grain producing States cout
supply, and for Yankee cousins closing up GU
ports stopping commerce, the world at large
too much interested in that commerce to permit any
thing of that kind.-Daily Journal, 8th INST
The LEGIsLATURE.-THE REVENUE BLL.-We fine
in the Slate Journal of yesterday the report from TIT
Joint Select Committee on Finance, containing tn
changes and amendments proposed to be made to tn