Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-26
Meeting in Yell.

Pnsuant to previous notice, large number of the citizens of fell county assembled in mass meeting at Dmvlle, on the 2d day of January, A. D. 1851, when the following proceedings were had:
 On motion of II. f. Barry, esq, G. W. T. Par ker Was elected President, and John Hanev and William Hunt Vice Presidents; and on his further motion, Messrs. Spivey, Lawrence and Bowles were requested to act as secretaries.
 At the request of the chairman, MT. Barry ex- planed the object of the meeting. The me etng being Ornanizcd, on motion o J. l.. HolloweH, the following named persons, to wit: ]. l.. Holowell Dr. Stafford, D. Huckaby, J. B. Howell, J. s Lawrence, James FdT II. r. Barry were ap- pointed by the President as a committee to prepare and report resolutions expressive ot the sense of the meeting. The committee having retired Mr. Lawrence entertained the audience with brief speech, assuming that Arkansas owed it to herself and to the South, to do her part in the present mumentous crisis
 The committee, after an absence of about half an hour, reported through their chairman the fol- lowing preamble and resolusions-the preamble having been adopted, the resolutions were again severally real, and except the sixth resolution, werc on motion ot Dr. F. $. Caifrey, unanimously adopted. The fifth resolution adopted with one dissenting voice. Pending the adoption ot the resolutions, the meeting Was addressed by J. l.. Hoowel and II. F. Barry.
 WHEREAS, By the success of the black reputli- can party in the late presidential election, il mani-
 
 liberty-the constitutiOn--s not only threatened, but openly and boldly ed in thelr pronuncia- mcnto, the Chicago platform; And phereds, That great charter, ns it is construed and eXpounued by the supreme court of the United States is, and of right should be, the paramount law of the land, and to whieh great and patriotic people-a great nation of freemen should bow and yield ready submission; And ,ohereaS, fealty to the constitu tion and loyalty to the Union have ever been the proud and patriotic boast of the southern citizen: And lcherodS, By the uncompromisng hostility of the black republican party to the honor the insti tutions and rights of the South, by direct appeals to the basest passions of the masses of the North as has long been anticipated by the southern mind, have finally succeeded in planting their tratorous flag borne by traitorous hands, mpelled by trait or0us pride, encouraged by traitorous hearts, and urged by trait0rous appeals upon the dome of the temple of liberty; ad ,ohereaS, By that achieve ment they declare that they have the verdict Of the people inscribed upon their scarlet chart; that a new feature and new era shall be inaugurated in the administration of the government; that the supreme court, a co ordinate department of the royernment shall yield listening anu an obedient ear to its behests; and under the rule of that or nanlzation of usurpels the southern citizen shall be reduced to degmdation-his boast and pride of American citizenship shall be humbed and humil iated--the protection awarded even to the dCnizens of the government abroad, shall be denied him even at home, under the shade and within the shadow of his country's tiag; And lohereaS, It is openly proclaimed that the Declaration of Inde pendence has declared great principle which nei- ther philosophy nor logic can conceal or blot out; that the negro is the equal of the white man; that he is susceptible of the same high order of cyiz- aton; that he shall, under the administration of black republican rule, either sooner or later, enjoy equal rights with the white man, the most sacred of which is the exercise of the elective franchise; And schereas, II is now, and for years has been, unsafe for southern citizen to travel in part and in portions of all the northern states with a slave, except at the risk of insult and violence by northern mobs; And iuhsreas, By solemn state legislation, with one or two honorable exceptions, the northern states have openly and expressly vio- Hated the constitutional compact by nulfying the supreme laws of the iand; And lohreas, They unhesitatiugly pronounce their mission to be, not only to elevate the negro, but also to degrade the white man to his level by making the negro citi- zen; And Dkereas, Our existence a southern people has been, and still is, threatened by Ihtm with destruction, the conhagra'ion of our quiet