The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1861-03-30
EVENING SESSION.

EVENING SESSION.
Meeting called to order by the President, at u
The following Resolution, offered by Kenneth
Thgpen, Esq, of Edgecombe, adopted:
Hesoleed, That list of gentlemen present from
each county, be furnished by the Clerk, and the
be received as delegates to this body.
In accordance with the above resolution, the
following were handed in:
Craven-Twenty-six; Duplin Forty three; Edge
combe and Wilson, Thirty; Halifax, Seven; Row
Me, klcnburg, Ten; Carteret, Ten: Johnston, Eight;
CASTOR, Five; Lincoln, Two; Greene Nine; Cum
bcrand, Three; Cabarrus Four; Orange, Two;
| Bruins wick, Two; Northamton, !; Onslow, Two;
Jones, One; Wayne not furnished to clerks, but
represented by hundreds. Granville Two.
The Secretaries confident that in the above
list many have been omitted owing to the irregu-
larty with which the reports were made. The names
of some counties may also have been omitted.
ESQ i sss q sasfs sFs
lie was followed by o p Meares, Esq, of Will
mngton, who responded to the cali in of his
happiest mooies.
MIR Schar rck, of Lincoln, was now called upon,
and addressed the meeting in eloquent and mas
terly effort.
The Convention then adjourned over till 10 o.
clock the next day.
SATURDAY, March 23
Meeting called to order at 10 o'clock, A NJ, Presi-
dent in the chair.
On motion, Mr. Sc,ank was added to the list of
Vice Presidents.
Mr. Craige, from the Committee appoirted to
prepare business for the meeting reported the fol-
lowing resolutions which were voted upon sepa-
rately and unanimously adopted amid dcafening APP
plauSe e..
Whereas, The general Assembly of the State of
North Carolina recently in session, passed by the
Constitutional majority, act authorizing the peo-
pie of the State, their discretion, to call Con-
vention for the consideration Of the relations of the
State of North CaIolina the Fc ieral Government
OF United StatpS. and the lli
States composing the Union or Confcdcracy known
as the United Stltes and whereas, the ciIiZ.ns of
North Carolina, ardently attached us they have bcen
anu still are to the institutions under which they
have been raised, and which have been transmitted
to them from their revolutionary ancestors, have, in
some cases been unwilling to recognize the fact
that these institutions, and the true principle upon
which they were founded have been totally subver-
ted, 1t such act were recognised have still hoped
that some plan of compromise or reconstruction
might yet be agreed upon; and whereas further,
events have sutii ielt!y and most conclusivrly
shown, that so far, ali efforts to obtain proper
and satisfactory guarantees for the protection Of
threatened rights of the Soathern States (and Nore
Carolina claim to be, i'll the fullest of the
word IL Southern, and not merely Il border Stltc)
have failed, and We believe will f4, b. it there
fore q. b..
Resolved That the interest as well as the honor
of North Car ,lina naturally and mperatively de-
nand that her political connections hereafter, should
be with hey sister States of the south, and with
the States of the North opposed to her they are
in social institutions, and in pecuniary interests,
and enemies they have shown themselves to be
in both relations
End. Resolved, That respectfully recommend
the formation of organization whose object it
shall be to dessimnate the facts and present ar
guments bearing upon this issue to the people of
every county in the State Of North arona, be-
lievlng that when the facts prior well subse-
quent to the day of election, 2Sth February 1856
fully understood. the citlzers of North Carolina
will reconsider their action and demand frotn their
servants, the Governor and General Assembly an
opportunity to SO express their wishes through the
ballot box. fsa Ls+f1
3rd. Resolved. That fr the purpose of dissent
mating these facts and presenting the argum ents
deduceable theretrom, suggest, 1st, that the
President of this meeting appoint State Executive
Committee Of two from each Congressional district
whose duty it shall be to adopt all honorable and
proper means IT carrying out the objects and de-
Tending the principles of the Southern Rights voters
of North Carolina.
4th Resolved That respectfully recommend
to the Southern Rights citizens of each county in
the State, form at the earliest practicable time,
county organizations whose proper executive affairs
shall correspond with the southern Rights State
Executive Committee s.t-ers-
9TH Resolved That the forts of the Federal
Government on the soil Of North Carolina were in
tended to defend aud protect and not menace OF
subuga.e her citz EMS, and that any additional force
placed in such forts not simply without the request
ag the wishes OF the people. and OF the
State, must DC regarded as il menace and as pre-
liminary step subj sation, which North Caro-
linIanS, must not only denounce, but Ill the las
resort resist at all haZ ,rd.
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fcilaT annOanccd the following gentlemen as cons
| ttuting the Executive Commit tee of the Southern