The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12
Proceedinge of the State Conntion.
SEVENTH DAY.

Prayer by Rev. Mir. Plattenbrn Roll called Minutes read and approv
 Mr. Johnson moved the unfnish busi ness be taken up.
 Mir. President notified the coention that the correspondence between th lover nor and the late commander of thUnited States Arsenal at this place vt in his hands.
 On motion of Mir. Gunter, it wal slerred to committee on State affairs.
 Mr. Murphy offered the followir rcso- ution:
 ResoIUed, That the officers of this ct ention receive the same per diem as the office did at the late General Assembly,; and that thesgeant at arms receive the same pay as door kea.
 Adopted.
 Mir. Robinson offered the followirreso lution:
 ResoIued, That it is the deliberate sensef this convention, that the African race, denonated slaves by all the constitutions of the southcsave- holding States, is property to all intents pur- poses, and ought of right to be so cOnsidd by all northern States, being expressly impliety the constitution of the United States; and dsal on the part of the people of the northern States and of right ought to be sufficient cause. if presd in by said northern people, to dissolve the ntical connection between said States.
 Mir. Hawkins of Ashley, offered thfol- lowing resolution:
 Resolued, That it is the sense of this convtion that it is the duty of the Governor of the Se of Arkansas to resist, by force of arms, any ampt on the part of the general government to leypen thn f.. afo to.I State for the purpose of coercing back intthe said federal Union, any one or all of the sesed States, for the purpose of holding or retakingke- nas or forts in any of said States, for the pulse of enforcing the collection of duties and imtts therefrom.
 Mir. Garland moved to refer the re- lution, with that of the gentleman frn Ashley to the committee on federal re- tions.
 Mir. Thomson presented the followii resolutions:
 We, the people of the State of Arkansas, Convention assembled, in view of the unfortuna and distracted condition Of our once happy an prosperous country, and Of the alarming dlssentoi existing between the northern and southern set tons thereof; and desiring that fair and equtabl adjustment of the same may be made; do hereb declare the following 10 De Just causes oi coHipldi on the part of the people of the Southern State against their brethren of the northern, or non slaveholding States.
 l. The people of the Northern States hay organized political party, purely sectional in ii character; the central and controlling idea of whic is hostility to the institution of African slavery, it exists in the Southern States and that party ha elected President and Vice President of the Uni ted States, pledged to administer the governmen upon principles inconsistent with the rights, an subyersive of the interests of the people of thu Southern States.
 g. They have denied to the people of the South erp States the right to equal participation in tn benefits of the common territories of the Union b refusing them the same protection to their slav property therein that is afforded to other property and by declaring that no more slave states shall b admitted into the Union.
 3. They have declared that Congress possesses under the Constitution, and ought to exercise, th power to abolish slavery in the territories, in th District of Columbia, and in the forts, arsenals an dock yards of the United States, within the limit of the slaveholding States.