Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-24
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PUBLIC MEETING IN DAVIDSON COUNTY.
According 20 previous notice large and enthu-
sastic meeting of the citizens of Davidson County,
irrespective OF party, held at the Court House
in Lexington on the 9Th day of January, 1861, for
the purpose of taking INTO consideration the dis
turbed state of our national affairs.
On motion of j. c. Hedgecock, Esq, DR.. W. D.
Lindsay called to the Chair, and Alfred Har-
grave and G. F. Lowe appointed Secretaries.
b. A. Kittrell, Esq, explained the object of the
meeting in few appropriate remarks.
On motion, committee Of nine appointed to
report resolutions for the consideration of the meet
ing. The motion having been concurred in the
Chairman appointed the following gentlemen as the
committee, viz: B. c. Douthit, Dr. W. R. Holt,
Henderson Adams, Solomon A. Mock, DR.. R. L.
Bea, Gen. Geo W. Smith, Rev. " ills L. Miller
d. w. c. Johnson and E. d. Hampton.
Resolutions from DR.. W. r Holt D. W. c.
johnson, c. W. Smyth, Alfred Hargrave and b. A.
kittrcll, were severally read, and, on motion, re-
ferred to the foregoing committee.
DIR. c. L. Payne made some appropriate remarks.
Daring the absence OF the committee, j. W.
Thomas ESQ.,, obeyed the call made upon him, and
addressed the assemblagc in lengthy and able
speech.
The Committee on resolutions after retiring for
about one and half hours, returned and reported the
following viz:
WHEREAS, An alarming crisis exists in our
national affairs, we, the people of Davidson County,
solcmnly feeling our responsibility to each other,
to children to State the nation and the world:
Resolved, !. That the Union of these States, the
product of the valor, the wisdom, the prudent and
harmonzing spirit of our fathers, has been produc-
tive of incalcuable blessings to as people, and
demands our highest efforts to preserve and hand
it down to posterty
2. That the interests of each and every section
nscparably connected with those of all the rest
and what is in any way injurious to the will be
disastrous to the other.
8. No section or State ought to separate itself
from the confederacy and thus expose the whole to
the hazards of civil war and social and commercial
ruin, without first using every honorable means to
obtain a redress of grievances; first, through
the constitutional methods already provided; sec
ondly, if those prove insufficient by effort to OBJ
tain additional constitutional guarantees and then
secession and revolution should only be the last
resort
4. That & period has arrived in our history, as
nation, when the security of our institutions and
the peace and prosperity Of the whole people require
additional constitutional provisions, which shall set
tie the question at ISSUE forever.
o. That we consider as just and necessary, and
therefore, kindly, moderately, yet firmly demand
constitutional guarantees for the following points,
to wit repeal OF all State laws wherever found,
which are contrary to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States; additional guarantees for the execution
of the Fugitive Slave Law, providing either for the
owner, his full value at the place of escape wher
his return shall be Illegally resisted; security to
slave property in the District of Columbia, and the
public Dockyards, &c, of the United States as
long as slavery shall exist in the States where
said District properly is located security to
slave property in the common territories as long MS
they shall remain in territorial condition No ter
rtory to be received as State until it shall have
established population at which time it shall be
Immediately received as State, whenever applying
6. That these resolutions be forwarded to our
Legislature with the request that our representa-
tives IN the National Congress be instructed and re-
questcd to secure by every means in their power,
such guarantees, and that all the slave States be in
vited to unite for that object
z. That our interests are inseparably connected
with those of the Border States, North and South,
and that our Legislature is requested to send dele
gates to Convention of the Border States at Bal
timore, on the 18th February, or whatever other
point may be agreed upon to consult with them as
to the proper course to be pursued, and we recon-
mend that the Hon. Thos. Ruffn, VIM A. Graham
Thos. Bragg and George E. Badger, be appointed
delegates.