The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-24
The mississippi Stare Convention.
lspee- -alC rrespondence Mobile Adver'isNri
J,crsox. Aug. l9AlS65.

p1Is me to confess -eat our conattiof r. It
subj CT people. never has been SO VlVlnty
brought home to me before, as by Ing ae-
bates of TO dag.
have said in previous letters that ne
Convention was fruitful OF slbStifutes io'
the pure and simple dec.ara9ou 81 fne
committee. that slavery hereafter soG
/ not exist in this state. Tins nor 81 NJ
/ Mr.. Hudson, OF Tazoo. submitted ms
! proposttion. which was the same - th@L
i OF the committee. substantially Il not IN
words, with an important proviso thpt thi'
| provision in regard 10 slavery and T.'ed
I men should be suspended til Congtess
/ shou'd d admit the senstors ant r.rreseh-
! laiives to seats In that body. Nh Hudson
/ proceeded to support his amendment y
! a sensible speech. lie regarded $40 cry
/ a. not wholly abolished even by tie sFofd
| lie conceded that it was parEai aoo.-
/ i-aed 50 far as concerned the negroes
/ captured and used in the ar'Ay q the
/ United States, and reduced 70 pos es-3oa.
! Further Than that. he did not peiieYt
/ slavery had been abolished by a.y Legal
or constitutional authority, But .hougI
| these were his opinions, he was wiling 10
/ make concessions and sacrifices 10 secure
| the return of the State - her 1orner po-
! sitioa IN the Union and the admisnon o.
| her representatives to seats IN Congress
! He was wiling to concede the abolition oi
! slavery upon the cond9on. pr%f.denE
whIch-he had named. He desired TO se-'
! the reign ot the ciyIi government aSdip
/ restored The North had expressed ihei"
/ desire for the Same thlDg. ihey desired
10 SEE us inarhe Union again. They haa
| declared that the only obstacle 10 / ne ad
4 mission of the State to her former position
4 = Sa,<, ,J,, ri oil EAr
! The Union, Was the abolition OF slavery.
! His proposition would test the sincerity
Of this declaration. lie. proposed 10
! abolish slavery, 10 take e4fecC on the ad-
| mission of our representatives, to seats n
/ the Senate and House. If the represen
tatiyes were rejected under such a proviso,
| tie esponsiblutY would be on tasm, not
on US. .a.
Gen. Martin followed in the debate
| He had given the subject some consider
alton. and the result of his ref. ctlons
was, thatth, proviso might very well be
engrafted on the proviso aboll> hing
slavery lie was not sansuine in regard
| to the pros poets of the State, from the
simple adoption of q declaration abolish
ing slavery. He had looked around him
at those States which had adopted ne
ordinance Of Sc cession, and with a view
of seeing whetiIerithe rights OF the feo
pie there had been respected. He look
at Maryland and Tennessee, and he was
sorry to say that he saw little that inspired
him with hope that the adoption OF an
amendment, making Mississippi free
State, their former rights and privileges
would be estored He adverted tozthe
proposed amendment OF the Constitution
passed by Congress, under the second
Of oh Il hn n Inc MT IL
adopted and becomes part of lhe Con
stitution) Congress will have unlimited
power over the whole negro question:
He was unwilling to trust such questions
to men ignorant OF the relations oil master
and slave educated in schools where they
were taught that the white population Of
the South were 4 degraded race compa' ed
with ,hat Of tka North; TO men who
know nothing about the negro. The
time might come, and it might be at the
next meeting of Congress, when legisla-
/ ton relative to the negroes here. may be
introduced toto Congress, when that body
may undertake to enfranchise the freed
men of the State. IL wished Southern
representatives to be present when such
measures should be proposed. lie was
therefore iEclined to vote for the provso
not as threat, but as the expression oil
a wish that our representatives may be
there when you undertake. to Iegislate
relative TO freedmen and cloihe them
with extraordinary rights TO which tLey
have been unaccu-tomed. If such q
pr0viso were introdaced into the Consti
tutions of all the revolted States. and
their representatives were in q body, TO
, present themselves for admission to seats
in Congress, he believed the moral otfect
, of 1t would be so great, that it could moi
fail TO be successful.
At this state Of the proceedings the
gravity OF the body, to say nothing of Its
digpily was disturbed by the representa-
, tive from the State of Jones'" Dr. Craw
ford, who obtained the floor and procee
, ded to deliver himself Of a speech / i
proper to say that DR.. G.. was in the Con
federate army, from which, understand
, it is his boast that he deserted And j
will enable you readily TO form som,
! | opinion Of the liiustrious free State e
: Jones when you learn that, according Il
her worthy representative, it would b.
! very unsafe just about now Tor any mar
t to 90 there and say anything AGAINST de
; serters. Well, the worthy Doctor mad,
a speech, in which he said somethir.
/! about the glorious Ualon, his exremei
sensitive conscience. for that thing con
f science, was delicate thing" and tha
f the best interest of Jones required hin
TO so for the report OF the committee il
opposition 10 al the substitutes / wa
y not IN a position an the hall TO catch NOR
than few broken senteo ces from thr
? LION. Delegate. 1t seems from what h,
-sad that the worthy Doctor considered
himself as q man Of some mark since h
] has come here, having been poioted ou
; on the street, with the words there goe
the man with the moss on his back"
? With this diefession | r-sume. Mr.
: Johnson, of Kinds, then obtained tn
floor, and spoke at some length in oppo.
e stion to all substitutes for he report O
the committee. He had no great conf
/ dence IN his own political opinions I'm