Wilmington journal., 1873-08-08
THE NEW STATE OF JACKSON.

THE NEW STATE OF JACKSON
The New York Times looks will
great dislike and disgust upon the
formation Of new States in the South
After publishing the JOURNAL edito-
rial of last week upon the subject it
says:
The second project for restoring the
departed glory of the first families of
Southern politicians is to carve out
new States i'll such way that the
''niggers' shall be left by themselves
in the old States, while the new ones
shall be inhabited in the main by men
of unadulterated Southern blood. A
sample of these proposed States was
described in oIlr paper of yesterday.
1t will not work. No new States can
be made out of the carts of old States
without the "consent of the Legisla-
| ture of the States concerned, as well
as of the Congress-" In this case the
consent of Mississippi could not be
obtained, nor could the consent Of
policy openly avowed to have the
single purpose of erecting Democratic
States. Even the Southern schemers
open prostitution of the powers of
Congress and the Legislature % par
tisan ends-especially to the ends of
rival partisans--wOuld be out Of the
question. The fact is that blacks and
whites must live together in the South,
and the sooner that fact is recognized
as an unchangeable one, the better for
all concerned. It is consOling to be-
lieve that the plans for avoiding this
inevitable fact are gradually becoming
more and more fanciful, and must, |
even i'll the South, command less and |
less attention.
1t seems . to give the Times much |
pleasure to dwell upon the thought !
that "blacks and whites must live to-
gether i'll the South; not because the |
Times loves the blacks, but because to |
the very bottom of its heart the IInacs
and q large proportion of the northern
peor hate with an 1lnlying hate the
people of the South. Nothing would
please that class of our northern
brethren better than to see the white
people of the South put themselves
upon Il level with the negroes. But that
is degradation they Will never wit
ness.
The Memphis 1lpcol is strongly IN
favor Of the project and says the gen
eral expression of feeling, as far as
West Tennessee is concerned, favors
the new movement, which, if success
fu', will have to be acted upon hy the
of each State interested,
of the United States-where its politi-
ral expediency will lie fully discussed,
Of course, as party measure.
The latest intelligence in regard to
the matter is to be found i'll the follow
ing report of the proceedings of con-
vention held on Wednesday last,
which we take from the New York
IIOrfd. In the chairman will be rec
ognized an honored SCH of North Car
Dina
THE MOVEMENT FOR THE FORMATION OF
NEW STATE.
JACKSON, Tenn, JnIy 3O.-The Con-
ventiOn re-asscmbled at nine O'cloch
this morning.
Kenneth Rayncr, of Mississippi. in
the chair.
Announcement was made of COM
mittee of five from each State, whose
duty it should be To present the qucs-
ton in its most favorable bearings in
their respective sections.
The committee on the question of
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proposed new State think it best at
present not to designate any special
boundary, but TO leave that subject to
the development of public opinion in
the counties of Northern Mississippi.
that those interested may decide that
question for themselves, and thus by
the feeling manifested give the bcstin-
dcation as to where the southern bound
AIRY should fall. They further sug-
Gested 20 invite the people in the sec
tions Immediately interested in the
project iii Tennessee, Mississippi, and
kentucky, to hold public meetings in
their respective counties, giving lib
eral interchange OF opinion and CO.
operation, and to confer with the execu-
tive committees for their respective
States. appointed by this Convention.
Major $. B. Hurt, of Tennessee.
moved that it be taken rs the sense of
the Convention that each fraction of
tile States proposed to form the new
State is expected to pay it's pro rata OF
the debt OF the State from which the
fraction is taken, which was adopted
After resolutions Of thanks to the
citizens of Jackson and others, the
Convention adjourned sine die, to re-
assemble ut such time and place as
the Executive Committee may desig-
nate.
The utmost harmony prevailed in
the Convention. Thirteen counties OF
West Tennessee and ten of Northern
Mississippi were represented. The
Kentucky representation was light,
owing to Il misunderstanding as to the