(Transcribed from The Weekly Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama July 31, 1850)
CALL FOR A SOUTHERN MEETING – A VOICE FROM AUTAUGA
At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Vernon and
vicinity, held on Friday, July 19th, 1850, on motion of
Dr. Joseph P. De Jarnette, Col. Joseph B. Wilkinson was called to the
Chair, and A. W. McNeel appointed Secretary. The Chairman then arose
and explained the object of the meeting to be as follows:
The object of the meeting was to recommend to the County the
propriety of holding a County meeting to express its views in regard
to all-important subject of slavery, which is now agitating our whole
Union.
Whereupon the following resolution was offered by Leonidas Howard,
Esq. which was unanimously adopted viz:
Resolved, That a committee of thirteen be appointed by the Chair, to
report at this meeting the appropriate time for a County meeting.
Whereupon, the following persons were appointed on said committee,
viz: Rev. D. B. Smedley, Jas, Mitchell, L. M. Whetstone, E. G. Casin,
R. P. Houser, Wm. Stringfellow, Dr. B. B. Davis, Leonidas Howard, Dr.
Joseph P. De Jarnette, Dr. John W. Golsan, Milton Howard, Wm. P. De
Jarnette and Joseph Goodrich.
The committee, after a brief absence, reported through their
Chairman, Rev. D. B. Smedley, as follows:
Resolved, That we do hereby recommend Kingston, and the third Monday
in August next (the 19th day of the month) as the most
appropriate time and place to hold said meeting.
Which was adopted. On motion, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting to be published in the
Montgomery and Wetumpka papers.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
JOSEPH B. WILKINSON, Ch’n
A. W. McNEEL, Secretary
Location of Autauga County, Alabama
COMMITTEE
MEETING
MONTGOMERY,
JULY 24TH 1850
At a meeting this day of the committee of thirteen, appointed at the
public meeting on the 22d inst., together with the city authorities,
his honor the Mayor was called to the Chair, and Wm. B. Fariss
requested to act as Secretary. On motion of Joseph D. Hopper, the
Hon. James E. Belser was unanimously selected to deliver an eulogium
on the life and character of the late President, Gen. Zachary Taylor.
On motion of Gen. Elmore, it was
Resolved, That a committee of five, consisting of Joseph D. Hopper,
Lewis Owen, Wm. B. Fariss, R. C. Shorter, Jr., and Adam C. Felder, be
appointed to notify the Hon. James E. Belser of his appointment, and
to make all necessary arrangements in relation thereto.
On motion of Col. Garrett, the meeting then adjourned.
R. T. DAVIS, Chairman
Wm. B. Fariss, Secretary
Autauga County, Alabama sunset
SOUTHERN
BARBECUE
The following gentlemen have been appointed a Committee of
Arrangements to attend the preparation of the barbecue to be given at
this place on the second Saturday of next month, August 16th
JUDGE A. MARTIN,
THOMAS LEONARD,
JEFFERSON NOBLE,
CAPT. JOHN CHENEY,
THOS. L. BROTHERS,
BENJ. F. ASHLEY
The Committee will meet at the office of the Advertiser and Gazette
on Saturday next. A punctual attendance of each member is desired.
THE
BARBECUE
Provision will be made for ten thousand people at the great Southern
Rally to take place on the 10th of next month. The people
of Alabama generally, without distinction of party, are invited to
attend by the committee; Georgia ditto.
It is expected that the Hon. W. T. Colquitt, of Georgia, will be
present and address the people.
From our own State, we expect Govs. Fitzpatrick and Bagby, and other
distinguished citizens, to be present.
We would suggest to the ladies the appointment of a committee, on
their part, to act with that of the gentleman, in making arrangements
for a table to be fixed up for their sex exclusively on that
occasion. Let every body take an interest in the matter and not
permit the whole brunt of the affair to be borne by a few.
All papers friendly to the cause of Southern rights will please call attention to this barbecue and mass meeting.
Abbeville, Henry County Location
FROM
THE ABBEVILLE BANNER EXTRA
Southern
Meeting in Henry County
On the 25th inst, the great Southern meeting was held in Henry county ratifying the late Nashville Convention, and when I say great, I do not misapply the term; as an evidence, at the early hour of ten a.m., three thousand souls assembled around the altar of Southern rights, which they worshipped with the most apparent devotion. Never was there witnessed such a concourse of universal opinion in the county of Henry. They stood in silence, breathing forth a love of our Constitutional rights, convincing every observer that they were no longer going to yield to Northern aggression, but individually and collectively adhere to the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Henry county was held at Abbeville
on the 25th of July, 1850, in accordance with the
arrangement of a previous meeting held on the 1st inst.,
to take into consideration the action of the Nashville Convention,
and to ascertain completely the sentiments of the people of Henry as
to the great crisis which threatens the loss of her dearest
Constitutional rights and most sared honor.
A large concourse of citizens assembled, numbering, as estimated by
many, three thousand persons. Many persons from the surrounding
counties and from Georgia attended, thereby evincing the great
interest felt elsewhere in the great struggle for Constitutional
rights.
The assemblage was called to order and Geo. W. Williams, Esq. and
gen. A. J. McAllister were selected to preside over the deliberations
of the meeting. Messrs. James Pynes, W. H. Wood, Joseph Lawrence and
Maj. H. E. Chitty, were designated as Vice Presidents, and Daniel
McCrimmon and James A. Clendinen, Esqrs., appointed Secretaries.
On motion a committee of twenty-one gentlemen, to-wit:
John W. Harper, Chairman, A. McAllister, J. A. Clendinen, Sidney A.
Smith, E. W. Teague, Joseph Watson, Robert Kennedy, John A. Wood, W.
T. Kirkland, T. Y. Smith, J. Bennett, S. B. Watson, T. Battle, J. B.
Appling, J. Murphy, L. Bird, J. Wood, W. Stewart, C. Oats, T.
Chambers and J. Wilcoxon, were appointed to draft and report
resolutions for adoption.
At the meeting of the committee two of the above named gentlemen, to
wit: Sidney A. Smith and Maj. John B. Appling were released by
request, from acting on said committee, and there being two others
absent, the residue of the committee unanimously reported through the
Chairman, J. W. Harper, Esq., the following preamble and resolutions:
We, the people of Henry county, in Convention assembled, pursuant to
public notice, in view of the perilous condition of the country, and
the threatened destruction of the equality of the Southern States in
our Federal Union, do hereby publish and declare
That we approve, endorse, and ratify the resolutions and address
adopted by the Southern Convention, recently assembled at the city
of Nashville.
That the bill now pending before the Senate of the United States,
known as the “Clay Compromise Bill” and recommended as an
adjustment of the great question now dividing the Northern and
Southern sections of the Union, is wholly unworthy the name of a
Compromise bill and ought to receive the unanimous opposition of the
entire people of the Southern States.
That the people of the Southern States are entitled, with the people
of all the other States, to an equal participation in the
territories of California and New Mexico, acquired by the common
blood and treasure of the whole country, and that to acquiesce in
such legislation by the Congress of the United States, as would
deprive us of such equality, would be to submit to the dictation of
a fanatical and dominant majority unworthy of our common ancestry,
and disgraceful to us and to our posterity.
That our love and veneration for that Union which was ordained and
established by the patriots of the revolution, and to preserve, and
perpetuate it to our children as a glorious inheritance of freemen,
and forasmuch as the South has acquiesced for a long series of years
in such division, we will consent to a division of the common
territory by an extension of the Missouri Compromise line at 36
degrees 30 minutes North latitude to the Pacific Ocean, with a clear
recognition of the right of the Southern people to migrate with and
enjoy their property of every description South of that line, and
that our Constitutional right of equality in the public domain, or a
division of the same as here indicated, we never should, we never
can, we never will surrender.
That attempts now being made in New Mexico to rob our sister State
of Texas of her soil and jurisdiction east of the Rio Grande area
insurrectionary and rebellious on the part of the people of that
country, and if sustained by the authority of the Federal Government
should meet the firm resistance not only of Texas, but of all the
Southern States, which have, with Texas, a common interest and a
common destiny.
That our Senators in Congress be requested and our representatives
instructed to advocate the ultimatum laid down in the above
resolutions.
That we cordially respond to the call made by our fellow citizens of
Eufaula for a District Convention to assemble at Clayton on the
first Monday in September, to fill up our delegation to the Southern
Convention which will re-assemble at Nashville, and that Maj. H. D.
Chitty, H. E. Owens, J. Bennett, S. A. Smith, J. Murphy, C. Oats, A.
C. Gordon, J. B. Appling, Jno. W. Harper, J. A. Clendinen, J. Pynes,
and Wm. H. Wood, be appointed as delegates to represent the County
of Henry in said District Convention.
Eloquent, patriotic and “soul stirring” speeches were
delivered by George W. Williams, Esq., of Henry, Col. J. J. Seibels,
of Montgomery, Cols. P. T. Sayre, J. G. Shorter and James L.Pugh,
Esq. of Eufaula.
On motion of Col. A. McAllister, it was ordered that a copy of the
proceedings of this meeting be sent to the several papers of the
District, with a request to publish.
A large and well arranged Barbecue was prepared for the occasion and
all passed off in the most felictous manner.
A motion to adjourn was made and acceded to, and the large
assemblage, the largest ever before assembled in Henry county,
dispersed peaceably and quietly.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, ALLEN J. McALLISTER } Pres’ts.
Daniel McCrimmon, James A. Clendinen} Sec’s
Butler County, Alabama location
FROM
THE SOUTH ALABAMIAN
RATIFICATION
MEETING
In accordance with a notice given in our last week’s paper, a large and intelligent portion of the citizens of Butler county assembled in Greenville, at the Court House, on Saturday, the 20th inst., to ratify the action of the Nashville Convention.
Col. O. Gregory moved that the Hon. J. F. Johnson and Dr. Herbert be
requested to act as Chairmen for her meeting; S. J. Bolling and T. J.
Burnett were appointed Secretaries.
The Chair having slated the object of the meeting, Gen. H. L.
Henderson moved that a committee of six, three of each political
party, be appointed to draft resolutions. and report to this meeting:
whereupon the Chair appointed the following named gentlemen the
committee: J. K. Henry, Esq., Gen. H. L. Henderson, Col. O. Gregory,
Col. W. H. Crenshaw, Joseph Dunklin, Esq., and Dr. G. M. Ormond.
The committee retired, and were absent a considerable time, during
which time the meeting was highly entertained by warm and
enthusiastic speeches from Thos. E. Herbert, J. M. Dennis, Esq., H.
B. Taylor, Gen. B. W. Henderson and J. C. Caldwell, Esq., denouncing
the present Compromise Bill, and sustaining, with perfect unanimity
the action of the late Nashville Convention. The committee were then
in waiting, and reported for the consideration of the meeting the
following resolutions, through their Chairman, J. K. Henry, Esq., who
supported the resolutions in an able and truly beautiful speech. He
stated that he was happy to inform the meeting, notwithstanding the
committee were absent for a considerable length of time, that there
was great unanimity:
Resolved, That the questions now agitating the country on the subject
of slavery rise in magnitude far above party or party ties, and that,
as Southern men, we desire them to be forgotten, while we give our
undivided attention to the all important issue presented to us.
Resolved, That we are devotedly attached to the Union, while it is
permitted to exist upon the terms guaranteed by the Constitution but
not when it becomes destructive of the ends of its formation.
Resolved, That on the slavery question, the South has never asked
more, often less, than justice, and justice to all can alone
perpetuate the Union.
Resolved. That the past and threatened acts of the Anti-Slavery
agitations, under whatever name they have assumed, are all on that
subject in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and of
the rights of the South.
Resolved, Therefore, that we cordially approve of the resolutions and
address of the Nashville Convention.
Resolved, That we utterly opposed to the bill reported by the
Committee of Thirteen, now pending before Congress, or any bill of
like character, unless so amended as to accord with the spirit of the
resolutions of the Nashville Convention; and while we never can
approve of the Missouri line as a principle, still we would not
oppose it with a recognition of slavery South of 36 30, as a peace
offering on the altar of Union.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the admission of California into the
Union as a State, with her present constitution and unnatural
boundaries, as being unprecedented in the legislation of our country,
unconstitutional in itself, and monstrous in its injustice to the
South.
Resolved, That the Constitution of Texas fixes her true boundary,
which has been recognized by the United States, and secured to her by
the late treaty with Mexico; and that any interference with her
rightful jurisdiction within said limits by the Federal Government,
is a despotic usurpation of power, and a disregard of the rights of a
sovereign State which ought to be resisted by every lover of his
country.
Resolved, That we recommend our members in Congress to remain firmly
at their posts, and resist every appropriation of supplies to carry
on the Government, until the Southern States are secured in their
just rights essential to their existence as equal in the confederacy,
believing that of two evils the less should be chosen by them.
Resolved, That if Congress adjourns without granting the rights of
the South, upon which she is insisting, we recommend the South to
suspend all commercial communication with the North until she is
willing to treat us as equals.
Resolved, That whenever it is shown that we ask more than justice for
the South, we are willing to be branded as ultras and
factionists, but until that we hurl back the epithets with
contempt upon such craven hearts as dare not openly and tearlessly
maintain their just and acknowledged rights.
The resolutions were taken up separately, and unanimously adopted:
not one dissenting voice was to be heard to any resolution.
On motion it was resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be
published in the South Alabamian, and that all the papers of this
Congressional District, together with the Montgomery papers, be
requested to publish the same in extenso.
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