Press enter after choosing selection

Southern Slaveholding Convention

Southern Slaveholding Convention image
Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Some one has sent ns a number of tin "Young Hickory," a Democratie paper ol Washingtea city, containing the proceed'mgt of a meeting of the chizens of Russell county Alabama, June 8, 1844. It appesrs thal they took into consideration the state of the Union, and resolved that it was expedienl thal o convention of the Southern States shouk assemble in Richmond, Va. on the thirc Monday in October, "there calmly and dispassionatèly to delibérate, whether, under the compact of union, the Congrcss of the United States have a r ght to viólate the spirit of the corapromise between the slaveholdiiig and non-slaveholding States, without which the Constitution would never have been adopted, by tolerating the discii6sion of the subject of elavery in any form in its deliberations; and whether a body, designed to promote the intereets of all the Statep, can be made the theatre for endangering the socurity of any of thetn, and the arena where they may be made the objects of insult and reproach." Thus the object of this great Convention rato. prevent people f rom talking about elavery! Poor, sensitive creaturea! AIso, this Convention is to consider wbether it would not be advisnble to recommend the calling of a National Convenlion, apreeably to the Constitution, to secure euch an umendment to t, ns will Hnhihit the agitation of the slavc question in any form tviiatbtbk n the Congress oj Ihe United States." fVe go in for that Convemion. We ehould Jike to have tucli a provisión discUK?cd. The next resolution reoommends that an election of one delégate from each Congresiunal diíiirict in the Slave States be regulrly held on tlte lat Mondny in September by the judges of election, ítc. A committee of five wasappointed tocarry into enèct the proceedings, nnd enibice iheni by an ddreös through the pnpern. Thenddre is well written. A single sentence will show that the slnveholdrs appreoiate tlieir dunger, and are far from despie'ng the cffurts Of abolitionjsts: "We stand on a narrow isthmnp. On itK shored the surf of a vnst public opinión, both iti Grent Britain and in our own country, in breaking with au hourly axgiiieating force. - lf not united, where are we to find our strengt h? ' If uniied, we stund itiviccibly ee cüre!" The Charleston Mercury, Mr. Calhoun's orgn, approves the Convent ion, bui disugrees to the time, on account of its necessary conueclion with the Presidential excitement. But tliere is no dnnger of the holding of a. Convention of the Slaveholding Stites. - Such a meeting and its consequent disenssionu, would do more toexhibit to the whole ivorld the weakne?s, imbeciiity and rottenness of their systern, thn any plan which the abolitionistB hve been able to devise.

Article

Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News