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SOUTHERN TBIBUSE.
EDITED AND H'BI.ISHKU WEULV, BY
W 31. B . HARBISO X .
From the Tallahassee Floridian 6,- Journal.
Southern Convention.
Meeting of Ciliitni of Gadsden County.
At a meeting of a number ofthe citizens
of Gadsden county, held at the Court-room
in the town of Quincy, on Saturday the
23d day of February, 1850, on motion of
A. K. Allison, Arthur J. Forman was
called to the Chair, and Thomas Monroe
appointed Secretary. After a few intro
ductory remarks front the Chair, explana
tory of the objects of tiie meeting, on mo
tion of C. H. DuPont, a committee of
eight was ordered to be appointed to draft
and report .Resolutions for immediate con
sideration.
The following gentlemen composed the
committee, viz :
C. H. DuPont, S. 11. Stephens, R. K.
Shaw, William Munroe, A. K. Allison,
W. T. Sockton, P. W. White, J. H. Ycr
dier.
The committee having retired, return
ed after a short absence and reported the 1
following preamble and resolutions, which
were ably advocated, in a speech of some
length by the chairman, C. H. DuPont :
The Coinmitteo who were charged with
the duty of piepaiing for the consideration
of this meeting an embodiment of its sen
timents beg leave respectfully to submit
as ttie result of their consultation and de
liberation the following report:
Your Committee are sensible ofthe so
lemnity of the occasion which has induced
the people of this county, to leave their
o dinary business avocations, and to con
vene in iliier primary capacity—They
are convinced that nothing short of the
high obligations of patriotism, could have
produced this result ; and while they in
dulge a pardonable pride in this indication
of the confidence of their appointment to
their present position, they feel that the
respousibi ity imposed upon them is of
the most delicate and weighty character.
A question of momentous import is sub
mitted for their deliberation, upon the so
lution of which by the American people,
may depend per chance the integrity of
these confederated States ! —Alive as are
your Commit'ee to the importance ofthe
subject, they have, with an anxiety promp
ted by the highest aspirations tor their
country’s welfare, endeavored calmly and
deliberately to review the causes which
have induced the present antagonist posi
tion ofthe two great sections of our coun
try. It is in vain any longer toendeavour
to conceal or hide from ourselves the fact,
that the patriotic admonition ofthe Father
of his Country, ‘‘to beware of sectional or
geographical parties" has long since ceas
ed to exercise any saving influence over
the great body ot the Non-slaveholding
States, who under the aggressive prompt
**’o* -.e - r - r t.;t..^.i— rj ., , oc Ki,.
traced upon the once unblotted map of
our common country, a geographical line’
so broad and distinct that “he who runs ;
may read.”—lt is a political fact which j
must stand out prominently upon the pa-!
ges ofour history, that at this point of time, !
“Mason’s and Dixon’s line,” which under
the healthful influence of an enlarged
patriotism, had long since vanished into an
ideal fancy, is again restored to form and
substance; and its portent is any thing
but grateful to the patriotic bosom !
Tits responsibility for producing this
antagonistic position rests not upon the
South—she can ap[)eal with confidence to
the history of the past; her vindication
being written upon the political records of
onr country ! The principles which have
influenced her actions have been those of
“Justice and Equality,”—she has sedul
ously refrained from interfering with the
local institutions of her Sister-States of
the North ; and she had a right to expect,
in view of a common ancestry, that the
same measure offoibearance would have
been meted out to her.
With a generous devotion to country,
her people have chosen even to submit to
aggression rather than do violence to the
bonds ofour common Union—A Union
cemented by the blood of our Revolution
ary Fathers endeared by a thousand re
collections to tho bosom of every patriotic
Son ! Whenshehas demanded “Justice.”
she has received only aggression—when
“Equality,” she is met only with insults I
Uuder these accumulated wrongs the
South has hitherto submilted and desired
to adhere to the Union as the first and
highest of political blessings, fondly hoping
that she would yet find full reparation for
her wrongs and insults in a returning sense
of justice of her Sister States of the North I
But this fond anticipation has been blas
ted by the developements of the last few
months, and she is now constrained to
make the announcement that, “Union with
out Equality, is degradation I”—Whenev
er the issue involved in this announcement
shall be fairly presented to the people of
the Southern States, your committee can
not doubt the result.
Tour Committee are not prepared to
say that the Union of these States may not
yet be preserved ; but to compass this ob
ject so dear to the bosom of every patriot
—to restore perfect health and sound
ness to the body politic, the remedy must
be changed—the nostrum of Concession,
must give place to an unyielding demand
for justice. “Compromises” out of the
Constitution, must yield to the Comprom
ises in the Constitution ! With a public
sentiment at the South, united upon these
jiriuciples, your Committee indulge the
belief, that the integrity ofthe Union may
yet be preserved, and if it cannot be pre
soived upon these principles, they are free
to declare it as their opinion that its pre
aorvtttion will not be worth the effort.
Entertaining these sentiments as to the
great preventative remedy against a disso
iulion of the Union, to wit: a united pub
lic sentiment at the South, your Commit
tee have naturally turned their attention
to the means of obtaining a proper con
centration of public opinion, and upon this
point they earnestly recommended as the
most effective means which lias yet been
suggested, a full representation of tiie
Southern States, in the Convention pro
posed to be held in the City of Nashville
in June next.
Tiie next point in order of consideration
is, as to the mode and manner in which
the representatives of this State shall be
appointed 1 Upon this point your Com
mittee acknowledge that they have eu
countered some difficulty in arriving at a
definite plan ; and this embai rasment has
been produced more by the diversity of
suggestions, which have lately appeared
in the newspapers of the State, than by
any difference of opinion amongst them
selves. It will be recollected by the meet
ing, that in consequence of our Legislative
Assembly sitting only biennially, no or
ganized body emanating from the people
have convened in the Stale since the
“ Nashville Convention” was proposed,
and consequently any action in reference
to the appointment of Delegates thereto,
must be had, if at all, by the people in
their primary capacity. Indeed your Com
mit'ee are inclined to the belief that such
is the source from which the delegates
ought to receive their appointment and
commission; and that were the General
Assembly now in session, it would not su
percede the necessity for a Convention of
the people, to deliberate upon this all
absobiug question, and to take measures
to have the voice of their State heard
amongst her Sisters of the South.
Two modes for embodying the public
sentiment of the State has been suggested
—the one through District Conventions, to
he held in each judicial district of the
State—the other through a State Conven
tion to be constituted ofdelegates appoin
ted from each county in the State. Your
Committee under other circumstances
might have been inclined to recommend
the latter scheme for the adoption of this
meeting; hut believing as they do that the
former plan will meet with greater favor
from the counties at large; and in view of
the fact that the Eastern and Southern dis
tricts are now probably organizing a Dis
trict Convention to be held at Ocala in
April next, they respectfully suggest that
it bo recommended to the Counties ofthe
Middle Judicial Circuit to take measures
forthwith for the organization of a District
Convention. In reference to the time and
place for the meeting of the proposed
Convention, your Committee would re
spectfully recommend that it be held at the
Capitol in Tallahassee, on Wednesday the
the first day of May next.
Your Committee be entitled to send to
the said Convention the double of its en-
in uie Cfcnerat Assem
bly, and to be appointed in such manner
as the people of the respective counties
may determine.
Your Committee would further recom
mend that this meeting do now proceed to
appoint delegates to represent the County
of Gadsden in any State or District Con
vention which may assemble for the pur
pose above contemplated.
Your Committee, the more fully to em
body the sentiments and feelings of this
meeting, beg leave to recommend the
adoption of the following Resolutions:—
1. Resolved, That the unceasing agita
tion amongst the people of certain States
of this Confederacy, forthe abolition of the
institution of African slavery as it exists
in the Southern States, which agitation has
now invaded even the Halls of our Na
tional Legislature, imperatively demands
of us, the adoption of such measures as
will be most likely to protect our Consti
tutional rights.
2. Resolved, That in order to give effi
ciency to any action in reference to this
question, a perfect and harmonious una
nimity of sentiment is demanded of the
whole South.
3. Resolved, That our Federal Union
was originated in a recognition of the
principle of "•perfect equality” amongst
the members thereof, and that no gross in
fringement of that principle can be made,
without materially endangering the inte
grity of the same.
4. Resolved, That in the openly avowed
purpose of a large majority of the Repre
sentatives of the non-slaveholding States,
to pass through Congress bills containing
the principle of the “Wilmot Proviso,”
we recognize an increasing spirit of fana
ticism, which in total disregard of our
Constitutional rights, aims at the abolition
of slavery in the States, ultimately; as it
now avowedly does in the Territories.
5. Resolved, That vve hold it to be the
right of the citizens of every reguarly or
ganized Territorial Government, when
they may apply for admission as one of the
States of the Union ; to adopt for them
selves a State Constitution with such limi
ts ions and restrictions (notin conflict with
the Constitution of the United States) as
they in their wisdom may deem expedient,
but believing the present application on
behalf of “California” to be irregular and
illegal, and not within the purview of the
above stated principle, we are unanimous
ly opposed to her admission.
6. Resolved, That influenced by an
anxious desire to arrest if possible the
tendencies to a dissolution of our cherish
ed Union, by presenting for the considera
tion of our Brethren of the lion-slavehohl
ing States, a frank and candid declaration
of the grievances of which we complain,
and in view also of the adoption of such
measures as may be deemed best suited to
the exigency of the occasion, vve cordially
approve of tho proceedings which have
been adopted by the people of the State
of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina and Virginia, for the calling of a
Southern Convention to assemble at
Nashville in June next.
7. Resolved, That it is our opinion that
Florida ought to be represented in the
proposed Southern Convention, and that
in order to the same, we respectfully re
commend to our fellow-citizens of the re
spective judicial districts, the appointment
of such number of delegates as they may
be entitled to, upon the ratio suggested by
the action of the above named States; to
wit: the double of our entire representa
tion in Congress; which ratio would enti
tle Florida to six delegates; and distribu
ted between the four judicial districts in
to which the State is divided, would give
to the Western district two, to the .Middle
District two, and to the Eastern and South
ern districts conjointly two.
8. Resolved, That with a view of car
rying out the recommendation contained
in the last foregoing resolution, we re
spectfully recommand that a Convention
of the Counties constituting (he Middle
district, be convened on Wedensday the
first day of May next, at the Capitol in
the City of Tallahassee ; and that each
County send to the said Convention, dou
ble the number of its entire representa
tion in the General Assembly.
9. Resolved, That with a view of im
parting to the delegates who may be se
lected by the people of the several judi
cial districts, tiie character and authority
of State Representatives, we respectfully
suggest that each District Convention,
should adopt a resolution recognizing all
the delegates who shall beelected.es Re
presentatives of the State at large.
10. Resolved, That we earnestly, but
respectfully urge upon His Excellency
the Governor, to give bis official sanction
to these proceedings, by Proclamation,
recommending to the jteople of the State
to carry out the object contemplated in
the foregoing resolutions.
These resolutions, having been atten
tively read and considered, were then
unanimously adopted.
On motion of Mr, John Erskine, it
was Resolved, That the chairman he au
thorized to nominate, subject to the ap
proval of this meeting, ten delegates to
represent Gadsden county in the Conven
tion contemplated to be held by the fore
going eighth resolution, and that the Chair
man and Secretary form two of the num
ber, and that said delegates have the pow
er to fill any vacancy that may occur in
their own body.
In accordance with the foregoing reso
lution, the chair named the following gen
tlemen as delegates, all of whom were
approved by the meeting, viz:
W. T. Stockton, C. H. Dupont, Jesse
13. McCall, A. K- Allison, J. VV. Poin
dexter, P. W. White, S. 13. Stephens,
Richard Jarot, A. J. Forman, Thos. Mun
roe.
Un motion of A. Iv. Allison, Resolved,
That a copy of the proceedings of this
meeting be furnished by the Secretary to
his Excellency the Governor, to each of
our Senators and Representatives in Con
gress, and to each of the newspapers pub
lished in the State of Florida.
The meeting then adjourned.
ARTHUR J. FORMAN, Chairman,
Thos. Monroe, Secretary.
From the Augusta Republic.
“Wc are in favor of the admission of Califor
nia with her present Constitution and bounda
ries; vve do not want the latter reduced because
of the greater influence it would give the free
States in the Senate ; (unless the line of 36 deg ,
30 in., be established to the Pacific, and even
then we have serious doubts whether slavery
would exist in the state immediately south of
that line.” — Chronicle and Sentinel, 26 th ultimo.
Suppose California is admited now with
her present constitution and boundaries,
how is that to prevent her subsequent sub
division into free states, when her popula
tion increases, or even before, under the
ridiculous example of her own admission,
vvithcompartively no population at all ?
From the most reliable information vve
can receive, there are in California at least
ten thousand foreigners who have never
been naturalized in the United States or
Mexico, 1 hey could notown an inch of
soil, serve in the capacity of a juror, nor
vote for a constable to morrow, if Califor
nia were legally and properly admited in
fo this confederacy. Yet they have as
much to say as any body in California, a
bout her admission as a free state, ami
they arc always included in the general
allusion to the probable population of
California: when that illusion is made
with reference to the claims her popula
tion give her to admission.
It does seem passing strange to ns how
Southern presses and Southern Statesmen
can deliberately consent to advocate a
measure, which is in this nature a quasi
compromise, and that nevertheless guar
anties no single right or advantage to the
South and that may be pointed to through
all coming time to justify as many similar
wrongs and outrages upon our rights as
in the troubled dreams of fanaticism, it
may become necessary to perpetrate.—
Truth needs no authority to bolster it up.
It is error alone that clings with such un
dying tenacity to precedent. Admit Cali
fornia to-morrow, and when shall we see
the end to the begining of similar demands
from the North. Will it not also entail
upon us immediate results disastrous to
our rights. Will it not make this huge
cold blooded Northern giant feel all bis
physical power, and in the day (for come,
it surely will,) when resistance “man to
man and steel to steel,” becomes absolute
ly necessary, will we not be rendered too
contemptible and weak to resist at all.—
Such in our bumble opinion must be the
fatal consequences of yielding tothoNorth,
this light that is fairly and legally ours. —
If the Union is ever dissolved it will be the
fault alone of treachery to the South. It
will be the result of the division, when
there should be harmony here. \V e love
the Union with a devotion deep and holy,
but the bright and stainless honor of the
South we iovc more dearly still and wo
be to the sacrilegious hand, we warn the
North, that offers violence to its virginal
purity. Sooner than see the pioud spirit
of the South brook an insult from the
North, we would bail with joy the politic
al earthquake that would mingle every
glorious recollect! nos the past amid the
wreck of constitutions and the crush of
confederacies. We ardently hope and
trust that whether there is enough of the
spirit of ’76 in the north to recognise our
rights or not, there is at least enough in
the south to maintain them to the last ex
tremity. The southern blood that was
poured out like water upon the parching
sands of the tropics, cost our fair daugh
ters many a bitter tear, but they stand to
day with an olive in one hand and a laurel
in the other. If on terms honorable alike
to all parties, the north will accept the
emblem of peace, the prayers of millions
of southern hearts will consecrate the
present, but if it is recklessly rejected,
we’ll meet your attack, if necessary, with
a couched lance and a waving plume.—
No southern heart ever quailed when the
front of battle lowered.
Forthe sake of argument, admit that
no slave ever would be owned in Califor
nia south of 36 deg., 30 m., is this not an
unanswerable reason why the North, if
their designs be honest, should not meddle
with our right to take them there. It is
contended in the North and in the South
that slavery will never exist there in any
event. Is this not then ovenvelming and
conclusive evidence of the fact that the
Northcalmly contemplates ourdegradation
however profitless it may prove to them !
Southern men, what say you to this cool
audacity l Are you prepared to purchase
peace with a cowardly immolation to your
honor I
Consent to the admission of California
with her present population and limits,
and you virtually surrender every right
dear to the South involved in the odious
Wilmot proviso itself. If you fancy
Northern flattery, do it; but as surely as
you do, we warn you, your children will
curse your memories, and history will
preserve the deed only to contrast your
despicable infamy with the deathless glo
ry ofour fathers. Send down to posterity,
we abjure you, nosucli damning evidence
upon record of treason to your country
and perfidy to your offspring.
To our representatives in Congiess we
say, do nothing your constituency will be
compelled to undo with the sword ; we
tell you they will inevi ably resist the ad
mission ofCalifornia with her present pop
ulation and boundaries ; many of you
have richly earned and already received
the cheeiing congratulation ot "Well
done thou good and faithful servant.”—
Forfeit not past praise nor merit future
reproach by your conduct, wc implore you,
in this crisis—this dark and fearful hour of
Southern peril. Harmony at the South
is the last hope of the Union. Internal
dissensions here will embolden the North
aggression will succeed aggression, and
insult follow insult, till no compromise can
wipe out the memory of our wrongs.—
Act now for your native homes in the sun
ny South where your memories will be
cherished and the warm hearts of your
offspring ho made to kindle with exalting
pride in your fame, when the syren harp
of the North hangs upon the willow and
the sod of the vailcy is green over your
tombs.
Mr. Bell’s Resolutions.
Whereas considerations of the highest
interest to the whole country demand that
the existing and increasing dissensions
between the North and South on the sub
ject of slavery should be speedily arrested,
and that the questions in controversy be
adjusted upon some basis which shall tend
to give present quiet, repress sectional
animosities, remove, as far as possible, the
cause of future discoid, and secure the un
interrupted enjoyment ofthosebenefits and
advantages which the Union was intended
to confer in equal measure upon all its
members:
And whereas, it is manifest, under pres
ent circumstances, that no adjustment can
be effected of the points of difference un
happily existing between the Northern
and Southern sections of the Union con
nected with the subject of slavery which
secure to either section all that is contend
ed for, and that mutual concession upon
questions of mere policy, not involving
the violation of constitutional right or
principle, must be the basis of every pro.
ject affording any assurance of a favora
ble acceptance.
And whereas the joint resolution for an
nexing Texas to the United States, ap
proved March 1, IS4s.contains the follow
ing condition and guaranty, that is to say ;
‘New Statesofconvenientsize, not exceed
ing four in number, in addition to said State
of Texas, and having sufficient population,
may hereafter, by the consent of said State,
be formed out of the territory thereof,
which shall b« entitled to admission under
the provisions of the federal constitution ;
and such States as may be formed out of
that portion of said territory lying south
of 36 degrees 30 minuetes north latitude,
commonly known as the Missouri com
promise lino, shall be admitted into the
Union wither without slavery, as the peo
ple of each State asking admission may
desire : and in such State or States as
shall he formed out of said territory north
of said Missouri coiuprmise line, slavery or
involuntary servitude (except for crime)
shall be prohibited :’ ‘Therefore—
1. Resolved. That the obligation to
comply with the condition and guaranty <
above recited in good faith be distinctly
recognised, and that, in part compliance j
with the same, as soon as the people of
Texas shall by an act of their Legislature,
signify their assent by restricting their lim
its thereof within the territory lying east
of the Trinity and south of Red river, and
when the people of the residue ol the ter
ritory claimed by Texas, lying south of
the 34th degree north latitude and west of
the Trinity, shall, with the assent of Tex
as, adopt a constitution republican in from,
they be admited into the Union upon an
equal footing in all respects with the orig
inal States.
2. Resulted, That if Texas shall agree
to cede, the united States will accept a
session of all the unappropriated domain
in all the teiritory claimed by Texas lying
west of the Colorado, and extending north
of the 42d parallel of north latitude, and to
pay therefor a sum not exceeding
millions of dollars to be applied in the first
place to the extinguishment of any portion
of the existing public debt of Texas, for
the discharge of which the United States
are under any obligations impliedo orther
erwise, and the remainder as Texas shall
require.
3. Resolved, That when the population
of that portion of the territory claimed by
Texas, lying south of the 341 h parellel of
north latitude and west of the Colorado,
shall be equal to the ratio of representation
in Congress under the last proceeding ap
portionment, according to the provisions
of the constitution, and the people of such
territory shall, with the assent ofthe new
States contemplated in the proceeding
resolution, have adopted a State constitu
tion republican in form, they be admitted
into the Union as a State upon an equal
footing with the original States.
4. Resolved, That all the territory now
claimed by Texas, lying north of the 34th
parallel of north latiiuqe, and which may
be ceded to the United State by Texas,
be incorporated with the territory of New
Mexico, except such part thereof as lies
east of the Rio Grande and south of the
34th parallel of north latitude, and that
the territory so composed form a State, to
be admitted into the Union when the in
habitants thereof shall adopt a constitution,
republican in form, with the consent of
Congress ; but in the mean time, and until
Congress shall give such consent, provi
sion be made for the government of the
inhabitants of said Territory suitable to
their condition, but without any restriction
as to slavery.
5. Resolved, That all the territory ceded
to the United States by the treaty of Gua
dalupe Hidalgo, lying west of said Terri
tory of New Mexico and east of the con
templated new state of California, for the
present continue one territory, and for
which some form of government suitable
( to the condition ofthe inhabitants be pro
vided without any restriction as to slavery.
6. Resolved,, That the constitution re
cently formed by the people of the wes
tern portion of California, and presented
to Congress by the President on the 13th
day of Febuary, ISSO, be accepted, and
that they be admitted into the Union as a
State upon an equal footing in all respects
with the original States.
7. Resolved, That in future the forma
tion of State constitutions by the inhabi
tants of the Territories of the United
States be regulated by law, and that no
such constitution be hereafter formed or
adopted by the inhabitants of any Territo
ty belonging to the United States without
the consent and authority of Congress.
8. Resolved, That the inhabitants of any
Territory of the United States, when they
shall be authorized by Congress to form a
State constitution, shall have the sole and
exclusive power to regulate and adjust all
questions of internal State policy, of what
ever nature they may be, controlled only
by the restrictions expressly imposed by
the constitution of the United States.
9. Resoleed, That the Committee on
Territories be instructed to report a bill in
conformity with the spirit and principles
of the foregoing resolutions.
Southern Meeting. —The communica
tion of the Mississippi delegation in Con
gress transmitted by Gov. Quitman, to
the Legislature, which we noticed last
week, was the subject of a resolution at a
large meeting held, without party distinc
tion, at the Capitol of that State, on the
10th inst. The meeting, without a dis
senting voice recommended their “St;na
tors and Representatives in Congress, to
remain at their posts, and resist all further
aggression on the rights.”
The ci mmi tee which reported the re
solutions, nineteen in number, are among
the leading men of the State of both par
ties, and we are pleased to see the resolu
tions, drawn in the proper spirit. They
were passed by an “an overwhelming vote.”
Mobile Register.
Counterfeiters. —Two men and two
women were arrested in Cincinnati on the
15th ult. The officers found in the rooms
occupied by these poisons,moulds forcast
ing five franc pieces, half dollars, quarter
dollars, five cent pieces, and a considera
ble amount of bogus money. They also
found a quantity of metal, the apparatus
used for galvanizing, and all the tools ne
cessary for the manufacture of spurious
coin.
Look to your Punctuation. —A toast
drunk at a 4th of July celebration was
given as follows :
“ Woman—without her, man would be
a savage,”
'1 ho Boston Post thinks the punctua
tion erroneous, and should be corrected
tI)U3 :
“ Woman, without her man, would be a
savage.”
MACON , G A .
"SATURDAY MORNING, M
Mis* Kimberly.—This lady read on Tuc,
day, Wednesday and Thursday evaning | M , ,
numerous, respectable and delighted audience
Shakspeare's celebrated plays of ** Ilamle! '
“Romeo and Juliet," and “Macbeth." Her per
formance elicited much praise ; and with p cr [ n ,
the exception of too masculine a tone in j Kr
female characters, her enunciation* were clear
characteristic and very good, whilst her imp J
sioned personifications of the different other
characters were quite forcible and true. She
deservedly ranks high among those who have
heretofore undertaken to represent so many dis.
fereut characters, as are displayed in these plays
Mu. Macallister—This prince of Magicians
has been delighting large aiidieuces in thiscity
during the past week, with his legerdemain, in’
the art of which he has attained a wonderful de
gree of proficiency. Indeed his performance]
cannot be excelled.
[CPIt will be seen by reference to the notice
in our advertising columns, that anew paper en
titled “ The Georgia Citizen," will be comment,
ed in this city on Thursday 21st inst., by L F
W. Andrews, Esq , late editor of tho Musco.eo
Democrat. May the “Citizen" become » t .
rnanent and useful resident of this community.
Godey s Lady s Book. —We have received
the March Number of this valuable Monthly,
which fully sustains the high reputation of it]
predecessors. This periodical has done much
heretofore to improve the intellect and elevate
the moral sentiment ofits numerous readers; and
we wish it a prosperous and happy career in the
future. Published by L. A. Godet, Philadel
phia, at $3 per annum, in advance.
Holden's Magazine —The March Number
of this cheap Monthly Magazine, has been re
ccived, and its contents are varied and interest
ing. Published by W. 11. Dietz, New York,
at $1 per annum, in advance.
The Southern Convention*
It will he seen by the Proclamation of Gov.
Towns in another column, that tho citizens of
Georgia arc requested to elect on Tuesday, 2d
April next, Two Delegates from each Congres
sional District, one from each political party, to
represent the people of Georgia in the Nashville
Convention in June next. This is right, and
we observe notices in several papers in this
State calling meetings of the citizens, without
distinction of party, to choose delegates to the
district nominating conventions. When will
tho people of Bibb hold a meeting? Bring out
the candidates and “face the music” gentlemen
We perceive that notwithstanding the attempt
to prevent, indirectly, the assembling of the
Convention at Nashville by a few party leaders,
in refusing to appoint delegates from Tennes-er,
the people will take the subject up and sec that
she shall be represented there. A spirit of un
qualified submission to any encroachment oti
Southern rights under the name of the Union,
probably exists there and elsewhere, but that e
majority are in favor of the Convention, we
have no doubt, and as the time fur action is at
hand, vve hope the preliminary arrangements
will be made in due time.
Mr. Cai.iiocn’s Speech.—Mr. Mason read
this speech in the Senate on Monday last. It is
just such a production ns might have been ex
pected from this distinguished statesman, and
we shall notice it hereafter. We have neither
time nor space now to give even a synopsis of it,
and will only state that lie thinks the Union is
in danger, and can only be preserved by pro.
tectmg the constitutional rights of the South,who
had no compromise to offer. If the difficulties
now existing could not he satisfactorily settled
it would be judicious to part in peace, and the
admission of California with her present bounda
ries should he the test question.
Bank Robbery.—We regret to learn from
ike Savannah papers that Geo. J. Bclloch, late
Cashier of the Central Railroad Bank left that
city on Wednesday, 20th ult., leaving the Bank
minus $103,000. His securities are bound for
$-10,000. The President, Mr. Cutler, has of.
ffered a reward of $5,000 and 5 per cent on the
amount recovered. It is supposed that Mr, B.
has either gone to Cuba or Wales, and great ex
ertions are being made to have him arrested.
Florida—We regret to see the course purstf
ed by Gov. Brown, in opposing the Southern
Convention—but that he will have ‘to give it up
we have no doubt, from the evidence given by
the people of Gadsden, an account of the pro.
ceedings of which will be found in another
column. When the people move in this n ' an '
ner those who would dictate to them must step
asido or their location will very soon be in 'he
dreary regions of “ nowhere.” Florida will
he represented in the Nashville Convention,
whether her Governor desires it or not.
Missionaries.—The Rev. Dr. Boring, ari'l
his colleagues, Rev. Messrs. Pollock and Wxs>,
Missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Churcit
South, embarked recently on hoard the spit’ l
did steamer Ohio, at New Orleans, bound h ,r
Chagrcs, and they probably have arrived in *' mC
to take a steamer which would leave Fananu
for San Francisco, about the present time.
MiLi.EDGExriLT.r. Rail Roao.—The Record'-
says: “ At a meeting of the stockholders of tl- c
Milledgcville and Gordon Rail Road Comp 3 ".'
held on Saturday last, the fallowing gentle^ 1
were elected Directors, viz : George L. Deu» l, l’
J. U. Horne, I. L. Harris, and Isaac Newell, 1 0
Mayor of tho city John 11. Brown, Esq , 1 6
Director on the part of the City Council-
At a subsequent meeting of the Board, l-"
1.. Doming, Esq., was elected President.
First Congressional District. —The 01
cinl vote from the Ist. Congressional District,
ns follows: _ jrji)
Jackson, Sfoo
I’lkminc, _
go*
Jackson’s majority:
