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SOPTHERN TRIBUNE.
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ITU. B . II .4 RRIS O\ .
from the Southern Press
THE RANDOLPH EPISTLES.
Pact* and Reflection* for the People of ik:
South.
NO. 11l #
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The United States Pot he was * Pri»oner ot
War, and could not bin! hit country
Texas —That objection would be *alid, but
fbr two attendant and conclusive circumsian
re*, which, from the earliest ages, have im
parted validity and tore* to Treaties and Com
pact*, which, without them, could have nc
quired neither : the <>ne wan, that the Mexican
General on whom the command devolved, sign
ed that Treaty, and wo* not a Prisouor of War,
and acting entirely within his province and
powers, bound bis Government to its terms,
by the Law of Naious: the other was, that
Mexico herself had fully ratified that Treaty,
by accepting all the stipulations made in lier
favor, and this carried with it the ratifications
of all the other stipulations. Os those made
in her favor, but two need he mentioned : the
one, the saving of her President’s life, which
had been forfeited under the Law of Nations,
fur the indiscriminate massacre he had ordered
at Bexar: the other, the saving of her van
quished and rou'ed army, with all the imple
ments and munitions of War, from destruction
or capture. This made the Treaty binding in
all its parts, and our title to the Rio Grande
(which it explicitly recognized,) absolute and
indefeasible. No adverse possession by a ra
tifying party to the Convention, can take away
or impair onr Treaty-Rights ; and it is our
purpose to enforce them nnd wrest the terri
tory from Mexico at our earliest convenience,
and—
The United States. —Say not a word more !
The facts and the laws yon have referred to,
are conclusive of your title and render it in
comestible. We admit the jus ice of it fully ;
but if you enter into the Union, you must con
fide the maintaining of it to us, for under our
Constitution a single State cannot make war.
Wo will not exactly guarantee its restoration
to you, but if you will comply with a preju.
dice of a portion of our poople, and accede
to the long standing compact of partition be
tween the two great sections of the countiy
and prohibit slavery North of the line of 3b
deg. 30 min., we will do the utmost in our
• powtr to obtain the Territory ; nor have we
any doubt at all, that sooner or later, we shall
have entire success.
Texas. —The compart of partition you speak
of, exclusively applied to territory held in com
mon by the States, and is without applies ion
t> territory which is wholly our own. How
ever, in full trust and confidence, that you
will strive to the uttermost, and must folly
succeed in securing us our boundary from the
mouth to the source of the Rio Grande, we
will submit 10 the sacrifice, accede to the com
pact, and enter into the Union.
Such was the boundary compact between the
United Statos and Texas, and such the interpre
tation it universally bore I Look at the instruc
tions to our Ministers to Mexico (Messrs. Slidell
and Trist,) and you will find unequivocal ac
knowledgments of the title of Texas to the ter
ritory, coupled with the express admission of the
obligation, and an explicit avowal of the pur
pn*e, to obtain it for her. Well : war ensued,
aud the boundary controversy was the occasion
of it. The Mexican Army crossed the Rio
Grande, and hostilities opened. In announcing
the fact to Congress, the President declared,
that “American blood had been shed upon Ame
rican soil !" In passing an act to poosecute
hostilities, Congress echoed back in a preamble
the language oftho President, “ that American
Idood had been spilled upon American soil:”
and yet the tieuty with Santa Anna had not
distinguished that portion of the Rio Grande
from any o'her ; nnd the Texans were as void
qf posses■ i>n wlv re hostilities commenced,
as they were in any portion of Eastern New
Mexico I
At last cam* peace, and with it a Treaty,
which extinguished forever, the only claim in
oxistonce, which had clashed and conflicted
wi It that of Texas. Well; that glided the mat
ter, didn't it ? and Texas took her own ? Not
at a)! ! The Free States, (not content with re
ceiving frorp Texas her generous concession,
and in exclusiveness and perpetuity, the large
area of her territory north of36deg. 30min., to
which they, nor any other State had the slightest
shadow of a claim) overleaping the barrier of
36deg 30mjn., penetrate the Toxan soil as far
down as tho realms of the 32d« of north lati
tude, and insist upon having to themselves the
whqle of the territory East of New Mexico, in
Vo rich of the public faith and in palpable viola
tion of the compact of Annexation I Only look
at this monstrous aud shameless pretension !
Texas explicitly claims this territory as h'er own;
hut on the express condition that this Govern
ment will maintain her rights to it, and procure
it for her when practicable, she waive* her own
assertion of it, at the instance of this Govern
ment; appoints the United States Iter agent to
prosecute it fir her. the former expressly ad
mitting tho claim, accepts of the tru*t ; and
thereupon Texas accedes to the compact of an
nexation and enters into tho Union I Faithful
to tho trust, this Government make* claim of
Mexico for the territory ; asserts the rights of
Toast thereto; negotiates for them ; insists up
on them ; fights for them ; and, Mexico yielding,
acquires them ! F<-r whom * For itseli I Is
them ono min who wears a conscience in his
breast who will say, that Bitch a pretension is
either legal, juat, or honest ? What ! demand
ing before the world, of a Foreign Government,
the territory as belonging to Texas under the
treaty with Santa Anna, and pressing the claim
through all-the forma of negotiation, and all the
extremities of war; and when obtained, —ack-
nowledging before Christendom, that it had de
liberately lied; that Texas was void of all just
tjtLipjn ] that her pretension! w«r# used hut ar a
fraudulent pretext for waging an unjust war I
Such is the attiude in which such a pretension
peaents our country before the world! And
what would be her attitude before Texas ? Be
hold her ! A shameless repudiator of her pub.
lie faith: and a treacherous violater of her solemn
compact! Why the transaction is unexampled
in all the world ! How would it tell in private
life ? An agent, for art ample consideration,
which is paid in advance, —binds himself at his
own cost and trouble, to obtain for his principal
apiece of property,the title to w Inch he acknowl
edges and declares to be in his principal ; and
when he obtains it, be holds on to the considera
tion he received for its recovery, and appropri
ates the property in exclusiveness to himself!
Is there a society of private gentlemen in the
Uqion, w here such a transaction would not be
branded as dishonorable ? Is there a court of
justice on the continent, which would not de
nounce and annul if, as an unconscionable
fraud ? Not one of either. Yet such a title
and so derived, is all the title the Free States
have, or ever had, to any portion of New
Mexico East of the Rio Grande, and which they
admit to be iniquitous, in the very $10,000,000
they are offering for a quit claim of the title of
Texas ! Such is the title w hich a Free soil
President, gravely announces to Congress his
purpose of sustaining with the Federal Army
and Naay, and with or without the consent of
Congress, and for which he draws and flourishes
the sword of State, and sounds over a sovereign
State the signal trump of Civil War! Who
ban I
believe, that the President or a Free aoiler in
Congress believed, that the Free States had the
shadow of a shade of a title,to an acre of Eastern
New Mexico? Who can doubt but that all these
clamors and menaces were gotten up for the
u nrighteotu ends of despoiling the South, and
of extorting from her the price of her own
dismemberment and ineffaceable disgrace ?
Lay these developments to heart! men of the
South and forget them not I
1 his closes my Review of such measures oft lie
Compromise as were embraced in the Omnibus:
Another number will embrace the residue of the
measures The Bills to abolish the Slave
Trade in the District of Columbia and for the
Reclamation of Fugitive Slaves and close
the Review.
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.
WESTERN Sc ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
Ihe following article appeared in the
Telegraph a short time since, arid as the writer
gives a graphic description of that monument of
Georgia enterprise, the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, we transfer it to our columns :
Marietta, Sept. 12, 1850.
is now several weeks since I left your city.
Notwithstanding my intention to redeem the
promise of writing you at an oarly day, it was
postponed till I sould pass over the Western and
Atlnntic Rail Road, in order to give you a sketch
of this enterprise of the people of Georgia, so
much the theme of general comment by those
who travel over it, or by those who have exam
ined it with an eye single to the immense labor
and expense by which it has been carried for
ward to completion. It was begun in the woods
of DeKalb county, in the year 1*37. Since that
time, the flourishing city of Atlanta I las grown
up around the spot. It was gradually extended
by Legislative liberality, notwithstanding the
very powerful opposition it met with in its in
ception by Cherokee members and others till
within a few months past, tlieTuunel
finally completed, the cars passed through
to Chattanooga, the western terminus of the
Rond. Its construction has involved a cost of
m re than three millions of dollars. This is a
very large amount, though insignificant when
compared with the immense trade and travel this
great artery in our system of internal improve
ment* must introduce to the people of Georgia.
This work being completed, Tennessee has a
woke from her lethargy and is rapidly extend
ing the link iri this unrivalled system to the cap
ita! of that State. When the locomotive shall be
heard west of the Cumberland mountain the At
lantic friemDof internal improvement will gaze
at the fertile and inexhaustible valley* of the
magnificent streams of tho greut and growing
West, soon to pour their various products
into our widely extended commonwealth.—
We have only to glance at the vast population
—the multiplied resources of the country thro'
which the Road peneira *<, and which is chalked
out for its ultimate extension and completion, to
be con' ineed of the soundness of these views.
Already does tho completion of the Western &
At antic Rail Road, the third link only from our
sea board to thd Tennessee river, begin to roll
forward immense agricultural products to swell
the store houses, und multiply the trade and
business of our Atlantic cities.
Matty of your readers doubtless have never
travclledovor the Western&. Atlantic Rail Road.
I will drop my speciuations of the effects of this
work upon the commercial prosperity of Georgia,
and speak of the appalling obstacles overcome
in the construction of the Rail Road. And we.
need only look at this gigantic enterprise,— an
enterprise that will compare with the greateston
the continent—to see what tho public spirit of
Georgia can effect when properly directed and
patiently urged forward. The traveller is made
a constant witness of the triumphs of energy
and art, all along its winding way, and is occa
sionally filled with amazement and wonder at
what has been accomplished. Few, very few
of the people of Georgia are aware of the ob
structions that have been surmounted. Every
beholder is struck with these and the enchant,
ing magnificence of scenery, that occasionally
meet* the eye. To be fully realized, they must
be seen. Immense excavations have been made
all along the line, ranging front forty to eighty
feet. The Alatoona mountain is one vast bed
of rock, and long and perseveringly did the la
borers ply the arm of industry ere' that moun
i tain barrier yielded to the progressive spirit of
tho age. Immense, too, have been the chasms
filled up or spanned by the lofty bridges,—so
high, indeed, that if the tallest tree ofthe forest
was planted tinder them, its branches would
scarcely reach into the atmosphere through
which you float. In fact it seems that one has
quit hi» sublunary sphere and was en ering the
boundless “regions of space.” The inoun'tains
fid valleys have yielded to the enterprise of
eorgu.and ono of the most substantial tracts
on which a rail was ever laid, is thus supplied—
a track worthy to be commended to the friends
ofinternal improvements throughout thocountry.
Gratifying as it is to witness the triumphs of
labor and art along the Western & Atlantic Rail
Road,they will be soon forgotten or overwhelm
ed by the beautiful mountain views that spread
out alternately to the right and loft. The eye
of the traveller is soon turned from his seat to
gaze on the magnificent scenery that clusters
around him, and as lie is home rapidly forward,
the mountains wheeling off on either hand, new
scenes are Constantly presenting themselves to
his astounded vision, till he feels that he is enter
ing a “fairy land," nnd forgets the rolling, rock
ing, jarring, jolting motion so disagreeable, and
yet so common to all rail-ways 3.
Great Rally of the Friends of
Southern Rights.
MEETING OF THE PEOPLE OF 8188.
Pursuant to notices published, a large number
of the people of Bibb, without distinction of par*
tv, assembled this day at the Court House, in
Macon, for the purpose of more thoroughly or.
ganizing, and to nominate delegates to represent
the county of Bibb, in the Convention called by
the Governor, in pursuance of an act ofthe Le
gislature.
On motion Thomas King, Esq , was called to
the Chair, and J. H. Morgan and A. H. Co!quit t
appointed Secretaries.
After some preliminary remarks by the Chair,
man in explanation of the objects of the meet
ing, Col. S. T. B.iily moved the appointment of
a Committee of 24 to prepare and report a pre
amble and resolutions to be submitted to the
meeting.
The Chair appointed the following gentlemen
the Committee under Col. Bailey’* Resolution :
Col. S.T. Bailey, Col. W. B. Parker, James
Dean, Paul Dinkins, Dr. J.B. Wiley, A.E. Ear
nest, John J. Jones, Stephen Woodward, John
Bailey, Dr. M. A. Franklin,Benj. Fort, Dr. J.M.
Green, Rich’d Bassett, Geo. W. Fish, E S. Ro
gers, F. A. Hill, A. C. Morehouse, B. F. Ros*,
Dr. B. Bonner, R. A. Smith, H. J. Lamar, W.
D. Mimms, Thomsa A. Brown and Dr. E L
Strohecker.
During the absence of the Committee, Col. TANARUS,
C. Howard, of Crawford, was called upon to
address the meeting- He obeyed the call, and
wag greeted with great applause as he took the
stand. His remarks were characterized by much
force and clearness, and were well received by
the meeting.
W hen Col. Howard had finished, Col. Bailey,
the Chuirinanof the Committee of 24, proceed
ed to report the following Preamble and Reso
lutions ;
PLATFORM.
SOUTHEHX RIGHTS, WITH UXIOX AXD
COXSTITU 7 IOXAL EQLALITY
It is the natural impulse of every noble mind
to resist oppression. Under the Constitution, as
made by our fathers, the Southern people were
equals with those of the North. We are as free,
as intelligent, ns virtuous and faithful to the
Union, as were our fathers—we have felt ag
grieved that our rights, as equals, have been for
a series of years trampled on and disregarded,
by the non-slaveholding States. We have re.
monstrated at their aggressions, and begged for
justice at tho hands of our Northern brethren
Our repeated remonstrances have been disregard
ed, and our supplications have been construed as
the dictates of cowardice, and have onlv invited
more and more alarming aggressions, until they
Inve surrounded us like victims for the slaught.
er, and now insolently challenge us to help our*
selva if we can,
To prove that the non-slaveholding States have
for years, made war on the peace, liappiness and
safety of the South, “let facts be submitted to a
candid world.’’
They prohibited slavery North of the Ohio,
where it had long existed in a territory ceded to
the Union by Virginia.
They abolished slavery in most of the Louis
iana purchase, over a territory large enough to
form twelve States, and left the South only
enough fur three
Their citizens have stolen our slaves to the
value of many millions—cruelly beaten, and in
one instance, put to death a citizen for attempt
ing peaceably to regain his properly absconding
i ito the free States, and in no case have
the perpetrators of such wrongs been pun
ished.
Grantffuries in Virginia found two true bills
against individuals for negro stealing—the feions
fled to thn free State*—they were demanded un
der the 4th article of the Constitution, and re
fused to be given up, on the ground that negro
stealing was no offence.
Their Legislatures have formed laws forbidding
any of their citizeng, under a heavy penalty, to
aid in enforcing the Constitution in relation to
fugitive slave-', and their courts, have held such
laws, right and proper.
Their Officers and magistra’es have, in sever
al instances, siezed slaveholders when reclaim,
ing stolon or runaway slaves, and released the
slaves and imprisoned the master, who has been
glad to escape with his life, and, without re.
dress.
They havo held conventions both in their
own States and in foreign lands, to excite the
ovil passions of all mankind against us, and
this is daily done with impunity in the mdst of
thoso who call themselves our friends.
They have spent millions of money to indoc
trinate the public mind of the world against us
carrying us into the school house and into the
church, to be pointed at and anathematized as
a polluted, heaven-abandoned race.
While we fought the public enemy in vindi
cation of our own and their honor, they invoked
that enemy “to receive us with bloody hands
to hospitable graves," and when wc had filled
those graces, and conquered from that enemy
an empire one-fourth as lajgc as all Europe,they
unite with the barbarians from China, South
America, and the Islands of the I’acific,nnd say
to us that wc made that conquest for them alone,
that we are too sinful to share with them.
They first invite a horde of trespassers upon
our common territory, to form a constitution,
excluding us, and then adopt that constitution
as in accordance with the league bntweon thorn
and us, thus addiug falsehood and fraud to rob
bery.
They have grossly insulted us by forming ter
ritorial governments for New Mexico and Utah,
as a compensation for the frauds and injustice
of admitting California as a State—every man
of them holding that these territories ate free j
by the laws of Mexico, and therefore free forev- '
er until those laws are repealed; and when a I
Southern member offered an amendment repeal
ing those laws that the South may have a chance j
it was promptly voted down I And yet they !
say to us, after robbing us of the richest portion i
of the Globe, you may go to the barren
wilds of New Mexico, and let your slaves j
sue you in the federal Court for their fieedom !
as an equivalent for that robberv '
They have sent an armed foxes in time of
peace into the territory of Texas, a sister State >
and taken forcibly from her 70,000 square miles
of stare territory to make it free, and which
the government of this country, England, France
and Belgium, have solemnly declared, belongs
to her, and to appease a weak and prostrate State,
they give lier $10,000,000 (ten millions of dol
lars) for what they now say never belonged to
her! First driving her out of the territory by
military force; they say to the world—“this is no
compulsion—Texas is left free to choose!”—
Tims substituting the bayonet for law and
justicce.
They hare forbid the commerce in slaves in
the District of Columbia, thus usurping the a.
tariffing authority of restraining the citizens in
tiie control of his property, on the ground tha t
it i9 their right to legislate upon private mo
rality !
We agree with people of the North, in tho
opinion, that the act of Congress abolishing the
slave trade in the District of Columbia, is but
the first step to the abolition of slavery in all
places under the jurisdiction of the general gov.
eminent, and constitutes another act of invidi
ous and unconstitutional discrimination against
our property and institutions
It is not true as stated by a late meeting in
this city,that the Free-Soilers regard the organ
ization ofthe Territorial Governments for New
Mexico and Utah as a triumph of the South. So
far from it, they and their presses speak of it a*
a triumph over the South. They forbore to at
tach the hateful Wiinot Proviso,” solely because
they ail hold slavery excluded in these territo
ries by the Mexican law*. The extract quoted
by our opponents from the “Albany Evening
Journal,"complaining that twenty-five thousand
square miles had been given to slavery, is one
of the strongest proofs that they view all the
new territories safe for them under the provi
sions of the Compromise Bill. That twenty
five thousand square miles is the fraction of
Xitc Mexico left to Texas hy Pearce’s bill,
although her title was good up to 42. Had this
fraction also been given to New Mexico, it would
not have been surrendered to slavery in the
opinion of this Free Soil editor. Do not these
wise teachers know that New Mexico contains
hy the estimation of all geographers, not less
than 200,000 square miles, instead of 25,000;
or did they intend to mislead and deceive ? And
did they not know that New Mexico and Utah
together, contain over three hundred thousand
square miles? Nor is it true, as stated by the
Submissionists, that more than one-third of the
members of the Convention that framed the
Constitution of California were Southern men.
There were in that Convention only 17 members
from the slaveholding States—to wit: 7 from
Missouri— 3 from Maryland—2 from Virginia—4
front Louisiana, and 1 from Taxes ; and even o
this small number hailing ftom the slaveholding
States, some of them were natives of the free
States. Thus Missouri and Maryland ; where
abolitionism is rapidly gaining ground, furnished
ten of the seventeen, while not one was from
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori
da, Alabama and Mississippi. But had it been
otherwise—had all the members ofthis Conven
tion been sons of the South, and had voted to
exclude her from iter own soil, it would only he
another lamentable and a'anning evidence, adds
«'d to the many proof we have already had in Con
gress, that ungratefu I children may prove faith
less to the mother that nourished them.
In view of these faets, no sane citizen who
expects to spend his days or to leave his children
in the South, can rest quiet, or say there is not
awful perils hanging ovur his home—whether
slavery is right or wrong—n blessing or a curse,
is riot the question. But it is in our judgement
a question of life and death to the white race of
the South.
We deem it improper to paint or describe the
desolation and horrors which await the South on
the day of emancipation some such scenes are
drawn to our hand in the West Indies.
Therefore Resolved, 1. That the admission of
California was a robbery of the South, and a
triumph of Abolition.
2. Resolved, That whilst we unhesitatingly
deny Ihe charge that the freesoil Constitution of
California was framed thruughthe instrumental
ity of President Polk, we declare it to he imma
terial to us whether it was instigated by Presi.
dent Polk or Taylor. On this question'we are
neither Pelk or Taylor men, but Southern
Rights men, and are opposed to the fraud perpe
trated on rights of the Southern people hy this
Constitution hy whomsoever framed or formed.
3. Resolved, That in offering to the South as
a boon the Territories of New Mexico, and
Utah, where to litigate with their own slaves
sueing them in the Federal Court for their free,
clomps worse than the robbery in Califoania—it
is adding insult to injury, and especially offen
sive, since every man of them tell us that
the law in those Territories is against the
mnstej and in favor of the slave in sucli liti
gation .
4. Resolved, That in dismembering Texas af
ter her boundaries had been acknowledged bv
every department of this Government, Liberty
and States rights have received a blow, no less
alarming to freemen who are not blinded by
party prejudice, than was the partition of Po
land.
5. Resolved, That the last legislature acted
the part of faithful public servants in providing
by an almost unanimous vote, for a Conven
tion of the people of this State, to consult and
adopt measures for their common safety.
6 Resolved, That in our opinion, it was not
the intention of the Legislature to predicate the
call of tho Convention solely on ‘.he admission
of California, but rather on thatas one of a long
chain of aggressions, and as an evidence of this,
we cite the proamble of the act.
7. Resolved, That it is the duty of all govern
ments to protect, and not destroy, the persons
and property of tho citizens. Congress should
protect us in the enjoyment of our slaves, and
yet have no power to control or abridge such en
joyment. This is “non-intervention."
8 Resolved, That it is not true that the North
supported or approved ofihe Fugitive Slave Bill
in Congress, or let the South have her own way
in the matter. The yeas and mays show tha t
every Northern Senator present, save two, voted
against it, and a large majority in the House.
9. Resolved, That since the North has thus re
sell vad never to cease their aggressions, we will
never cease to oppose and resist, at all hazards,
and to the last extremity, all such aggreasious in
future.
10 Resolved, That those who manifest such
alarm and abhorrence at the call of a meetingof
the citizens of Georgia,give evidence of very lit
tle faith in the virtue and capacity of our citi
zens.
11. Resolved, That if half the repugnance
were felt or expressed at the North against the
holding of Anti Slavery Conventions, that there
is here nt the South against one for our protection,
we should have far less to apprehend.
12. Resolved, That we have an abiding confi
dence in the capacity of the people for self,
government, when not misled by dishonest poli
ticians, ordesigning men, nnd therefore, appre
hend no danger from their meeting to cousult for
theirsafety. Such meetings are “formidable to
tyrants only."
13 Resolved, That those who made tiie Con
stitution were all white men, and that thry or
dained that the Constitution they made was for
whites and not blacks, by declaring that thev
formed it “to secure the blessing of liberty to us
and our posterity.’’
14. Resoltcd , That while we are for the Union,
so long as the Constitution protects us, we are
against it when that proctection ceases.
15. Resolved. That our fathers who made the
Constitution were equals North and South, and
expected tjieir “posterity” to be treated ns
equals.
16. Resolved, That tho citizens of no State,
Norh or South, can subinst to be treated ns in
feriors and underlings, without disgracing their
fathersaad becoming slaves.
17. Resolved, That we will support no man
for the Convention who will disgrace Georgia
by cowardly measures of surrender to Northern
arrogance and wrong.
18. Resolved, That our destiny is with Georgia
and the South; and whatever fate awaits us we
will never be found co-operating with enemies
of our institutions nr occupying questionable
grounds, against the land of our families, but
will stand true and miantam her rights at all
hazards.
19. Resolved, That those who charge us with
being desirous to dissolve the Union without a
cause, and while we and our friends can be safe
in tho Union,utter what they know to bo untrue.
They made the charge for the purpose of alarm
ing the timorous, and deceiving the honest; and
to use their own language. “ We believe such
charges, unsupported as they are,by the slightest
proots, to be the strongest evidence that the inen
who make them are destitute of moral and po
litical honesty, and ought to be watched with a
special care.”
20. Resolved, That after all propor measures of
redress and prevention have been tried for our
protection, and have failed, then we shall try to
“provide new guards for our fature security,”
and we doubt not, shall be able to repel all en
emies from abroad, nnd take “watchful , and
“especial care," of all traitors at home.
21. Resolved, That in vindicaing the hitherto
untarnished honor of the State of Georgia
and to save her front ruin and disgrace, we
“ pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honors” never furgeting that we owe our first
allegiance to her, and we call upon all true sons
who love her to rally with us, shoulder to
shoulder aronnd her, as they did in the proud
daygs of Troup and the Treaty, and say as they
said then, to the insolent armies of free soilers,
“ thus far shall thou come and no farther, nnd
here let your proud waves be staid.”
22. Resolved, That we repudiate tho charge
(which an ungenerous oppostion have so indus*
triously circulated) that we entertain any ill will
to any person or people, becanse they are no'
natives of the Southern States; hut on the con
trary wo extend the hand of friendship and fel
lovvshijno ever) man, who shows to us, that he
lias soul enough to appreciate freedom,and man.
liness enough to defend it.
Afer the Chari man of the Committee had con
cluded the reading of the preamble and resolu
lions, be proceeded to address the meeting in
one of the most argumentntivn and powerful ad
dresses we ever listened to. It was eloquently
expressive of the indignant feelings that the
continved aggressions of the North had aroused
>n the breast of every one present, and was re.
ceived with the most enthusiastic applause.
After the conclusion of Col. Bailey’s speech,
on motion of Col. Dean,the following committee
was appointed to select suitable candidates to be
run by the Southern Rights party of Bibb, to
wit—James Dean, Jno. Ruthereford, Jno. J
Jones, S. Woodward, Geo. W. Fish, 8. B Hun
ter, R A. L. Atkinson, and Cicero Tharp.
During the absence of this Committee Robt.
A Smith, Esq was loudly called for and took
the stand. His remarks went brief, spirited
and to the point, and were well received.
The Chairman of the Committee on nomina
tions then reported the following names as
suitable gentlemen to he run by the. Southern
Kights party of Bibb county, to wit :
LEROY NAPIER,
CHARLES COLLINS,
THOMAS A. BROWN,
ROBERT A. SMITH.
On motion, tho Report of tho Committee on
nominations was adopted by acclamation.
Bamnel J. Ray then offered tho follow ing reso
lution :
Resolved, That the Chairman of tho meeting
appointat his leisure, a Committee of Safety and
Vigilance, for this county consisting of one hun.
dredgood and true men, whoso duty it shail be
to provide for the general welfare and to advance
hy all honorable mnaus the interests of the great
Southern Rights Party.
On motion of F. A. Hill, it was Resolved that
the Proceedings this Mooting he published in tho
Telegraph, and Tribune, and all other papers in
the State friendly to tho cause, be requested to
copy. On motion, the Meeting adjourned.
THOMAS KING, ) .
HENRY G. ROSS, jj Chairmen.
John If. Morgan, ) ~
A. 11. Ci>i.q,,rT, jSecretaries.
Mae*n, Ort 5, 185-1
MAC ON, G A
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 12~
O*VVe are indebted to the Editor* of th* S»
vannah Georgian for late New York pipers
brought by the Florida.
EF" e regret our inabi'itjr to publish the pro.
eeedings this week, ofthe late Union meeting
held in this city. They .hall appear i„ our
next.
(UFThe "-Southern Tribune" will hereafter bo
issued on Saturday Morning instead ofthe Af
ternoon. a* we are determined not to be antici
pated in our efforts to furnish Ihe latest news to
our patrons.
fF'ln reply to the recent contemptible effort*
made in this city, to injure this paper, the Editor
will now explicitly state, that if any gentleman
daresay aught against his integrity or honor, he
shall he held strictly accountable in any and every
way. As the “Tribune” is not, neither shall he,
a vehicle of obscenity aud blackguardism, we*
shall not notice the growling* ofthe caged ani
mal on Mulberry street, any farther,at least until
his musters shall let him out.
With regard to our properly we would stats
that we have nothing hut the fruits of our honest
industry, save an irreproachable character,which
we are determined to “maintain at all hazards
and to the last extremity. •’ Mark that.
EF We learn that on the nightof the 4th inst.
while off Cape May, the steamer Southerner,
from Charleston for New York, ran into the
hark Isaac Mcafl, bound for Savannah, which
caused the latter vessel to sink in five minutes,
and twenty four person* were drowned, amongst
whom were Mrs Lyman Barnes, Mrs. Bradley,
of Macon ; Mr. and Miss Grannies, of Conn.,
who purposed settling here; and Mrs. Miss and
Master Barnard, and Dr. McGiuniss, lady and
child of Ch atham. Mr. Bradley of this city and
W. H. Stanton, were the only passengers saved.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL.
The people will now have, in the resistance
which is every where manifested in the Northern
States to the I- ugitive Slave Bill,an opportunity
to see whether the prophecies concerning it by
the Southern Right* papers he true or not. It
was assumed hy them that in this the only one
of all the measures ofthe miscalled Compromise
Bill, in relation to which an idiot might have
been cheated into the opinion that the South
was benefitted, that it would he practically in.
operative and be attended with such demnnstra.
lions of insubordination and riot, that it could
not be reduced to practice. And what is the
result ? We see in New York, where, of al*
other States, it could he hoped to work finely,
in consequence ofthe commercial connections
with the South, that there is the greatest hostil
ity, nnd excitement runs high, nnd so Manning,
that officers engaged in the safe conduct of such
slaves out of the State, who arc proved to be
fugitives by their owners, are in the greatest
danger. This excitement is on the increase, and
negroes arc daily on the march to the Canadas,
aided and comforted l>v Northern Free Soilers.
In Massachusetts they claim the right to judge
the law and having judged it, they dare the own
ers of runaways to make an arrest in the Slate,
and even go so far as to state that there are num
bers from Georgia and other States there, and
invito an attempt to reclaim them.
It is stated hy the Journal & Messenger of last
Wednesday, that tho meetings which have been
and are being held over the Northern States,
wherein action is taken, and resolutions most
insulting to the £>outh are passed, are mostly by
negroes. That there are some dark counsellors
in these assemblies, we have no doubt, hut tlio
reports which have reached our eyes represent
a state of furor past all example, anil on thopait
ofthe entire Free Soil faction, showing in the
recent Syracuse Convention a vote in favor of
sustaining Mr. Sewahu of yeas 70 to 40 nays.
How long then is the humbug to last ? (low
long aro we to be the miserable dupes of venali y
and trickery ? The deepest intellects of the age
are daily employed in tho diabolical and jesuiti.
cal enterprise of overturning slavery in the
South ; and we have no doubt that there aro
those among us of small calibre, who if slavery
were abolished to.day, would boast in the paperst
in the street* and on tho house tops, that tbal
was the very end for which they had labored
here among us. for the last three or more years.
Lot us awake to the movements that are about
us—watch with an eagle eye our cherished in
stitutions, and not allow insidious spies, who
have no principles in cnmmun with us, nnd are
in tho daily practice of the basest espoinage, to
trick and cheat us into the adoption of a policy,
tho ultimate effect of which will he, to subvert
the institution of slavery in the South, and bring
upon us the scenes of St Domingo.
Georgia last winter was, through all her bor
ders, in one flame of patriotism—all were aw***
to the threatened innovations on the spiriiof the
Constitution, and the consequent infringement
oftho rights of the South. The innovations have
been made and these infringements perpetrated*
now let her show her plume, hy a compliant*
with tho spirit of the law passed hy tho last Leg'*'
lalure,in harmony with the tone of her enltf*
population, come up and “face the music,' and
elect such men to the Convention as will by an
honornblo beating, show to our oppressors that
the spirit of 1776 glows in the South, that ween
tortain a sacred regard for tho Constitution—
Such men as will lay down the lines, beyond
J ~ i
which “forbearance ceases to boa virtue, “ n
which w ill be the ultimata of endurance hy tb*
South and particularly by the State ofGe ll^^', ■
and say to tho ice-tempered billow ‘thus far d’ a
thou go and no further.' Bibb has nominal
such men and it remains t» ho seen if the county
is so far to yiold to Northern domination 3,liy
rule, as to allow their defoat. j
The Submission Candidates are abroad,
will no doubt uso all personal exertions to
elected they have pledged their fortunes «
tAeir lives to submit, if llioynre elected.
Up, Friends of the South ! up, and
field ! The bridges are torn up, and wo "
win the plain—-there is no retreat but P
under 'li’n j ok'ft
