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SOPTHERN TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY ITU. B . II .4 RRIS O\ . from the Southern Press THE RANDOLPH EPISTLES. Pact* and Reflection* for the People of ik: South. NO. 11l # (Ccnr'u led from Tv it Page ) 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