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GEORGIA CITIZEN—EXTRA.
MACON, JULY 8, 1850.
llVti OF SATURDAY !\I(HT.
state that the call, although numerously
itten up a short* time before it went to
! time and a little exertion the list of names
en increased five fold or more. The num
meeting has been variously estimated at
wired, and never did we see a more atten
ded audience. We hazard little in saying
iy be regarded as a first expression of
on this subject, the ball, thus put in mo
‘the State, will roll to its remotest bounds,
nd magnitude as it proceeds. The senti
ng arc the sentiments of a vast majority
orgia. Never was there a more intelli
ighly devoted body of men to the rights,
rarest interests of the South and the in
1, assembled on any occasion. Mr. Poe’s
it to the point—chaste, beautiful, argu
irts of it, truly eloquent. While listening
[link—
:>m’s battle once begun
thed by bleeding sire to son,
baffled oft is ever won.”
‘O say of the masterly vindication of the
nion, by the respected President of the
ise connected, unanswerable argument,
to every just and candid mind, he riveted
ludience for more than an hour and a half,
the frequent outbursts of applause which
•c him that he struck a responsive chord in
who loved the South and revered the
pell exhausted his own strength long before
hearers (lagged. lie was not compelled,
p, ribaldry, invective or gross and shamc
cure the attention of his hearers. If such
:n alien to liis very nature, he was at least
ed that on so solemn an occasion the ribald
cdote, the witty fling and the biting satire—
my amount of grimace ancT antic, were as
as a jig would be at a funeral. In this
on between the efforts of Messrs. Cliappell
>f the disunion Speaker of the previous
cplace, would be as unjust to the former
•arisen between the buffoonery of a Circus
c solemn eloquence of a Christian Pulpit,
imp speech of a political demagogue in
and captandum vulgus style of oratory —
lifted and able expositions of the momen
tion’s political salvation and a people’s lion
• further remarks and hasten to commend
the meeting of the Gtli and the Itesolu
le enlightened and calm consideration of
e, harmony and the Union :
IC MEETING.
ith a previous call, numerously signed, a
lie number of the friends of the Senate’s
lent of the Slavery and Territorial ques
ourt House in this city on the 6th inst.,
James A, Nesbit, Esq. the meeting was I
ting the Hon. A. 11. Chappell, President,
on Poe, the Hon. C. B Cole, and Joseph
Presidents, and Thurston R. Bloom and
taries.
ng thus organized and its object having
ic President, upon motion of Col. John B.
ig Committee of Twenty-three, was ap
ident to prepare business for the action of
3. T. Chapman, Tliaddeus G. Holt, W. K.
P. Powers, Robert Findlay, James Rea, J.
A. Ells, James A. Nisbet, Isaac Scott,
j. Jones, J. J. Gresham, 3. 11. K. Wash
■tro.L. F.W. Andrews, James B. Ayres, O. G. Sparks,
• 1 rt Collins, Win. B. Johnston, O. 11. Prince, L. O. Reyn-
P-■ Anderson Comer.
ffU- Committee having retired for a short time returned
Pa the following—
I REPORT 8c RESOLUTIONS.
|b’ir coming together to night, has for its object, no political
Btation. We are attracted here by considerations which
r above the ephemeral contests of party, and involve the
pi ’nof the States, the peace of the country, and the stability
Republican institutions. Believing the country to be in
11 - ,er > we feel it our duty to speak out.
” o are alarmed at the protracted struggle, daily becoming
r ’ complicated, in the Halls of Congress, on the Slavery
‘Sti ‘ii. it i s a struggle of opposing elements, racking and
,r ‘ n ?tk whole frame-work of our government, in such a
1 15 to threaten its dissolution.
paring this long continued strife in Congress, our convic
r “bright, and our sympathies, have been and continue to
-"h the friends of Clay’s Compromise, which was report
y a committee of the Senate, as a peace-offering laid on
:: *tar of the Union. Resisted by fanatics, and pressed on
f side by power, the friends of this Compromise are strug-
Q ebly, to save the Constitution and the Union. The
P-Actions of the people await them as peace makers, for so
W ordained Hy holy writ. If successful, they give anew
lease of life to the republic. And if they fail, each one of them
may exclaim like his great prototype of old “If Rome perishes,
1 am innocent”
We regard this plan now under discussion in the Senate,
as being better than any other, which there is the least pros
pect of obtaining. Because it saves the honor of the South
by repudiating the Wilmot Proviso. Because it will prevent
the admission of New Mexico as a State, now about to present
herself, with a constitution inhibiting slavery. Because it will
prevent a bloody conflict between between Texas and New
Mexico, to which the government , as well as other states of the
Confederacy - may become parties. And because we want
peace to be restored to the public mind and the public coun
cils. The Missouri Compromise, as a plan of settlement of
the slavery issues, could it be adopted, would meet with our
cordial acquiescence.
But the decisive vote in the U. S. Senate, on Mr. Soule’s
substitute, forbids all hope of the adoption of the Missouri
Compromise line by Congress.
We therefore are compelled to choose either the Clay Com
promise, the Executive plan, or Anarchy and Revolution.—
We are willing to take the first.
We (•el no disposition to put uncharitable constructions on
the motives of those, who so zealously oppose and denounce the
Senate Compromise, and perseveringly adhere to the Mis
souri Compromise, in full view of the impossibility of obtaining
the latter, and of the tendency of their course to defeat the for-,
mer, and all other modes of adjustment. But our appreher
sions are, that such a course tends only to a dissolution of tl
Union and civil war. And as citizens having our all at stal
we protest against our representatives in Congress pursuing
It is our firm belief, that a very large majority of the peo
of Georgia, are for a peaceable settlement of this question,
means of the adoption of the Senate Compromise.
We therefore, in the exercise of a right inestimable to fi
men, desire to send up our feeble voices, with that great
ume of petition and expostulation, now going up from e
part of this country to the American Congress. Our pr
is for peace—our wish is for repose—our remonstrance
gainst needless agitation, and our hope is that the bills
before the United States Senate may soon become laws;
cially the one for effecting an adjustment of the ten
controversy. To these ends,
Resolved , That the measures reported to the Se
the U. S., by the Committee of 13, approximate as
can be hoped, a fair, honorable and satisfactory adjust
all matters in dispute between the slave-holding and non
holding States of the confederacy. And that we com
them to the cordial support of the Georgia delegation in
gress, believing as we do, (hat a large majority of the p
of Georgia entertain views not dissimilar from those he
expressed.
Resolved , That as American citizens, we are friendlj
the continuance of the Union upon the basis of the Const!
tion. And as Southern men, we are most sensible, that v.
and unthouglit of dangers and evils, will spring up from i
dissolution. Dangers and evils only to be met by sueh feai
ful alternatives when the people of the non-slave-holdin;
States, or a majority of them, willfully and deliberately makt
up their minds, to disregard the guaranties of the Constitu
tion, and trample on the rights of this section of the Confed
eracy.
Resolved , That our thanks are due to those men from the
non-slave-holding States, who, rising above clamor, fanati
cism and a vitiated public sentiment at home, have sought to
bring their constituents back to a sense of their duties, and
the obligations of good neighborhood, imposed by the Consti
tution. And more especially do we owe a debt of gratitude to
Messrs. Dickinson, Cass, Clay, Webster, Bright, Sturgeon,
Whitcomb, Dodge, of lowa and Jones, of the U. S. Senate,
for that high-toned and liberal course toward the South, du
ring the present session of Congress, which has “ grappled
them to our hearts, with hooks of steel.”
Rcsalved, That we respectfully suggest to all friends of
the Union and those favorable to a peaceable and honorable
settlement of the Slavery question, by means of the adoption
by Congress of the Compromise of the Senate Committee, to
hold meetings in their respective counties and speak their sen
timents. To remain silent at such a time as this, is dangerous
and criminal.
Resolved, Tliat a copy of the foregoing Preamble and
Resolutions, be forwarded by the Secretary, to each of our
Senators and Representatives in Congress.
During the reading of the Report and Resolutions there
were marked signs of approbation, which burst out into open
and loud applause at the enunciation of the resolution tender
ing the thanks of the meeting to Messrs. Dickinson, Clay,
Cass, Webster, and others. Pending the Report and Resolu
tions, the meeting was addressed by Hon. Washington Poe
and the Hon. A. 11. Chappell. When on motion, the Report
and Resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Upon motion, it was
Resolved , That the proceedings of the meeting be pub
lished.
The meeting then adjourned.
ABSALOM H. CHAPPELL, Prea't.
WASHINGTON POE, I
CARLETON B. COLE, JV. Prcst'e.
JOSEPH BOND. )
Thurston Bloom, 1 „ , .
, T * y secretaries.
