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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.