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SOUTHERN CONVENTION?7ta DAY.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment
Player by Rev. Dr. Edgar.
Gen. Gordon, of Va., moved that the preamble
and resolutions be recommitted to the
committee.
Mr. McDaniel, of Ga. called for the previous
question, which was put, mid carried without
dissent.
Mr. Gordou, of Va. gave notice to the committee
on resolutions would hold its meeting
forthwith.
Mr. McDaniel, of Ga. offered the following
resolutions, which were read and referred:
Whereas, combinations of citizens in the
non-slaveholdiug States have assailed the rights
and plundered the property of the slaveholding
Ci-ioo "i- iiiAot nf ilm nnii.clai-phnhlintr States
of this Union have penal enactments interdicted ;
within their limits, the enjoyment and exercise
of liberties and rights guarantied to the citizens
of zlaveholding States by the Constitution of
the United States. And, whereas, the Federal
Government has confiscated the rights of the
citizens of the slaveholding States in the territories
acquired from Mexico, and withdrawn its
protection from us; and instead of being a shield
lor onr rights, has become a sword for our destruction
: Be it therefore
Resolved, That this Convention solemnly invokes
the sovereign States of which they are
citizens, to whom they owe allegiance and have
a right to claim protection, to supply means
deemed by them wisest and best, that protection
for their rights of person and property,
denied and subverted by tire Federal authority
iwl thft nnn-shivehnldiru/ States.
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Resolved, That this Convention respectfully
recommend to the slaveholding States to assemble
in Congress or Convention, at such time
and place as may be agreed upon among themselves,
in order to concoct and adopt measures
adequate aud ample to secure to their citizens
the full exercise and enjoy ment of all their rights
and liberties.
Mr. Jones, of Ga., moved that the Convention
take a recess of half an hour, which was
adopted.
On the re-aasembling of the Convention Gen.
Gordon, of Va., stated that he was instructed
by the Committee on resolutions to report that
they had adopted the preamble as reported by
the Committee on Saturday, and had substituted
in place of the resolution the following.?
The preamble and resolutions were theii read
as follows:
We, the Delegates assembled from a portion
of the States of this Confederacy make this exposition
of the causes which have brought us
together, and of the rights which the States we
represent are entitled to under the compact of
Union,
We have amongst us two races, marked by
sock distinctions of color and physical and moral
qualities, as forever forbid their living together
on terms of social and political equality.
The black race have been slaves from the
earliest settlement of our country, and our re
lations of master and slave have grown up
from that time. A change in those relations
roust end in convulsion, and the entire ruin of
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* When the Constitution was adopted this relation,
of master and slave, as it exists, was
expressly recognized and guarded in that instrument.
It was a great and vital interest, involving
our very existence as a separate people
then as well as now.
The States of this Confederacy acceded to
that compact, each one for itself, and ratified it
as Stales.
If the non-slaveholding States, who are parties
to that compact, disregard its provisions
and endanger our peace and existence by united
and delil>erate action, we have a right, as
States, there being no common arbiter, to se
cede.
'Hie object of those who are urging on the
Federal Government in its aggressive policy
upon our domestic institutions is, beyond nil
doubt, finally to overthrow them, and abolish
the existing relation between the master and
slave. We feel authorized to assert this from
their own declarations, and from the history of
events in this country for the last few years.
To abolish slavery or the slave trade in the
District of Columbia?to regulate the sale and
transfer of slaves between the States?to exclude
slaveholders with their property from the
Territories?to admit California under the circumstances
of the case we hold to be all parts
of the same system of moasures and subordinate
to the end they have in view, which is openly
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avowed to be, tbe total ovennrow ui iuw mw
tution.
We make no aggressive move. We stand
upon the defensive. We invoke the spirit of the
Constitution, nnd claim its guaranties. Our
rights?our independence?the peace and existence
of our families depend upon the issue.
The Federal Government has within a few
years acquired, by treaty and by triumphant
war, vast territories. This has been done by
the councils and by the arms of all, and the
1 enefits and rights belong alike to all the States
The Federal Government is but tho common
agent of the States united, and represents their
conjoined sovereignty over subject matter granted
and defined in (he compact.
The authority it exercises over all acquired
territory, must, in good faith, be exercised for
.^,..,1 Konofii nf all nartins. To nrohibit
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our citizens from settling there with the most
valuable part of our property, is not only degrading
to us as equals, but violates our highest
constitutional rights.
Restrictions and prohibitions against the
slaveholding States it would appear, are to be
the fixed and settled policy of the Government
and the States that are hereafter to be admitted
into the Federal Union from their extensive
territories will but confirm and increase the
power of the majority; and he knows little of
history who cannot read our destiny in the future
if we fail to do our duty now, as free people.
We have been harrassed and insulted by
those who ought to have been our brethren, in
their constant agitation of a subject vital to us
and the peace of our families. We have been
outraged by their gross misrepresentations of
our moral and social habits, and by the manner
in which they have denounced us before
the world. We have had our property enticed
oil' and the means of recovery denied us
by our co-States in the Territories of the
Union, which we weie entitled to as political
equals under the Constitution. Our peace has
been endangered by incendiary appeals. The
Union, instead of beino-considered a fraternal
bond, has been used as the means of striking at
our vital interests.
The admission of California, under the circumstances
td'the case, confirms an unauthorised
and revolutionary seizure of public domain,
and the exclusion of near half the States of the
Confederacy from equal rights therein?de
stroys the line dG dO which was originally acquiesced
in as a matter of compromise and
peace, and appropriates to the Northern States
120,000 square miles below that line, and is so
gross and palpable a violation of the principles
of justice and equity as to shake our coufi
dence in any security to be given by that majority
who aie now clothed with power to
govern the future destiny of the Confederacy.
The recent purchase of territory by Congress
from Texas, a6 low down as 32 deg. on
the Kio Grande, also indicates that the boundaries
of the slaveholding States are fixed
and our doom prescribed so far as it depends
upon the will of a dominant majority, and nothing
now can save us from a degraded destiny
hut the spirit of freemen who know their rights
and are resolved to maintain them, be the consequences
what they inay.
We have no powers that are binding upon
the States we represent: But in order to produce
system and concerted action, we recommend
the following resolutions, viz:
Resolved, That we have ever cherished, and
do now cherish a cordial attachment to the
constitutional Union of the States, and that to
preserve and perpetuate that Union unimpaired,
this Convention originated and has now re-assembled.
Resolved, That the Union of the States is a
Union of equal and independent sovereignties
tlinttliM nnwera delegated to the Federal I
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Government, can he resumed by the several
States, whenever it may seem them proper and
necessary.
Resolved, That all the evils anticipated by
the South, and which occassioned this Convention
to assemble have been realized by the
failure to extend the Missouri line of Compromise
to the Pacific Ocean. By the admission
ot California as a State. By the organization
of Territorial Governments for Utah and New
Mexico, without giving adequate protection to
the property of the South. By the dismemberment
of Texas. By the abolition of the
slave trade and the emancipation of slaves
carried into the District of Columbia for sale.
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend to
all parties in the slaveholding States to refuse
to go into or countenance any National Convention,
whose object it may be to nominate
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency of the United Suites, under any party
denomination whatever, until our Constitutional
rights are secured.
Resolved, That in view of these aggressions,
and of thoso threatened and impending, we
earnestly recommend to the slavelmlding States,
to meet in a Congress or Convention, to he
held at such time and place as the States desiring
to ho represented, may designate, to he
composed of double the number of their Senators
and Representatives in the Congress of the
United States, entrusted with full power and
authority to deliberate and act with the view
and intention of arresting farther aggression,
and if possible, of restoring the Constitutional
rights of the South, and if not to provide for
their future safety and independence.
Resolved, That the President of this ConConvention
he requested to forward copies,of
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Governors of each of the slavoholiling Suites of
the Union, to he laid before their respective
Legislatures at their earliest assembling.
Mr. Gordon, of Virginia, moved the previous
question, and on a call of the States, the following
was the result:
Affinmativk?Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia.?0.
Negative ? 'IV11 n cssee?1.
The question then recurring on the adoption
of the report of the Committee, it was adopted,
as follows:
Aye?Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
South Carolina and Virginia?(5.
N a y?Te nnessee?1.
Mr. Donclson of Tennessee moA'ed a re-consideration
of the vote.
The President decided the motion out of order,
as the State from which the mover Avas a
delegate had voted in the negative.
Mr. Clay, of Alabama, moved an adjournment
sine die; which was carried; when the
President pronounced the Convention adjourned.
There arc now three Southern candidates
for the Presidency spoken of, Messrs. Clay,
Benton and Houston. But for these and some
half a dozen candidates for the Vice Presidency,
from the same section, all looking to the
North for votes, there would have been no such
compromise attempted, as has been inllioted on
the South.?Southern Press.
Wo learn from the Savannah Georgian that
Judge Berrien declines being a candidate for
the Georgia Convention, on account of his senatorial
duties. He reiterates his conviction of
the wrongs Already suffered by the South, and
expresses his apprehension of further aggrossion.
The Washington Union has the following remarks
in an article headed: The Light of Truth
ho:imin<r nut.
The hour of disunion is advancing with fearful
strides. Argument seems to he exhausted.
Feeling has heen aggravated and outraged. If
the contingency of violating tho terms of the
Compromise arises, the people of the South will
tread the path reluctantly and sadly, but firmly
and together.?lb.
A meeting of the peoplo of Cumberland
county, Virginia, has boon called for the purpose
of requesting the delegates of that district
to sustaiu the pro|>osition of Mr. Whittle, in
the Convention, in regard to the removal of
free negroes from Virginia.
THIS jJ0IUISHA3Ln
CAMDEN. S. C.
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2C, 1850.
TO PRINTERS,
TWO Journeymen Printers are wanted at this
office. To competent workmen permanent
situations will be given. Their services will be
needed on and after the first of January next.
Mr. Woodward
Addressed his constituents at the Court House
in Camden on Saturday last. His address was of
unusual interest and ability, occupying about two
hours and a half. Never have we listened to any
speaker with greater interest and satisfaction than
we did to our wortliv and laithful representative,
who has never deceived up, and who we believe
has done right in his entire Congressional course;
at least we hear no objection in regard to his political
course, and we are prepared, unhesitatingly
to endorse that course. With him we are willing
to stand upon the southern Rights platform?sink
or swim?we are there, and nothing can induce
us to leave it, either the hope of reward or the fear
of consequences. Mr. Wood ward thinks the time
for our resisting has fully come, and believes that
a separation at once from an oppressive and obnoxious
Union is highly desirable and absolutely
necessary. We hope that a separation will be
speedily effected. We indulge this hope most
earnestly and sincerely?let us be to them as we
are to other nations, enemies in war, in peace
friends. An insulting and outrageous people deserve
a castigation at our hands and will as surely
receive it if they attempt to coerce us into measures
of Union. There is more than one in our
midst who can stand, single handed and alone,
twentv ofa New York or Pennsylvania Regiment
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on other than Mexican battle grounds?and we
don't ask old Mr. Clay's Kentucky troopers any
difference either. Mr. Woodward says that the
idea of a war between the North and South is a
preposterous supposition, the Northern people are
too smart for that?these last are our words, and
what we think about the matter.
Military Parades.
On the 23d inst. tho Upper Battalion of the 22d
Regiment South Carolina Militia paraded at Flat
Rock, in this District, commanded by Major D. D.
Rirkland, at which time and place the Constitution
of the Southern Rights Association of Kershaw
District received the signatures of a large
number: .nearly all. we believe, of the citizens of
that section. Also, on Saturday last, the Lower
Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. J. B. Kershaw,
mustered at Camden, and was reviewed by Col.
Taylor. At the close of the Review, the Battalion
was addressed by Cols. Taylor and Kershaw, each
in a brief and patriotic manner.
No. 7,
"Pauperism unknown to the Land,"
Is the last blessing of Disunion in our Prophet's
catalogue. 'Die pauperism of the South compared
with that of the North is almost nothing now
?but the state of atfairs would be much happier
were there none. So long however as one affiation
with the North continues, it will increase.?
A large amount of this Pauperism of the North is
attributable to the influx of Foreigners. Our institutions
prevent them coming South, and consequently
keep us clear of this demoralizing nuisance.
The few that is thrown upon us from the
North now, will, by disunion, be stopped. The improvements
in all branches of industry, which we
have before proved would arise trom disunion,
throws open a lucrative field of Labor for all, and
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eacn man, jruui iiiu iiiuuut-iiitfiiH* uuurcu, win uecome,
instead of a pauper, an honest Laborer,?
The grand issue with us now, is disunion or emancipation.
Disunion, and we are the happiest,
most powerful and most polished nation on earth.
Emancipation, and all the evils that the Goths and
Vandals threw over the "sunset gilded plains ol
Italy" will be but a preface to our fate. We will
be even below the North. The other day a poor
woman who had done a week's sewing for a large
clothing establishment in N. York, came in Saturday
night to get her pittance to buy her starving
children a bit of bread. She brought her work
and asked for pay just as the owner was leaving
his store; with a rude voice he eluded her for staying
so late, told her to bring it 011 monday. She
told him she had no bread, and her children werp
crying for want?taking a quarter from his pocket
he threw it to her, and with a hoarse laugh turned
toward his splendid mansion. This is only one
of a series of acts happening every hour in the
North. Emancipation promises this as one of its
brightest fruits, its main evils lie further in the back
ground. Then who would love to see such pauperism,
let him oppose disunion. Who would
like to see his children affiliated with negroes, let
him oppose disunion. Who would like to see the
sunny South the home of a ruined race, the land
of slaves and desecrated humanity, let him oppose
disunion. But he who would favor a separation,
which to us would be a salvation, will be in favor
of all the blessings of the Prophet, as follows:
From the Fairfield Herald.
Mr. Editor : Looking upon disunion as a
fixed fact?that this rotten and corpulent concorn
cannot much longer hold together, I veilture
to predict that the following blessings will
result to the South therefrom :
A more extended, purer and rational liberty,
with greater harmony and good will among
the members of* the Southern Confederacy, than
has ever existed between them under tho present
Union.
Free trade, with greater prosperity to all tho
various interests, agricultural, mechanical, commercial
and manufacturing?cotton never less
than 10 cents per pound, oftencr '20.
Creator strength and greater security to our
domestic institutions, with an entire stoppage
of border thieving and kidnapping, on tho part
of the North.
Greater extension of education, religion and
morality.
More railroads, and internal improvements
generally.
Negroes and land increase in value from 50
to 100 per cent.
Pauperism unknown in the land, and
If these predictions do not prove true, it is
useless to attempt to reason from cause to effect.
PROPHET.
Would it not be well for the committee of
Safety to take a fev* notes on the conduct of some
of those nutmeg fellows, who slide up here on the
cars, run about our streets a few days (nights too
wo suspect) and then slope again. What business
have they here? One thing is certain, they
have business, and that business may not be of
much benefit to us.
Hogs Coming!
The Greenville Mountaineer of last Friday
CO if o MTlrrtTTiie nf Tunnotco Vinnrc llO hoon r\Q CC.
ing through our Village nearly every day this
week; we learn that many others are on the road.
The price of pork will be higher than last year,
but as yet we learn that no general price has been
established."
At a meeting of the Mobile Southern Rights Association
last week, a committee was appointed
to inquire into the expediency, cost, &c., of building
eight steam-propellers, capable of carrying
3,000 bales of cotton, with a view of promoting a
direct trade between Mobile and Europe.
Southern Rights Meeting in Monroe.
We find in the last True SouthJon, the proceedings
of a "very large meeting of the citizens of
Union county, N. C. held at the court-house in
Monroe, on the 5th inst.," at which Col. J. C. Wilson
was called to the chair, and J. T. Draflin appointed
secretary. The object of the meeting having
been stated, a committee, consisting of J. N.
Davis, C. Auston, James Marsh, I. M. Newsom
and Joshua Sikes, Esqs. were appointed to prepare
a report.
After a short absence, the eommittee returned
and submitted the following preamble and resolutions
which were adopted, only a "federal eubmissionists"
voting in opposition:
Whereas, the frequent and continued aggressions
of the North upon the rights and interests
of the South, especially the more recent incessant
attacks upon our domestic institutions,
have disturbed the tranquility of this Republic ;
and,
Whereas, an oppressive majority in Congress
under the influence of the fanatical spirit of
abolitionism, and taking advantage of the
pledge of the Executive to with-hold the veto
power, so wisely provided for the protection of
the minority, have enacted a series of measures
highly prejudicial, not only to our property and
eur equality, as members of this confederacy of
sovereign states, but to the peace and quietude
of our firesides, and,
Whereas, large disunion meetings are being
held in various places in the North, threatuing
a repeal of an enactment of Congress, re-asserting
a plain provision of the Constitution,
made by our ancestors for our protoetion, therefore,
1. Rf.xohr.il, That it is the imperative duty of
all Southern patriots to la}' usitle all former political
differences, and unite to resist, if necessary,
the aggressive spirit displayed by those
who have thus violated the constitution, which
made this a confederated government, and in
which happily, the distinctive sovereignty of the
states respectively, is reserved.
2. Resolved, That we, the citizens of Union
County, warmly approve of the protest entered
by Mecklenburg, against the admission of California,
under the circumstances, and the dismemberment
of Texas, which was a gross violation
of state Sovereignty, a principle which
we pledge oursolves never to surrender.
3. Resolved. That, if we could indulge a
hope that the violations of the Constitution
could l>e repaired, the infringement of our rights
atoned for, and the Union preserved in the spirit
in which it was formed, we would stand by
it to the last, but, as we can look for nothing
hut insult and aggression, we pledge ourselves
to co-operate with all Southern patriots, in ev.
cry measure, founded in wisdom, which will enable
us successfully to resist oppression and to
protect our rights.
4. Resolved, That wo pledge ourselves to
co-operate with the patriots of the South, in any
line of policy which may he adopted to protect
our rights and honor.
5. Resolved, That the members of this con
fcderncy are independent sovereignties; and
that, when a majority in Congress, violates the
reserved rights of the states, as was done by
the passage of the slavery bills, self preservation
requires the states respectively to resume and
exercise all the powers ot sovereignty for the
protection of the people.
6. liesolred, That thoso of our members of
Congress who voted against the admission of
California and the dismemberment of Texas,
are entitled to the thanks of the whole South.
7. Resolved, That those sterling Southern
patriots o( Mecklenburg, Messrs, It. P. Waring
and W. It. Myers, be respectfully requested to
represent Union County with Mecklenburg in
the Nashville Convention.
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i"INK COTTONS AND UOOD IKlUl-iJ*.?.1 iuiui
10 lmlcs of Upland Cotton w;is sold yesterday
at 15 cents, and another lot oi'4 bales, was sold
at 10 cents.
These Cottons were from the plantation of
Col. G. 11. Jesup, Madison Co. Ga. and were
6old by Walters and Walker.
We also learn that 10 cents was offered and
refused by Hopkins, Hudson <Si Co. for a lot of
30 bales of Cotton from the plantation of Mr.
J. V. Jones, liurkc Co. Ga., and the offer was
made subsequent to the receipt of the intelligence
by the Niagara.
These sales speak well for the quality of
Georgia Cottons, and the character of Charleston
as a market.?Charleston Mercury.
A Mii.e a Minute.?Tho Utica Gazette
says that an express train on the UticA and Syracuse
railroad, with the engine "Lightning"
for its motive power, recently made thirteen
and a half miles in fourteen minutes, and that
one day last week, the same train came through
from Syracuse to Utica, fifty-three miles, including
three stops, in one hour and thirty minutes.
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For the Journal.
BIBLE SOCIETY MEETING.
TIic Anniversary meeting oftlie Camden an J
Kershaw Bride Society, was held at the Methodist
Church on the altfemoon of Tuesday, the
10th instant.
The President, James K. Douglass, esq., called
the meeting to order, and read a portion of
the Scriptures, tvhich was succeeded by prayer
from the Rev. S. S. Dnfvjs,.D. D.
The Reports of theSecretary'and Treasurer
were severally read and eon firmed, when Dr.
Davis, in a tew animated remarks, advocated
the claims of the Society to the aid and co-operation
of all philanthropists and christians.
Propositions were made respecting the appropriation
of monies in the Treasury, and atler
discussion by Messrs. J. S. Depass, D.-L. DeSaussure,
W. H. R. Workman, Tho. J. War
ren, ana Dr. Davis, it was
Besolved, That h more thorough survey of
this Distinct be made, under the supervision 'of
the Executivo Committee, and the funds be de-voted
in the first place to supply any destitution
which may be found there.
On motion of J. S. DePass it was
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to
solicit subscriptions from the Public*, generally.
The following gentlemen were then elected
officers for the ensuing year:
President?James K. Douglass.
Vice Presidents?D. L. DeSaussure, Jam?*
Dunlap, Burwell Boykin, Wm. E. Johnson, A.
D. Jones, Thos. Lang.
Executive Committee?C. J. Shannon, A. M.
Kennedy, Jno. C. West, John Workman, Wm.
E. Hughson, J. S. Depass, Tho. J. Warren.
Treasurer?Wm. Anderson.
Secretary?J. B. Kershaw.
T)rlprratpx In the. State Bible Society?J. B.
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Kershaw, A. M. Kennedy, Wm. Anderson, B.
Boykin, A. D. Jones, J. C. West
On motion of Dr. S. S. Davis the proceedings
of this meeting and the Reports of the Secretary
and Treasurer were ordered to be pub.
lished in tie Camden Journal. The Society
then adjourned; J. K. DOUGLASS, Pres.
J. B. Kbkshaw, Sec.
The Secretary of the Camden and Kershaw
Bible Society begs leave to submit the following
REPORT.
On the 11th January last a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Society was held,
at which it was Resolved that a Colporteur
should be employed to supply the destitute of
this District with the Bible, by sale and distri
bution. At the same meeting the Secretary
was instructed to order a bill of Books adequate
to Ike estimated demand, the cost of which will
appear from the Treasurer's Report to this
meeting. On the 6th "March a second meeting
of the Executive Committ? was held, when
Mr. Josiah R. Crawford, a Colporteur of the
American Tract Society, presented his credentials;
and he was formally commissioned as the
Agent of this Society, to explore the District,
and distribute "the Lamp of life," as extensively
as possible.
The Colporteur entered upon his duty on the
same day (March 6th) and continued in the service
of the Society for three months. During
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IMS ptTIUU lit* VI.-IIWI, 111 WJIS 1/iaiHUI., iwu Hundred
and forty families. He prayed and conversed
upon religious subjects with one hundred
and seventy-one families. Sold seventythree
bibles and Testaments; distributed, gratuitously.
fourteen. Found fourteen families
destitute of the Bible, and one destitute of all
books. Received for bibles, ?45,95, and expended
i:i the survey, 819,35. During the same
{wriod he distributed many of the valuable pubications
of the American Tract Society.
The Society has thus redeemed the pledge
assumed at the last anniversary, to meet the
demands of our own People. Thev have made
"the waste places of Jerusalem to break forth
into joy and sing together." It behooves us
now to seek new fields of labor, and new in- ^
vestments for our benevolent fund, and while
the demands upon the extensive Philanthropy
of the Parent Society continue to increase with,
the diffusion of knowledge over the universe,
we can be at no loss for proper subjects of our
chnjjty.
fli-p.ictfully submitted. ,
J. B. KERSHAW, Sec.
Nov. 10th, 1850.
REPORT
Of iho Treasurer of the Camden and Kershaw
Bible Society for 1*50.
DR. .' *
Balance of cash in hands of Treasrtr,
as reported Nov. 1850. 39.75
Am'tcollectd at anniversary at the
Presbyterian Church, - 35.56
Am't collected by Mr. Shannon, 15.125
Am'tofsub'ns collected tor 1850, 62.50
Ani't received for book sold, - 62.79
J214.75;
CR.
By bill of books purchased from
American Bibie Society, - 122.43
By cash paid Mr. Crawlord, Colporteur.
for 3 months services, 25.00
By cash paid his expenses, 19.35 .
? ?166,77
Cash balance in the hands ol Treasurer, 84*7,70
W. ANDERSON, Treas'r.
Nov. 9, 1850.
Mississippi.?Tho followiug paragraph,
from the Baltimore Sun of Friday, gives the only
additional intelligence we liuve from this
Stato:
Jackson, (Miss.) Nov. 19.?The legislature
convened yesterday. The Governor's message
u'9Q transmitted nnd road. After irivimr n his.
tory of the wrongs of the South, he says: "Let
the proposition be distinctly made to the nonslaveholding
States, to remedy the wrongs..so*
far as it may be in the power of Congress to
do so, by obtaining from California a concession
of 3H dog. 30 min. or otherwise to consent to
such amendments of the Constitution as shall
hereafter secure the rights of the slavcho'ding
States from misconstruction and further aggressions
; but in the event of a refusal to do so,
I do not hesitate to express my decided opinion
that the only effectual remedy to the evil, w hich >
must continue to grow from year to year, is
to be found in the prompt and peaceable secession
from the aggressing States "