Speech of Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi: Delivered at Elwood Springs, Near Port Gibson, Miss., November 2, 1850 This movement was seconded in almost every county in the State; and wherever the people assembled, delegates were appointed to a general State convention; and in every instance, so far as I am informed, these delegates were chosen from the two great political parties, one half Whigs and the other half Democrats. The contemplated convention assembled at Jackson, in October, and recommended a convention of the Southern States, to assemble at Nashville, at some future day, to be agreed upon among the States. The Mississippi movement was responded to with great unanimity in several of our sister States - in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. There seemed to be for a time, a very general and united sentiment in favor of the proposed convention at Nashville. The scheme was not without warm and influential friends in North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The other slaveholding States, to wit, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, gave little or no indication of a disposition to favor it. Early in the Autumn of 1849 some of the first friends of the Southern movement began to falter; and, as time advanced, they continued to recede from their bold stand in defence of the South. The secret influences which were at work to produce these unhappy results, will be found, I apprehend, elsewhere than in the places now pointed out. We are now told by some, that they discovered a better state of feeling at the North toward the South. Others pretend to have been convinced that the movement was premature, and calculated to embarrass the action of Congress; whilst a much more numerous, and a much more dishonest class, pretend to have discovered that this convention was to be nothing less than an assemblage of conspirators, treasonably bent on the destruction of the Union. Whilst all this was going on, the sagacious politician and the man of thought did not fail to see the true reasons for all this infidelity to a once cherished and favorite measure. The truth was, that ambitious and aspiring politicians had discovered that the Southern movement was distasteful to General Taylor, General Cass, and other distinguished gentlemen, then high in the confidence of their respective party friends. The movements in California began to develop the true policy of General Taylor, and the Nicholson Letter had received a new reading from General Cass. It became apparent that the South must be sacrificed, or party leaders repudiated, and party ties obliterated, and politicians had begun to take sides accordingly, when Congress assembled in December. Up to this time, however, there remained enough of Southern influence to keep a powerful phalanx of Southern nun closely allied for common defence. The effort to organize the House of Representatives, made it manifest, that the South meant something more than an idle bravado in the course she had taken. For almost an entire month, the first successful step in the election of a Speaker had not been taken; and at last, when. Mr. Cobb was chosen, it was by a plurality, and not, as usual, by a majority of the votes given. At this time, there was manifested the most determined spirit in defence of the rights of the South. Still, the close observer could not fail to see that the insidious spirit of parts was busy at work. President Taylor transmitted his annual me Congress, and General Cass treated us to another reading of the "Nicholson letter." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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