05 Sep 1850
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Newspaper
Canton The Madisonian
Location
Canton, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1850
Page
1
A garbled 19th century notice from the Madisonian details weekly advertisements with rates for first insertion a dollar per ream of ton tines and a cent for each subsequent insertion. It states no paper continues without advertiser consent and jobs are to be done neatly at a fair price.
A Southern States meeting adopts six resolutions asserting that life liberty and property are protected by laws and peer judgment and that existing colonial and U S laws form the territorys fundamental law. It calls for 36 30 parallel boundaries and opposes California admission and Texas–New Mexico adjustments until territorial questions are settled. It preserves the committee’s powers and ability to convene again.
A long Mississippi Valley column defends Texas sovereignty and denounces federal coercion, accusing President Fillmore and Clay of threatening war to curb state rights. It condemns California statehood under slavery exclusion and includes a Virginia senator protest against California's admission, arguing it undermines slaveholding states and the Constitution.
Fragmented 1860 correspondence shows Senator Sam Houston of Texas accused of introducing Wallace’s name in Senate debate to cast doubt on the Jackson Mississippi convention and the Nashville gathering. Wallace asks for a written statement and recounts a Senate reply denying misuse of Calhoun’s name.
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