A Southern Convention

Since the beginning of the Anti-Slaery ngilaiion, proposals for calling Suuthern Conventions for the purpose of uniti tig the South in resiss'.ince to the antislavfry nction of the North, have been .nnde at different time?, and from influentinl qua ríe ra, but have unif.irmly faileii tlirough the iniluence of a few farsecing southern statesmen. These have urged, with mucli truth, that a Convention could not agreo upon any general and definite plan of action : that the members would come from distant seotions of ihe country, from planting and from farming States, and would be far from harmonizing in their views ; and that in the debates, the weakness, helplessness and divisions of the Soutli would be fully developed, anci i be sprend tlirough tlie newspapers beibre all the nation, cnrrying encouragement and animation to the AboHtion funatics of the North, and producing discouragement and distraclion among the Slaveholdcrs of ïhe South. These considerntions, and others of a similar character, hnve hitlierton-evented the ca'ling of a Southern Pro-Slavery Convention. But the subject is again broached nt this time, with a special view to the action of Congress on the Wilmot PO viso, and the result of the coming Presidential election. The Camden (S. C.) Journal has the follovving suggestions on the matter : "We have seen the suggestion that the people of the slaveholding States should hold primary meetings in tfiëir respective election districts, for the purpose of selecting delégales to a general convention, to adopt some mensures tor the del'ence of their rights. It is vain to disguise the fact that this question has to be met in some such way : nggression has been on the increase for some years [)asl ; the enemies of our instituí ions have grown bold enough to trample every comprom'se of the Constitution ; law is not regirded,and brutal outrnge and murder is ierpetrated in open day. The only rfttiedy is in presenling to the North the inevitable consequence of this suicidal policy. The whole South mus', do this to effect the desired end - the cohtin ed peafe of the country and the pivservation of the Union. We trust ïhe prftss of the South will take tip the subject, and would suggest that South Carolina, ■ay the citizens of Charleston, would set the ball in motion, and correspond wilh the citizpns of other States, inviting llieir Co-operatlon. Something must be done, and that speedily, to avert the fenrful conspquences that must ensue, if the wicked course of the people of the free Stales be persisled in. What the South will do ought to be uncquivocally sta ted ; the line of defensive nction which she has determinad to pursue,onght to be ciitinctly marfcert, and before the next ("ongress. If this is done, we wil] hear nothing more of ïhe Wilmot Proviso, and the country will be snvpd. The Presidential elpction is nt hand, and we exhorl the people of the South to enst aside mere parlv predilections, and vote for no man who will not give unequivocal pledges that hifr Jïxecutive interference will be used to deleat that and every kindred measure."