Annual Message of the Governor of Mississippi

ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI

The annual message of Governor McRae, of Mississippi, was transmitted to the Legislature of that State on the 1st instant. The New Orleans Delta says:

It is exclusively devoted to a review of the Abolition movement at the North. He enumerates the following from the measures of the Compromise, in 1850, in Mississippi, as acts which would justify a resort to resistance:

1. The interference by Congressional legislation with the institution of Slavery in the States.

2. Interference in the trade in slaves between the States.

3. Any action of Congress on the subject of Slavery in the District of Columbia, or in those places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety and domestic tranquility of the rights and honor of the slaveholding States.

4. The refusal by Congress to admit a new State into the Union, on the ground of her tolerating Slavery within her limits.

5. The passage of any law by Congress prohibiting Slavery in any of the Territories.

6. The repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the neglect or refusal by the General Government to enforce the constitutional provisions for the reclamation of fugitive slaves.

He recommends the Legislature to send to the Governors of the non-slaveholding States, to be laid before their Legislatures, and through them before their people, "resolutions unanimously reaffirming the position of Mississippi, with a calm, temperate, and dignified exposition of our rights, and our determination to maintain them at all hazards."

Georgia, he adds, has taken very much the same position with Mississippi; and I recommend also to the Legislature, to invite the other slaveholding States to meet in convention, respectively, and, if approving the position of Mississippi and Georgia, to take with them the same position, or with such modifications of it as they shall respectively approve, that, in view of the dangers which threaten their institutions and overthrow of the Government, they may unitedly stand upon a well-defined and unmistakeable position, to resist the aggression of this sectional organization, maintain their constitutional rights, and preserve the Union of the States.