BALDWIN COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS Meeting in Milledgeville 1833

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State Rights Party organizational meeting in Milledgeville, GA Nov 1833

Information from microfilm of the Georgia Journal, published Milledgeville,
GA by Prince ; Ragland, State printers and Publishers of the Laws of the
United States:


The State Rights Party was organized 12 Nov 1833 in the
Representative Chamber at the State House in Milledgeville, GA.  A committee
of thirteen was appointed to prepare resolutions expressing the sentiments
of the party.  Members were:  Hon. A. B. Clayton, Hon. William M. Crawford,
Dr. Wm. C. Daniell, Col. Jones, Mr. Haberesham, Mr. Hillhouse, Col. Rockwell,
Mr. Chappell, Mr. Young, Gen. Reall, Col. Newton, General Warren, and Hon.
Charles Dougherty.  [I believe all thirteen were members of the state 
legislature.]

Christopher B Strong was called to the chair on motion from Mr. Gordon
of Putnam.  Mr. (?)____ [looks like Bayse] was appointed Secretary on motion
from Mr. Hillhouse.  Mr. Longstreet was appointed assistant Secretary.

The party was organized in direct response to President Jackson's Proclamation
and the Force Bill.  Later editorials gave the attendance estimate at 350-500.
According to an editorial correspondent, who signed as "Examiner",
[possibly Condy Raguet, publisher of the Philadelphia Examiner] all thirteen
of the members of the committee listed above were "nullifiers."

NOTES:
I didn't find any reference to John C Calhoun's presence in Milledgeville, but
his nullification principle was well represented.  This party assembled
four formerly adversarial political groups to operate on a singularly focused
platform.  There were organizational meetings throughout Georgia during
the following six weeks.

This was not the organization of the CSA, as Mr.H. W. McNabb of Webster county 
Missouri claims in 1866, but it was an apparent
outgrowth of Calhoun's nullification principle and the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions of 1798 and 1793 respectively.  According to the resolutions
presented in 1833, the State Rights Party was an attempt to "reorganize
the old Republican party."  [I'd call it a direct ancestor of the CSA.]
  
I did a Google search for the State Rights Party but didn't find anything.

Some great tales of the meteor shower of Nov 13 morning in these newspapers.
This is the shower that inspired the spiritual "My Lord! What a Morning
and the pop-song "Stars Fell On Alabama, also based on Black American
tradition.

The "riot on the 19th was a mere tavern brawl with one
dead, one wounded and one arrested.