(1850) Two-session meeting of proslavery U.S. Southerners.
In 1849 Mississippi held a convention at the urging of John C. Calhoun , calling for all slaveholding states to send delegates to Nashville, Tenn., to form a united front against perceived Northern aggression. Delegates from nine Southern states met in June 1850; though extremists favoured secession , moderate Whigs and Democrats prevailed. The group adopted 28 resolutions defending slavery but was willing to allow an extension to the Pacific of the boundary established in the Missouri Compromise . After the Compromise of 1850 , a smaller group of delegates met in November; dominated by extremists, it denounced the compromise and called again for secession.