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h.. 3 Bemocratic Tourna, vaott to souttta 3,jto, 1xtwo, outiT , "We Wi eling to the Pillars ofthe T&Wple of our abties, if it ifust w* wil Perish amidst the ains. - W. F. DURISOE, vropriceor. EDGEFIELD, S. C., OCTOBER 2,1851 voL.xvI.e-o. Ti EDGEFiLu ADVERTISE n PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. W. F. DUR!SOE, Proprietor. ARTHUR SINKINS, Editor. TER S.--Two DOLLARS per year. if paii in advancc---Two DOLLARS and Firry CF.NTs not paid in six months---and TiRFE DOLLARS i not paid before the expiration of the year. Al subscriptions not distinctly limited at the time o subscribing, will be coneidered as made for an in definite period, and will be continued until al arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Pub lisher. Subscriptions from other States must bc accompanied with the cash or reference to somt one known to us. ADVERTISEMENTS will be conspicuously inser ted at 75 cents per Square (12 lines or less,) foi the first insertion, and 371-2 for each subsequen1 insertion. 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The Chairman, upon motion, appointed the following Committee of Invitation: Dr. Jonx LANDRum, DANIEL HOLLAND, Col. J. C. SYLY, S. W. NICHoLsos, JAMES DonN. JOHN LANDRUM and C. M. MAY, Secreta. ries. A resolution was then offered, and unani tnously :dopted. to tite effect, that a Commit tee to consist of thirty-one members be ap pointed to prepare an exposition of our principles, as Co-operationists,-of the causes Wvhich have led to our formation as a party, and of the policy which it is our purpose to pursue. The chair proceeded to appoint said com tnittee-Capt. P. S. BaooKc. chairman. At an early hour on the 20th. the people began to assemble, and by 11 o'clock a large coneourse of inen-the stanch voters of the lnvmbrigauvgz combining as much respectability and intelli gende as *e have ever seen on any occasion. At i2 o'clock the President of the day, Major J. C. AWt., etlled the meeting to or der, and in a few most appropriate and perti nent remarks, explained the objects of the ineeting; at the ennelusion of which he call ed on the ethrnmitte of thirty-onte, who re ported through their chnirman, Capt. P. S. Baooxs. At the request of the President the leport and Resolution were read by the Chairman. The President then introduced Col. A, P. A.Dattti, of Barnwell, to the au dience, who was most Wartmly received. Col. ALDRiCH in an eloquent and powerful speech, enchained the attention of his audience for about an hour and a half, attended, ts we believe, with decided effect. As We hope to obtain a copy for publication. we abstain from attempting any delineation of it. Capt. Bnooks follotied in a oicible and argumentative speech, showintg tite utter itt efficacy of separate State secession as a remedy for the *rongs we endure: and that the people would not tolert~e the btrdts and privations it would entail. At the coneittsion of Capt. Broos' speech, the President invited the entit e company to repair to the tables, 4vhich were laden "ht an excellent barbecued dinner, furnished by our public-spirited fellow-citizen, Captain J. DoRtN. After dinner the company returned to the stand. The President pres.ented the H-on. A. BUr, who was most warmly and enthusiastically received by the mneet in'g. Mr. BR's speech was decidedly able throughtout-his posit ions Were impregnable --his argutments unansweratble-at least. so we thought, and such was the gener;;l opinion expressed. Lest w'e might do thtegentletan injustice, we do not atttempjt to give ai report of his speech, as we did tnot take notes. 'When Mr. BUar hatd tittished speatking, the President offered the Report and Resolu tion (which had been previously read) to the~ meeting, wvhich were unanitmously adopted, with thte exception of two dissenting v~oics. The Presidentt then ntounced, that letters had been received frotm several dlistingnished gentlemen; but that owing to the lateness of thte hour, (near sun-set) he wats cotmpelled to omit reading thetm; that they would be published, and he hioped the people wouldk giv~e themi an attentke perutsal. We have never on any occasion seen bet ter order preserved, or more constantt and earnest attention given. Thei day passed without a single occurrence to mar its pro eeedings. JOHIN C. ALLEN, President. eHNs LANDaUM' Secretaries. C. M1. MAY, Thte cotmmittee of thirty-one, appointed ai a prelitninary meeting of Co-operatiniist atnd charged' with " an exposition of thii prittciples as Co-opraionists--of the cautse which have led to their formationi as a party antd the poliey which it is their purpFose It pursue," resp'etfully submit the fo.llowing~ together with the subhjoined resolutiott EXPOSITlON. 1. Itt common wvith our friends of th< SSeparate State Secession Party" wec hoh to the doctrine of te sovereigntty of th< States of lhe Anmerican Union. as expontde< in the Virginiat and Ketucky~ Resolutiotns o 1198 and '99. 2!. W~e concur in the belief that the Con stit ut ion of the United States, which wm ordainedl to est4ablish justice, insure domenslig tramniliily antd promofe the gene'ra1 ice/fart ha:s been grossly anid insutlting~ly violated both ftt its sphirit and text. 3. We are forced to the conviction, and d verily helieve, t hat our present contentmtieni and( I'nture happiness-the stability of out iz.titoi.--the scial elevationi of our rmee as well as the advancement and well-being of our children, is attainable, not by any eiort which now can, or will be made, to promote " a more perfect union between the States of this Confederney, but alone by its positive and permnment division and dissolution. Thoroughly impressed with the truth of every part:mid parcel of the above creed.the r question presents itself-how is disunion to be efreeted ? Prior to the nmth of May last, we were led to suppose, and did unsuspectingly be lieve, that this desideratumi was to be accom Iplished, by the preconcerted secession, at or about the same time, of two or more of the States, which have a common interest, and have endured common wrongs. We are frank to admit, that we confidently expected (nor did we in any wise object.) that South Carolina would be amongst the first to act. To this end " Southeri Rights As sociations" were formed throughout this State, and many of us (believing that they were in reality what they assumed to be in name) cheerfully enrolled our names as members of the Association in this District, and have ever been ready to lend our services towards promoting Southern action. We united in the appointment of Dele gtes to meet those of other States in the Nashville Convention, and approved the com missioning of other delegates, by the Legis lature, to represent the State at large. The Nashville Convention met and adjourn ed to assemble again six weeks after the ad. journment ot Congress. The people of this State were looking with confident hope to its proceedings. Our gen eral elections passed off without discussion of federal matters, or committals by the can didates for the Legislature, save to the extent of portraying the wrongs of the WHOLE South, and urging the support of whatever action, the Southern Convention, then short. ly to re-assemble at Nashville, might take. The delegates from this State returned during the sitting of our Lerrislature, when the venerable taid great LANIoDN CIIEVES, (who was then and still is a leading Co-oper ationist) became the guest of the State of Sonth Carolina. Mississippi who first invited the States of the South into conference, having provided for a call of a Convention of her people, it was urged, not without some reason, and with great plansability that good faith to her, and with a view to carry out the plan of con certed nction, as also to enable the two Con venlions mutually to sustain each other, made it proper, that this State should do so likewise. deleg.ites within six iceeks of its ndjourn inent, and the opinions of the candidates for the Convention were not given to the public until treo weeks prior to the eleetion. At this point of time, it is true, that the alternative of single secession by South Car olina was to a degree presented ; but it was an issue so alogether contingent, so remote, so novel, so ditlerent from the plan of disso lution previously suggested, and upon which the minds of the people had for so long a time contidently rested, that it failed to make an inpression comiiensurate with the respon sibility and magnitude of the measure. A - few who were Co-operationists according to the significtion of the word, and who had bestowe-d more reflection upon the tendency of poli~ieal afftirs than others of us, took the :darm and expressed their apprehensions. They trembled upon beholding their own, and the lives, fortunes and liberties of their children, committed to an oligarchy, created without consultation with the people, with powers unlimited, and ushured into existance within six weeks of its conception. Oir friends were somewhat reassured by the notnination to the Ionvention of our dis tingnished fellow-citizen, Senator BUTLEr., for althoughi his name was afterwards with drawn (the motion for which is now manifest) the reson then assigned for the withdrawal, was the incompatibility of the positions lie would oecnpy wvhen elected. They were also in a measuire consoled by their confidence, in the init.ligence and initegrity of those persons who were likely to be delegates from Edge field. What, t hotugh their apprehiensions Ihad increatsed raither thatn diminished, with bulit six wee'ks% to commiunicate them to others Iless thioughttftl than themselves? It ha:s been said by our " polliiienl Nestor," that " the piihosophly of liherty is jearlons." IYet of what avail is wvisdom, when reqtuired within six short weeks to direct the minds of the peopi of an entire State, of our fixed idea aind then to enthrone another? Time rolled ott. anmd though amonigst the politicians of the Statte it became perceptible ithat a few wer a little too hot, and others a lhttle too coMd, still the treat body of our peo'ple retna~inedl itndivided, ams the great -Southern Rtights party" of South Carolina. On the fifith of May last, aniothc' Co nven tion asseinbled in Charleston-a Convention called a " Convention of delegattes from Southern Rights Associatiions" anmd comnpfosed of delegates professing to desire the co-oper ation oft Southern States. On the first day Iof its sitting it becamie evident, tha~t although~ the co-operaition of thme other Southe~rn States wvonilI not, be formally reptudiated, yet the amim and end of their proceedintg4, was thme sepiar~ae secession of South Catrolina fromu the union of States. It, further appears, by inevitable and con elusive implication, t hat it was the design and object of thiis self-constituted Convention to Iforestall. bias and control the netion of the State Convention. fo'r the aippended resolu tIon (which left the State Conivention free and untramnelled and expressed conlidence ini Idown by an overwhlehnaing majority. "lRsored, Tfhat feeling entire confidence Sin thme Constitutionatl organs of onr St:'te I. Goemet and the wisdomt and tidelity of the Convention elected.unimder the act passed - Iat lie last session ot t he Legislatuire, we are jwrfetly willing to leare to them the mode :ind mueasuire ot redress, for the wrongs we , have suffered fronm the Federal Government, , is well as the lime of its application; and without indiag or suggesting the course iit behooves them t o pursue, we hereby pledge ourselves to abide by~ their action. whefiher rthe same sha~ll be for se'esei'mn from the Union with, or without the co-operation of the other Southern States." I Let the above resolution be contrasted i with the following which passed with butfire c dissenting voices, a meeting composed of near five hundred members, and doubt, who i cn, the object and design of the Charleston r Convention. "Resolced, That in the opinion of this T meeting, the State of South Carolina cannot. submit to the wrongs and aggressions which v have been perpetrated by the Federal Go- f vernment and the Northern States, without s dishonor and ruin: and that it is necessary to ji relieve herself therefrom, whether with* or r without the co-operation of other Southern t: States. r We repeat, let the two resolutions be con- fi trasted. P Thus it appears that the old system of e: political tactics was abruptly abandoned and o a new system unceremoniously introduced. I A new ligiht here dawned upon our vision. The scenes are shifted. "Southern Rights o Associations" are interpreted to mean asso- . ciations for the advancement of the separate a secession of South Carolina and a Conven- e dlon of the people of the State, called "for a the purpose in the first place, of taking into consideration the procedings and recom- . mendations of a Congress of the slave-hold- b ing States, if the same shall meet and be held, it and for the further purpose of taking into fi consideration the general welflare of the State, is indirectly instructed (not by the peo- vo ple in primary assemblies. but by a sef-con- v stituted Convention, consisting in part, of vi members of the very Legislature which call- ei ed the State Convention) to achieve these- ol parate secession of South Carolluna, a If to participate in the proceedings of a tm meeting, a part of which proceedings, is to ci rote doron a resolution expressing "coufi- at dence in the wisdom and fidelity of a State si Convention 'and a willingness to leave to fin them the mode nnd measure of redress," is tl politically right and proper in one member of qi the identica Legislature which called the of Convention, then it follows that etery cniber could with equal propriety have participated fu lso; and if each and every member, might te have been present, with the same propriety o0 as those metmbers who were present, what th objection could have been made to their ap- w penring as organized bodies with the speaker fe :f the House and the President of the Sen %te at the head of their respective branches? w Now, if the same Legislature (the creature th if the people) which calls a Convention has te ihe right also, even indirectly to instruct it, tu by "indienting" and "stugresting" what it ri ,hall or shall not do, what becomes of our As citizens of a Republic, when every free ti< aian is a sovereign, we cn never tolerate in ve dience and without our solemn protest, a in :hange of government, without an obser- lic rance. at least, of the spirit of our State th Constitution. us In the last article of the Constitution of of 3d June. 1790, it is declared that, "No part pC ,f this Constitution shall be altered, unless m t bill to alter the same, shall have been rend w hree times in the house (if Representatives, w nd thrce limes in the Senatc, and agreed to S Liy two-thirds of both branches of the whole ith representation, neither shall any alteration at take place, until the bill so agreed to, be pub- bt lished three months previous to a new election I ror members to the house of Representatives, of nd if the alteration so proposed by the Le- ol gislature, shall be agreed to in theirfirst ses- ki sion, by rn.thirds of the whole representa- Vt tion in both branches of the Legislature a'lei nj the same shal! have been read three times on d( three several days, in each house then, and os not otherreise, the same shall become a part of C this Constitution." el A bill enneting the same provision in rela- re tion to amendments was ratified in the man- se ner prescribed on the 17th December, 1808. And shall it be pretended that precautions and restraints, so stringent upon the Legisla- an ture, in regard to an ateration, of even that article of the Constittution which requires a tmember to resign his seat wheni electe~d Lieu tenant-Governor, have so little force, bearing, l or elliect, in spirit or facet, upon a Convention,I that it mayv be called by the Legislacture with ont the expectation of the people, elected t without disenssion by a minority, empowered to alter, amend or annul enah and .every arti elei of the satne Constitution and launch our people into an " oenn of tnneert aintv," anid into revolution, :all within six reeks of titme ? s We solcmnly aver our belief, that an ordi nance in any ivise afTeting onr State Const! tution, passed by a Convention thns consti tuted. would he0 a.i flagrant and oppressive a violation of the Constitutional and political I r rihrbts of the citizen as any ennetment of the 0 Federail Congress. I We are constrained to regard a Conven tionu so called, if at the time wvith a v'iewv to the separate seession of South Carolina as an abuse tif delegated authority, and as an I invasion of the most vital principle of our State Constitution ; to wvhich it is a duty of t patriotisml, to interpose a detertmined, perse vernge iwsistance We quote from Jninins. (when fonjnuri..; his conrvmen never to snlTer an invasion of their political .const it ution, however minute1 the instance) a paragraph as here applicable: " One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitufte law. Whtat yes terday was fact, to-day 1.3 doctrine. FExam- t pIes are supiposed to justify the inost dange rous mueasures: and when they do not suit r exaetly, the defect is supplied by analogy." ~ WVe do not piropose lhere to disenlss the ex pediency oif separate secession ; but contenut ourselves with expressing our unompromi sing opposit ion t o the measure. as ineill-etual as a remedy and involving embarrassmnts,l distresses andi dungers,whuich we are required neither by honor or interest yet to incur. WVe are 'incapable of pereeiwmgt in whuat manner good can with probablility resnut from the measure, while the evils crowd ithfek upo u'". B ecauise we have been unjustly excluded from the territory of Californi, we l enn see no reason, why we should voluntarily . relinquishu our interest in that, of the Westt and Sonth-west, together witih "ur propoir-1 tionate interest, in thec public Trensury, in t the Forts, in the Army and Navy, and in fact,l al'l kinds of public property. Nor can wve comprehend that sort of resis tac .3luc niva u n more than is demanded, ind aggravates the very evI, which when I nflicted, excited the desirerto, resist. Be nuse we are not permitted to take our slave iroperty to California, we cabi see no reason vhy we should deny oursefettAhe right of cinoving them to Georgia or'Slississisppi. Ilat portion of our fellol-eitizens who irge secession, because they are not permitted o take their slaves to California (where they rould in no likelihood tiltham) seem to I urget in their zeal for the fn of separate ecession that they will infliet the same in istice upon us, who are Co4perationists, by t efusing us the privilege of tiking ours to ic west, where there is a iiselihood, that 9 any of us may desire to g4,nand where our riends and kindred have goer'before.- Our nrpose and desire is to se*iTate from our Wiies of-the; North, and noradt the sacrifice r a separation from our icnds of the f But in a Republic the williftle majority Y f the sovereign people is-lae inw'of:the r md, and whenever that willis. constitntion- t ly ascertained, and constitu"onally express 1, we recognize the moral bligation upon minority to obey. P That.the relative strength the Secession * id Co-operation parties in tk,.StntehiI(fet i en submitted to any certal iftat, is wholly n admissible and altogether J- iupported by a ets. The vote token for dole es to the- Con- Y! mtion, was unprecedently, mall, andit is Iimated that not more tha 'ic-hrd6fthe X ting population of ihe SI Aierieia he b eetive franchise. We re -thebcstion 'secession not as the cetf!-a party or individual, but the.comni' useAf -every q an in Carolina. If two-thi sof 6ur fellowv- *" tizens of the State. Periou and deliber- 0 ely desire South Charo 4tO withdiaw a ngly, from the Union, and herself upon ) !t sovereignty, they have ut to expi-ss eir wish in legal form to nre- otir ne iescence as good and loy- ..tlow-members ' the Republic. t We announce without ei fty -our desire b r a general election, as th oat available s st of the popular sentini t If the Co- V( >erationists are In a mii. r..-throughout b e State, ive desire to kno tyin-rder.that -. e may render ready homA otinQmajority' . uture of Denohatic G'o 0 it - If the Secessionists ha , 4Joity, to T Iieh they ' y claim, they.' - :pefil.o it cir faith by subjecting the to the. st required. If they hav na6sti. tional majority, they ih a a 6 ht to secede. With a view to preserve n o ihed DQy -I In - in, it is respectfully stiggested that the Con. ltion elect shnll meet at an early day, and ei ake on appeal from the people (it is be ved that the whole people will concur in e appeal, and thcrefore the word people is ta ed) of this State, to the sovereign people t each of the slave-holding States, (an ap al which we submit, has nevbr yet been t ide) and urge and solicit then to unite " ith as in dissolving the "political bands iieh have connected us" With the free-soil a ates of the North. If in the diseretion of 'I e Convention it is deemed advisable, let n o firm and able men, of its own selection, tu ncommissioned to go and reason with our 1 ethren. Then in order that the stintiriient our people 'ny not continue a matter of E minion, but be reduced to the certainty of owledge-that they may deliberately sur- St y every obstacle in the path of Secession, th d iiensure their strength of means, and termination of spirit, to encounter and -ercome them ; let any future action by the P onvention be suspended, until after the next ection of members to the House of Rep-'. sentatives and the expiration of its first o By this nrrangeinent the plan of separate al cession could be rationally discussed, in a Ii ne and temper of kindness and respect p rhich decency makes imperative where the w iference of opinion is honest and sincere) mr f'ore the peopite, whose concern alone it is. If such persons as we may select, as thme si ponents of our views and piinciples are f rly beaten before the people, wve engage b neaquiesce cheerfully, and we furthermore d edge ourselves to abiide and sustain the ti ion of two-thirds of the sovereign people u Sotith Carolinai, " whether. the same shall for secession from the Union, with or ti ithout the co-operation of the other South- ii -ni States." i Nlowever nnessential to the disenthrawi- Ii cnt of South Carolina, our Secession Im iends mayv effect to esteem the co-operation at rone or 'more Southern States, they all ad- C it, that union among our people is indis nsible to the success of their plarn. To uc at tninimenut of this union, we point the ny : and if the overture is declined, ivey llhmit that, the following dedluctions ean beC, eit her fairlv di -proven or reasonable denied : e ist. Thati the Secession party do not p' ,mselves believe that thiey havec tihe eon- a itutionni majority for a change of Constitu. 01n. ind 2nd. That their object is, not the deliver- a nee of South Carolina from federaml hondnuge, ~ t the party- conitroul andc management of the late. We deprecate divisions na mueh as any en, ned desire to avoid them ; but niot at in cost of an entire abandonment of our rinciples and convictions. We regard the elegates to the Convention, but nms "the mnrs of the estate. Tihe fee simple is in a, s; (the people') they cannot alienate, they i annot w.ast e." To the end then, that thec sent Iment of the f cople may be neeltrately ascertained and t eliberately expressed, and in exercise of theu ight which pertains to us politically as sover-r igis, inl reterence to our agents ; be it there arep Resolrerl, Thet the delegates to the Statee :onventionr, from Edgefleld. be, and nre here- 4 'y instructed, tha:t prior to the first damy of anullary, 185,3, they give no vote for, or coun-t e~nce to, any' or'dinaunce or measure, which] ns for its obj'ect. the separate secession of 11 lhe State of So~uth Carolina from thme Amner-3 ~:a Confederacy. Respectfully submitted, P. S. BROOKS, < Chairman. Committee of 31. [ETTERS RECEIVED BY THE COM MITTEE OF INVITATION. CAMDEN, Sept. 16, 1851. .GExTLFEN,-If I felt at liberty to parti >ate in debating ihe great questions of the lay, I know no where I should seek an au lience more to my mind than one composed if the citizens of Edgefeld; for, while I re iudiate the trick of adulation towards indi 'iduals or communities, I am, nevertheless, mpelled, by all that I know of your peop,le, o entertain a very favorable opinion of that sanly spirit and that good degree of intelli ence, which pervade the general population f Edrefield, and-which alone will ever lend peoplejto independent judgment and inspire hem with a love of truth and an unterrified itrepidity in fillowing its lead. I have not argotten the manifestation of such qualities, Id the admiration of them in others, which on 'of Edgefield heretofore gave in that ire steadfastniess with which you adhered 3 your brilliant representative, the late Mr. [eDuFrIE, though he differed from you upon lore than one question of gravity. By that nnage in your career you testified, that you ]mired genuine talent, adorned by virtuous itrepidity in publie station; that you would either eramp the free energies of a great ad bold intellect, by putting upon it shaek ssimply because you had the power, nor et1with the - fickleness of children or the iy of fools,. cast into the rubbish a sharp 1gedjewej because you might be tenipted the 8moother surface of the more tawdry tting of pinchback. Now is the time, permit e to saggest, to-shew forth such excellent ialities in bolder relief, with more steady gor, than ever before. Keep your eye fixed a the drama that is in course of perform ice; be not bewildered by the gaudy scene thrown around, nor the artistic conjurn ons.of. the players:-these are addressed ily to the' imagination. Gentlemen, in the alities of life, midividal or national,'tis bet r to look upon. the naked truth, though it a glstly sketeton, than upon -a tvhited pulchre, fair to -behold externally, but re aling within only corruption and dead men's )nes. You ask my views, " on the great qfies )ns that now agitate the State and-especi ly on the dangers and difficulties which ast necessarily, attend separate State sw sion. These topics are too broad for any thing as than an extended essay. Besides they mneern the future ; and though we are ob d to entertain views of the -futur-that foanticiptcasi'e-aswe anithe devel. Sneinaf isting easea-and to sha.& the ther more or less wise than other men, who ill assume the office of an infallible Prophet. ut this is the precise field upon which char tanry and imposture, or else a self-delusion at may not be dishonest, riot in luxuriance. hose, vhose honest hearts and cool heads ach them to feel and confess that they can )t loose the Gerdian knot except by the vord, are esteemed, by the self-sufficient, it dupes of him who boldly professes th e Ill to untie it. Too often, for the happi is of Nations and the honor of human na re, have the people, sought to be deluded, tiied the eunning presumption; too often wve they shouted, "Great is Diana of the phesians.". I have faithfully endeavored to keep con antly before m'e such admonitions, while mmunieat ing, on several occasionswithin e past few months, my views upop the -et subject which is moving the ultimate liticl power of this State to its founda ans. Allow me to invite your attention to hat I have said toa the people of Greenville, York and of.Darlington, as comprising hat I believe, touching the matter you sug Wt. The letters I allude to contain lana jnge which I hope is undisgtailed and intel rible, and will exhibit more at large than is msible for this occasion, the advice which; hen asked for, I would, in all modesty, sub it to the people of this State. The true question for us is, hmowi shall we stin Afrienn Slavery in South Carolina 'Ym a series of annoying attacks, attended v incident al consequences that I shrink from :piting. and finally from forced and premn ire alsolition ? That is the problem before t-the naked and true point. Remember, alwaiys, that it is not a quecs on petmnliar and confined to South.Caroli ; bjut in full force maust press itself uipon any othier States, who have every rationail otive to unite with us, as ini a strictly com on cause, so soon ns they perceive that the ate of circumstances demands active eon Let us survey the ground wve are contpeiled ocupv. WVho 'make up our common enemy! Be nd slave-holding people, prejuidice is againsti s throuighint thae world! Otir more aclitei aeies are found in England and her .de Lndencies: in France with hers; in Mexico,I ud soon will be found, I appirehenid, (thiro' ie Pncitie intercourse, of Cilifornia and Ore on) in several countries of Asia: anad, above 11, we find our sturdy and perfidious .foes monag the people of our fraternmal associates thiis Federal Union. These latter have uisoned thme fountains of our common legis tiona; they mean to drug thierii still more ttally; fanaticism has no ears to hear its wn condemnation, no eyes to discoverit wn deformity or the precipice before it, no hnme to produce a blush for its own wick dess, no God but that of its own idolatry. It grows on what it feeds on"; it generates s own flame to consume others with itself. How arc we assailed ? Our slaves are cor pted hefe; they are seduced and stolen; iroughi force and fraud, in coriemapt of' Stat e and Constitution, they are protected from ecovery: en-States perfidiously aid this nie irious plunder by their legislation; the pul it is descorated by its co-operation. Our ommon government has fallen into the hands f Free-Soilers, enemies (headed by DANE L VEsTER) more dangerouis to us in the end, han lt the abolitionists of the Earth. [heir scheme wvas to reduce us (the slave olding States) to a powerless minority at Vashigton, in every department of the sovernment. The mean to this end was, to cure the votes of new States for thme side >. free-soil. lt is accomplished. Thme vaga on philanthrony of the North and North West aided this enterprize for an ulterior end -its object was, to make slavery local, not national as the Constitution does make it, to visit it with accumulated prejudice and fa. natical hostility, and finally to choke it to death for want of room to expand. This interest, therefore, cordially united with the free-soiler, whose chief aim was totvards offi cs and treasure; he was vehemently inspired by the love of office and plunder and hoped to muzzle any successful opposition froni the slave-lolding interest. It is humiliating to acknowledge that this nefarious conspiracy has found aid from weak or wicked represen tatives from the South. Such are the enemies opposed to us-such are the modes of attack. Will- the separate nationality of South I Carolini enable her successfully to combat i such enemies, or-counteract and defeat such i warfare - Sam solemnly persuaded that it will not. Suppose the State to be placed in that in dependent solitude into which a party here are bent upon hurrying us, if they can. - I I think we shall all agree that the hostile I pressure upun'South Carolina will not be thereby mitigated, whether it proceed from abroad, or from this Continent. Will ani man be equally confident in asserting, that ft s will not derive intensity from our act-that i it will not be concentrated upon us in par- a ticular? We have already complained, loud- i ly, that we have been isolated; that the shafts a of debate and of Resolutions have been t hurled especially into our sides. Against a whom shall we complain of isolation when c we have made it complete by our own act, 0 when we have quit the company of the South- 8 ern States, and for such.reasons as we assign s for it, touching to the quick their honor and it pride? Aye, and will not shafts be then sped 4l reaching nearer the cure than any ever hurled e by the tongue or the pen, from Washington, or from Boston ? When you afe thus isola- tl ted, what shall proteet you from any bucca- -4 nier of New England of the West' Indies, p scouring the sea-coast and its inlets, in this tJ same month of September, not- for a barrel % of Rice, but for a cargo of those who make q it? It is not to the purpose to answer, that 0 we shalt guard our coast. For if that can d be done at all, setession is not necessary to V that end. . It can be as w*6l done now. I do .t not pereelve that the. Constitutional prohibi- 8 tion on, a State to keep in- time of peace t "Ships of war," forms any obstacle or re- N guirpk the assent Of:Con t ils now of any. Xe, u t meet maraudera. .Beut :ifao tion whiat-hance-liave of a ditt onilv nient and whether in or ou o be a public or private benefit; for I may live c to see the day that their re-introduction may a be prohibited by ourselves, on the same poli- b cy that leads us to seek the exclusion of pes- a tilence by quarantine. The slealing and cor- n ruplion of them are the mischiefs. I see not a how these can be remedied by our separate a nationality. Shall we seek redress by letters . of marque and reprisal? Pandora's box will h be opened by that policy. We must either d remain in our shell, like a terrapin, or bo s beaten at that game. Our privateers will b scarcely prove superior in virtues to the gen- n cral class and conline themselves to enemies s goods and ships, even if dur public authority can indicate clearly the nation of the bue- i1 canier. U I apprehend, that the external commerce of Charleston must become extinct, or near ly so, when, and so long as it shall be the t capital of the Independent and isolated nation of South Carolina; if ii be not, yet that in terior States, such as Tennessee and North Carolina, will never consent to pay a duty r into the treasury of South Carolina in which they will have no interest, and anothei into t the treasury of the United States-that if no t duties are levied on imports into Charleston, I we shall have heavy direct taxes to support 1 our nationality, unless it should be upon a scale extremely insigniificant. I apprehe~nd that if we have to fight the United States, we shall, unaided, prove une qual to such a contest. That if we exist in peace, with commerce by imports and exportst suffocated, we shall exist in a very usts factory condition, relieved only by the mel-t ancholy consolation that we shall not exist long. That if trade is to be maintained by t smuggling, South Cmt olina will speedily be come a bye-word of reproach among more t than nowv calumniate her, and an unsuitable abode for honest men; that no man will look with pride into our pulpits, our legislative ~ halls, our Courts and Jury boxes, our Execu tive Oflices, and find thenm occupied by smug glers. That we shall impose upon ourselves a Wilmot Proviso so s-ringent as to be co extensive merely with the limits of ou~r ter ritory, since no slave can be carried beyond that line without a violation of the code of that government to wvhich all surrounding States belong. That when it shall be dis tinctly unde:rstood-we are; to take such po-. sition~ we shall find the body politic te have I suffered a woeful depletion in persons and ~ properth That in the struggle to rliaintain ~ ourselves, single-handed, we shall encounter ~ a rate of taxation that must make all wince l who have anything to tax. That in proper- ~ tion as annoyances shall multiply the military C arma of our political structure will grow 1 apace, until an inroad, to be seen and felt, C satll be made upon the semblance and the substance of Republican Government. That : as our people are driven to a State of despa- i ration we may find sonic of them not so much disgusted with abolitionm as they are I now, and I hope wvill ever be. That our very 1 location, being continental and not insular, with an ideal line of boundary between us< and States foreign to us, will multiply the means, the motives and the mutual provoca tions to harrass us, just as has evermore been and now is the ease among other nations in dependent and similarly situated. That in demnity for the past wve scarcely need expect,i under any c'ircumstatnces, and is utterly hope-1 less by isolation. That security for the fu ture is the proper object of our concern and dur efforts, and should remain the only object.: Thus wilfully and rudely to rupture all the1 powerful ties-sprnging from blood, habit,' commerce, history, identity in the interests of the nresent and future, in hope and pur pose-that now bind us to our-Southern-0ce States, against their judgment, their -dice and wishes, must produce a shockc te :fre of which I am wholly unable to-estiniatie. Such, Gentlemen, is a picture, thrdwiwoff hurriedly and far from complete I a'sure' , which the contemplation of this State, fnin isolated conditioni presents to my mind.-a Such would, I think, be some (to use youst language) "of the dangers and difficulties" that would probably "attend separate i. dion." Very different, indeed, should I coustde )ur case if we seceded only to enteraudl.' iouthern Republic as I think otigitt to'-7' ormed, and for which there are aundan naterials as well as adequate cause and nto ive. I am by no means of opinion that even n that condition we should enter the .mille iium; that we shotld be free from dan' nd difficulty. I am willing, howevet,.-.t isk it, believing I perceive in such anorgate zation, some sufficient relation bet*edn. ause and effect, some proper equality b ween the power to depend and that whih - ttacks. Whether the coarse recommtended ly tI >eeders be calculated to induce such a eon-, . ummation,. I have discussed- in a letteW - ome friends in Darlingto,.srecently pu& shed in the Southern Stands J ineed.neot nd' cannot here repeat-it. I~in unbelieve. the efficacy of that scheme %e any go, nd I cotifess that-what I have learned thro ic Newspapers,'of events in, ,ssiP m not encouraged to hope much fr. "' mse of co-operation ly separate seession a our part. The threat of it here iid a eret'desgn to favoitithere beng.iinpiutedq ei to havo completely .overthiokn th6se, i that State, who were nearest to udsf ii. ie same result in Georgia froin th'e' anie inse. - -' When I heara man say (being ressed to ie wall in argument) that tie 4onr o Tiate requires us to be reconciled even1t6 rocess of exterminatim, I am an t 00oAl iat his brain is too much besi to rise council, that he lia -fofgotten't nestion, is thinking, for the moyqtt ft f a handsome obituary tira b uty now .required- ofl. rhich I apprehe o.:be;,tzdut A r evise a lt~p 'hl weurit to or a am Lass, of any party, who promise most id dvance. As to the honor of the State, if any ody can find that the State has dono or said nything, directly or indirectly, from her own iouth, or through that of a duly authorized gency, that at all cramps her in pursuing ny course which her true interest dictates, iat brings into collision her sentiment of onor, and her free course of policy.:-such a iscovery will add something to my present tock of information. I do not regard what as been said by newspapers, or by any giveti umber of individuals. or by any sort of as' nciations, severally or in conjunction, as the oice of the State of South Carolina. When shall be established that a State should act poll the sensibilities, the passions and re entments that govern the quarrels of indi iduals, who have themselves only to account 3 or to sacrifice-when it shall appear that cue conduct of Sampson is a fit example for community-why, then, if that community ave a power corresponding to his, and a avenge that shall equally prompt it, let them eize the pillars of the temple and gratify iat revenge by hurrying in a common ruin iemselves and their hostile scoffers. As yet would fain hope that our convention will ot be driven to look to the biography of amnpson for their model of imitation.. It is reiterated, that the only alternative for s is Separate Secession, or Submission, and ose who agree in opinion with meO are very indly warned that we are on the barink of ubmission. What do our eensors mean by ubmission ? Why, they propose themnselves a continue their submission for a &certamn me. They submit while a movement is inde towards arming the State. They take mec to gird up the loins and resent the blow -they choose a period and a mode. Are iose who prefer another time, and a differ. nt mode any more guilty of submission than iey ? Whatt is it they mean to resist ? The ompromise measures, I suppose. Will they verthrow any one of them by their schemd f resistance, except only that. which was baped for our benefit ? That is impossible re though the State be left wholly intact her separation. Trhe questiont is not one f forcible resistance, or of self-sacrifice. is, how shall we provide new guaranties ir our safety ? I have already endeavored to define what Sour true object, who are our enemies, theirs todes of attack, and our grievances. We rant security. Nothing can give it short of cardinal reformation in the conduct of peos le and governments over whom we have no ontrol-or else another Government, strong nough to answer the end, to be constructed y those aggreived and endangered. Nothings I3e will remedy our case. If Mr. Calhoun ras right in saying, the Union could not be estroyed in a day, or by a single blow, but nly gradually and in process of time, 1 huink I am equally so in saying, that it will equire more time to dissolve the piresent Jnion, and reconstruct another. No, good Tovernment (in this country at least) was ver made nmong independent States, at a lash. It did not spring from the heads of tatesmen (such at any ramte as our revolution iry times produced) like Minerva from the tecad of Jove, in full panoply, armed cap-a-pie. What I have said, gentlemen, will serve to ndlicate to you the current and character of nv thoughts. i aim at no more. You have my concurrence and best wishes kor stuceess in the cause that seems to engage h-our interest. It address the judgment more ihan the passionls. Your obe'nt servant, T. J. WETHlERS. I'o Messrs. J. Lasnam, DANIEL HoLLimo and others, Committee.