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Alabama.?Wo give (says the Hartford
Oourant,) the following extract of a letter from
n gentleman in Alabama ton friend in this city,
as a specimen of the state of feeling in the in- 1
terior counties of the South. The writer is a !
native of Connecticut, who has resided in Ala :
bama for some years, and fully understands the !
views of those about whom he writes:
" What Calhoun conld not eflect in twenty J
years, has been done in six weeks, viz: a on;on .
of the South. 1 do assure you that, in this ;
..r ,1,^ lit,i(,Sf and containing
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as quiet and intelligent a population as there (
i* in the United States?Whig too where first
there was a large Union party?there is now i
not oaf prrmnvnl citizen that 1 know of, or
have heard of, that does not say the time has j
come for secession. For one, with many ties i
to bind me .North?horn there?having friends \
and relations from whom it would be painful to '
differ?having hoped, and, until my recent vis- f
it to the North, have expected that my children
and yours would live and die under the same
government our fathers had ?it was with great :
reluctance that I was convinced that the North j
would not leave us alone, which was all we '
asked. As it is, I am prepared coolly and
pjilmlv to vote for secession, and, if it is neces
sary, to sustain the vote with life and fortune.
The Union, as it has been managed for some
years, has no friends here. These who hoped
justice from the North, are giving up their (
hopes, since the news comes of the action in |
Ohio, Pennsylvania and especially in Massa- j
chusetts. Nothing hut the effectual waking
up of the Union men, (if any such there bo,) j
at the North, and their effectual putting down
of slavery agitation there, can now save it. i
Their ground lias been taken from under them 1
by the nullification of the slave law, and the |
renewed and increasing agitation of the slave .
question at the North." j
Southern: Meeting at New Orleans.?
A great meeting of the cause of Constitutional i
Rights of the South, was held in the St. Louis J
Ball Room, New Orleans, Saturday night.?
The large hall was crowded to its utmost capacity,
and the streets around presented "a
wide sea of moving, jostling, surging humanity."
Joseph Genois was appointed President, with
nenp nnp hundred Vine Presidents, from the
most influential citizens of the place. Prof.
J. D. B. Debow, and seven others acted as
Secretaries. Senator Soule, in response to enthusiastic
calls, addressed the meeting in a
speech of great animation, logical force and
eloquence. He reviewed the legislation of Congress,
and showed thai it had been grossly unconstitutional
and aggressive. As for remedies,
he recommended the people to struggle yet to
obtain indemnity aud security in the L nion.
He did not advocate secession or disunion.
. After this speech, Judge Alexander Walker,
one of the editors of the Delta, delivered a brief
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but eloquent address. The cl?eers 01 me auuienCe
in respouse to both speeches are said to
have been most enthusiastic and "roof-lifting."
The following resolutions agreed on by the
committee, were subniitted'by H. B. Kelly, esq.,
and adopted with but one dissenting voice.
Whereas, The conduct of a large portion of
the )>eople of the North, of all classes and of
all political parties, has rendered manifest the
existence among them of dispositions, feelings
and opinions hostile to the rights and institutions
of the Southern States, well calculated to
excite serious apprehensions that they intend to
persevere in the course of aggression and injury
which marked the recent legislation of Congress
on the subject of slavery.
Resolved, That although we entertain ail
abiding attachment, and cherish a religious devotion
to the Union, we deem it Just and necessary,
at this time, to proclaim to our fellow
citizens at tne i\ortii{ not oy way ui mniate,
but in a spirit of friendly warning; our solemn
conviction that the people of Louisiana will insist,
at all risks, upon the constitutional compact
on the sdhject of slavery, and will submit to no
violation or infringement of it whatever, and
that they will resist?even though that resistance
should create a dissolution of the Unionall
attempts by Congress to legislate aggressively
upon their rights by the abolition of slave
ry in the District of Columbia, or the interdiction
of the slave trade between the States, or
the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso, of the
repeal or essential modification of the Fugitive
Slave Law.
And Whereas, The Union of these States,
is a union of sovereigns in a confederacy of
equals, and can only he perpetuated by preserving
unimpaired the character impressed uj>on it
by its founders.
Be it therefore further Resolved, That as
friends of the Union and of the South, we cordially
approve the course of those Senators and
Representatives in Congress, who contended
against all encroachments upon the equality,
dignity and rights of the Southern States, and
that our thanks are especially due, and are
hereby tendered to the Hon. P. Sonle, Hon.
E. LaSere and Hon. I. E. Morse, for the zeal,
ability and fidelity which they, in connection
with the late lamented J. H. Harmnnson,defended
the interests and honor of their constituents.
Monument to Gen. Warren.?The committee
of the Bunker Hiil Monument Association, to
whom was referred the liberal offer of Col.
Perkins, of 81,000 towards the erection of n
monument to Gen. Warren, have reported
through Gov. Everett a recommendation to
place a statute of Gen. Warren in Faneuil Hall
and to apply to Congress for an appropriation
in aid of the object, in fulfilment of the resolve
of the Continental Congress in 1770.
New York Convention.?There is to he a
Convention at Syracuse, New York, on the 7th,
8th, and 9th of January, to consider the Fugitive
Slave Hill. The Tribune says that similar
conventions are to he held in other States during
the month, so as to have the organization
of a convention of the Free States against the
measure. And yet there are men among them
who venture to say that there is no important
agitation on this subject at the North.
It is said that a vigorous effort will be made
at the next session of the Legislature of New
York, to remove the capital from Albany to
the city of New Vork.
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Legislature of South Carolina.
Satcudav, Dec. 7, 1859.
In the Senate, Mr. Porter presented the re-j
ply of 1 he President of the Dank of the State, j
to a resolution of the Senate, calling for infor- i
niation respecting the profit ami loss account |
of the Hank, with the profit and loss account
annexed; which was ordered to lie on the ta-1
hie, and to he printed; and the question of printing
the profit and loss account, the yeas and |
nays were ordered to he taken, and they are as
lullows, yeas 21, nays 18.
The pro,'it and loss account, was, therefore,
ordered to he printed.
DOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Air. Lvles submitted the following Preamble
and Resolutions, which were ordered to bo
considered immediately, were made the special
order of the day for this day at 1 o'clock, p.
m. and referred to the Committee of the whole
House, charged with the consideration of sundry
resolutions respecting our Federal Relations,
a bill to provide for the calling of a Con
vention of the people of this State, and Report
of the Committee on Vacant Offices, on the
vacancy in the United States Senate, and ordered
to he printed:
Whereas, the sending of Delegates to the
Nashville Convention, imposes upon us an implied
obligation to carry out its recommendations
so far as this State is concerned:
Therefore, Resolved, That this Legislature
provide for the election of Delegates to a Southern
Congress, to meet at some central point,
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Delegates of other Southern States, in forming
a Constitution for a Southern Confederacy,
and said Congress meet on the second day of
May next
Secondly, That this Legislature provide, also,
for the calling of a Convention of the people
| of this State, to assemble in this city, on the
fourth day of July next, for the purpose of considering,
and, if expedient, adopting said Constitution.
Thirdly, That in the event of the aggrieved
1 States, or any of them, failing to meet us in
; said Congress, or meeting, and failing to adopt
a Constitution for a Southern Confederacy,
j the said Convention of this State should, in the
i opinion of this Legislature, declare South Caro!
lina no longer a member of this Cenfederacy,
I and proceed at once to organize an Independent
government.
Fourthly, That the Committee on Federal
; Relations be, and they are hereby instructed to
i report bills carrying into effect the proceeding
I Resolutions.
Mr. Chesnut also submitted the following
Resolutions, which were ordered to be considered
immediately, were made the special order
of the day, for this day at 1 o'clock p. in. and
were referred to the Committee of the Whole
House, and were ordered to l>e printed.
Ilrsnivnl, That the Committee on Federal
Relations be instructed to report a bill reyuir
ing the Governor of this State to call an extra
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Cession oi uie Liegisiaiurc, \u u?v ijv3..,.u.u..
shall not then be in regular Session) in order
to provide for the representation of this State,
in the Southern Congress, recommended by the
Nashville Convention, and for other purposes,
whenever one ortnore of the slavcholdiiig States,
shall have taken measures to provide for the
j representation of such State, or States, in the
I said Congress.
j Rrxolvcd, That the Committee on the Miii!
tary be instructed to report by bill, a plan of
i Military defence to secure the safety of this
State, in any contingency that may arise.
Messrs. J. P. Reed, Owens, llutson, and
J. B. Perry severally explained their views on i
the great question of resistance to Northern
aggression in eloquent and forcible terms, and
on motion of Mr. E. P. Jones the Chairman j
ivas ordered to report progress, and the Committee
rose, the Speaker having resumed the
Chair.
Mr. Memniiiiger gave notice that on Monday
next, he will ask leave to introduce a bill to provide
for the appointment of Deputies to a Southern
Congress.
Mr. Cantev, from the Committee on the Military
made reports on a hill to alter and amend
t'.ie 7Ut section of the militia law of South Carolina;
on a hill to exempt t.'.e Barnwell Artillery
Company from Regimental and Battalion parades;
and on tiie petition of the otiicers and
privates of the State Rights Artillery Company,
attached to the 4th Regiment; which were
severally ordered for consideration on Monday
| next.
I On motion of Mr. Cantev, the Committee
i on the Military was discharged fiom the conI
I,.,, t|,n luoiiinn nf the citizens of
o.MVI'lM ...v- y
Georgetown, praying the establishment ol a
guard for that town, and tiie same w.is ordered
to be referred to tiie Committee on Colored
Population.
December 0.
In the Senate, Mr. Lawton moved that a
message be sent to the Senate proposing an
election for U. S. Senator, 011 Tuesday, at 1
p. ni., which was accordingly done.
Mr. Cam introduced a bill to call a convention
of the State, which was rend the first time
and referred to the committee 011 federal relations.
Mr. J. D. Wilson moved to take up the private*
Hank report, lor the purpose of referring
i it to the special joint committee on nomination
of Bank officers, which was done.
A hill relative to incorporations for manufacturing
purposes ami the encouragement of
j direct trade, passed its second reading after
some discussion, and various propositions to
1 :inti-inl
Mr. Mazyck moved to amend the title to read,
a bill for the encourgement of speculation, by
limiting the amount which may be lost thereby,
which was ruled out of order, and on appeal
the decision of the chair was sustained.
The question was then taken and the bill
ordered to the House, by vote of 27 to 11.
HOUSE or REPRESKN T ATIVES.
The following bills from the Senate received
their first reading.
To incorporate the S. C. plank road compn
?y.
To incorporate the S. C. Institute;
To incorporate the Savannah river plank
I road company;
j To take a census of the free negroes, mulafI
toes hnd ineztizoes, in the State;
The* committee on colored population reported
favorably on a bill to increase the penalty
for circulating abolition documents; and
Unfavorably on the portion of Message No.
1, relating to the removal or free negroes.
At 1 p. m., according to order, the House
resolved itself into committee of the whole,
(Mr. Sullivan in the chair,) to resume the consideration
of various resolutions touching our j
federal relations;
Mr. E. P. Joies, who was entitled to the
floor, gave way for a few moments to Mr. Preston,
who briefly explained the position taken
by him on Wednesday, which we learned had j
been misunderstood in some respects. He j
avowed himself as most distinctly and emnhati- j
eally recognizing and asserting the right of
secession.
December 10.
Iii tlie Senate, A bill to provide a registra- j
tion of births, deaths and marriages, after some j
discussion by Messrs. Marshall, Mazyck, Por-i
ter and Dudley, was laid on the table.
Mr. Manna from the committee on military j
and pensions, in relation to certain portions of.
the Message >.o. 1, reported a bill to re-estab-:
lisii Brigade Encampments.
Mr. J. D. Wilson, from the special joint com-'
mittee on nomination of Bank oibcers, made |
tbe following report:
For President, C. M. Furman. Directors?
Thomas Lebre, J. L- Gantt, P. M. Cohen, E.
Carson, R. G. Stone, F. It. Shackleford, G.
Robertson, S. L. Glover, W. C. Dukes, J. S.
Chambers, W. M. Lawton, R. Dulin.
Mr. Taylor moved that a bill to charter the
Camden and Monroe Plank Road Company,
be taken up, from the table and ordered for a
second reading, and the same was ordered.
The bill received a second reading, was agreed
to, and was ordered ts be sent to the House of
Representatives.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Considerable progress whs made in disposing
of the business on the calendar, although
wo find little worth reporting specially.
A third ballot was held for surveyor general,
and resulted in the election of W. F. Irvine.
At 1 p. m. the House went into committee
ol the whole, (Mr. Sullivan in the chair,) and
resumed the consideration of various resolutions
referred that committee, on the subject of
our federal relations.
Mr. Memininger addressed the committee
in a speech of two hours. He was in favor of
delay, opposed all measuras tending to prccipi?A-?
? otwl wlimnatarl
uue ncuoii or prcuiauuc su-jio, uuu ..w.
strenuously the Nashville plan of a Southern
Congress. The causes and elements of our
present struggle were traced, and were summed
up in the fact that the North and South
were two nations, foreign to each other in interests,
habits, pursuits and institutions
The leading idea of Mr. Memmiuger's speech
was the analogy between our present position
and that of our colonies, and this analogy was
developed and illustrated in various particulars.
The cause of the alienation and quarrel were
the same in both cases, although the South
have greater causes for complaint than our
forefathers had.
The colonists threw otr the bonds of a mother
country, endeared to them by* associations
of kindred, of ancestry of language, laws, and
past renown, merely because it became to them
a foreign government. We have to struggle
c o
against t!ie lawless despotism of a rabbi* led
on by such men as Hale, Seward and (biddings;
of a government boasting no antiquity, and
having no claims on our affections, and no sym!
pathy with and protection of our l ights. The
analogy was in our favor, as we have comparatively
more resources than were possessed by
the feeble colonists, who were scattered thro'
boundless forests, without means of concert
and communication. The Southern States
formed in reality, one nation, marked out by
nature as separate and distinct. Their position,
resources and interests all indicated that
their union was inevitable, and would be eminently
prosperous.
Mr. Momininger reviewed the various resolutions
offered, and expressed his dissent from
many of them. He did not advocate secession
at this time?the right was unquestionable but
like iill other rights its exercise must determined
hy discretion and a due regnid to time
iiid circumstances.
Mr. Memminger in conclusion avowed his
own plan, winch will he found in the resolutions
offered by him below.
Resolved, That the proposal of the Nashville
Convention for the slaveholdiug States to meet
i in a Southern Congress, is accepted by South
Carolina, and this General Assembly will forthwith
provide for the appointment of deputies
to the same.
2. That $200,000 be appropriated for the
purpose of arming and defending the State.
3. That a police system be established to
protect our people, bond and free, from the
evil desiirns ofNorthern emissaries and aboli
tionists.
Mr. Ashmorc moved to mke up a resolution
fixing the adjournment 011 Friday, 20th inst.
Mr. .Tucker moved to amend, by substituting
Thursday, the 19th.
The amendment was lost, and the original
motion was adopted.
.Mr. Hammond presented the petition of sundry
citizens of Lancaster District, praying an
increase of the number of Magistrates, and to
re-appoint John Taylor, also, the petition of
sundry citizens of Lancaster District, praying
the change of a place of Election.
Fiends.?The Democrat, at Marshall, 111.,
gives the most revolting details of a case of
i fiendish wickedness in that county. A man
; named Olmsted and his wife are in prison for
| starving to death two of his children, by a forI
mcr wife, and hazardinir the life of a third. It
was proven that Olmsted is wealth}', that the
children were kept tied in an nut house in cold
wet weather, without fire, and only had a little
cold corn bread and water to subsist upon.
The High Price of Tobacco.?A cargo of
Kentucky tobacco, common quality, has been
purchased at Hremen for re-shipment to the
United States?the price here being much higher
than in Hrcmen. It is now on its way to
Philadelphia, and has been sold at a profit, of
$1 50 to ?2 por hundred.
REMARKS
Of Col. James Cliesnut, jr., delivered in the
House of Representatives, on the 9th inst.
on the subject of our Federal Relations.
Mr. Cliesnut having obtained the floor, gave
his views at considerable length He said :
Mr. Chairman, it seems to me we have been
at sea in the discussion, with an occasional
calm. We have been enveloped in u storm,
with now and then an intermission of its fury,
sufficient to catch a gleam of sound thought.?
He would not attempt to follow the lead of eloquence
brought to the discussion, but would
confine himself to words of truth and soberness
as best suited to himself and the grave subject
now under deliberation.
The subject to which he should address himsplf
is?what will the State do in the mesent
posture of federal and State affairs ? The federal
wrongs we have had depicted in vivid and
energetic thought and language. I have no
desire to awaken the passions of gentlemen in
this assembly, in order to warp their judgements
when philo-ophic thought and calm statesmanship
are so indespensahle to the crisis.
Much has been said of the outrage perpetrated
on the South by the measures of the late
Congress. Gentlemen who found their justification
on the measures take but a superficial
view of the question. The Government has
been swerved from the purpose of its formation.
We are no longer under a constitutional government
We are under a power?a power
, selfish, fanatical, and capricious; and therefore
i tyrannical. A government constant only in
aiming to destroy our institutions. There are
antagonisms. The North are one people, requiring
political organization and laws not suited
to the people of the South, and therefore the
antagonism must ever exist. We must sepai-ifn
Tin'* !? inevitable frnm the nature of the
contest, and hence we need exhibit no impatience
ior precipitate and hast}' action. There
are other States whose aid and counsel we require.
We are in a Union with other States of similar
instntions with our own, and if we act, and
assume to fight the common battle ot the South
and fail, we must be involved in a common fate.
With the South everything is at stake. We
stand isolated; and Southern civilization, as involved
in our peculiar institution, de|>euds on
the cautious and concerted action of the South.
The questii n is whether we will assume ihis
position alone, or whether we shall wait and
exhaust every means ol uniting the South before
we adopt the mad policy of separate action.
We are not alone. The position of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Monda need not
I alarm gentlemen. True, they have not come
up to the position of South Carolina ; nor are
tliey where a strong and determined minority
of their own people would place them. l>ut
(Jeorgia and Mississippi will be with us. The
issue has been distinctly made in the former,
and only 30,000 majority appears against us
out ot a population of 000,000. V?*e have gained
something. Six months ago, on the question
of .union or disunion, instead of having
ten counties in our favor, 1 venture to assert we
would not have found ten men.
After a rapid survey of the julvances of the
Southern States to the position tliey now occupy
in defence of the common rights of all Mr.
(J., said we had no right to believe tli it we
should be alone in defending ourselves against
the aggression of the North or its government,
if Carolina only acts her part with propriety.?
In avoiding hasty action we are pursuing a
course commended to us by that great man tor
whom our hull now mourns, in that celei rated
address of Mr. Calhoun's to the tioutherti people,
his kst words were?"13k united.'* Much
was the language of the speech of Mr. Cheves,
at Nashville; and all our wisest and safest public
men unite in the same counsel.
In regard to the proposed .Southern Congress
he supposed it would he proper to inquire
whether we should be represented. It has been
said that that body could do nothing hut pass
resolutions of nonintercourse. He had no idea
that such would he its action. Certainly that
would not he thought of as a remedy for our
wrongs. He should suppose it would take another
form, and result in the construction of a
constitution for a Southern Confederacy, with
wise and just provisions?one suited for a
home-ogeneous people. Hut even if that body
did nothing; in what would the position of our
Stiit.. Vw. . Iiiiiiir.nl nv.'.nit in flit, wise delnv (
She has yet her right to fall hack on her inalienalile
sovereignty. That jxisition remains to
her unimpaired, and she could secede alone.
South Carolina, in his judgment, should be
there.
Mr. C. then proceeded to state three modes
in which delegates might he appointed, viz: 1;
Ti.c Legislature may appoint, "2. The Convention
of the State might appoint; or the people,
hj' the issuing of writs of election, could
choose them in the same mode the members of
the Legislature are. He preferred the latter,
and gave his reason a length for the preference.
It had been said that the State must act, and
act promptly, or ve would he stigmatized with
?i ?-..a - ?i.. in i?f
auiiiuiadiuiiy UIJU uui j;rwpu/ w vum uicui
solves down from their present position,
If the issue now before us were separate State
action or submission, lie would adjourn the discussion
to the field, were cannon would be our
orators, and load our arguments. But it was
not so. Let us be prudent?unite our own
people?and unite with our sister States?prepare
for the contest, by making adequate appropriations
of money for such objects as will
prove to them and the North that wo are in
earnest
Virginia Finances.?The Governor of va,
in his message, in view of the form in which
the public debt now stands; recommends a
complete reformation and re-organization of
the financial system of the State. He remarks
that the evidences of State debt should be impressed
as far as possible with a.l the qualities
of a circulating medium and that the experience
of the Federal Government and of several of
the States has shown that the coupon bond
possesses those characteristics in the highest
degree. The present outstanding debt of the
commonwealth is stated as $9,035,189 30, and
there still remains to be paid, on account of
subscriptions made to organize companies, but
not yet called for, $3,032,809 49.
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TFBIIB JOTISKfAIL,
CAMDEN._S. C,
FRIDAY EVENING7DECF^BER 13, 1R50.
J^gf" The account of the receipts and expetidi-*
tures of the Commisdioners of Public Buildings
for Kershaw District, for the year H350, will be
found on our first page.
Win. C. Richards, E*q., Editor of thp Southern
Literary Gazette, is in town, and will be happy to'
receive the names ol all who wish to subscribe for'
the Gazette. ^
Of the high Literary character of the Gazette, it
is needless for us to speak; it stands No. 1 in the' '
rank of Literary Papers.
Mr. Richards is aiso connected with that ster-- *
ling and invaluable work the Souther* Quarterly'
Review?of the merits ot which itisnee-'los for us'-. '
to speak. And it would be ashame lo forget in'
this connection his magazine for Bovs and Girls?the
unequalled Schoolfellow. We cln-erfully and-'
earneetly commend Mr. Richards and his enterprises
to the favor of our citizens. (
Southern Trunk. I
We have been shown a Trunk, of entirely south-- 1
em Manufacture, made by a member of the S.
Conference. It is a fine specimen, and throw*
yankee painted boxes in the shade. Northern
trunks are less substantial, and the brass kno!?
are but a shell of brass filled up with paper. This
is substantial throughout.
Rev. Benjamin WofforcL
Late of Spartanburg:, bequeathed the sum of
?100,000 to the establishment of a College at Spartanburg.
The building committee is to be chosen
from citizens of Spartanburg, and members of the ,
S. C. Conference, under the direction of which
Conference it will be placed.
Surveyor General. '
Wm. F. Ervine, of Sumter District, formerly of
Lancaster, was elected Surveyor General, on the
10th inst.
Col. Cheanut's Speech.
We copy from the South Carolinian a brief report
of the speech of Coi. Chesnut. The Carolinian
says?"We have listened to no speech this
session so replete with wise counsel and sound ar
TV.?' 1a- J-1! .i t %
guuituju l^uniig iin uenverj me nouse was
thronged by Senators and visitors, who hung upon *
the words of the speaker, and speiued to respond
heartily to the wisdom of his positions in all aspects
of the question under discussion. We trust
Col. Chesnut will allow himself leisure to commit
it to paper, in order that the people ot the State
and the entire South may derive benefit and'courage
from an effort which places its author among .
the leading statesmen of South Carolina.
State Action. ,
South Carolina stands in a peculiar position.?
The eyes of the world are upon her. The canting
political hypocrite of the North, watch herev- ^
ery move, and wilh a sneer of would be contempt,
convey the fear of a nuaking heart, like Ibe wild
cat watches the lion, as he fixes himself'to spring
upon his relentless but worthless victim. What
shall be our course ? The wisdom ns well as tho
patriotism of our people is called into requisition.
And we stand with foot lifted to make the stride
toward the climax of our destiny. What shall be
our course? is the spontaneous question of our
Legislators. How can we serve best the cause
of our State, and of the South ? Not one, however
weak, but should aid by his counsel in this trying
hour. The session will soon adjourn, but we
hope ere they do, they will act definitely. So far
as we are personally concerned, we would go for
instant secession. We care not how dark the
niofiiru TmII nu if rr?ii rtlnaco rtf litrpit^inrv wnr.
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fare?of every cottage and hall, palace and hamlet,
enveloped in flames?our fathers and brothers
hanging upon every tree in the forest?the corses
of our slain strewed upon every field?our women
mangled and children torn?all this and a thousand
such pictures, each gathering blackness to
the proceeding?srtill we would utter but one word
?secession. But as a matter of policy, we would
say, that perhaps it would be best for the present
Legislature to instruct the Governor to call a Convention
of the people; to make an appropriation
for the purpose of putting the State in a better prepared
situation, and to appoint some method of
electing Delegates to the Southern Congress, to
meet at Montgomery, Ala., at some early day.?
Then let us improve the intervening time by every
species of preparation; and it'co-operation fail,
let us hesitate not a day longer. Can any evil?
can any danger, however groat or appalling, deter
South Carolina from asserting their rights. Is it
not with us to revive the spit it of the ancient
Greeks. Look o'er the Hellespont; its waters you
cannot see for the Persian war-boats. Three million
of the crested conquerors of the purple kingdom,
with banners floating, that never knew de
feat, are there, and Aorxes, their mignty monarch, w
revives them by hie presence. Look on MarsHill
; a handful ofGrecian patriots, a tew hundred
of the impulsive sons of the Eastern Athens are
there, with the stern Miltiades at their head. The
next scene is the plains of Marathin ; Persia's
mighty host is flying. The Grecian banner waves
in triumph, and Xerxes is crossing the Hellespont
in a frail fishing bark.. Miltiades led the southern
Rights Party ol'Greece. The submuisionists had
fled to the mountains. We have yet in the history
of our proud little State to gain a Thermopylae. ^
and the only difficulty is to select to whom weshall
yield the honor to of being Leonidas and his:
braves. Men of the whole South we will wait vol
awhile for you, but if you toill be slaves, we tci 7 befree.
Later from Europe.
The steamship America arrived at Halifax 0:1
Wednesday last, bringing Liverpool dates to the.
30th ult The cotton market Imd been depressed
throughout the week, at a decline of? to $c.
Virginia Senator.
The Hon. John Y. Mason has been re-elected '
U. S. Senator front Virginia, by a majority of seventy
votes.