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*r* M RKSOLI'TIUNS Of THE SOl ffiEBS RIliUTS CONVENTION. * Mr. Grkoo from tlieSelect commit- lee ofTwonty-one submitted tho follow ing Resolutions as expressive of the sentiments *f Convention, and an \d- ilress to the Southern Rights Associa tions of tho Southern States: 1 Resolved, That io the •pinion of this ntteting the State of South Carolina cann * submit to the wrongs aad ag- , . . . . , , Kressions which have been perorated ^ Ant } now ; ^ we . h * ve Federal ttaumiMnt and the ex P rewd our k ‘ l,ef th,it there 11 no ding for the election of Delegates to a Southern Congress, to whose meeting she still looks with anxious interest. In all these proceMings, we think that the citi|pns of South Carolina have ev inced all proper anxiety to avoid the appearance of arrogance or dictation, to act act in concert with the citizens of to act in concert with the citizens of the other Southern States, and to do nothing separately or precipitat- Jf' she i>v the Federal Government Northern States.'without dishonor and ruin and that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom whether with or with out the co-o peration of other South ern States. 2 Resolved, That concert of action with one or more of our sister States of the South, whether through the pro posed Southern Congress, or in any other manner, is an object worth many sacrifices, but not the sacrifice involved in submission. 3. Resolved, That we hold the right of secession to bo essential to the sov ereignty and freedom of the Stntos of tills Confederacy; and that the denial of that right would furnish to an injured State the strongest additional cause for its exercise. 1 Resoffld, Tint this meeting looks with with confidenee and hope to the Convention of the People to exert the sovereign power of the State in de fence of its rights at the earliest prac ticable period and in the most etfectual manner and to the Legislature, to adopt tho^nost speedy and effectual measures towards the same end. ADDRESS 1'lOM THU DeLROATUS OF THE SolTH- eun Rich rs Associations ofSocth CAudlnsA, Asse.mui.kd in Ciiak- LI'STON, TO THE Soiri’HEUN Kiohtk Associations of the other Southern States. Having met to take counsel together and having agreed upon that course which we* think hope for the South in the existing Union, we are prepared to give a trial, fairly and in good faith, to any effectual plan which may bo proposed by any sister State of the South, for obtian- ing redress for tlie past and security for the future, without a dissolution of the existing Union, if there be a possi bility of such a consummation. But we find ourselves forced to con sider the ulterioifcAjuestion, what we are to do, if we find that there is norca sonable hope the co-operation of any other Southern State in any effectual plan of relief, and the alternative is pre sented to us, of submitting, or acting by ourselves. And, reluctant as we are to separate ourselves from our na tural friends and allies, we have made up our minds. Vie cannot submit.— We know that South Carolina entered this Confederacy as a sovereign and independent State and that having been wronged, she has the perfect right to withdraw from it. Her sons must ex ercise tlie right and meet the conse quences. If no other State will join us in releiving ourselves from the wrongs already indicted, we see no hope in waiting for new outrages to arouse a higher spirit of resistance. 'Hie new outrages, we are well convinced, will come in due time; but we feel no assu rance that the spirit of the vassal will rise in proportion to the indignities heaped upon his head. On the contra ry we see that the South has already borrlfc what it would not for a moment ht anil and necessa- hfiw submitted to ten years ago, and to pursue, we wish to lay before you w " n ^ would not then have the considerations by which we have vo, d un -‘d to per|»etrate. We an' not been governed, with that frankness will * n » to tr y the experiment how long which our respect for you and our do- j* Ik* before our spirit is completely sire to merit your good opinion, re quire. We regard the position of the .South ern States in this Confederacy as do graded and ruinous. The manifest tendency of those systematic aggres sions which they have suffered for ma ny years past, is to subuertthe institu tion of slavery. If those acts of hostile domination, which have boon rende red more insulting by mockery of lan guage, under tho term of a Compro mise, were final in their nature, and were not to he followed by any further aggressions, we should still regard t hem as outrages, to which sovereign States, ponoosing the spirit of freedom, on glU never to submit. But those measures only form part of a system, gradually commmced, steadily canied forward, gathering strength from devel opment, and proceeding with fatal mo mentum to its end. That end is the oho- lition of negro slavery in the Southern States, and the lowering of the free white population of tho South to the same level with that agrarian rabble which, already strong and dangerous, seems destined, before very long, to bo the oon(foiling power in the Northern States. We see no remedy and no safe- tv for the South in tlie present Union, tint we know that in this we differ from very many citizens of the other Southern States, spirited and intelligent, having the same intereste, and suffering under the same wrongs, with ourselves, and who cherish the the hope that the rights of the South may lie vindicated and secured without dissolving the existing Confederacy. In this differ ence, it does not become us to dictate, and wo hope to stand free from that charge. Up to this tin.?, tho citizens of South Carolina, aware that peculiar ity of political position, arising from past events remlered a certoin reserve on their part prudent and proper, have stu diously avoided evrey thing which might look like assuming tlie lead in the de fence of Southern Rights. They de sired to act ceaause they believed that safety and honor required action; but they hoped that they might find leaders in other States whom they might follow iu defense of the common cause.— When the ancient Commonwealth of v^inna, the proper leader of the South declared her deteniunation to resist, at all hazards and to last ext remity hostile meaaure then threatened, Soutli Caro lina with all alacrity, stood ready to support Virginia in carrying out her high resolution. When Georgia,— whose former resistance to Federal usurpation, under her heroic statesman, Tkoup, gave promise of unflinching firmness in any contest in which she might engage—proclaimed her deter mination to make a stand for the rights of tthe South, South Carolina rejoiced at ths prospect of rallying under the And when her rMissiaaippi,pro wise measure of a South- s.for the purpose of endeav- the Southern States io maintaining their constitutional rights and at the same time preserving if poa- .sible, the existing Union, South Caro lina heartily entered into and she hflu carried out the dation of the Cdhventkw so At the instance of Missis^p|ii broken by gradually and continually yielding to slow and gradual but un ceasing encroachment. And if the cxer- 1 else of the right of secession is to be met by the attempt on the part of the Gov ernment of this Confederacy to subju gate South Carolina, it is better that we should meet that attempt while wc still have some power of resistance loft. If ! we are to submit to the condition of a conquered people, we we think it less i dishonorable not to Ho so until we have ' first been conquered. And if anything could add to the necessity which we believe exists for a withdrawal from the existing Union, it would be the denial of the right of secession. For the de nial of that right indicates of itself ex treme danger. The right of secession has heretofore, and in better days, been regarded as unquestionable by all South ern politicians, with the exception of an inconsiderable number of consolidation- ists. And if ever that right can be de nied without arousing the whole South to sustain it, the South will be ripe for the most miserable fate which has ever befallen any people. It will then, as a pied houses : Uiere are many now in the South who would take pride in becom ing South Carolinians. This whose heats beat responsive to hers and whose hope and expectation is that this proud State will pursue the even tenor of her way in the discharge of duty fearing no consequences. Southern. Mobile, April 23, 1852. Darlington flag. DARLINGTON, S. C. J H NORWOOD, Editor! WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 14.1851. “We stand upon the Principles of Everlasting justice, and no human power shall drive us feom our position. * * * actuated by these principles AND ANIMATED BY THESE SENTIMENTS, WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLAR OF THE TEMPLE of our Liberties, and if it must fall WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUIN!” —McDuffie. AGENTS FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG. S. D. Hallford, - Camden, S. C. Charles DeLorme, Sumterville, S. C. Mr. R. W. Burgess is the travel ling agent of the Darlington Flag. (Himanent sectional minority, have no defence against the Tyranny of a Gov erngfeut combining all the vices of the cerrnptest democracy and the most op pressive foreign despotism. We know the consequences which will follow a failure in our effort to maintain our liberty. We sec clearly that a triumphant exertion of the power of the Federal Government, in subjuga ting a State, will vastly increase that power, and greatly accelerate the change, already far advanced, of our Federative system into a Consolidated central despotism. We see, also, that South Carolina will not suffer the con sequence* of this change alone but that the rest of the Southern States must suffer iu an equal degree. They will iiave do safeguard against the Cen tral Government strengthened by crush ing opposition, and rendered, by tri umphant force, what onr Northern en emies have long been-endeavoring to make it by fraudulent usurpation—the supreme Govemmentof a coesolklated nation. The sovereignty of one South ern State cannot be destroyed, without the loss of their sovereignty by all the others. We are aware of the respon sibility of doing an act which may has ten these consquencea. We feel the respect which we owe to States having a common interest threatened by a common dange , but not equally per suaded with«Mselvea of the necessity of action. J^Pkothing would induce us to take, without their concurrence, a course which is to involve them in its consequences, but a thorough convic tion of the necessity which urges os and ol our right to do so. Addressing citizens of Southern States associated to maintain the rights of the South, we cannot imagine it to be ne cessary to argoe about the right of ee- cession. We liold it to be the great State rigid, without which all others art nugatory and incapable of being en forced; anavour position assures us that your faith cannot be different from Mure. Ner can we regard it as neces- H , any further, to disease the wrongs h have 1**11 inflicted on tlie South- ! cm States. They may be denied by ♦ho4e who shut their eyes'to tliens; bat you do not belong to that class. South- I will predict that if she secedes ern and State Rights men may difler as will have no vacant farms or unoccu to the necessity of exercising the right of secession at a particular time, on ac count of these wrongs; but, as certain ly ns the right exists, each State must possess the right of judging for herself, as to the occasion and time for its ex ercise. If South Carolina decides that honor and safety require her to secede, she has the right to leave the Confede racy, peaceably and without molesta- tation. If the act of secession is not permitted to be peaceable, it will be from usurpation of power by the Fede ral Government, not from the nature of the act performed by South Carolina. Accustomed, as we nave been, to viola tions of the Constitntion, and the rights of the Southern States by the Federal Government, we have to look forward to the probability of another outrage by that Government, in the attempt to force the State to remain in the Union. We suppose the attempt will be made if the other Southern States permit it These States must decide for themselves whe ther they will permit it. South Caro lina must decide for herself whether it is necessary to secede. Her sister States of the South will have no right to complain that she forces them into a position, where they must either inter- jiose to prevent her subjugation, or by consenting to it, abandon their own so vereignty, and lay themselves at the mercy of a despotic power. In seced ing South Carolina will simply do an act which all Southern men xvho be lieve in the existence of State Rights at all, must admit that she has a perfect right to do, and which fhe regards as absolutely necessary. She will be ac ting on her sacred right. She will be acting Ra she would have to act if none of the other Southern States were in existence, and she were the only object of aggression by the Northern States and the Federal Government. She is not answerable for the usurpations and injustice which may be committed against her. And for the sister States of the South to ask of her to refrain from an exercise of the right which she regards as indispensable for self-preser vation, would be an interference w ith her free action of a far different charac ter from any with which she can be charged towards them. Sovereigns are equals. In seceding alone, South Carolina would be placing her sister States of the South under no constraint If they should find themselves in a po sition of restraint, it would come from the action of the Federal Government, not of South Carolina. But if they should insist on her refraining from the exercise of her right, and submitting to a condition which she regards as into lerable, they would make themselves parties with the Federal Government in placing an unjustifiable restraint upon a sovereign an equal. We wish that the necessity for sepa rate action by South Carolina which we have contemplated, may be averted. We confide in the gallant spirits whom we address. There may be some hope of the assembling of a Southern Con gress, to devise measures of redress and relief, upon which some of the injured States may unite. We have heretofore been willing to sacrifice much for South ern Union. We still are. We do not desire to lead, but to follow’. Propose any effectual measures for vindicating our common rights and providing for our common safety, and w’e will hear tily unite with you in carrying them out. We should regret most deeply, to incur the censure of friends, xvith whom we have the strongest desire to act in concert But, we feel a deep convic tion, that we have not acted heretofore with any precipitation, and that w'e arc in the right, in the determination which we have formed. The self-abasement of submission, appears to us unworthy of men—still pretending to be free.— The gloomy prospect of inevitable ruin, to follow submission, appears to as more formidable than any dangers to be encountered in contending alone, against whatever odds for onr rights. We have come to the conclusion, that if it be our fate to be left alone in tho struggle, alone we must vindicate our liberty by secession. had no intention to cast any rcflectiins on the exercise of that liberality and kind- Society Hill; not iGod forbid that we uess of heart for which l^ is distinguish- should; her nams is connected with rex', ed, collected together (her young people olutionary reminiscences. We love and , of that neighborhood, and when wc ar- o - noble j i 10ll0r jj cr; rnany of the happiest hours rived, late in the evening, we found a State has her strong and unwavering our etr j c ijjui 100t i alu i niore mature i large table spread beneath the venerable y* arB have been .pen. a.eund ,he | ort. in hi. y „d, „hich U.er.11, ides of her citizens; she was the birth- groaning beneath its loipl of good thingf. place, home and burial spot of many of We found a large nundber of good took- our ancestors. How, then, could we ing young men and boye, who were pre- COTTON, At the latest dates is quoted at from to 11 cents. ji'me‘evans. The retirement of this excellent judge from the bench, has, we learn, been de. termined upon. It will be difficult to sup ply his place, in every respect. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We are indebted to several friends who in our absence have sent us presents.— Mrs. James Green has sent us a plate of the largest and most delicious strawber ries we have seen this season. Mr. Gib son Sloan, a turnip measuring 16 inches in circumference; Mr. A. Gandy, an Irish potatoe 10 inches in circumference; our old friend, R. R. Cannon, a turnip mea. suring 19 1-2 inches in circumference, and a mustard plant 10 feet 3 inches in circumference, and 3 feet 7 1-2 inches in diameter. Our friends will please accept our thanks, individually and collectively. We begin to think it would be policy in us to keep bachelor’s hall. I3f r ’ The Columbia Transcript has honored us with a notice of some length. We have read it carefully to see if we could find an argument worthy of a re ply, and having found in it no argument of any kind, we beg leave respectfully to decline any further notice of it. We might reply in the same vein in which the article was indited, but our time is too precious toAe wasted in such unprof itable warfare. JaiU In our absence last week at the Charleston Convention, the proper credit was not given to several articles which appeared in our paper. The piece head ed, “ The Southern Patriot and President Fillmore,” should have been credited to the Gseenville Mountaineer, and that beautiful tale, “The Old Indian,” to the Charleston Evening News. THE WANDERING MINSTREL. We have neglected until the present to acknowledge the receipt of this maga zine. It is published iu Gramville, 8. C., quarterly, and edited bt tffo pupils and alumnae of the Green™c Female Col legiate Institute. It promises well; may success attend the enterprise. sneer at her! It is impossible. SOLTH CAMLInTcOLLEGE. We are indebted to several of our young.friends in College for copies of the Address of their Southern Rights Asso ciation to the Students in the Colleges Universities, and to the young men throughout the Southern States. Our views as to the propriety of such a step have already been expreseed, and we have heard nothing to change them in the slightest degree. The address is in our estimation an able exposition of the question, and would do honor to much older heads. We are satisfied that the work of redeeming our beloved South from the degraded position she now oc- paring to relieve the table of some of its precious burden. The ladies had eaten and retired into the house. W'e joined the young men in their philanthropic enter prise, and after having discharged our duty faithfully, we sought an entrance in to the parlor where tlie young ladies were seated. We saw no crowned head, for they were all Queens on ttyt occasion. A promenade was soon proposed, and after strolling over the grass-plots and flowery fields in that vicinity until night began to draw around her sable curtain, they retired again to the house, and soon the sweet notes of the violin gave warn ing to the youthful beaux to select their partners for the first cotillion. The room was cleared, and soon the brave men and . ... . . . own LAAt UA1men t&nu cup.es will rest mainly upon the young beautiful women of that portion of our mpn nf flip rnnntrv iinnn Irzxartc: . rx- * • . ... . . men of the country, upon whose hearts the timidity of old age and the love of mammon have not had time to settle. THE LATE CO.StIDN IN CHARLES TON. Many of our readers have been inform ed through the medium of the Charles ton papers of the actings and doings of this Convention. But for the benefit of those who have not, we will give a brief account of its proceedings; it would be impossible, though, for us so tell all that our eyes saw, our ears heard and our heart felt. The Convention assembled at Military Hall, on Wentworth street, at 4 o'clock, P. M., Monday the 5th inst., and after the names of the delegates present (amounting to 431) were enrolled, it pro ceeded to the election of a Chairman, which resulted in the choice of Ex-Gov- ernor, John P. Richardson, who, being conducted into the Chair by a committee of gentlemen appointed for that purpose, addressed the meeting in a speech of some length, which was replete with el oquent and spirit-stirring sentiments.— We will not attempt to give even a sketch of his admirable inaugural. We will, however, mention one or two things he said. One was that our institutions were crumbling, and that the time had come when we must decide to give up our in stitutions and remain in the Union, or to give up the Union and cling to our insti tutions. He said there were no amateur disunionists among us; that he had been and was still a Union man; he was wil ling Jo sacrifice much for the sake of Un ion, but it was for Union among ourselves. The worthy Chairman closed by saying that lie \vou|d not anticipate the action of the Convention, by suggesting the rem edy. A committee of twenty-one were appointed to report an address and re»*<y lotions for the adoption of the Conven tion, and the meeting adjourned for that day. The next day the committee report ed the resolutions and address, which ap pear in our columns to-day. They were debated for several days with much abili ty and good feeling on both sides, and finally adopted almost unanimously.— The Convention was opened every morn ing with prayer, by the diffident clergymen of tlie city. We have never seen a body of men so large and so enthusiastic, and yet so orderly and decorous. It was so much so that the venerable Chairman, iu his closing address, remarked that he had been a member of every Convention which had assembled in South Carolina for the last twenty-five years and that he had never seen such unanimity and such decorum preserved. We commend to our readers the address of the Conven tion, to be found in another place. It is From the Montgomery Advertiser. SOUTH CAROLINA. Mksshs. Editors: I feel disposed t° congratulate the South that we hav® snch a State in onr confederation.— She now stand* forth the proud and dignifirtl example of what every South ern State should be. When I look to other Southern Stats* I feel shame, mortification and humiliation; but when I tnm to South Carolina I feel an emo tion of pride, which indue rs me to pav her this poor tribute. Show me her first infraction of the Constitution, or laws of the land. She has always been loy al. Yet with that vigilance and sagac ity which has ever marked her course QUERY. Will tlie Southern Patriot, which speaks so contemptuously of unnatural- . iied foreigners, tell us something of the R bort, but places us in our true position birth-place and history of La Fayette, hpfnr ‘* J “ Pulaski, De Kalb, Steuben, &lc., &c. J — — •■V'S WUIBV she has taken the high and manly ground regard resistance to Federal aggression of the Constitution and equal rights and) m a disgrace and charge tlione who are is not to be driven from her position byl battling in the cause of State Rights with JT’.SES ^- >»pn * -y ■>« -w or seduced by proffered benefits. No ble State example, worthy of imita tion. We hear it said by some at the fore tellers of coming events and political wiseseres, that if South Carofino sece des she will lose some of her beat citi zens. Amasing! wondaffcll South Car- olina would gladly get rid si tons of her Glorious Union men, doubtless ami before the other States; we have not de sired to lead, but have used every reason able exertion to secure co-operatfon; we now despair of success iu that desirable object, but the wrongs and insults to which wa have been subjected are still unredressed, and we can see no philoso phy in the doctrine that an accumulation of wrongs will make ue any more die posed to resist History dots not teach that doctrine. Ruin, we think, wilbs be the consequence of procrastination, and we prefer to see our State act now, even though she should be conquered, (which we do not think possible.) If her sun is to set let it set in glory and not in shame. If we are to sink to the level of slaves let our bondage be forced and not volun tary. We would have our honored mo- ther act on this Mission as did her gal lant representatives in the bloody charge . ... - „ on Uhapultepec, who, when several rejri- SOME OF THE SPOILS. How pleasant the reflection that Uiough absent, we were not forgotten I We have tangible evidence of this fact in the shape of a nice piece of cake, from one of our friends at Bradford Springs, for which we return our Aearty thanks. mEmTSiu. Me feel that it is flue to our many friends, personal and political, who reside in and near this ancient village, to make a short explanation in reference to our reply to the correspondent of the South ern Patriot. In that reply we used the following language: “ That there are any beyond the vicinity of Society Hill who District were mingling in the mazes of the merry dance. The party was kept up till about 12 o’clock, when all adjourn ed to their homes, much better pleased with thamselves and with each other ihan when they met. We like this old fashiorod way of spending an evening. M T e are tempted to expatiate on the charms of some of the fair creatures who came more immediately under our observation, but where all were lovely it would be in vidious to institute comparisons. We hope some one else will imitate the exam ple of tlie kind gentleman and lady by whom the party was given. AN INSOLVENTDEBTOR’S SCHEDULE. The following, we believe, lias never been published. A scliedule of the ef fects of W , liable for the payment of his debts, (the will of the late de pending on a contingency, and a marriage settlement barring every other claim.) To wit.: Books.—Riley’s Narrative, Garden’s Anecdotes, Percy’s Anecdotes, disconnect, ed numbers of the viospel Messenger, and Phillip's Law of Evidence. Leather.—One pair of boots, worn out at the soles and peeping at the toes, (may be foxed, however, and made use ful.) Two pair of old slippers, (one ha*, ing ribbons in them.) ♦ A silver pencil case. A tooth-pick, made from the quill of a goose. Wearing Apparel—(two years old)— consisting of six old shirts, (good for lint) sevennew ones, not of Northern manu facture a blue coat, that would look better were it brushed ajgd had jp a new collar; a coatee, (15 llonthsold) not worth the soap to clean it; six breecli- hUfos, six waist-coverers, and six neck protectors (from the sore throat.) Four pair of new stockings, a* 2t cents per pair, 01.00. One gigM&id harness, net paid for; one saddle and bridle, and a rope halter. A set of glass, part broken; f 2 silver forks; 8 piotures, bought at vendue; same 4 or 5 basins and bowls; 5 or 6 dozen empty bottles; a syjall machine of Hurt’s; six oxen, (one of them with half a horn, and respected for long service;) one horse, cream color, and galloping on three legs; four hounds and a half starved puppy; an a la Blaze dish, and a coffee strainer Two clarionets that blow the tune “Yankee Doodle,” and one flute, which, w ith good repair, might play the tune “Be gone, dull care.” Four candle-sticks, on recollestion, omitted, (bought from a ped lar,) and half a dozen cider jugs, M. T. An old white hat, forgot tern There may be some articles of less value which I have acquired, but w’hich will been given up on proof to conviction. W . of of tact.” Lest it may be inferred that there are many there of the stamp of the said letter writer, we take occasion to esy that we have learned from a highly respected citizen of that place, that there is not more than one or two men, at farthest, in that whole neighborhood who entertain th extraordinary seutiiuento contained in the corumimication referred to. We commander to take the lead, which they did, and led on to glorious victory. MAT PARTTAniT. ILON. It was our unexpected pleasure to be present at a Party on *he evening of the 2d inst., at Mt. Eon, in this District. Our friend, with whom and by whose kind in vitation we had been indued to spend a [for THE DARLINGTON FLAG.] MAI FESTIYAL AT RRADFMD SPRINGS. “ “end bright The lamps shone over fair women and brave men.” Mm Editor^ Through tlie partiality of a fair daughter of Darlington, we were al lowed the pleasure of attending the “May Festival,” at Bradford Springs Female Institute, ’ on the 2d inst. Tlie company was larger than any we have ever seen assembled on a similar occasion. 11 Trim gallants, full of courtship and of State,” were drawn from a distance to enjoy the promised pleasures, and revel in the pre sence of ths reputed beauty of the young ladies of the Institute. The coronation of the chosen “ Queen” commenced tlie pleasures of the evening. The young ladies deserve gr$gt credit for the refined taste displayed inthe deco ration of the room {foppared for this cere mony. We obtained a position very near the “throne,” and were admiring the beau tiful appearance presented by these deco rations, when the sweet notes of thA pi- ano, heralding the approach of the pro cession, bade us direct our attention to a scene still more beautiful The young ladies entered, and ranging thenisrlvm from (lie throne to the doer, turned with • a. * I ^ * ivi nrou win night on our way to ( hariretoo, had, in ! wreaths an Arch pswagt for tlieir Qheer