The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-30

| public meeting at Charleston, in South Carroll.
ma was very respectfully attended OH the pod De-
cember Charles M. Furman was president. The
meeting addressed by several gentlemen of emf
nence, to wit: Messrs. Memminger, Hunt, Philips,
and Seymour.
| COL Memmnger introduced the following resolu-
tons:
Resolved, That the citizens of the two parishes of
ST. Philips and ST. Michaels do hereby tender to
their feow-citizens of the upper districts Of our
State their kindilest sympnthiss for the suffering
produced amonget them by the failure of their pro-
vision CROP and will cordially contribute their aid to
alleviate that suffering.
9 Resolved, That a committee of twenty citizens
be appointed in each ward of the city, and two COM
mtees on the Neck for the purpose of taking up
the contribution of the two parishes in aid OF The
suffering in the upper districts and that the COM
mttees do Immediately proceed around in their re-
spective precincts to execute the duty intrusted to
them.
3. Resolved, That the chairmen of these conmi-
tees, with the acting mayor Of the city, be const-
tuted an executive committee to receive all the con-
ributions when collected, and to make all proper ar
rangements for applying the same to relieve in the
most efiectua manner those who are suffering IN the
upper districts from the existing scarcity of provls
ions.
To these resolutions, and upon the occasion of
uieH PaSsaSc, tHO iucisuis euphito thS io'io"
ing observations:
'The citizens of Charleston have heard with un-
eigned regret of the suffering in the upper districts
Of our State occasioned by the failure of the pro-
vision crop of the last season. The distress which
such calamity must produce, Is increased by the
fact that our country has been so peculiarly blessed
with abundant grain crops, that the people are ell.
tirely unprepared to meet so rare and unexpected
an emergency. The first and immediate effect which
it has produced has been d hasty emigration of
those whose necessities stronger than the ties
which bound them to their domestic hearths. From
the district of Sparanburg alohe it is ascertained
that upwards Of two thousand persons have already
fed from the restitution which awaited them, to
seek in the West some means of support The
condition Of many of those who rcmnin may be CON
ceived, when it is known that in the whole district,
moi more than one-sxth Of the usual provision crop
has been made, while in many neighborhoods, there
are entire fields which have produced scarcely sim
gle of corn. In this calamity several of the adj
jacent districts have shared, and though, perhaps,
not to the extent, yet so great is the destitu-
ton that they are unable provide for the sufferers
among themselves, much less for those in other dis
trcts. Throughout this region of country, with
the exception Of grsenvile, ind perhaps Of Pende-
ton hisricts, the stros- sAk nHH Earth tina
active sympathies of our people.
"In these circumstances, the people Of Charleston,
Both III the city and the Neck, would do injustice
to their own feelings, if they did not at once unite
in giving their expression and come forward to the
relief of their fellow-citizens Hitherto the scenes
of want and privaton which have called forth our
sympathies, have BEEN laid in foreign hands, and our
Own Country has heen exempted, through the mercy
of kind Providence, from their heart-fending de-
tails. But now the realities Of want are present at
our own 6resides, and within our own State, are
heard the cries of families in want of bread. To
such a cry the ear of Charleston never has been
deaf-from such appeals, the hearts Of our people
will be turncd and although many of our cit-
zens are struggling with the consequences of the
same drought which has afflicted the rest Of the
State and regret that their means Of contribution
have been thereby curtsiled yet are we all disposed
cordially to come forward as one man, and share
our loaf with those who are sons Of the same COM
mon mother-brethren of the same hotsehod-pnr-
takers of the same common lot of veal or of wo