Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.


r. F.. w. ALLsToN was chosen President of III
Senate, and JAMES SMoNs Speaker of the House o
Representatives.
The Message of Governor SEABRooK was lait
before the Legislature on Tuesday. 1t of course
maintains ultra ground on the Southern question
1t opens by presenting view of the financial con
dition of State, which shows that the balance in
the Treasury on the LIST Of October last was
9,42s. Itrecommends the fostering of the State
military academies, and also, in view OF the present
and future aspect of public affairs, the establishment
of depos for military stores and instruments Of
at Anderson courthouse, Spartanburg courthouse,
and Marion courthouse, !" and that each depot be
placed under the charge Of limited number Of
young men, commanded by graduate of the Cita-
del Academy, whose business it shall be 10 instruct
the guard in all the practical branches of the art OF
war; The Governor says that during the year
he has purchased largely of muskets and rifles and caused
several thousand musket be manufactured
Columbia (,he capital Of South Caroina He has also
caused the erection of magazines for fixed ammunition and
depots for arms at Georgetown and Beaufort He
snds that be be authorized purchase eighteen brass field
pieces and the establishment Of factories for small and
munitions as we'll as foundes for iron ordnance &C. Other
recommendations are the encouragement of home manuac
lures the adoption of liberal policy towards associated capi-
tai for manufacturing and other enteprsng projects the
removal the State of every coloed person not pos
sesed Of real slave property the reduction Of the legal rate
interest the revision Of the criminal code the passage Of
law exempsing the homestead and slaves from
final process the encouragement of free schools, &C. He
South Carolina expends nearly onefourth other in
derived from for purposes of education and yet
that upwards of twenty thousand Of her people ignorant o.
their alphabet.
Governor SEABnoox then devotes three columns to
the subject Of Federal Relations He maintains that the
adoption of the compromise measures by Congress Was
another triumph Of the fell spirit Of abolitonm that
California created State and admitted into the Union
against all precedent and in violation Of the constitution
that Congress is longer to be the executor of the will Of
States but Of party banded together by the
twofod incentive of sectional aggrandizement and public
punder tina. the North and South differ fundamentally in in
sutions and from the framework of their social organize
ton they need different aws-the former requiring strong
government with all the appliances Of extensive patronage and
the latter mild and equal system Of legal resnints that
these dscordant materials in federal structure mainly
if exclusively referabe to the positions respectively
signed the parties by nature; that the constitution, in its
most important provisions, has, in effect been essentially
changed that the Union created by it longer exists that
its guarantees from the revelation which has been prac
cay accomplished the South, have been cverhrown
and Consolidated Government, having its discretion and
will as the Of its powers now the Government Of
the onion that this Government degards all compromises
that by its enacmens the people Of the South are despsied
Of the fruits of their labor while the various branches of in
dustry at the North have been forced into condition Of
examped wealth and power, &c.
In support Of these assertions the Governor points pepe
traed or attempted encroachments by Congress the
served rights Of the States the incenday resolutions Of
tbo
from abolition associations the bitter and vndctve feelings
Of the press the bar and the pulpit the naammatoy ha
rangues to popular meetings. the encouragement and aid
given runaway slaves and the refusal to surrender them
the humiliation Of the principle Of State equality BY the
cusion Of one-haf the citizens of the Conedeacy om all
participation in the newly acquired domain the violation Of
great sectional compromise by the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
Southern member Of the Union, in order at convent
ent to from its bosom free and hostile State
which unwaantabe proceedings have caused South Caro-
na for about onehd of her political existence, to present
an almost uninterrupted Of dsquetude and excitement
But the Governor says the final act Of the drama sover
and when the curtain which the future from the eye
of the patriot shall be lifted it may be that the Palmetto
banner will be among other standards waving over
triumphant people, united in institutions and in determi
nation to maintain with fidelity their relations with
their co.eoveregns and the nations Of the world" The
Message concludes as follows
HDoes hope still liDger in your bosoms that the dark
cloud which envelopes the political horizon will yet be dis
PEELED That the enemy will forego his Preedated design
of reducing your honored Commonwealth TO colonial vassa
age To these questions satisfactory will be found
in the melancholy experience of the pashe overshadowng
influence Of the General Government insured by the pema-
nen ascendency of the sectional party which aims at the
initiation of properythe history Of fanaicsmhe
newed and augmented agitation Of the slavery question: and
the recent practical vercaton Of our fears that at North
the provisions Of the constitution in behalf Of Southern rights
cannot lie enforced without the shedding Of blood.
eff that section, [the North which has the
Of every department Of the Government the preservation
Of the Confedeacy indispensable the completion of it,
work Of dissertation and ruin, to its dissolution as COM
pact between States Is necessary to social
political quiet and the safety Of institutions Ordained
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide fol
the Defence promote the general welfare and
the blessings Of liberty ourselves and postety in
laon to each and all Of these essential objects, the bond
Union having been deliberately muaed by majority OF tb
contracting parties the minority have longer any security
| for life, liberty, and property
Ths time, then, has arrived 10 the exercise of tn
powers Of self protection, which, the hour Of unsuspectnt
organize political system and safer basis
There power, moral physical that prevent it
The is ndssoluby linked with its cause, and fixed
destiny. In the sdmonitory language of amented states
man. the calamity thatcoud bea would be to los
independence and to sink down into Of acknowl
edged nferioy, depending for security upon orbearsncs
and capacity and disposition defend ourselves
81 have attempted discuss the question Of secession
The right Of State withdraw from the Union result
from the nature and principles Of the constitutional compact
to which the States sovereign parties While adherin
faithfully the remedy Of joint State action for redress
common grievances bcseech you remember that no
uncure of events ought induce abandon the right
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