Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-28
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
LEarsLATIoN oF-sCUTH CAROLINA.


the law Of that State before nd tat Il is thc
.s dcsirev Of South Carolina mat il assemble at
Montgomery, Alabama, on the I'd Of January,
1852. According to our understanding of the'act,
however, the other States asserting to the Congress
may appoint another time and place of meeting.
The Governor Of South Carolina is directed TO
communicate copy of theact to the authorities OF
each of the other slavehodiDg States, and urge
upon them, in such manner as he may deem best,
to, send duly commissioned Delegates TO the said
Coue ress. South Carolina is to have eighteen
Delegates, four Of whom are to be etected by the
Legislature and two by the voters Of each sOongres-
sional district on the second Monday I'M October
next. These Delegates are to be duly commits
stoned by the Governor, and to meet in Congress
such Delegates as may be appointed 10Y other
sfaveholding Sttes and join them in devising such
measures as in their opinion may be adequate to
obtain the objects proposed by the Nashville Con-
vention, and in reporting such measures to the
slaveh oding States rs, when agreed to and fully
confirmed by $hem or any Of them, will effectually
provide for the same that is to say, ,inthe words of
the Nashville Convention, !" with the view and in
tenon of arresting further aggressions, and if pos
sble, of restoring the constitutional rights of the
South and, if not to recommend some provision
for their future safety and independence.
The State Convention is ordered to assemble at
Columbia, for the purpose, in the first place, Of
taking into consideration the proceedings and re-
commentators of the Congress of the savehold-i
ing States if the same shall meet and be held and for
the further purpose Of taking into consideration the
general welfare OF the State of South Carolina, in
view of her'relations to the Laws and Governments
of the United States, and to take care that she
- shall suffer no detriment." The delegates COM
posing this Convention are to correspond in num-
Der with the whole of the Members of the State
Legisaturetand to be elected by the people on the
second Monday in February next No time is
fixed for the meeting Of this Convention. II is
made the duty of the Governor of'the State to call
il at any period before the next
session ofsthe Legislature, g the eonjuncture of q
Southern Congress, contemplated in the purpose of
this act, shall have happened" But, if the Cen
vention be not SO assembled by the Governor, then
the next Legislature is to fix the time Of meeting.
On the passage Of these measures the Governor
caused sa,ute of one hundred guns to be fired at
Columbia, and similar salute was1fred at Charles
ton. AS respects the sentiments of the Members
of the Legislature on the subject of their Federal
Relations the Columbia correspondent Of the
Charleston Courier writes as follows, under date
of the 18th IL"
"I but justice to say, that this matter has been
finally disposed of that the only diversity Of opinion which
has existed has been upon the the end much de-
Sired viz "a Dissolution Of this Union and the formation of
Southern Conederacy Many members thought that Con-
vention Of the People at tins time would be premature, and
they desired that such should only be resorted to in
the last instance, when shall be positively asceained that
the Southern States would not cooperate with and then
that Convention should be called for the purpose Of seced
iag from the Union 1t would be great 10 suppose
that upon the great question Of resistance there has been
any diversity Of opinion in the counsss Of the Legislature
On the contrary, upon this question there s almost entire
unanimy in the Legislature. The vote last night by which
the Convention bill lost taken upon that bill alone
the vote this morning, which has definitely settled this NATTER
taken upon what has been dubbed thet omnibus BILL
providing both for the election Of Delegates to Southern
Congress and for Convention Of the People Of this State"
'.asa0n Thursday the "Suppy bill" reported BY
the Committee Of Ways and Means, was passed
by the House of Representatives. 1t provides for
taxes 'astfOkows: ans5l aA a' . @s'1 nN
On all granted lands the tax shall be so cents on the OO
ron Catawba lands half cent per acre on slaves IS
scents per head free negroes mulsoes and meszoes
Sas lots ands and buildings in towns and vllsges
cents per SiOo facofage commissions and professional
incomes, go cents per 500 goods, wares, and mer
chandise 90 cents per 500; all money interest,"
per GENT Of the interests exhibitions plays Sc $40 per
DAY The machinery in factories, and goods imported d.
recy from Europe in vessels owned by citizens Jf South
Carolina while n the hands Of the original importer, be
.
exempt from taxation. .t.l4.., + a.oa, ii
@ n On Saturday the Legislature elected RoBERr w.
BkRNwELL, JOHN p. RICHARDSON, w. HAMPTON,
and LANeDoN CHEvEs as the Delegates 10 represent
/ the State at large in the Southern Congress.
/, The Charleston Mercury of the 2Ist December
gives the minutes of Proceedings of the House of
Represen,atives ON the 18th instant from which we
learn that many bills depending were in effect re-
iected in batch, being postponed to- oNotember
next Or ordered to lie on the table, Amongst these
were the following. the defeat of which, estimating
their contents from their titles, must under the cir
cumstances, be regarded as Of some signi6capce:
A bill 10 restore and secure to the citizens Of South Caro-
ns their rights under the third clause of section of the
Fourth article Of the Constitution Of the United States in rea
ton to the rendition Of fugitive slaves Ss VI
bill increase the penalties for circulating bringing
within this State for circulation any written printed papers,
print or engraving Or pictorial representation with intent to
'distEib the peace or security Of the same. 4 .@st
bill to prohibit the introduction Of slaves into this State
om any the United States and for other purposes therein
usenoncd.
bil to amend act entitled "sn act 70 snend the law
u seI.,ion to the hsrboring Of deserted sesmen.
M Of non-intercourse with the aveholding States
d % Union that have passed acts enacmen,s prevent
me recovery OF slaves and given opinion contrary 70
our policy and detrimental to intecst IN regard to
slave population.