Washington telegraph., 1851-05-21
Correspondence Of the N. Y. Herald.
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. April

CHARLESTON, s. c., April IL, 1851.
am now here, and find that the first grea
movement IN favor of secession will be made il
ms city. L understand general meeting of al
the state Right Associations takes place her,
early in May. Here is the first step. Judge
uutiers only objection to secession now is, tha
the federal government will not go to war. L
they would, the South would come to the rescue
II the government does not, South Carolina may
be starved into submission. That is what he fears
fou may, however, very safely put on the steam
Secession pretty hot yet in South Carolina, and
she is bound to do something.
Will South Carolina secedr7 Will she, against
the decisive action of Georgia, the resolutions Of
Virginia, and the acquiescene Of all the other
Southern States in the late Compromise measures
will she, single handed and alone, withdraw, OF
deliberately attempt TO Withdraw, from the Uaon
and set up or attempt to set up, foreign govern
ment TO the rest Of the confederacy, almost within
the heart oflhe United States2 AT this ]uncture,
this is the single absorbing issue pending in South
Carolina, aud by aA means. and for all purposes,
IN every view, the most Important TO the Union,
and TO every State Of the Dnon; and of paramount
moment to the best interests of mankind the wide
world Reduced TO its ultimate conse-
quences, the single issue pending in single State,
OF secession o. submission, involves the breaking
up of our whole federal system, and the desecra-
ton of every thing sacred in government religion,
and society, to system OF civil war, military
despots, military elections, and such history Of
military butcheres as are but family illustrated in
the dissolution of the States Of Greece, in the
breaking up of the EN- 9ire of Rome. In truth, it
is easy TO imagine that, in the dissolution of this
Union, state of war and anarchy would almost
inevitably follow, more nearly approaching the
horrible atrocities of the French Revolution. ii I'VE
we not among us in the North, (thank God there
noue in the Southi watching their opportunity,
he 10 veil he fha IIStIp
critics. red republicans good as the best Parsiap?
From these sputering cestructives, and from the
abolitIon,sts and free negroes, where would be the
peace, or the hope Of peace, if once the strong,
conservative, law enforcing, and peace preserving
bonds of this Union broken? There would
be no peace, 10 law, nor order. The South
would, of necessity, combine into Southern con-
federacy; the North would necessarily lose all its
present commercial advantages with the Southern
States; and it is next to impossible to conceive
how the boundaries could be settled between the
sections, or the rights of both maintained, without
continuous state Of war, until we shall have five
or six coniederacies, each under military Pres-
dent, ill onsted by the bayonet under some other
military leader aspiring TO Presidential honors
Disunion looks TO these things; the secession
of single Slate will BE- disunion; aud yet the
question, the SINGLE solitary, absorbing question
now pending in the State of South Carolina, is
the question of secession. Will she secede? To
secede is to go out; and to go out, now is to ego
1t alone" W Ill she go out, and go it alone?
Ii so, why so? and If not so, why all this prepara-
tion, why all these threats and warnings, these
civil and military organizations, these frequent
speeches to the people! and why the election of
this Stale Convention, which is to decide the
question, and which is ten 10 one for secession?
These important .interrogatores, and for
the benefit of he Northern readers Of the Herald,
we propose to give you from the spot, and from
the best Information hand, series of letters
on the general question:, and uPon-the numerous
and Interesting incidental issue involved in the
general conlro 'ersy. In doing this, propose
to show that there is still danger TO the Union;
that there is apparently remarkable and alarm
ing uuanimily OF the people oil South Carolina in
favor Of secesson; that they have very plausible
Ieasons for acting upon IT. reasons oil defence,
of interest, of State pride: and sectional safety.
We expect, further, to be able to prove, tnat to
William IL. Seward, Tburo Weed, and Horace
Greedy & Co., of New York, and to their detes-
table, dlsorganizing, and ruinous principles, if
South Carolina does secede, shall, for that
result, be NEST largely indebted. In the eyes of
the world, that hatterlng testimonial Of the ability
and stability Of republican coniederacies, will be
set down to the abolitionsts of all the various
stripes, and to the arch agitatOrs Of New YORK,
who have led them If South Catolina Sc
cedes, she will justify herself on the ground that
u dDoitiohiSuH Is HiSucI law III tuc A>of III tudh
the constitution, sef-preservation, at least, de-
fence, even if she is to be destroyed, becomes of
necessity "higher law" in the South. While in
the Union, she abides by the constitutions but if it
is superseded by Stewards ''higher law she
cedes come what may. And the question Sic is
soon in form 10 determine, is not secession or
absolute submission; not resolutions OF defiance
and independence, 'er resolutions as meek and
milky as the Virginia resolutions. No, she is to
10 xuh her will ed or Wait ill
further aggressens of Stewards ''higher law" shall
compel other Southern States to range themselves
by her side. South Carolina may secede. The
lace of things in that State has decided look OF
secession. She NAV secede; but in any event she
will adopt some system of retaliation again the
abo botonists, and the abolition Statestf the North.
In tile Union, she will certainly get the co opera
ton of the other Southern States especially OF the
cotton region-out OF it, she may command their
sympathy and assistance, Texas did against
Mexico. We were iniormed lately by amerchant
of geod information, that during the first two
weeks of March, the city of Baltimore gained
from this port of Charleston an addition to her
trade of $500, ,O0u, deducted from the port of New
York; for, notwithstanding the sound public senti-
ment of the Empire City, the Sewardisin of the
Empire State is held in the deepest adherence.
In our next shall be extended and
particular Judge Buffers speech, at Edgefe
on Monday last, will give you some idea OF what
secession means in South Carolina; and Mr.. Rhett,
the other u. s. Senator of this State, the same
day, was still more explicit in some remarks de-
livered at meeting in this city. The tone Of the
newspaper press, which generally follows in the
wake oil public opinion, indicates secession to be
foregone conclusion. Within short time we
expect the issue to be virtually settled. 1t is
coming rapidly to that point
~OO~0oO~v0~>O~~~
The CELEBRATED HMLoTYPE.--Ihe
last number of the Daguerrean Journal,
printed in New York city, contains a
communication from Mr. Hill, relative to
his methods of producing variety Of
LOTT The