The southern press., 1851-04-23
SOUTHERN MOVEMENTS.
South Carolina.

Our readers will find to day, on another col
pendent Of The New York Herald, now in the
city Of Charleston, who is evidently close OBJ
server, and an impartial one. The letter will be
found very interesting, as embodying the DELHI
crate conclusions of disinterested witness.
From the Charleston Mercury we extract the
following significant editorial, foreshadowing the
policy that will be adopted, and the purposes
that are to be subserved, by the meeting of the
delegates Of the associations in Charleston, on
the first Monday in May next:
aTHE BAREwELL SOUTHERN RIGHTS AssocI-
ALTON, AND THE CONVENTION OF ASSOCIATIONS TO
BE HELD IN CHARLEsToN.-We cordially approve
the resolution adopted by the Barnwell Associ
alton, on the motion Of J. NJ. Hutson, esq. It
affirms That any attempt by the members Of
that body (the convention to be held in May,)
to Illustrate the action of the State Convention,
will not onlysbe highly improper in itself, but
will be altogether foreign to the purposes for
which the delegates from the several associa-
tons have been invited to assemble together
"For ourselves, and for our association, we
respond that, we trust that no effort will be made
to interfere with the freedom of action of the
State convention. If the convention of May
shall desire to maintain the influence and pro-
mote the usefulness of the Southern rights as
sociations, it must confine its deliberations and
its action to the objects for which the associa-
tons were originally constituted. II the con.
vention shall exceed these limits, and shall trans
g. int
inquistorial clubs; above all, if they shall
prompt them to pursue measures which shall be
designed to control the constituted authorities
of the State, from that moment they will be-
come potent for nothing but evil. We depre.
cate therefore, any action by the convention
which shall be designed to limit the freedom of
elaboration, or in any way to dictate to, or TO
control, the action of the State convention.
This body already stands in its proper relation
to the people of the State. Its members have,
in some instances, been elected as untrammeI-
ed delegates, and left free to exercise their best
judgments when they shall be assembled. In
other instances, the people have thought pro-
per to indicate their wish that their delegates
shall 90 fol~h early secession of the State
The matter, therefore, has already been arranged
in the manner which seemed best to the peo-
pie of the respective districts. The people so
classed in districts, and who have thus acted,
and voted, and appointed, and instructed their
delegates to the State convention, are the State
Let not, therefore, our Southern rights associa.
tons, which in fact consist of only portion Of
the people, undertake to regulate, or control,
the sction of that body which represents and is
entrusted with the power and authority of the
whole people Of the State. ....'
ave believe that the associations, pursuing
steadily and vigorously the objects for which
they were originally organized, can be the in
struments Of incalculabe good to the country.
But let them REMEMBER, that an essential ele-
ment to the success of their efforts, is the pos
session of the public confidence; and that to re-
tain this it is essential that they should carefully
avoid all interference with the constituted au.
thoritios Of the State, and even the seeming to
assume inquisitorial or dctatorial power"