The southern press., 1851-08-04

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happy influence, and WILL trust, be followed
up by other meetings of our friends in every
district and parish in the State, and the seal OF
and unfortunate move of separate State action
| am, very truly, yours, &c.
JAMES l.. Oar.
Messrs. A. G. Magrath, and others, Committee
Col. CHEsNUT's LETTER.
CAMDEN, July 81, 1851
Gentlemen A few days since received your
letter of the 10th instant, inviting me to be pre-
sent at a meeting of the citizens of Charleston
to be held on Tuesday, the 29lh July, instant
for the purpose Of defining their position in re-
ference to the present political position of the
State, rs favorable to cooperation, for the pur-
pose of resistance and opposed to separate State
action under existing circumstances.
| feel and acknowledge the honor of your in
vitation, and regret that | am not able to be
present.
| Iagree entirely in the position you have in
dicated, and think it points to the only true and
wise policy for the State. A concerted action
on the part of the Southern States, must produce
redress and security in the Union, or result in
our independence as Southern confederacy
out of it. With either condition believe South
Carolina would be satisfied. For myself, howe
ver consider the first not very probable aud
prefer the latter as furnishing the only per-
manently safe condition. ANY step therefore
which leads to the attainment Of this end, has
my hearty concurrence, and will receive what
ever support can give.
While the citizens of Charleston to this great
| end feel it nece ssary to "defne their position,
| am assured that it will be 80 done as to give
| - e.
portion Of the resistance party who are at pre-
sent separated from US. feel strong hope
Gas their policy is disapproved by large majo-
rity Of the State) that they will in their patriot
ism fall back cheerfully upon US and cooperate
for great and common purpose.
| | have the honor to be
| Your fellow-citizen,
| JAMES CHEsNUT, jr.
To Messrs. A. G. Magratb, NJ Mitchell, p. d.
Tore, and others.
| Immediately after the reading of these letters,
Col. Isaac w. Hayne announced that the Hon.
Robt w. Barnwel and Hon. A. P. Butler, were
in the city, and moved that committee of three
be appointed to conduct these gentlemen to the
hall, and that out Of respect to them, the busi-
ness of the meeting should be suspended until
their arrival The motion was adopted, and Col.
Hayne, A. Ii. Dunkin, ESQ., and p ID. Tore, ESQ.,
were appointed the committee
At the return Of the committee, ace ompanied
by these distinguished gentlemen, the warmesi
and most enthusiastic welcome greeted them
and conveyed to them the assurance of the deer
anxiety felt by all classes of our communty
that the city and country should remain, as they
ever had been, united in feeling, and following
the advice Of those whose patriotic devotion to
their State had been among the chief elements
Of character which ennobled them and dipni
fed their State.
w. Peronneau Finlev, esq, then rose, and,
after brief address, introduced the following
resolutions:
RESOLUTIONS.
]. Resofocd, That the aggressive measures of
the federal government, in connection with va
rious exhibitions Of public sentiment by the
people Of the North, through their State govern
ments and otherwise, for series of years, indi
cate in our opinion deep rooted hostility to the
interests Of the South, s>>1 a settled purpose to
deprive the Southern States, on account of their
peculiar institutions, of their original rank as
sovereigns and equals in this confederacy and
that the inevitable result of such proceedings, if
allowed to take their course, must be ultimately
the entire abolition Of negro slavery in the
South, and the erection, in place Of our federal
Union, of consolidated government, alike
despotic and irresponsible.
2. Resolred, That in view Of the humiliatinr
condition Of the slave holding States in this con-
federacy-their rights violated-ther institutions
proscribed-their character vili6ed--thcr offers
of compromise rejected-and in view of the still
greater dangers which are impending over them,
we believe the time has come when this Union
should be dissolved, and new government or
ganized on the basis Of Southern confederacy
But while such is our deliberate opinion as to
our wrongs and our remedy, we would still be
willing to give trial, fairly and in good faith,
to any plan, short of dssoving the Unon which
our sister States Of the South may propose, for
re-nstating us in the possession of cur equal
rights, and providing us with adequate guaran-
tees for our future security.
3. Resolped, That as the subject of the con-
troversy in which we are engaged is not peculiar
to South Carolina, but equally concerns the
other slaveholding States of this Union, onr true
policy and most proper mode of procedure, il in
our opinion, to make common cause with our
aggrieved confederates; and unite with them i
counsel and action to obtain redress for our
common wrongs; "such concert of action" ac
cording to the views of our own Calhoun, being
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