Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-25
THE GREAT ISSUE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE GREAT ISSUE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
At last we have definite accounts from South
Carolina Of the result of the great struggle which
has Just been decided in that State between the
Secessionisfs THAT is, the immediate, absolute, sepa
rate secessonists) and the .dnti hose
in principle opposed to secession, combined with
those who advocate il, but only in cooperation
with other Southern St-tes.) The issue, we are
happy to say, has been the total defeat and rout
of the Secessionists. We sincerely hoped for
such result. but we confess that our anticipatons
fell short of our wishes. We believed that there
was existing among the quiet mass Of the people
of the State silent, latent loyalty to the Union,
and an opposition to the schemes of the noisy ag-
tators, but we did not look for so signal victory
over the disorganizers. The Anti Sccessionisfs
have carried every Congressional district in the
State with single exception, thus electing fwelve
out Of the fourteen Delegates for the proposed
Southern Congress; which, by the way, as none of
the other Southern States have agreed it, will be no
Congress at all. In the seventh district alone have
the Secession candidates been elected, namely
Messrs. RHETT and DUNCAN, and as Mr.. RHETr is
in Europe his colleague will be solus.
As we have remarked above, the point at issue
between the two parties leaving out that great body
of loyal citizens opposed 10 disnnion pnder any
name or form is that Of disunion now, or of condi-
tonal disunion at some future day. The 7" Seces-
sionists' desire the immediate and isolated with
drawal from the Union of the State of Soith Caro-
<bo tn rofsn,o efeB irSc
waiting for the united and joint action that end
of other Southern States. Such was the question
presented to the People, and the judgment which
they have pronounced upon it is rendered the more
important from the fact, that, during theexcitement
of last winter the Legislature passed al act autho-
rizing the holding of State Convention, the men,
bers of which were almost forthwith ekcted, and
to whose decision is to be submitted, whenever
they shall have been convened by the legislature,
the grave question of seeding from the Uion. It
is hoped, and not without reason that the .ense of
the people, as expressed at the election jut held,
will have controlling and beneficial inftnce on
the deliberations both of the Legislature AMI of the
Convention.
We may with propriety add, that, in decid-
ing as they have done, the people Of Sout Caro-
lima have clearly indicated their willingness to
acquesce in the Compromise measures of The last
Congress. Such is necessary inference of
their having rejected separate State actio, as all
the States whose cooperation is sought lad pre-
viously acquiesced in that measure and his was
avowed and admitted to have been the tue ques-
ton at issue by the leading Secession jornals of
South Carolina, which held up to their raiders, as
AUST and comprehensive view of the naure of the
contest, the following extract from an article in
the Georgia Constitutionalist," writer before the
election took place:
"The contest, nominally between Secession and
Cooperation, but in fact between Secession and
Submission, is to be decided in SoHh Carolina
next Monday. A full set of Secession candidates
for the Southern Congress, the one 'ide, and of
Cooperation candidates on the other, are in the
field, and the result will be considered in that State
as test Of public sentiment. If the Secession
candidates are elected by an aggregate majority Of
the voters of the State, the Convention will look
upon the result the voice of the State in favor If
the separate secession of South Carolina from tie
Union, and it is presumed will act accordingly. lf|
the Cooperation candidates are elected it will ke
considered, and rightly too, the will of the Stat,
in favor of co-operation-alias submission. Asl
there is no other Southern State to cooperate with
in secession, or any other mode of resistance to
the compromise measures, all of them having de-
cided in favor Of submission, the term cooperation
Is misnomer. Incorporation triumphs, then sub
mission triumphs, for it will be the decision Of
South Carolina that she too will submit to the past
aggressions of the Federal Government"
The Constitutionalist'' presented the above as
plain statement of the case, and, having been en-
dorsed by the Secessionsts themselves is not for
us to question its entire accuracy. The paper in
which it originated has been heretofore one of the
warmest opponents of the Compromise, but it now
frankly conesses that the question of resistance or
submission has been every where else definitely
settled, and advises /" the people of South Carolina
to prepare to fight the demon of abolition aggres-
sion u, the Union instead of out of it, for which
purpose cooperation with her sister Southern
States will be a legitimate subject for conside-
ration.'
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SANDWICH IsLANDs.-A
late number of the " Poynesian,' published at
Honolulu, contains the new treaty recently nego-
tated between the Government of the Sandwich
Islands and that of Great Britain. 1t conforms, in
its essential features, to the treaty with the United
Il q u n Al