Southern shield., 1851-07-26
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 JAMES w. ANDREWS.
SECESSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA

ANTI-SECEsSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.- The GreenvIIe (S. O. Patriot contains the following brief notice of the celebration off the 4th of July, by the -Secessionists in that place. Among the published proceed ~l--~.-u e,bv aud oPiritUd iUtterS from Judge Oneal, Samuel H. Dickson, Hon. J. R. Poinsett, w. ". Boyce, Hon. ". C.. Preston, and Hon. Wm. J. Grayson, all con- demning in unequivocal terms, the policy of separate State action.
 4 Voice from the MountainS-Anti-Se- cession, 4th July, 1000 Persons present!-I We have had a proud day and glorious celebration in Greenville. Long, too, will it be remembered by the thousands and thousands of men, women and children, who came to it from all parts of the District, and from the surrounding Districts. Never before have we had any celebration in Green vile at all compared 10 it. Early in the morning, crowds of human beings rolled through OUT streets, like the pillows of the ocean. Seats had been prepared for up wards ofa thousand persons, in the beauti full grove east of the courthouse, but they were all filled before the procession reach ed the stand. In few minutes afterwards the whole brow of the hill presented an ocean of human heads The crowd has been estimated at four thousand persons
 Major Rowland acted as Marshal of the day. Vadry EcBee, Esq, the landgrave of our District, who was old enough and near |enough to hear and remember the guns of the battle of the Cowpens, was, on motion of P. F. Duncan, Esq, called to the Chair, and Colonel Broohman and c. J. Elford, Esq, were appointed Secretaries. An ap- propriate, beautiful, patriotic and eloquent ly pious prayer was offered up at the throne |of Grace by Rev. Wm. Capers, of the Meth odist Church, and son of Bishop Capers.- Capt. J. w. Brooks then read, in loud and animated tone, the Farewell Address of Washington. The Report and Resolutions prepared by committee, were submitted, through the Chairman, and unanimously |adopted. A patriotic Ode from the Rev. Thos. Frean, was then read, addressed to the "Mountain Men," which drew froth bursts of applause.
 The letters received were mentioned and exhibited
 Gen. Thompson was now called on by the Chair, and he addressed the vast multi tude for about two hours in strain of ar gument, eIoquence and scathng sarcasm, which have been seldom surpassed. He probed the disease and the remedy ofseces- sion 10 the core. Never did speech tell better on an audience All, except few incurable cases, went off repudiating seces- sion with all it's folly, heresy and madness. Greenville knows how to defend her consti- tutional rights, and maintain the Union of the States. Her position, after this day'sl work ana expression of opinion, can never| be mistaken. No Secessionist or disunion- ist son of hers need ever aspire to her favor and affection.
 "l wish," said Virginian to his brother, resident in Ohio, "to emancipate one hun dred slaves, and 1 desire you to take them 10 Ohio." ''I cannot do it," replied the brother; the citizens of Ohio will not allow me to bring one hundred slaves among them to settle: but do you take them to Wheel ing, and there place them on steamboat |