Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-07
Virginia and South Carolina.

We have o item had occasion 10 ATTEST tle us
crstion and ability of the Milledgeville Southern
Recorder" leading Wing journal of the State
of Georgia, distinguished not more for the high
qualities we have just mentioned than for unde-
waiting fidelity to the interests of the South. In
a recent article elected by the resolutions of the
Virginia Legislature responding to the action of
the Legislature of South Carolina, the "Recor-
der" makes the following grave and interesting
reflections upon the extraordinary attitude which
the latter State appears to have assumed amongst
her Confederates
Thus has Virginia declared herself, on the great s-
sue before the country She, like Georgia, abides by
the Compromise, and stands by the Union. Gould we
see any ground, 10 hope that our neIghborlng
State would listen to The voice OF reason, we are sure
that would hail with lively pleasure, this de-
monstraton on the part OF the O!d DOMINION for we
look the consequences OF SECESSION or the effort to Sc
cede the part of South Carolina, With the goomest
torebodngs We in such result nothing the but utter
prostaton OF every thing valuable aud dear to us-the
triumph OF anarchy-and that direst curse, lnterneclne
with all its horrors.
But fom the othe press Of our sister state in rela-
ton to this mediation part OF Virginia we must confess
we are hopeless any benefits be derived from H. The
Charleston Mercury, the ablest and most influential pa
per in that State, thus influential, not SIMPLY tom It's
marked ability, but especially, we magn because It
energetcaly AID truly expresses the puo &c iee-
ing, meets the action of Virginia in the worst possible
spnit We OF course, the most unpropltioas splr
il, tor the achievement OF the harmonious opects OF
The Virginia mediation Its tones may be conceived
rom lew lines in the first paragraph The voice OF
yIs,na ahs h what h voice
note used speak from The lips Ibe Great CT
onwealh Indeed the Mercury promises az the result
OF this mediation the part OF Virginia, that the at
tention will be recipocaed and that some trustworthy
citizens OF carolina will be sent to Richmond provided
with copies OF former resolves, and solemn pledges OF
Virginia. (which this State has done no more than copy
and follow up) aud commissioned to invite and urge
her to resume her office of leader OF the South and re-
turn to that position, whence alike her honor ana ne:
safety mourn her absence.
We should not Yield up all hope ia regard to Carroll
ma, from the evidences which are to be ound abundant
enough in its press; from the declarations OF lis
prominent politicians These we have sean overrued
and again, by the people, when the integrity OF the
Unon was Involved in the issue. We might be heed
less of the public declarations of the Senators 10
Congress OF that State, that they were Fixing their
last speeches the Representatives OF their State
They might has often been done before, have msta-
ken public opinion, although from their positions they
ought TO be intimately acquainted with H. But OF the
public opinion and feeling OF South Carolina, there
not exist solitary doubt The people OF that State are
heartily, decidedly and may say enthusiastically In
favor OF separating from the North. The eellug Pc
vades all classes the ministers OF the Gospel pa!-
lake OF it, and unusual it is, for this occasion
among the warmest politicians The Stale, as State
is decidedly for secession, and would be arguing total
blindness, see it. Where then is this end 3
What does Carolina herself anticipate the conse-
quences OF her secession?
The first of these questions man fully answer
In regard 10 the other South Carolina has herself FULLY
answered. And to these ancipations OF our sister
State behooves the people OF Georgia and the Souh
TO give special heed Let mistake in regard to them,
ON the part OF Carolina be allowed TO urge her forward
her fatal career Let us have blame resting on
our shoulders should sister State make the fatal
plunge 1t Is duty to her, TO ourselves, to the coun-
Try, that there should be no possibility OF mistake here
Ii Carolina expects to involve the whole South by
pungng into her headong course has been declared
over and GAM is the duty OF her sister States 10
tell her. Just what she has 10 hope SO tar as eo-opera
hon ion their part Is presumed. And we deem this
matter so vitality important, at this moment every way
that we shall TO the subject again and again. as
that which Is oil most imperative importance both TO
Carolina aud her Southern sisters.
The Charleston "Mercury," of more recent date
than the number referred TO by the Recorder"
has continued to treat the resolutions OF Virginia
with derision. With respect to the suggestion
OF commission to expostulate with the Legsla-
ture or Convention of South Carolina against the
proposed secession, the "Mercury" pronounces it
preposterous to suppose that the embassy of Mr..
Leigh had any influence in dissuading that State
from collision with the Federal Government -
TO which, the Richmond Enquirer very pertinent
ly replies that General Hamilton who was the
military leader of the Notification movements, has
recently declared that Mr.. Leigh's mission did
tend materially to arrest the rash proceedings OF
S. Carolina, and led to an adjustment of the fierce
controversy.
1t is apparent, however, that there is in South
Carolina, strong party whichis opposed to "sep-
asate State action" as her solitary secession is
there termed. This party, it is understood, en-
braces Senator Butler and nearly all the delega.
ton in the late House of Representatives The |
famous speech of Mr. Langdon Cheves before the |
Nashville Convention justifes the inference that |
even he, though warm advocate of a separation |
Of the Saveholding States from the Union, is op-
posed to Independent secession by South Carolina
We observe announcement in the Charleston |
"Courier," that Judge Butler was to address the |
"Southern Rights Association" of that city, at its
next meeting, and his prudent counsel was ext
peced to 'tend 10 allay the iermsnt in the public