Washington telegraph., 1851-07-16


SOME CALCULATIONS OF DIsuNloNlsrs.-Th
Southern Press, at w ashington, has commenced
a calculation of the means which South Caroua
employ in the event OF secesslbn, to resist
coercion" by the General Government. 1t is
well notice, that among the acts which will
constitute the coercion that South Carolina will
be bound to repel by the means indicated, the
Press classifies "the blockade Of her ports" This
has been indicated amoug the most inotfensive
measures which Congress could possibly employ,
being the enforcement of the revenue laws of the
Union be you'd the limits of the State.
The Press contends that South Carolina will
be extremely powerful at sea, and this it deduces
from the supremacy which steaIa navigation gives
to the swiitest ocean steamers Such is the
nous cost of steam that the wealthcsi Govern
meat cannot maintain fleet o, steamers, and a
single steamer of superior speed may defy the
world. The inference, though not stated exactly
so, is that South Carolina is to possess the
swrtest steamers in the world, and may therefore
defy and capture al pleasure, wherever, and what
ever, and whomsoever she plrases.
| In of any obstruction to the commerce of
South Carolina, she will invite steamers and men
into her service, with the bribe of the license TO
capture the commerce of the "assaling States"
that is the commerce Of the Union. Under her
| commissions, they can prey upon "three millions
OF TONS Of shipping worth one hundred millions Of
dollars, and another hundred millions of cargo
| aloat." For alxares in this ioray the Press
| looks among the forty thousand steam navigators
| on the Mississippi, and to the adventurous and
warIike spirits OF Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,
and Florida, fond Of adventure, war, glory, and
prize money"
l believe, that the appetite for this Immense
plumber would bring ont all the buccaheeriiig pro-
pensiles in all parts of the Union, aud make
South Carolina the headquarters of all those pratt
cal spirits wfo would lust after the spoiIs Of the
oncn nf nd dyoar chaud diva
a1aat. belonging to the States that might adhere
to the Union!
What between calculations of the vast profit
which South Carolina might make out of the
Union by fostering huge gang Of smuggers, to
deiraud the of the Union, and the dazzling
visions OF millions upon millions OF spoil TO be made
by prvateering piratng on the high SEAS such
defenders of ecessionsn make oYertures to some
| Of the worst passions that ever seduced men into
civil strife-the appetite for profitable fraud and
the lust for plunder. We shall wonder much If
the display Of such sordd motives. Wild and i'm
| practicable though they be, and the visions Of
such dreadful scenes and incafculable miseres
and disasters are thus coolly projected, do not
have the effect of making some jealous and sin
cere secessionsts pause awhile before they commit
| themselves, rrevocaOly, to career, which is to
be associated with, and perhaps directed by, men
who plan and anticipate such horrors as par: of
the future they laboring for. Is is glimpse
into the abyss which may make even strong he ads
dizzy.--Ricayune.
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ANOTHER CoMPRoMIsE.-We learn from
the Christian Advocate and Journal that
the book agents of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, acting upon the sugges-
ton of the Court in .he late trial res
pecling the church property. have pro-
posed 10 the commissioners of the Church.
South IAN adjustment of their preferred
claims by legal arbitration under the
authority of the Court" We are glad 10
learn this, says the New York CONNER
cial. and trust that the South will, with
equal promptitude and cheerfulness, meet
the proposal Iavorabiy.