Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-16
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
~, SEsn.y MORNING, MAY IL, ls' !.
SIGNS.

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SIGNS
Tho in,el,reuce of the adoption Of the Secession uo
.nd resolutions by the Charleston Convention "s' 49,.
in Columbia with salute of thirteen guns &c
ma Hill. The Palmetto State Banner thus no's' 49,.
Soss,ox TaumpuAsT!-Our readers nave attcsoy Sesn
,ade aware by telegraph that the ca"s S, hs :;
Rights is 10 the ascendant and that ooI b, done H.,
reality taken the lead The DELEGATION is beyond
ANY, dna 'T Gni NI,rcy Gregg especially are the thanks
Of the District due for his firm anu he honor and nep
-, ~ ,h Slate The ball has been SET moving ana II VIII
now only s,opat the goal OF 'ie4oA, o;e.,.a;o.
But one of the srangest ana mol 'eas'
tons Of the feeling at the Charleston was e
onsnne nraver of the Rev. Mr. Some's Oh Inc e'hoois
Church There was thankiuness LOT Inc blessings snow"
80 , ron this Union Of ihrty-one free and lndepen-
.'eu o,,itudc for the blessed and benefcent in
-. r. o,r federal organization; but the prayer was
-, .,,od ueubrious solitary dismal and sepulchral II
49,; IS Mr. Websters "odor Of nationality about
:: ~ IN e,vrp aroma of secession from beginning TO end
a aved for wisdom cnlighten the members OF the Con-
ion in this crisisfor peace, and yet for Justice, for
s,,b Carolina and for her authorities but never word
for the President Of the United States than for the Pre-
aent of France All the world outside OF South Carolina
as smmed up in $40 Thou bless also all the nations and
peope of the EARTH and in the end save us In thy Kingdom
broueb Christ our Redeemer Amen" But strange
hear the Union Chased with such blessings light and life
and health and liberty and law it afforded still another evil
dence Of the conscientious Of this people, in this
tremendous enterprise of separate nation inside Of the
United States
1t was in vain that Mr. Orr of Congress asserted the fact
and called upon his colleagues confirm it, that there was
not single representative in Congress from the number OF
those most deeply devoted to Southern Rights and most
warmly sympalhzing with South Carolina, who did not
during the session. urgently diasuade against the policy
of immediate secessionn va that Mr. Cocock, who took
the other sdc admitted that Congress would not venture up
on any further encroachments either by repeating the Flu
gtve BILL the abolition of slavery 10 the District OF Co.
umba during the present generaionthe die cast by
the utras of the Southern Rights Associations who resolved
on secession SOLITARY alone" 1t is, however, thought
BY any persons in South Carolina that when the Convcn
ton of the State shall meet it will be found to be animated
by mder spirit than the voluntary asembage recently Of
Charleston.
Other States may be looked for aid and comfort to the
premature movement of South Caroinabut, doubt nol
without foundation 1t is that COL VIM L. fanceY, an
open secessionist and the author of the Montgomery Dis
union Address, and that the Montgomery Atlas in taking
up the addition of Secession Banner has also adopted
the fatal principles of that schoobut that this ultram will
sgnay fail have the testimony of strong
est States Rights papers in Alabama. Among them is the
Montgomery Advertiser which expresses the confident
opinion based the evidences received from
ry portion OF the State and sprngng from the warmcst and
devoted Southern States Rights men, that the seces
sion platform not approved by any material portion OF the
Suites Rights men in that Stae-and that whenever these
secession advocates rum they will be awuy beaten:"
Again. Sampson w. Harris Esq, Of the most decided
ticompromise members Of the last Congress from Ala
bama has positively against the separate
of State. Being ca,egorcay Intercepted
he
fully and to the point Having shown that he
the decided Southern sentiments and feelings
aud believes in the rights of State TO secede from the
Unon and after deprccang the unfortunate divisions exist
among ourselves he answers thentenogatory as follows
otis in this aspect of the that had been member
Of the Southern Rights Convention should nave oissenea
from the resolution which proposes TO make as the eadng
if the only principle of the Southern Rights organZa-
tions, the secession of Alabama from the Union should
have done from thorough conviction that il ndis
Greet, and would be productive of mischief"
Further Mr. Harris says that he is not and never has
hen advocate of separate State Secession unless be
when grievance complained of is confined to the State
so seeding When States than the subject Of
wrong, one he thinks, should frecpitaey do
what may be disastrous ALL Hence he adds, 81 would
against the secession of Alabama alone from The Unon
if majority of her people for It day and trust,
thu, in the approaching Convention of South Carolina other
will prevail than such will place her beyond the
| pale of the Union"
Such Mr. Harris thinks is the position of Cheves and Barn.
WELL and such the opinions of Berren Soule Davis Mason
Seldom, Clingman Thompson, Brown Holiday and, with
few EXCEPTIONS he says all those who stood the brun
of the Abolition contest in the last Congress.
AS "acquiescense Mr. Harris says that like the Indian
warrior who when all his followers slain and his
exhausted yielded circumstances he could not
CONTROL bows before the great wrong which has been done
u.s. but he thinks that the Southern States should dscrm
no nd IF
encourage direct trade and home manufactures and indus
try every kind and should promote every species of do
nestle improvements in spirit Of retaliation for the nu
ries inflicted and the rights withheld.
To Mississippi again. South Carolina will look in vain for
help in her mad movement. In Newton county, after his
address, Gen. Fooc proposed Of the people upon the
issue presented by the Southern Rights Association
"If there be any one here said he other than my
spectacle antagonist who in favor OF Southern Congress
and through that body demanding secession unless the line
of $3.50 shall be through California to the Pacific and
unless amendments TO the Constitution shall be conceded
such the Southern Rights Association clam invite NM
| to hold I'D his hand"
Not single individual did 3d. and General Foote, there
FORE claimed the meeting unanimously in favor Of acqu
ecence and opposed the resistance contemplated by the
so-caed Southern Rights party To this claim no one on
the ground objected any opposition presented to
Gen. Foote'S views.
similar test was taken in Clarke county, where
Sem6eQ ABOUT lOur nunQTeQ clllZenS
those who in favor of the Union stands to
the right those Of contrary opinion, to go to the left
Nearly the whole crowd the right leaving only
about Is who remained with COL McRne This Resistance
opponent the left side OF the house; and this occurred
| in the county of Col. McRae's residence
In her present secession, therefore, South Carolina will
stand alone What course will the Federal Government pur
sue towards her. should unfortunately she secede We have
direct intelligence The Washington of the
New York Wing papers, state that the U. s. District Aor
ney Charleston ut Washington receiving insruc
ions to the mode OF procedure in the be
carried The Herads correspondent writes
The Government should South Carolina furcibly secede
and she secede other way will take cognizancc
of State organizations but of individuals who
will separately be dealt with as volaters OF the law,
! guilty of treason. as the may be.
| The correspondent of the N. Y. Express, says:
The South Carolina gives the Administration much
| anxiety,-bu nothing is TO BIZ done for the present.
The South Carolina District Attorney Is in Washington
where he has been called receive instructions how pro-