The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-08

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| VIRGINIA AND SoUrA CARoLIsA-We find
the following dispatches in the New Orleans pa
pers Of the 2lst inst:
CHARLEsToN, Dec. 49,
| SOUTH CAROLINA LEGIsLATURE.-The Biz
passed for a ConUention.s-R BarnceH kAeu
elected Senator.--We have just heard from CO.
lumbia, where the legislature is in session. The
bill To elect delegates to = Southern congress,
and also to provide for Convention Of the peo-
pie of the State, passed both Houses. TO-DAY.
by vote Of 100 to IL. The delegates for the
Southern congress are to be elected in October.
Those for the State Convention, ia February
next No time u fixed for the meeting Of
either .
The Charleston delegation agsinst the bill
Messrs. Phillips, Duncan, Seward. Lacerne.
Mitchell, Wilkinson--the rest for it. (Wesup-
pose this means that the names mentioned IN
clude those Of the Charleston delegation who
were opposed to the bills.
The election for senator took place to.dav.
aud resulted as follows, on the fourth ballot.
Rhett 81. Hammond 46, scattering 10. Rhett
elected. tN9
CHARLESTON, DEC. leEThe convention bill.
which had previously passed the Honse, yester.
day passed the Senate, unamended, by vote Of
40 ITO 3. al
The minority was actuated by conscientious
scrupes in regard to the constituticnality of the
bill ss4rt
BALrIMoRE, Dee I8.
IMPORTANT FROM VIRGINIA.-Goy. Floyd, of
Virginia, has sent special message to the State
Legislature on the subject Of the nullifyine reso-
lulions OF the Vermont Legislatures. The Gov
ernor recommends the immediate passage of
resolution calling convention Of all the States,
TO assemble at baltimore, and to be empowered
to settle all the difficulties now dividing the
North and South. o
The message concludes with this expression:
1union II we can, Independence If We must
These movements are important and sirnifi-
can't. The unanmty which characterized the
vote in South Carolina leaves no doubt rs to the
state OF popular feeling in that State, as the
members are all fresh from the people. The
position OF the Governor of Virginia will be
readily recognized by the readers Of the Appeal.
as identical with that assumed by US some
months since, as the most satisfactory. probably
the only means ofhcaling the divisions between
the two great sections Of the Union-that Of
convention OF all the States We, as well as all
other faithful observers of the course of events.
have long since seen the utter futility of any at
tempt on the part Of Congress to heal the
wounds and reconcile the differences that 50
unhappily aflict and divide the country. No
thing short OF convention, or rs it were, a family
meeting, OF all the States, can ever restore the
harmony and fraternal feeling which prompted
and which alone can perpetuate the Onion
The work OF Congress is, at best, mere patch
work. Common sense teaches this; experience
has proved 1t. It is not 10 be expected that 4
State or people who will wantonly and will
FULLY violate plain provision ofthe Constitution
will ever obey and observe the acts and demands
ofthe creature of that instrument. The wounds
are too deep, and the remedies required too
powerful ever to be reached or applied by any
other agent than convention Of the States.-
And it may admit of serious doubt whether even
this will prove eficacious, yet It is the best, the
only remedy that can be applied, and should it
fail, all hopes Of the perpetuity Of the Union are
at an end