The southern press., 1851-10-28


and vengeance. and teach people the necessity
for changes
| sw- The folio wing articles on tho late cleo
ton in South Carolina are copied respectively
from the Charleston MercGry--ln organ of i'm
mediate actionists-and the Hamburg Republi-
can-an organ Of thee operationists,
OUR FUrUag-We said, in brief comment
on the election, that il really settled nothing as
| to the acton of the State; that the co operation
and secession parties would meet in the Iegisla-
ture, which called the convention. and in the
| convention which embodied the sovereign power
of the State, and would there try the great
question Of resistance submission. We.on-
" limited at this matter then; we desire to
dwell upon it more at length
The legislature passed the convention bill by
an smost unan nous vote. The same body of
men will be called upon to fix time for the
assemblaCe Of the convention. The wrongs
which il was intended to redress, have in no par
ticular been modified, save that the only one of
the compromise measures, which was given to
the South as a compensation for the injury, in
suit and robbery Of all the others, has been
fully proved to be worse than worthless. The
legislature, then, would naturally be unani-
! nous in fixing the time for the convention
From all that we have heard, We are convinced
that such will be their decision.
! Now there are not ten Unionsts in the con-
vention unless the members have grossly belled
their real sentiments. 1t will be an assembage
of men bent on the dissolution OF this confed-
eracy; ofmeR devoted and pledged to resistance,
and this because they believe the very eSls-
fence of the South, as republican and civilized
=; mi nd th, nra
sent government In these positions there IL no
difference between the cooperation party, as
such, md the secessonsts. The leaders OF the
former are the most eloquent teachers OF dis
union, and from them have come the burning
words that intiamed the people to resistance.-
They will not, they cannot take back their words.
They will not be allowed to forget them we do
not fear that they will desire to do so, on that
they will shrink from the responsibility they have
assumed before the State and the South.
| When this body OF resistance men assemblies
in convention, and co.operatonists and seces-
sionists face each other, and. under the imposing
responsibilities of that position. explore to their
depths t.le great questions before them. Is IT to
be believed that they will separate without adopt.
ing some eFsctu,l and decisive measure =! Is 1t
| to be feared for moment that they VIII sink
down to tho level OF the Georgia platform
of Cheves and Bltler, the bitter wrongs and
crowdnc dangers of the South, in order that we
NAV arrive at the impotent CONCLUSION that the
remedy is patience No, no! thousand times,
no These are not the men thus to stutity them
selves, and fix upon South Carolina, before all
| the world the stigma of being community OF
mouthers and braggarts. They will 60 for re-
| sistance Ia some practical and decisive form
Hence we sag that. as between resistance and
submissiou, this election hRs decided nothing
| Charleston Mercury.
From the Hamburg IS. CO. Repubiiean,
| THE REsULT.-The strength of the two par.
| ties which have contended for mastery, in South
! Carolina has been tested, and the people have
| decided in favor Of the policy of the co.opera-
tionists Come bitterness OF feeling may have
been produced ty the contest, which was ma.
tursl Angry comments sud annoying epithets
may have been made and applied to those who,
! differing in opinion, may not have loved their
| State with less devotion than these who pro-
fessed to hold the honor of South Carolina
| above all price. Whatever might have been the
object of the leaders OF the secession party,
full faith and justce was rendered to their
patriotism and high toned character. Party
presses may have INDUCED in sarcasm and
ridicule when the battle waged hot They
were, perhaps, the Legitimate weapons OF pollti-
cal warfare. The purity of the doctrines of the
| Co operation party may have been doubted, let
the future decide the question of it's honesty
and patriotism. i.et DIVISIONS, angry passions,
and all ascerbity of feeling, be washed from
| memory by Lethean waters, and the South and
| the North be convinced that in the maintenance
| of the rights of the State the people have but
one heart.
The questions which have agitated us were
too grave and important for partisan discussion.
They should have been calmly and seriously ar
rusd with reference to their bearing upon our
selves. our posterity, and the progress of civlli'
zation ia this hemisphere In many instances
there was a wide departure from this course
Men were tainted with the submission whose
bosoms beat responsive to the cry of resistance,
| but whose reason told them that the hour to
| strike had not vet come. Men We're unwilling
| 10 acknowledge openly the influence Of reason,
because they feared to pass among their fellow
! men ~ traitors to their country. The result
i was political Sypocrasy, which deceived the se-
cessionists and rendered the cooperationists
suc,essful. Abuse and paedction were novel
methods of obtaining converts, and yet in many
instances they were not sparingly used, forcing
convictiou down the throats of freemen wss n
sorry argument for the propagation oftruth, and
vet there were instances Of its practice lhtem-
perste zeal and misdrected patriotism could not
withstand the omnipotent influence of truth, al
ways irresistible when combating with preju.
dice and error.
But the smoke of the contest has passed off,
and the stiffness Of the battle Geld, wbereon lie