The southern press., 1851-11-03
81. Helena Southern Rights AssSsistlss.
BEAUFORT. 5. c.. Ost. "a, 1861.


An extra meeting of The ST. Helsua Southern
Rights Association was held this day, and a very
full meeting was convened in the market house
The Hon. Richard DeTreville, president, in
the chair, called the meeting to order, and in the
absence of the secretary, DR.. l.. Thompson was
requested to net in his place.
The president briefly stated the object OF the
meeting-when Edmund Rhett, osq, offered the
following resolution, viz:
ReSolued, That this association do send dele
gates to the Central Southern Rights conven-
ton to be held in Columbia, on the first Monday
in November next
After remarks by several gentlemen, the
resolution put to vote and carrled-and the
following delegates accordingly appointed, VIZ :
Edmund Rhett, esq, Capt Edward Barnwell,
WIN. Henry Trescot, esq, and Robert Chlsolm,
| Wm Henry Trescot, esq, offered the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which were sec
onded by Joseph Dan Pope, esq and unani-
mously agreed to-:
The Southern Rights Association of ST. He
lena Parish, have learned with deep modification
the result Of the late election in the State
They feel that the safety of Carolina is perilled
and the honor of Carolina compromised. Con.
sc Gus, that in common with the minority Of the
State, they have striven to make good the reso-
luton avowed but few months back by the
indignant enthusiasm of what seemed to be an
united people, they acknowledge with an open
and manly grief, the defeat whi;h no action OF
theirs could have prevented and no weakness Of
theirs has deserved. Untaught even now to
submit, they will at least learn to endure. But
they will hope that this bi ter endurance is not
ance which won the victory,will scarcely regulate
its results in peace. Already has the Greensville
Patrict, the representative press OF co-oPera.
ton majority of over 3,000-in language char
acterized by the National IafelIigencer as truth
fity and bravey spoken" declared it is high
time for the co-operationists whilst fighting se-
cession, and knowing that it will bring down on
the State nothing but disaster, ruin and dshon-
or, to close their exaggerated misrepresentation
of the expressions of the federal government
They cannot at the same time go with the BE-
cessionists and beyond the secessionists in de-
piclng the pretended misery and degradation ol
| the people of South Carolina, and then ask them
to be quiet and submit to it till other Staies
come to their aid, who have already declared by
overwhelming majorities that they never VIII
come under existing circu instances. THESE pic-
lures of our wrongs are untrue, and everywhere,
out OF South Carolina, they have been pro-
nounced untrue by the Southern people" Nay,
!
farther and as if to force upon attention the
consistency of their action with CHEvES and
BARNwELL and BUTLER, exclaims: We are
happy and prosperous people,and feel no tyranny
or oppression" Time will very soon determine
which is the predomnating influence in the CO.
operation party in South Carolina, and when the
State has discovered her real foes, she will not
be long in finding her true friends.
In the meantime be
Resolved, Thatas the recent election has placed
| the character and interests of the State in the
hands of the cooperation party, we earnestly
pray that this solemn responsibility be accepted
and discharged in spirit Of earnest and undl-
vided devotion to our beloved State.
Resolped, Th Ignorant aswe necessarily are,
of any system Of policy on the part OF the CO.
operationsts, we will yet never desert the State
| in any contest she may commence, aud we
pledge ourselves to her support In any forward
step she may take in the redress OF wrongs oil
which she has not ceased to complain, and the
maintenance of rights which she has not ceased
to claim.
The following resolution was offered by j. ID
Pope, esq end unanimously passed:
| Resolped, That the preamble and resolutions
just adopted, be presented by our deleg ties tC
the convention of associations, to meetin Colum
bia, as ar expression of opinion by the Southern
Righfs Association of St. Helena Parish
CA motion, it was ordered that the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the Char
lesion Mercury and South Carolinion.
RICHARD DETREVILLE, President.
ID. l.. THOMPSON, Secretary.
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