The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-26

prise has conferred upon his State If she wonld
but join South Carolina in her QuXotlc cru
sade. With perfect consistency, he goes on to
deplore ''the enervatng influence of an I'M
bounded prosperity" points out "the national
timidity Of wealth" and then urges his fellow
citizens TO course which would certainly d.
vest them Of both of these drawbacks in an In
conceiyably short space of time. Hearhm yet
again:
''It is not we who have lost loyalty to the
Union of our fathers; BUT THAT UNIoN is NO MORE.
1t is not we who have refused to kneel in the tenn
pie of freedom reared by revered hands; but that
temple has been despoiled Of the lGres of the Con-
stitution, and in their place has been set up the
Juggernaut Of crushing, ianatcal, sectional,
constituencies majority"
Viewing things thus obliquely, it is not sur
prising that Mr.. FORSYTH renews his declara-
ton, that loyalty to the Union has become Urea
son to the independence, freedom, and sove-
reignty of the States;" although it sconsolatory
to know that Georgia repels the implied dis
honor with strength and unanimty which
malcontents may profess to pity, but which they
dare not pretend to disregard or to despise
The last epistle is from the Hon. j. S. PAL
MER, of st. Stephens, South Carolina, who
pleads for immediate secession, on the ground
that the course of Federal legislation endangers
his property, and is associated with an amount
of humiliation to which he is not willing to
submit. He admits that on this question, even
in South Carolina, discord exists to a large ex-
tent, but, nevertheless, expresses hope that
the ensuing convention will result in nothing
less than ''a declaration of independence"
Time will tell whether Mr.. PALMER is not too
He uses red spectacles, and sees nought but
fire.
An address was reported by Major MANI
GAULT, chairman of the committee of delegates
appointed by the Southern Rights Associations
of Charleston to nominate candidates for the
Congress in Alabama In this document the
committee dwelt on the necessity of choosing
men who will be prepared to encounter dan
gers, to make sacrifices, and to endure priva-
tions, in the work of separate State secession.
Indirectly condemning the fire-eaters of former
assemblies, the committee insisted on the choice
'halfway measures" and who will not re-en-
act ''the solemn farce" ''of meeting in solemn
assembly to talk, to propose, to define, perhaps
to threaten, and then to separate with some
vague or wire drawn resolutions, destined never
to result in action" Colonel JOHN S. AsHE,
of Charleston, and DIR. JOHN S. PALMER, Of
St. Stephens, were nominated by the COM
mittee as deputies from Charleston to the
Southern Congress-; and we infer that the
nomination was ratified, though the published
proceedings-which appear to have been pre-
pared by unpractised hands-fail to inform us
specifically on the subject Colonel AsHE sub
sequently pledged himself "to rigidly carry out
the principles of the Southern Rights party"
The other speakers were General JAMESON,
Hon. Jos. A. BLACK, and Colonel KEITT; but
of their sayings we are left in perfect ignorance.
In this case, at any rate, some of our readers
may be disposed to say, Ignorance is bliss"