Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15
THE FUTURE EN- o. III.

Carolina, has opened. The first act has ended
the Members TO compose the State Convention,
which is to expel the Government of the United
States from the confines of that State, are chosen.
In what mood they have been chosen, and what is |
consequently expected Of them by those who have
controlled the election, we endeavored to show, in
our number of Saturday last upon evidence Impair
TALLY selected from leading papers Of the State
SECESSION and withdrawal of the State of South
Carolina alone from the Union, seems now to be
the settled purpose Of those who are able to COM
mand majority of votes in the Convention, as
they had done of the votes in the Legislature which
authorized it
In every light in which it can be viewed, the
actual state Of opinion and feeling in South Carolina
is moral phenomenon, which becomes only the
more surprising, the more closely it is observed.
The general volume of her complaints, through
the medium of the press, the pulpit, and popular
demonstrations, may be divided into three parts
the one founded upon the alleged loss Of cons-
deration and weight by South Carolina in the
General Government; the second, upon the waning
prosperity Of her mercantile and her planting in
terests, and the paucity Of professional employ
ments for her rising youth; and the third upon
alleged unbearable aggressions by the General Gov
ernment on the political rights of the State.
With regard to the first chapter of this volume,
we have already demonstrated, by unanswerable
facts drawn from the public records, that of Offices
of trust and honor in the gift Of the National Gov
ernment the sons of South Carolina have enjoyed
much more than their proportion relatively to the
other thirty States in the Union, or relatively even
the original thirteen States. AS to weight in the
Government, no State has had more, including its
representation Of slave property in proportion to
its population, than South Carolina. II has been
claimed for the State, indeed not many years ago,
as proof of her power in the Government that at
then recent National Election she had given to the
country both President and Vice President of
the United States = and the justice of the claim
it would be no easy matter to controvert. AT an
earlier period, moreover, of the National history,
the vofe of South Carolina had, in another case,
decided the election of both President and Vice
President, JEFFERSON and BURR.)
The subject of the second chapter of complaints
has been the theme of copious descant on the
part of those discontented citizens Of South Caro-
lima, who have been willing to seize upon any
ptCkCAs lOi uC coCupuuc IIOul uC WulCu IuCy
had already determined upon attempting. Yet it
would be vain effort on the part Of these gentle
to show, whatever grounds there may be for this
complaint for any part of it, that any share of the
responsibility for it is justly attributable to the Gene
raj Government Itsto the legislation of the State,
the habits and prejudces of her inhabitants, that
much Of it is due and something of it, too to her
own political institutions.t In reference to the
actual attempt to break up the Union on such
grounds these, it is enough TO say that it will be
impossible to show, by any process Of reasoning,
that the of State policy to which all this is
owing will be in any way corrected, by withdraw
ing the State from the protection which the Consti
tuition provides against other vicious State legisla-
ton, such as would place the State in much worse
condition than that in which she now stands.
The third chapter of the volume Of complaints
by South Carolina is, however, the most relied
upon by the malcontents. Yet, with the exception
of the omission Of Congress to make adequate pro-
vision by law for carrying into effect the provision
OF the Constitution requiring fugitive slaves to be
restored to the States from which they have eloped
or been abducted-for which such provision has
n0U been made to leave no ground for complaint
against the General Governmenteven on that score
we have seen no effort TO specify aggressons by
the Federal Government on the people or govern
ment of the State Of South Carolina that will stand
the test Of moments examination. It is delusion
all. In the language of the Georgia print which
we have had occasion before to quote, Look at the
condition of the people of South Carolina Free
as the breeze that sweeps over her plains pros
"perous even to plethora: her schools fourishing:
her works of internal improvement penetrating
every quarter of her territory: manufactures
springing up along her beautiful streams her
"great staple commanding exorbitant prices and
her commerce expanding. Of ,cha right has
The incident which here refer on the occasion
of dinner given to LASsDoS CHEvEs, at Columbia on
the 10th of December, 1929, when visit to South
Carolina om which he had been time absent by the
members Of the Legislature and other persons. AT this din
the President Of the Senate presided assisted by the
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives and the Mayor
Colombia. Among the guests, beside Mr. CHEvEs, were
Judges and Chanceor and the President and Professors
the College. The first Regular Toast was follows
"The President and Vice President of the United States
"SoUTH CARoLTSA GAVE THEM THE USIoS for the
SIMON benefit: She hopes erery thing from their uisdom
~sand patriotism"
In article from able pen which we find in the
Charleston Mercury Of the 7h Of this month"; we have in