Washington telegraph., 1851-06-11
r. R,,u,r or SECESSION. persistence Of

'n' .,reme measures, has had the natural effect of
s.ouo forth at last The conservative influence OF
t" p" vbo would save the Commonwealth from
Wv ~ .onseouences ofthreatened precipitancy. We
,s.,d IL as a good cmen that such considerations
Ere nut forward in the subjoined extract, should
a.nsar a. in leading Journal, the Courier, in the
orr or Charleston. The writer is forming pro-
Ill ~ bvpothesis of the course which the General
""srnment pav would pursue in the event that South
o0,ol;na as State should resolve herself out of
the Union: ..
,h. State. This would be measure of vio-
,n.cs ,n iuexpedient and unnecessary. 1t will not
ie.. sb > floating customhouse, has been sup
esd Esd because it would be clumsy and inconveni-
P To secure the revenue, it would merely
e nNrsh Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort,
aODu az norts Of entry for the time being.
!rhe mower of the Federal Government, under
A.. Constitution to declare what ports shall be ports
=, entry. is beyond all doubt. The act OF I199
determines the number o, these ports IN oouth
%.rona and elsewhere. From time 10 time Con
o '.ss has changed them abolished them, as for
sr,nIs the port of Curtuck, in North Carolina,
=: Iail South Carolina will not permit the duties
-, Goods imported to be collected within her limits
'T,hs Federal Government will be driven then to
.h,Ish her ports as ports of entry so long as the
duties are not permitted to be collected.
How will this proceeding operate on the condi-
SION Of the State snd particularly of the cIty2 All
foreign trade will cease, because vessel attempt
.;,r 70 enter port other than port of entry, is
- 10 forleiture vessel and cargo. Commerce
h.:no annih!ated, our merchants must 60 else
,rhe9e to do business Capital, which depends on
trade or employ vment, must 60 with them Wharf
,n,onerty will be worth nothing; there will be no.
.thinc to land. or ship. Dry docks and ship yards
will be vaIaeess; there will be no vessels to repair
The number of vacant houses will be so large that
mouse rent will be greatly reduced. Nonew build
,ings then would be erected, and mechanics must
smnrrate with the merchants. Factors must fol-
low th cir customers, whose rice and cotton VIII oe
sen, for sale to other States. Cotton. instead of
coming down the railroad from Hamburg, will 60
.p the railroad through Hamburg to Augusta aud
Savannah. That part of the road between Branch
vile and Charleston will be unused, unless it be for
4riuoing goods to the city smuggled from other
States. The coastwse trade would be destroyed
as well as the foreign trade, as the State will tax
Northern produce, and it will go Of course TO places
where il is not taxed.
From those places it will be smuggled into South
Carolina-it will be as easy to smuggIe into the
State as out of it, and every body admits that the
las, is very easy. The same cause that Will de-
popuiate Charleston, will give an immense impulse
TO the growth Of other places. Savannah Will
double her business and population. She will re-
scrve the merchants the mechanics, and the capI-
t,l tha, we shall have lost. All the very moment
when we have no employment for them, she will
have double employment for all. 1t will thus be-
rome TN. direct interest of our neghbors 10 keep
as in the desolate condition TO which We shall be
reduced They will wax lat on our msiortuhes
If our planters and farmers are so patriotic as not
to send their cotton, rice, and other products, TO
vxyItl hn t,onn
circulating in the State. The banks will be with
out business paper. There will be no dividends.
AT the very time when ourtaxes will be quadrupled.
there wiz be no money to pay them. we Shall
be check,nated-unable 10 move.
The people will very suCa demand of the seces-
sion leaders that some remedy for this condition Of
ruin be ecinted cut to them. What will that
medy be? There can be no fghting-there will
be nothing to fight. There can be no appeal TO
foreign nalons-they could have no pretence Tor
complaint If any man thinks otherwise, let him
reverse the case Should England abolish Bristol,
or France abolish Havre, ports of entry, could
we complain or object! Shall we send Minister
TO Europe to ask for help!-every foreign Stale
would ignore the Independent. Government Oi
s. CarolIua Ger condition would be at once help
less and ridicuous-we should suffer and commend
10 sympathy because the evil will be our chOo-
sing, both as to its beginning and continuation.
Have not the people right to ask al once, and
is il not prudent to ask in advance, that they who
are about to deliberate the future proceedings
OF the State, should at once drc!aie what remedy
they propose TO apply to condition of things IN
South Carolina which will be the result of their
own measures, and which s at e asst possible, which
many believe to be probable, and not few think
certain.
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A CURIOUS PRETENsIoN.-Preten to the IN
heri;ance of the elder branch of the French Bour
bons have not been unconimon. Every body is
familiar with the name of the so-called Duke oil
Normandy, vino claimed SO long to be the son OF
Louis XVI saved in a miraculous m amer from the
death which history gave to him in 1892 There
is now or as recently, in the State OF Wisconsin,
a Methodist pre- acher, with the very unromanlic
name of E;eazer Williams, whom many people
firmly believe to be the same French Prince, whom
a faithful royast saved in his infancy and brought
for security into the wilderness of North America,
and consequently the legitimate heir to the French
throne, if there We're French throne to be Inherited
The Orleans family have pretenders to their
honors also, only that the head Of the family, the
late Louis Philippe. is accused OF having been an
Intrusive Inposor, possessing the rank aud fortunes
belonging rightfully to another. Lately, but not
for the first time, elaborate effort has been made
TO prove that the late king was no Bourbon at all.
We have sometimes met, in foreign papers, with
various statements the effect that Louis Philippe
was an Italian infant, substituted into the family
of the Duke of Orleans for weiyhty family reasons