Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-02
PARTIES IN sourH CAROLINA

TAN lIs9 in SOUIh CAkOlIINA
The secessonlsts OF South Carolina find themselves
opposed IN that State by strong and rapidly ncreas
ing party, VINO, without denying the right of
SION, are OF the opinion that it would be absurd for
Seun Carolina to attempt without the cooperation
oil other States. They take the plain and simple view
that 1t there are grievances which the South may Just
complain OF, IN connection with the course OF the
General government, the other Southern States, be-
sides South Carolina, are much oppressed by those
grievances as she and if they are NOT prepared TO
secede on account OF them, as they certainly not
it would be better Tor South Carolina to dstrust her
apprehensons for the present and wait at leasl mill
of her sister States should discover along with
her thaf lne oppression OF which she compansis real
in itself and no longer to be endured,
The Charleston papers contain an account of the
proceedings OF great meeting recently held in that
city by the opponents OF immediate secession, They
take the ground OF determined opposition TO such
desperate policy. The numbers, respectabtv incl
hgence and moral worth which characterized This
great meeting afforded demonstration saws the
Charleston Evening News, '<no less praftvino
than we feel assured it will prove eectu9l'' The
following passages from the address adopted on this
occasion WIN indicate The spirit Of the meetng
I'VE have deliberately interposed ourselves to The
further prosecution of the separate secession of The
STATE because brings to us promise of good but
much 81 evil In II we can only discover the begin
nlng OF that, the end of which must be our MN if
not our utter dlshoncr. If secession is proper as re-
medyfor existing evils 1t must be because it onerat.s
as redress Tor The injuries they produce. We see
MT no remedy tor the wrongs which are complained
of; and, more than this is surrender of ali those
rights that are yet untouched because of some that
are NO" lHVdueu IL Is urged, and with perfect us-
tlce, that the legislation of the Federal CONGRESS has
been in n, regard to the slayeh9dng atcs opposed
tempting prohibition of privileges to which they are
snt tie The remedy of secession, by withdrawing
the state from the Union without combination of
her sister Staes alike sggrieved, confirms that pro-
hibltlon by voluntary abandonment of the only are
ma upon which battle should be fought; and is con-
cesslon 10 Opponents of every advantage their in
genulty could have devised, their rapacity desr-
eds 'i
They 90 on TO aroue that the or;ayanoas of ,,L:.
In their Judgment, South Carolina has right to com
PLAIN are shared by all the slaveholding States and
that 1t she secede it should be in conjunction with
them, not IN opposition to their wishes The posi-
ton IN which the Secessionists have placed South
CarolIna Is fully appreciated by the Committee:
I'VE stand, then, upon the verge of a revolution
without percelvlng It, we have been brought to that
point from which we view the consequences soon
to come upon us with overwhelming force unless the
people will rise in their might and arrest even at the
last moment, the irrevocabe aud fatal step''
, The committee, therefore, call upon the citizens of
he state to pronounce in the most emphatic manner
against the proposed measures as alike uncaled for
and impolitic. BAIT. Amer io'