Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-04

tee OF the oo-aperadanists and jointly agree upon
some plan faction TO be proposed to the Conven-
ton.
This was considered as due to the party Mt whose
backs stood the clear majority of seven thousand
In the State, and who had proclaimed from press
and stump, that theirs was the sole, sure, and
manly mode of resistance.
The Committees met and consulted; and last
night the Chairman of the secession party made
his report of the utter failure to wiring out of the
co-operationists anything more thanwords So
ends at last this famous scheme Having caoled
and deceived noble people, having crushed the
vndication OF State Sovereignty by the bold exer-
else OF reserved right, having Frustrated her sp-
rit and made South Carolina the butt and the ieer
of the world, cooperation bursts at last like some
windbubble, at the first test OF its solidity, and
shrivels up into Insignificant shapelessness. For
tunatey for South Carolina there are other eIe-
ments at work In her Convention. And from the
indications, feel confident that something will be
done, in demonstration and an assertion OF State
rights. | understand that the cooperation party
are willing that the State Constitution be amen
ded so as to declare the light of secession This
is we'll enough as it goes" For hereafter no one
will be able to hold office in Soatb Carolina who
does not acknowledge the existence of that right
The oaths to support the Constitution will carry
this along with it. But this is not enough; and
think that the secession party will insist on some
more explicit and practical measure. Probably
that of comforting on the Legislature the power of
seeding by ma jority of two-thirds.
So many objections have been made to the with
drawal of our Congressional representation, and
the other projects, indicated in my last, that they
stand little chance of being passed. The hope
lessness of ever redressing any wrong, however
grievous, if we are compelled to wade through the
distracting issues attendant upon calling and elect
ing Convention, and wait until the temper of
resistance has fallen asleep, seems to have i'm
pressed the minds of many. Hence the necessi-
ty of a measure like this which will enable the
State to adopt in her future action the measure.
the wisdom of which has been so we'll sustained
by experience, striking while the iron is hot."-
Such an act will be direct exercise of State soye-
reignty, and as such ought to find favor with all
who still trust to that glorious but imperiled ark
of liberty.
GU see how fair an opportunity is offered to the
co-operationists in the Committee of twenty one
for bringing forward their long promised plan OF
resistance. On this account the selection of the
committee was most judicious. Numerically, it
is overwhelmingly theirs, while it also comprises
their acknowledged leaders. For their own sakes
and the welfare of the State let us hope that they
will offer something. In the Convention the field
etthem propose some onward measure, and they
will not find the secession party shrinking from Civ
ingitahearty support. But it must be some onward
measure. They have destroyed the remedy of the
secession party; their unequivoca duty to offer
better. If they succeed in inyenting it, they
will have done WELL IF not, they must answer
for the unavenged outrage of past aggressions,
and the spotted lustre of a once unsupported name