Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-05-14
South Carolina.

The New York Courier s. Enquirer thus re-
fcrs 10 the recent secession resolves Of the
Kingdom Of South Carolina, TO which we re-
tered yesterday. South Carolinl is very re-
sp'c'able and probably well meaning member
o. tbs Union. and we arc really sorry that she
can't be prevailed upon not to make fool Of
ha-seif."
10 egony is over: Secession is defunct-
The South Carolina state Convention, elected
more than year ago for the purpose of enact
ing the State out Of the Federal Union aid
composed ola decided majority Of men who,
: brief twevemonth since, were secessionists
by separate State action at all hazard; AMI ev-
my extremity, expired at Il quartcr-past six or
Friday evening last. 1T was perfectly resign
ed TO It's fate, though it had no belief in its own
resurrection. J he mourners were few; indeed
we know not there were any, " Z have pc
fused the closing scenes and do not lear Il that
there was tear dropped or sigh heavcl.
Few and short were the prayers they said,
And they spoke not word OF SORROW"
In the lack Of proclaim ami, ''Messvg. f.
VI. WHALEY. Cashier and G. NJ. DAyrztrs
Assistant Cashier, were appointed We under.
stand. to administer upon the personal effects
ot the detunct, which were not nuuns rous.-
ct the detunct did not "de and N AXE no spn.'
It left behind u last will and te.thu,ent. duly
sealed and certified, whereof the TO- Lowing is a
:ruc and faithful copy -
Then follow the Resolution and Ordinance
wnlch we copied into orr pape last EVENING"
No executor Of this last testament, we be.
iicve nus been assigned. 1t was proposed to
invest the Legislature with the melancholy
rust bnt no definite action, that we can learn
Tas aiken upon L. TIE will being simply de.
Curative, was Ecs considered we pre- suine, a
m eXecutory Instrument. Secession IS really
tcHngh not perhaps ostenslbly, lntestate. 1t
''S perlsh@I, and bequeathed nothing but its
memory,
ne Charleston Mercury, in a brief obituary
arhc e. after citing the above document says,
~ ltfany this may seem but barren, result
tx SESSION which has been so long looked for
~lrd to with sollcitude, and when was once
fought to involve the disruption of the Con-
teieracy" Undoubtedly; TO great : vast
'E:any'-to every observing man, we believe.
II .Ae Union. The doughty talk of South
7rolna but Il bare tweivemonth ago, is too
.esh in the memories of the American people
I" escape comparison with the actual perform
anco; and multltudes Will find much IN the
contrast to crafty their sense ot'the ridiculous
Inc resolutions and ordinances were adopted
by vote of one hundred and thirty six to nlne-
;sen. They but reiterate what the State has
N It's Legislature and previous Conventions de-
clared over and over agaln--tnat the State has
T. night to secede from the Union and is the
sole Judge of the expediency of exercising that
light There is nothing new in this. 1t has
been known as the South Carolina doctrine
~ rather as the South Carolina cro,chet-for
score OF years. Why all this trouble to re-af-
firm 1t. 1t is a very harmless abstraction so
long as 1t remlins such, and we do not know
ot any one that is inclined TO quarrel with South
Carolina on account of it. 1t Is certainly n
small, very small issue of all the belhcose
buster OF the Palmetto state for the last three
years. Yet there was no alternative South
,arDlna was sustained by no other State, and
ofhersef shAcould do nothng-but talk, which
u ell well enough IN It's way, since taking is
constitutional privilege.
But seriously we trust now that South Car
DINA, having at length released herself from
the consequences into which she was BETRAYED
by her unfortunate Chlmeras, will hereafter ad .
dress herself to the sober realities aud practical
Necessities Of her condition. a favorable IN
nca'l1n Of this has already occurred, in the re-
slg ~ ton by BARNwELL RHErr Of his seat in
the [. s. Senate, and his consequent retirement
into the shades Of private life. He was the ac-
lnowledged head Of the secession party, and
did more than any other ten men to bring the
State into its late humlating difficulties. lie
has gone. and his malign influence, we hope,
will vanish with him. We have never regard
"a the unworthy position of South Carolina
with any other feeling than sincere regret
Her long persistence in her defiant and sedl-
tous policy has occasioned vast detriment to
Ter material interests, and DESTROYED all the
l7Hlcnce she once eyerted in the councils Of
the country. 1t has left her II taste and an apt
I'ute for nothing but barren distractions, has
perverted all her ideas of the real elements OF
civil greatness, has deeply dlshonored her in
the estimation of every other member of the
Union, and has brought her in return no cquiv-
'lent OF any kind Whatever. 1t viii take wears
n redeem her from the consequences of her
past folly, but for the sake Of the glory which
once illustrated her and for the sake OF the die
my Of the Republic which is inseperaby
found up in that Of its component parts, we
ope that the attempt will be honestly made
and eventually successful.
Wing Conventions.