Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-01
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE CONVEN.


TION.
This body assembled in Columbia on Monday
the Goth inst. and was organized by the selection
by Gov. J. H. Means, as President, and the ap
pointment of Clerk, Messenger and Dcorkeep-
er.
Gov. Means, upon taking the Chair, returned
thanks to the Convention for the honor conferred
upon him. He then alluded to the objects sought
to be accomplished by the assembling of the Con-
vention, and admonished the members of the ur-
gent necessity of healing divisions and silencing
strife. 's1he great questions Of our wrongs" re-
marked the Governor, ''has been forgotten amid
our wranglings as to the remedy While this
state of things exist amongst us, the fendish ia
naticism of an abolition spirit, which tramples all
law, both human and divine, under foot is steadi-
ly moving forward towards the accomplishment
of its ends. If we intend not basely to desert
the cause in which we have been so long engaged,
and finally submit to our degradation and ruin,
this tide of fanaticism must be sooner or later
met. As dark as are those dangers which sur
round us, still more gloomy are those which
threaten us from our internal connections. If
we are united, we need fear no danger. The JUS
tice of our cause, and our strong arms, will be
sufficient to protect us. But if, in the madness
of party strife, we fall upon each other and forget
the common enemy an easy victory will be ac-
complished by them; victory which will bring
ruin and disgrace upon The very first object
of this Convention should be to heal these divis-
IONS"
In view of the solemnity of the occasion upon
which they had met to deliberate, the Convention
ordered that each days session should be opened
with prayer.
After the appointment of a committee on Rules,
and another on Printing the President read IL
letter from Hon. G. w. Dargan, resigning his
seat member of the Convention which, on
motion, was laid on the table. The convention
then adjourned.
On Tuesday, april Fl, the convention reassem-
bled at IL ma committee of twenty-one was
appointed on the business to be submitted to the
body, among whom are Messrs. Cheeves, Rich
ardson, Seabrook, Butler Huger Barnwel Evans,
Whitner, d. L. Wardlaw, Dunkin, Buchanan,
Perry, Gregg, E. Bellinger, Pickens, Hayne,
Harlee, Arthur, and McAliley. No other bust
ness of interest was transacted.
Ihere seems TO De great doubt as to the line
of policy now to be adopted, since secession, ac-
cording to the admission of the Cha. lesion Mer-
curry, is defunct. What next measure the Fire
Eaters can take up, by which State Rights and
State Sovereignty, as they understand those TERMS
can be asserted, remains to be developed by this
assemblage. letter from Columbia, in the last
Charleston Mercury, says that the greater portion
of the Cooperation party will resist the passage
of all violent measures. Planting themselves on
the ample platform of Cooperative Southern
Rights, they go for letting the minor matters of
State Rights struggle along as best they can.-
"Among the schemes afloat,'' says the Mercury's
Correspondent, ''are the withdrawal of our Con-
gressional representation, sustaining from the
Presidential elections, and ordaining prospective
secession
Without making any pretensions to the gift of
prophecy, we nevertheless hazard the prediction
that this convention will end in swords, words
Words ''wthout any sanction, by some positive
significant fact of any new principle of resis-
lance or redress.