The national Republican., 1860-12-03
THE SECESSION. MOVEMENT.
ANOTHER MEETING AT CHARLESTON.


On Friday night, another great secession
meeting was held in Charleston, when Mr.. Me.
minger, the commissioner sent to Virginia
last winter, made a speech. He counselled
GOODNESS above all things, and said, if an unau.
thorized attempt were made to take Fort Moul.
trie, the garrison were in honor bound to de.
fend it; but when Carolina, as retiring part.
ner of the Union firm, formally claimed the
forts as her share of assets, then, If not grant.
ed, let the Governor say to the young men of
Charleston, "Take those forts "-I wild ap.
plause and he doubted not in twenty -four
hours they would be in possession of the right.
full owners. Those forts were ceded to the
Government by the State, TO protect citizens Of
the State. To turn their guns against the peo.
pie of one Of those States, when acting under
authority of their State, would be treason. He
said he was opposed to undigni6ed haste in se-
cession, but supposed that about three days
after the Convention met, secession would be
consummated. All that he conceived was ne
cessary for this end was to repeal the ordi-
nance by which the State consented to be a
member Of the Union.
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI
CALL OF A CONVENTION.
Governor Pettus, in his message to the Legis.
lature of Mississippi, after enumerating in
forcibly striking and graphic style the wrongs
Of the South, and urging at some length the
right of peaceable secession, advises the ap.
pointment Of commissioners by the Legisla-
ture of bis State, whose duty it shall be to con.
suit with the other slave States, not as regards
what is best to be done, but to inform them
what she intends to do. 1t is tantamount, in
other words, to the recommendation given by
Gov. Moore, of Alabama. to his State, TO secede,
and atter,oard cooperate.
Immediately after the message was received,
bill was reported and passed unanimously by
both Houses, for the call of State Conven.
ton. The election of delegates will take place,
according to the provisions of the bill, on the
18th day of December, and the Convention is
called for the 7th Of January. The times thus
specified correspond very closely with the
dates already designed by Alabama, Georgia,
and South Carolina, for similar purposes. A
proposition has been introduced for the pas
sage of stay law.
| HON. JAMES GUTHRIE.
AT late Union meeting in Louisville the
Hon. James Guthrie, ex.Secretary of the 7 reas.
ury, appeared upon the stand, and took seat
beside the chairman, and being loudly called
far, made speech, from which we extract the
following:
Should the election of sectional President
stultify the progress Of country like ours, a
country whose progress is without parallel in
history? With the election of single man.
what have we to fear? A voice, "everythinp VI
! say we have a great deal to fear if we fail to
do our duty. But we have nothing to fear if
we are true to ourselves and to our country, if
we are actuated by the same sentiments that
filled the breasts of our revolutionary sires.
"We have strong minority of friends in the
free States-an army of sympathizers and al.
lies, who have gallantly fought our battles, and
now stand in the breach with u.s. While we
denounce the aggressions of the North, ia the
South nothing to blame2 Are our skirts free
from the causes of this impending calamity ?
Has the South presented an unbrokeu front
with her Northern allies to the enimies? Have
we allow.d the conservative people to rally to
the support of conservative man ? We have
much to fear if divided, but nothing to dread
if we are united Here, on the south side OF
the Ohio, middle State, with the free States
on the one side and the South upon the other
what have we to gain out of the Union Y-and
shall we be driven or forced into antaponism
with either section? We naturally takes sides
with those whose interests are identical with
our own, but we will not fight the battles O
South Carolina while she is safe at home in
bed | Cheers. |" ..
SENATOR MAsoY's VIEWS.
The Hon. J. M. Mason, of Virginia has pub
lished letter, from which the following Ia n,