New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-12
THE SECESSION MOVEMENT
RESIGNATION OF SENATORS.
STATE CONVENTIONS CALLED.
RgrAL,AroaY MEASURES.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

We present this morning mass OF dPatene~
and newspaper comments from the Southers
States occasoned by the election OF Mr. h'n-
coin to the Presidency.
To these who remember fine Nullificaflon dS-
tosbance of 1882, these naahlmatory. appears
seem comparatively tame and pOintless. And "
way of preface let us give a tsw eStfac~ ~
show kow Gen. Jackson's Proclamation was ~
ceiyea by tie State of South Carolina:
From TIE Cha,ie.son Mercury Der. y, fSx
THE DECLARATIONS or WAR, made by AsDHrw
JAcKsox agsint the State Of Month Carotn occupies
to-day the larger portion Of opr eoluEans VIII %
read with the feelings which 80 esriordl aafy oocu
ment il calculated to excite. This unhappy Qid mac
has been suffered by bis advisers 10 arro9afetbe power
TO eoerce State Of the ConfederafJ. He has psaeo
the edct of diclatoran edict WIKI time wh prove
Sas Sfs b aas ., ts s fa E %s P ssa
Carolina by threats, and to sls and fnens IN
surecm and violence &C the part 81 dheintefnal cue
mics of the Stale. This document wssS received hero
Yesterday and greeted with the ign alton and con-
cempt which it merits. In every fsen IN worthy Of
the name il has excited other faiDs but tbose Of
defiance and scorn. Recresnts will hail il as brave
blow in the cause of treason.
From The Charleston Mercury, Dea ~, ,gs,
The crisis for which every inteigen1 aud resoluts
Caronian Wing has long been prepared as osne. The
efficacy of our remedy has been demons traied. We
II
potent that an Infatuated administration hai noen com
relied in despair Of otherwise defeating us, 70 resort
to brute ferce We have always said THIS our remedy
was Of right peacefnl-we never said trn " woua
necessarily be peacefu-it il always in the power OF
bad man to outrage right by violence, il uhueftrained
by principle or fear of consequences pei sofl 70 hun
self Gen. JACKSON has not furnished the frst exam
pie. There has been CESAR, a CROMWELL, ana =
BosAPARTE-men of towering genius who have
stamped to play the usurper Why may nct an Inferior
spirit without Us much heart either and with none
of their genius inspire TO initiate them IN those acors
of their lives which alone he initiate because they
are criminal We have all along said thft be might
make the suicidal attempt TO eoerce ms. lie W Al seems,
preparing for it, The JACKSON tariff men vSli enconr-
age him, and the CLAY tariff men will cheer On as
their bloodhound, the individual whom they'reJecth
as public servant, whom they despse rs a nian
In the Legislature, Mr.. Preston said: WHO,
and whom We! Are we Russln serir,
or slaves of diyanl Are on the banss OF the
Bosphorous the Narva oris il on our own
that these things are proclaimed? Was our high and
wel-considered appeal to Congress and the States IA
this manner to be met by the blind fury and indec
cency of man who thus vents upon the hoe5ies ~
| the country, his own personal aniposities! we
should be insisted hurl back instant seorn and den
ance for this impotent MISSILE of despicable malgny
Of answer 10 its patry sophisms, and dlsgraceiui NJ
yectiyes il was utterly unworthy. But the country
and the world should know how perfectly we despise
and defy him and they should be told that beioe theJ
plant such principles his upon our free soh, us
| bones of many enemy shall whten our shores-the
carcases of many cati and traitor backen our arr
And Mr. Pickens declared " he believed the contest
would end in blood. The document OF the President
was ess than the edict n tyrGntj and irtneS
were for war he was ready and it beheoved al the
citizens of the States TO meet the storm with becoming
I" msnliness. He, for one never would subHIt,b
" driven from the seaboard, he was for carrying en- the
war in the interiors if driven from the lnteror ne
I" was for guerilla warfare in the mountains; and II
at last compelled to YIELD he would die contencing
to the last drop of blood he had, to sustain the or-
| nance, and the authority thereof He sdyerted 10
the doctrine contained in the proclamation relative
to the rights of the State, and astorished thai
the President should attempt TO seduce the citizens
" of the State from their proper aegiancei and IN no
" measured terms, denounced the whole procedure
" He concluded by SAYING, that before South Carolina
should recede, he was for war MP Ia the rery knge,
and be for risking all at ery hazard on the do
% That WAS cast"