Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-12-25
South Carolina Convention.


South Carolina Convention.
The proceedings of the South Carolina State
Convention at the session of Monday evening,
indicate that, whilst there is no difference OF o.
pinion as to the act of secession, there ls dls-
position to bring before the Convention lot us
action all the issues connected with that act. II
this policy should succeed the Convention VIII
probably remain in session tor some time. "A
Committee of TweHty-one was ordered, to whom
all propositions are to be submitted. The Con
vention arrived at Charleston on Tuesday the
18TH, were received with military honors, ana
re-assembled in Institute Hall at four o'clock
Motions for the appointment Of various Oom-
mittees, including one on "Foreign Kelatlons'
and another in relation to United States prop
erty in South Carolina, were submitted and
made the special order for Wednesday the lsih.
Several Committees were announced, and otner
preliminary business disposed of, and the ''ooV-
ereign Convention" adjourned for the day.
In the Convention on Thursday, the 2Oth.,
after prayer, calling of the roll and reading Of
the journal, resolution was offered to invite the
Mayor of Charleston to a seat on the floor OF the
Convention. 1t was amended by inserting the
Governor of the State, the President of the Sen
ate and the Speaker of the House, and passed
The Chair announced the appointment OF com
mittee to draft summary of the cause OF the
secession of South Carolina, and also OF four
standing committees Mr. Rhett offered resc
luton to appoint committee of thirteen, FOL
the purpose of providing for the assemblage OF
[convention of the seeding States, and to form
Constitution. 1t was adopted. Mr.. Ingis made
a report from the committee to prepare and DRAFT
an ordinance proper to be adopted by the Con-
vention, as follows:
"AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between
the State of South Carolina and other States
of the States united with her under the COM
pact entitled the Constitution of the United
States of America.
1--WE. the people of the State of South Caro-
| lima. in Convention assembled, do declare ant
ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordered
that the ordinance adopted by US in Convention
on the twenty third day Of May, in the year
our Lord one thousand seven hundred ano
eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution OF thu
| United States of America was ratified, and alst
| all acts and parts of acts OF the General Assem-
bly, of this State, ratifying amendments OF thu
said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and tina
the Union now subsisting between South Caro-
lima and other States under the name of th'
United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
The ordinance was taken up and passed by
unanimous vote of 169 members, at quarte
past one o'clock. As soon as its passage wa
known without the doors of the Convention, i
spread rapidly on the streets. a crowd col
lected, and immense cheering ensued. Mr.. Mile
moved that the clerk telegraph the South Caro-
lima members of Congress now 10 Washington
The motion was adopted unanimously.
| Mr.. Desaussure offered resolution, that the or
dinance be engrossed on parchment, under tn
direction of the Attorney General, and signed b.
the President and the members this evening, a
the Institute Hall, and that it be placed anon
the archives of the State
| Half past six O'Clock was agreed upon as tn
hour to proceed to the Institute Hall for the pun
pose of signing the ordinance.
The South Carolina Sovereign Convention
/
cret session, consulting with the Governor of th
State and discussing the position to be taken
relation to the postal and revenue laws. Tn
telegraph reports the substance of several ordi
nances submitted to the Convention, some {
which propose to continue the U. S. officers ur
der a sort of dual responsibility to the FEEDER,
Government and to the State, whilst Others 81
sert Immediately the supreme authority of Sout
Carolina over the the post offices and custom
houses The Convention has resolved to sen,
three Commissioners to Washington to treat wit
the General Government, one of whom, Hor
R. W. Barnwell, was already elected at the dat
of latest despatch Hon. J. L. Orr and Judg
Magratb were probably selected as the othe