The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-10
THE DISUNION MOVEMENT.
THE SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
TIE RuMoRED PROPOSITIONS
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA,
THE DIsUNIoN FEELING INCREASING IN
GEORGIA.
ALL THE BANKS SUSPENDED.
THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE CALLED To-
GETHER BY ONE OF IT'S MEMBERS.
An Extra Session Of The Tennessee Legislature to be
Convened,
THE SECESSION FEELING IN FLORIDA AS STRONG AS
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE RIGHT OF SECESSION-THE OPINION
OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE CALLED To-
GETIER BY ONE OF IT'S MEMBERS.
An Extra Session Of The Tennessee Legislature to be
Convened.
THE SECESSION FEELING IN FLORIDA AS STRONG AS
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE RIGHT OF SECESSION-THE OPINION
OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
TIE SOUTHERN CAUCUS,

tlorlda. Mr. ToOmbs, of Georgia. was absent, no
being in the city. Maryland was represented; anG
Vice President Breckenridge was also at the con
ference. lie said that the call did not contemplate
any action, and certainly none was formally pro-
posed. There was, however, full and free inter.
| change of opinions, together with some sugees
tons; among them, one looking to the call of q
| Southern Convention, with the view of forming q
| ground of Cancellation between the two sections o.
| the country. The best personal feeling prevailed
but, politically, there indications to induce
hope that the present difficulties will be adjusted
The caucus adjourned without providing for a. fu
ture meeting; and the impression was according tc
! report left on the minds of the Senators, that a
least seven States will secede from the Union.
There are, however, gentlemen who believe tha
no means should remain unexhausted to effect set
! tlement.
The following amendments to the Constitution
are privately discussed, among others, and are
here given merely in item of intelligence:
First-Terrtory may be acquired by treaty, but
not otherwise.
Second-The white inhabitants of any territory
numbering twenty thousand shall have the right
to elect all officers necessary to its Government
| under rules prescribed by Congress, and the Legis
lature thereof may determine whether to recog-
nze slavery not, during its territorial existence
Third-Whenever any territory, preparatory to
its admission State, having white inhabitants
equal to the number required for a representative
in Congress; and having submitted its Constitution
to vote of the people, applies for admission, il
shall be admitted into the Union, whatever NAV be
! its provisions in regard to slavery, upon an euua
footing with the original States.
Fourth-Congress shall not, in anywise, interfere
with slavery where it exists under sanction of law
nor shall it prohibit the transportation of slaves
from slavehodng State to another
1t may be remarked that the above propositions
for AM amendment to the Constitution does NOT
emanate from Southern quarter.
Though, politically, prospects are exceeding Iy
gloomy, there are gentlemen who will endeavor SC
to act, as that, excepting the gulf cotton States
the others of the Union may remain together
looking to time and to necessity to reunite the re-
tiring members of the Confederacy on a mutual
satisfactory basis.
REPORTS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, December IA bill was submitted
on Thursday, in the Legislature, providing holi.
days to be observed thereafter in the State on June
IS, the anniversary Of the battle of Fort Moultrie,
Good Friday, Christmas, January l, Thanksgiving
and Fast Days, emitting the Fourth of July.
Inc election count was Hnlshed tonight. Judge
Magrath leads the successful ticket. Messrs. Miles,
Rhett and Spratt are also elected. There is great
rejoicing tonight among the friends of the gentle
men elected.
REPORTS FROM GEORGIA.
MACON, December THE disunion feeling is
still increasing in Georgia. The certainty of the
secession of Alabama and South Carolina will tend
greatly to strengthen the secessionists of this
State. Mr.. Cobb, brother of the Secretary of
the Treasury, speaks here tonight IN favor of dis
union.
The Fair of the Cotton Planters Convention at
this city has been postponed until next Monday
owing to the delay in the arrival of the goods i'm
ported direct from Belgium.
The banks in this State have all SUSPENDED. Those
in Alabama will suspend next week, by private
agreement. They have pledges from leading Sc
cessonists to relieve them from the legal penalties
resulting from suspension.
MlLLEDGEvILLE, Ga, December 7.-Mr. Fulton of
Columbia, offered resolutions in the House to-day
requesting the congressman from Georgia to pro-
pose to the Congress of the United States the ap-
pointment of Commissioners on the part of the
North and South whose duty it shall be to provide
for peaceable dissolution of the Union, and an
equitable distribution of the property between the
two sections.
Gov. Herschell V. johnson, in letter to AUGUST
Belmont, Esq, of New York, declares that the
only hope of Saving the Union depends upon the
repeal of the Personal Liberty Bill by the nom
slaveholding States which have enacted them; the
faithful execution hereafter of the Fugitive Slave
Law, and the abandonment by the Republican par
ty of the idea of aboshing slavery in the District
of Columbia and other places over which the
United States hold exclusive jurisdiction. "In
fine says the Governor, " the Republican party
must let slavery alone" He does not believe that
the cotton States will determine upon final action
until the 4th of March next, and in the meantime
he calls upon the President elect, one au
thorized to speak for him, to aay Southern agita-
tion by announcing the abandonment of all inten-
tions to use the power of Congress against slavery
anywhere. Governor johnson would personally
prefer to exhaust every of redress within the
Union before resorting to disruption of its ties
but he conceives that the only mode by which the
States can now be held together, is by the North
concedng the principle of non-intervention on the
subject of slavery, and causing to be swept from
the statute books of the several non-slaveholding
States that have passed them every yestige of the
obnoxious Personal Liberty Bills.
REPORTS FROM TEXAS.
NEW ORLEANS, December 7.-Advices from Texa
state that Mr.. Stewart, member of the Legislature
of Texas, from Gonzales, has issued circular in
accordance with the resolutions of a meeting held
in that place, inviting the members of the Legis-
Iature to be in Austin on the third Monday in De-
cember, for the purpose of holding extra session
and to take the necessary steps for calling State
Convention.
Governor Houston promises to resign if the peo-
pie of the State demand the convoking of the Lee
gisature.
The hosting of Lone Star flags in the towns of
Texas continues to go on, and the people through
out the State appear to be united in their feeling
of resistance to the administration of Lincoln.
THE SECESSION FEELING IN FLORIDA.
CHARLESTON, December 6.-Senator Yulee, of
Florida, has written a letter from Washington to
the Legislature of that State, announcing that
upon learning at any time of the determination Of
Florida to dissolve connections with the North
ern States, he will promptly and joyfully return
home to support the banner of the State to which
he owes allegiance.
Col Blackburn, Federal Marshal for the North
ern District of Florida is closing up the business
of his office preparatory to resigning.
The secession feeling in Florida is quite as uni
versal as in South Carolina.
EXTRA SESSION OF THE TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE
NASHVILLE, Dec. S.-The Governor of this State
has called an extra session of the Legislature to
meet on the 7th of January, for the consideration
of the condition of the country.
HON. J. NJ. Bolts ON SECESSION
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 8.--Mr. Bolts letter on the
subject OF secession is an extraordinary production
de declares that he will have no part in the wick
edness of secession. He thinks that Virginia will
not secede. He says the position of South Carolina
bald, plain, daring and atfooted rebellion against,
and treason to, the rest of the.States. He thinks
the only question involved in the South Carolina
imbrogio is, whether it is worth while to keep her
in the Union He believes that the Federal laws
should be enforced in South Carolina, notwth
standing an ordinance of secession. He is gener-
ally quite bitter on the secession party.
RIGHT OF STATE TO sECEDE-oPINIoN OF THE AT
ToRNEY- GENERAL.
The Attorney General of the United States, as
the legal adviser of the Government, has rendered
an opinion upon the questions involved in of
disputed jurisdiction and authority between the
Government of the United States aud of any State.
He says:
Within their respective spheres of action the Fed
eral Government and the Government of a State
are both of them Independent and supreme but each
is utterly powerless beyond the limits assigned to it
by the Constitution. = = The will of State,
whether expressed in its Constitution laws, can
not, while it remains in the Confederscy, absOlve
her people from the duty of obeying the just and
constitutional requirements of the Central Govern
ment Nor can any act of the Central Govern
ment displace the jurisdiction of State, because
thelaws OF the United States supreme and
binding only so far they are passed in pursuance
OF the Constitution. do not say what might be eff
fected by mere revolutionary force. [ am speaking