New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-24
THE SECESSION MOVEMENT
SOUTH CAROLINA OUT.
Prom Our Own Correspondent

city has been in kaosub ever since II was
known that the SNAP pox had proved too much
for them. This Woruing the military were early
on the alert, 10 give the valiant delegates RS
ceptiop ~rrecisely what hour they would come
10 one knew. On extraordinary occasions like
the present the rckety railroad between this city
and Columbia is of but small reliance. 4 little |
before o'clock, hewever, the approach of the
train was heralded, when the 81 irne Artillery
commenced firing salute of fifteen gum. The
military who were 10 receive aud escort the del
egates commenced marching and counter marchug,
and ilually got themselves iatOa suari with every
body and everybody else got into snarl with tdem.
The amount OF fussing equal to that which ensuei
Oh tie arrival OF the tran / do not remember to
have seen. In the hurry -burly muca dad ID
delegates get mixed up that 1t was difficult 20
distinguish them from Ordinary people. Col. RAJ Il,
be Of The Mercury, who wants to know wi.o
the correspondent Of Pan TRIBUNE is was par.
ncuar, happy in doing all sorts OF bouop l. |
have 10 express my Obligations for suudr Gttls
fryors. presume that the gallant Cole mel has
read about entertaining angels unaware s. He
might have handed over TO tho Vigilance
Committee ju,t rs easl. to have doue tiat
particular little eourtesy-had lie only huown Hho
was. But he didn't and 80 cOuldn' t.
Gen. Jalnson, the President of be Cosven.
ton was escorted to the Mills HoUs ?. which WAS
preeumptiye escort of the eni ire BODY, the
greater portion of whom scattered and scainpered
Ike Ordinary folks 10 find good rooms and the
best dinuers. The Mills House got the most of
tLen,--I mean delegates.
At O'Clock the delegates sembled in Insai
tute HAIL as deIberatIye bod y. In auy other
reeIect there is nothing pgric' dairy imposing or
Impressive about the ConveH aon | could Rot
help thinking they all great rebels intent
on tearing down the best { Government ever de-
vised by msu, which, notwiS lstandng all tde bad
things that can be said y it, and contessng
everything said TO be = .ue, nevertheless Is
Gc,ernmezt that secures to the people ind,ydu-
ally aud collectively, anger sum OF happiness
sud prosperity than my other on the face ct the
globe; "A Government yhich these men were dc.
tcrnline6 to destroy. 1T was sotuetllng 10 behold
this assepolage of ce'Ispirators; to witness how
e0oDy t>ley went about their treasOnOus business,
as thos, h the blood, the trials and the suteriugs
of the Revelation, S. though the growth and eN-
perirv si seventr-tey years, almost to u day,
since Washington res gned his commission at Au-
naUsk :; az though the welfare of thirty mliOhs
of p o',e, and the hopes OF mankind throughout
the MD, we've as nothing compared with liz
sap5 SCHEMES te which t'.t leaders had commit
tee le small State OF South Carolina, with
WHITE. population Of less than three hundred
thou land. / could not help asking myself
~he fher there GOes not reside III the Constitution
cad lhe laws, in the Federal arm, this right and
zhe might to the country and the werlJ
. IRON these desperate cOnspIraCOrSl Had your
cor respondent yielded TO his feelings at the mo
meat, It is highly probable that he would have
cOpse being hanged than they will ever
come, though il 10 his conviction that
lhes are the backest sort of traitors, and should
n the shortest possible process be dealt with &C.
-cordslgIy. MeH.--lf the editor of The Msr-
.Ery feels inclined to take exception TO this last
observation, he Is privileged 10 hlHd me over to
the Yigl lance COmmittee--if he can find me.
The telegraph will report to yOu the proceed.
ngs, l must say, however, that, although 1
have seen ii good many bodies which pretended
to be- gov, ,rned by parliamentary law, l never
yet hcbcd utterly gGoraut of that law,
or so little disposed 10 observe it. as this. Tn.s
NAV be peel lLar TO Secession Convictions.
Although the Convention Will no doubt,
auce Of Sece ,siOn, majority of the delegates
are impressed with the magnitude of the work,
aud perceive wv poorly prepared the STATE ID to
get along on her own hook. There is neither an
srny nor navy ~ protect her; not The shadow OF
q substitute for the general Postal system; no
provision whateT er for raising revenue, notwith-
standing the State is about 10 Iced millions
where thousands were enough before. Men can
not disguise these things or cheat their judg-
melits, II tbey would.
THURSDAY, Dec. 2O.-Tbe adoption Of the Be-
cessiOn Ordinance is promised before the Con-
veutiUn adourBs to-day. The leaders egioce the
energy Of desperation Many desire 10 take time.
Blu the leaders iay that three days have already
eapeed, which ii twice long as they defended.
They say If o Pse.k IS conceded month viii be
taken, aud the sYkoIe thiug endangered. So il
las been resolved " put the tLlDg through to-day
Hait-pGst one, p. MT has been done. Bat
the manner was hike threat fulfilled rather than |
u duty performed Nothing could be clearer |
than this. There Was no real heart in the ap- |
plause; the true ring was not there. Iadeei, |
the delegates startled rather than pleased |
at what they had done. They Immediately BET TO
iBquiring Of one another what they could 40 to
save tie State from anarchy. They are
81, 81. |