New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-20
Government strengthened by the con;
and the
vuisioll.
FROM South CAROLINA.
r,es Our Own Correspondent.

From Our Own Correspondent.
Ss CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 10, 1860.
2 This morning, l took my accustomed walk
down to the Battery, to make sure that all was
right OF Fmt Moultr;e. The stars and stripes
conveyed the assurance. Nowhere else is our
national flag 10 be seen, and amid the scenes
and the constant talk of treason, one feels
joyful interest in behOldins it, as now do,
streaming Against the sky, "with not one star
damned, NOT ore stripe erased" guarded, as
know it IL, and viii be to the last, by as gallant
u band Of men as ever breathed, For some reason
or otheT, have imo'bed M interest for that
little garrison at Fort Moultrie-an interest that,
| persuade myself win be shared by the whole
country, rs their sitaatioa and their treatment
becomes known. / wish the country might know
really how much they have done to strengthen
the position, how fully determined they have
been are, and will be, to defend the country, as
though they realized that with them in some sort
was linked the fate of the Republic. Thus far,
Norltrie's garrison has played no unimporant
part in the Notification Revolution, and is deter
mined to play part still more conspicuous
Therefore, 90 down 20 the Battery-for Charles
ton hiss that which she calls by this ambitious
title--every morning, to
-. See by the dswn's early light. 81
What proudly hailed at the twhghts last cleaning
The Palmetto Flag is everywhere. Scarcely a
vessel comes in or goes out the harbor that does
not carry IT. Hardly one carries the American
fag. Ills is the merest bravadO in the world,
for. let one of these Palmetto ships come 10 sight
of q national cruiser Of any kind, and, if she
does not show the stars and stripes, she will be
t,ken rs piratical craft The Palmetto flag
can avail nothing at the moment when flag can
have any significance. | conclude that it will be
a good while before these Charleston vessels can
dispense entirely with the stars and stripes.
The cotton men here--and they are South
Carolina-haye way of reasoning on the subject
of harbor blockade (Sho9ld the Government be
compelled TO resort 10 that in the enforcement of
the re-, coue laws) which is truly novel. They
say they can afford to have Charleston harbor
blockaded, because that would deprive the world
Of cotton; therefore, The world would demand
the opening OF Charleston harbor in less than
no time These people do really per-
suade Themselves that South Carolina is
little less than the hub o. the commercial world.
The other day, as OF the Ii was dAating
the advantages which Charleston would have in
possessing a leve- taat would pry Opel her har-
Dor. ] ventnred to remark that if Charleston,
by her own act closed her harbor, i presumed
that Mobile, Savannah, and Wilmington, or
either of Them would be able to supply the
world with cotton, and be thankful for an in
creased business for any reason That, in the
event that those harbOrs were Closed New-Or-
leans would offer premium for it ali; aud that
in any event / presumed that the world could
gei along without her cotton as long as South
C4"olina OF any other state could without its
money The gentleman was not prepared to pur-
sue the subject.
In giving you the result of the election of dele
gates, week since, spoke ofthe anti-precpitatoD
element that Unexpectedly developed itself, and
came so near beating the extremists of the Rhott
school. predicted that the Convention would
take time to deliberate, although a majority of the
members might to be striving to get little
ahead of their neighbOrs in shouting for instant
secession, without regard to consequences. Not
outstanding all this, the Convention will deiber-
ate, aud the consequences will be regarded; the
cost viii not be wholly overlooked. ! fancy that
the spirit begins to flag a little. The flood does
| not stay long at high-watcr mark. The lumber
men on the Chemurg River know very well that
| II they DO not do their business when the water
is at rafting pitch they will be liable to fail
! ure.
Counting the cost is what Rhett * Go. don't
want 10 have DONE Without doubt they are
| right in supposng it Is just what. if anything,
that will give Secession pause" and perhaps
utterly spoil precipitation One great item in the
expense, one Of NE consequences most to be
dreaded, and yet hitherto almost wholly over
| looked by the great body Of the people is the
| opening Of the door for instruction and. social
| anarchy. With slave population considerably
| greater than that Of the white, with long line
| of sea-coast open 10 incursi0ns from which she
could not hope TO defend herself, the State must
i'll many respects, be very soon worse of than
even the most exposed of the border Slave
States, as relates TO the Insecurity of slave
property and the danger OF insIrrecsioH, simu
lated by John Browns, who, when Carolina
declares herself fairly out OF the Union, and
foreign country, would not be less sorupnous
about invading her soil to free the slave, than
she viii be TO invite fresh importatOns from
Congo River 10 4 market ON her shores.
She complains that the vital sentiment of
the people Of the Frce States is opposed 10
Slavery, to escape from the steady growth Of
which she must get cut Of the Union. Secession
viii OILY invite lis immediate operation Oh her
self, IL, a manner to which the Border States are
strangers. / am quite certain that there are
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