New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-11
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

since the polls of the election, held yesterday
closed the result is not yet known. This comes
from no great labor in the case, FOR anywhere
else the votes could have been cauvgssed in three
hours; but it is the way things are done here.
Enough ia known, however, to render it certain
that Rhett 81 Co.. have had q naroOw escape from
defeat, and that even if chosen they viii stand
pretty low down on the list of delegates
The country will never know through any
purely South Carolinan sources the very truth OF
this election. The important fact IN the case Is
tho development of a minority Ot IL IS not the
majority sentiment on the subject OF secession
IN Charleston, and, as is now believed, through
out the State. This sentiment, while it IL not
antsecession in its essential character is at tine
same time opposed to the policy Of precipitation.
1T is the result of dawning sober second thought
which while it has not yet advanced so far as to
forbid secession altogether, demands that II done,
when il is done it shall be with decency and after
time has been taken to consult with the other
Cotton States 1t demands that there shall be
aehberation in the case, and an absence of yo-
lence if possible. 1t says that when the Con-
Vention conyenes on the l7th ii may appear to
be the sOundest policy, instead OF rushing head
dong to simple enactment OF the programme OF
the ultras, to delay first for weeks, thea months.
or then years; and that, if So the delay shall
be had.
1t is not difficult TO see that such sentiment,
having the power of expressing itself in action.
affords some grounds for the hope that the
course even Of South Carolina is not entirely
Predetermined. AS an additional evidence of The
existence of such feeling, quote resolution
adopted by meeting in the Spartansburg Dis
trict a few days previous to the election and
which you will look for in vain in the columns
of The Mercury:
Resolred That according our opinion South Carolina is
now acting rather hastily the Convention called PIE
taken place the middle Of January the rs Of February
that the the other Southern States ill pursue might
be known"
OF the successful candidates for The Conve alton
it may he assured that Judge Mograth will sand
at the head of the list. Although the Judge re-
signed his seat on the bench, and thereby placed
himself at the head Of the rebellion movement,
apparently, lie has hitherto been conservative
man, prone to deliberate opposed TO precipitation
all things, and in most things quite the OppO-
size of the Rhett fire-eateTs. Notwithstanding
that he persistently refused to allow his name to
be run for the Convention. the solid men and
thinking classes, who, committed as they are to
secess on, dreaded to commit the question to the
leadership of the Rhett party, took him up. The
act that the Judge heads the lists, and that
Rhett if not beaten Out-and-out is chosen by
low majority, has its significance. 1t is what
no one would have dreamed Of 0s possible in
Charleston, ten days ago. 1t is fact which
should here be stated, that this opposition to Rhet
az Co. had not developed Itself iii an organized
form fory-eieht hours before the opening of the polls
Could there have been a weeks time, | will not
undertake TO say that a positive Union party
would not have developed itself in South Carolina
When the real state of things in Charleston
comes to be understood in the country portion
,Of the State, the effect VIII be important Ii is
foresbadowed already in the surprise which gen.
tlemen from the country now here express.
They had been taught to believe that Charles
ton was a unit in favor of the extreme policy OF
precipitation; that the old cooperation policy had
died out aud Tat however other parts OF the
State might doubt there would De no use in
hanging back. Charleston eXerts a powerful H.
6uence over the entire State, and never more 20
than in The present crisis. The actual state Of
things now developed here will give the country
license to think. Hitherto nobody has enjoyed
that privilege but the leaders.
Therefore tie conc Ision is legitimate shat the
forthcoming Convention has not been foreftaled
aud that there is a likelihood Of time being taken
for elaboration for consultation with Georgia |
and the other Cotton States, and that the deg of
secession yll be fixed at a period considerably |
after the time iginally proposed (that Is, within |
three days after the meeting), and then thot it
viii be decided possibly With proyisO.
South Carolina relies much on Georgia Sif
cOncedeo 10 her the position Of Empire State IN
the New COnfederacy and desires her to LEAD
Such is the more considerable feeling In time, At
is known that Georgia, though being fast brought
up to high-yater-msrk in the business, will not !
avor precipitation, and that her Convention,
Shch meets early in January, viii not fix the {
lay for seeding before the last of February Or
he first of March--sOme say the 4th Of March, l
he day of Mr.. Lncoln's Inauguration. Here We /,
ave q state of things that will give time, if Of =
,wed, 70 operate, aud Wiateyer The Gnh resm
lay be- union or disuniOu, time vii be favorable,
nothing else, at least 10 the decency OF The {
ing. There are cases Of the EXTREMIST sort,
slie,e. wheq time has been better thau an
edcine. and slien the patient has lived ip -ldt o.,
everything
Tie caivalry Of Chsrlcston, who are very o.
ave in view Of the .sked and almost defense !
= condition Of the forts Ia The harDor' are :