Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-03-07

A Voice from one OF the soveretgns. |
We give below a letter from an "unob-
trusive citizen" Of South Carolina. in rela-
ton to the secession movement in that
State. and the traitOrous propositions made
by one MemmnQer TO the Legislature OF
Virgins 3lemminger richly deserves the
halter, and was there any virtue at Wash
ington he would get it. But here is what
one of the "plebes" Of this multiplying
State, in letter to the Louisville Journal,
says. Let us all take the advice of Gan
Old Trojan" and in the future wait "uniil
We hear from the people" We are cOntin
ually. and all the time, hearing from the
politieians-they are ever loud Douthed -
but the people. the real sovereigns of South
Carolina, have net yet been heard from
We wait until they speak.
here is the letter:
1Is the Editors of the Louisville Journal:
CHARLESTON, s. O., Feb. %, go.
Having Just seen your article on the so
called mission of South Carolina to vir
ginia, beg leave, though an unobtrusive
citizen, to set you right on some particu lars
in which you seem to be grievously mIsta-
ken. IT'S true that Mr.. Memminger went
to Virginia as the accredited representative
of South Carolina. But how was he ap
pointedf The first intimation which the
people of the State had of any such design
as calling a convention Of the Southern
States, was the passage of the resolutions
| in the Legislature to that effect The next
was the appointment of Mr. MemminSer 10
convey those resolutions to Virginia. NOW
what had the people of the State to do with
shis? Did q single representative OF the
various delegations in our Legislature con
suit a single individual of their various
constituencies? On the contrary, the whole
thing was hatched up secretly aud unex.
eectedly: the resolutions were framed and
offered by Mr.. MsmmiDger himself, sup
ported by his influence in the Legislature,
and he, as a natural consequence, was Sc
lected as the most proper one to express
his own ideas to the people of Virginia
IT'S true also that the press OF our State
support the project with the utmost zeal ;
but, unfortunately, the great demonstra.
tons in 1850 proved that the press and
the People were about as far apart in senti
ment then as they probably are now. l
am 10 QIOD OOuStINdttNC. CA Idg 4
have always been a consistent Nullifier
Secessionist, and what you term "Disun-
ionist." But the "Disunionists" Of 1850
have satisfied themselves from past expe-
rience that any attempt by South CarolIns
to counsel her sister Southern States In re-
gard to any measure looking ultimately &c
a rupture Of the Union would be not only
i'll timed, but entirely futile. Whereas, the
Union Conservatives, or "Co operation
lists" with whom Mr.. Memminger ha:
identified himself, have leaped clear Owe
the fence on which they have been sitting
to view the field and see the strongest side
and, if we do not check them in their vile
career, they will rush forward and turf
somersets into the gulf Of Disunion, befor
the State, their mother, "knews that the,
are out" So, hold on. Mr. Editor. awhile
until you hear from the people; you have
as yet, only heard from a legislative cote
RE, speaking through their mouth piece
Our Commissioner has not made his oov
on the rostrum yet, since his return; Their
may not be the same waving of bonnets
and shouts of welcome that greeted him /
the Old Dominion. For some of US, q
, least, can stand little "dust In the eyes,
without having our peppers entirely shu
up. One thing is certain; there have bee
no complimentary balls" as yet.
, AN OLD TROJAN.