Daily national Democrat., 1860-03-14
Snn Harplng on the same Internal String.


The proposition made by the Legislature
of South Carolinia, that the Southern states
should meet in general conference, to con
slider of the best means for repelling the ag
gressions of Freesoiism upon their rights,
ct ceterd, et cs;era has not met with much ia.
vor in the South, and Of course none any
where else. 1t was looked upon as a step
towards disunion, and scarcely any other
State is ready to rush headlong to distinction
with the little fre-eater of the Union, South
Carolina. The Maryland Legislature treated
the proposition with almost open contempt.
Virginia replied Ly the following resolutions:
RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of Yr-
giuia. recognizing in our present relations with
uOn-SlHvcholdlng States, an imperative necessity
for decisive measures, does not yet mistrust the
capacity of the Southern States, by the wise aud
firm exercise of their reserved powers, 10 protect
the rights and liberties of the people, and to pre-
serve the Federal Union. For this purpose we
earnestly desire the concentrated action of tho
Southern Stdtcs. TIE General Assembly respect
fully submits to the consideration of South Caro-
lima and all her sister States OF the South that ei
ftctve Cot peraton can be more safely obtained
by such direct legislative action of the several
States may be necessary aud proper, than
through the agency uf an ussemblige which can
lot exercise legislative powers except to debate
and advise. Therefore,
RESOLVED, That III the opinion of the General
Assembly, 1t is ucNpedient to appoint Deputies
tu the Coufrret &C proposed by South Carolina.
RtSoLvt D, That the Governor of tins Common
wealth be required To communicate the foregoing
/ To- the Governor Of South Carolina and to the
Governors of each Of the slayeholdiuS States.
The other States have followed, or will fol
/ low the lead Of Virginia in this matter rather
than Of South Caroliua.
How rancorou>ly anti Union that little
State is The man (Col. Memmsnger) whom
it sent as Commissioner to lay the propos-
tion alluded to before the Legislature of Vir
ginia, is the same individual who, after the
passage of the Compromise Measures of 1850
proposed that South Carolina should secede
from the Union, and who also said in a pub
lie speech in 1851, that he had rather see
as she was previous to the Revolution, than
to remain member of this Union" The
commissioning of such man on the business
upon which he was sent, evidences too well
w Milhb t1ouNN OdIplluA 10 COiuluS ".
Well might Virginia suspect the motives
Of a State which would commission such a
man to visit her and request her co-opera-
tion in measures at all affecting the question
of the Union
This same kind of Southern Conference
or Congress was attempted to be assembled
in 1880 First a Southern Convention met,
as projected 10y John c. Calhoun in 1870
met at Nashville in 1850, and pretended to
have representatives from seven States. This
Convention, which was of a decidedly dis
union character, took the liberty. in very
pomp. us terms, of calling grand Southern
Congress. Only two Ststes responded to the
call South Carolina-the originator of the
NOV ement-and Mississippi. So the Congress
was a izzle just as the present proposed
Conference is now.
The main reason that these States gave,
we believe, for desiring disunion then, was
that California had been admitted as Free
State, whereas the Missouri Compromise
line should have been extended to the Pacific !
/ L tAG llNcIHI lSeooii iOl ulSAilOu 10 lAldlHIl
b that Congress is not likely to enact a code
for the protection of slavery in the Terrific
. ries
South Carolina has thus failel on several
memorable occasions Of arousing sufficiently
for any practical purpose the spirit of dis
union in the South. But her animus is good
and she will keep up the agitation. She
is seconded by a strong purity in several of
the Southern States, and it may be that these
men will eventually gain the ascendancy in
those States. Whenever they do, South
Carolina has her programme all cut and
dried, and the States in favor of secession
will have nothing to do but to wheel into
line with her and keep step to her music.
While Senator Douglas as Northern
Democrat is using his exertions to produce
the enactment of a law for the apprehension
and punishment of Northern conspirators
who contemplate invasions of the slave
States, it would come with excellent grace
from some Southern Democrat to propose
law for hanging up those far worse Southern
consprators who are working night and day
to destroy the peace, unity and very exist
ence Of our Republic.
J. NJ. FISHER, of Trinity county, who late
| ly went to the Atlantic States on the Van
derhilt steamers. writes back to the Trinity
journal, sayi"g that on the steamer North
ern Light many Of the passengers who had
paid for first aud second cabin tickets, were
left without state-rooms or even Il settee on
which to sleep. The food was of shocking
al kind, and there was very little of it at
that Many of the passengers were sick.
and when they desired food which they
could eat, they were put off with-"You
can't getit;" "Go to h-l;" Leave here"
etc. The table dishes were washed occas-
ionally, and wiped with dirty cloths and old
shirts Various articles were continually
missed by the passengers. One lady, Mrs
Ham, had all her money stolen. Twice were
the second cabin passengers driven from
the main saloon, and in both instances the
passengers in the first cabin interfered in