The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-11-22
SENATE.

The hour of halfpast twelve having
arrived, the special order (the resolutions
of Senator Lesesne) were called up.
Senator Lesesne-Thesc resolutions,
Mr.. President, express what, after refec-
ton, regard as the true policy cf this
State in the present emergency. Now,
however, / have little hope of their adop-
ton. 1 aah satisfied that the Convention
will be called unconditionally; and to
promote that unity Of action, which is so
important, it is my intention to vote for
the bill. I now move to lay my rcsolu-
tions on the table.
The resolutions were accordingly laid
upon the table. s
resolutions of Senator Harrison, in
relation to Federal Relations. were next
taken up.
Senator Harrison rose to advocate their
passage. He thought it due to the other
Southern States that the opportunity
should be offered them to cooperate with
South Carolina in the secession move
ment We should exhaust every possible
means of securing their assistance before
We take the step alone. The indications
of cooperation were now farmorc auspi-
cious than in 1852. Would it then be inap-
propriate to wait four, five or six weeks,
in order to give notice to our Southern
sisters? In the meantime, we need not
beiidle. We. could go ahead with our
preparations for resistance. The resolu-
tions did not call for delay. They meant
action-but prudent and deliberate action.
He thought that tho Convention should
not be called at too early a day, or with
too much precipitation.
Senators Wilson, of Prince George, and.
Mazyek,ofSt. James, offered amendments
to the resolutions and discussed theirmcr-
its.
Senators Cannon, of spartanburg.
Hope, of Lexington, and McAlilcy of
Chester, expressed themselves in favor of
deferring the day for the Convention as
long as possible, in order to lay the issue
more fully before the people.
Senator Moses, of Sumter, was willing,
when the bill came up, to fill the blank as
to the time, with any day that should be
most-agrceablo to the other Senators, He
was for iconciliation, hut he was opposed
to all resolutions. He wanted the bill to
go forth untrammclcd by anything of the
sort, and therefore moved that all the res
lutions and amendments be laid upon the
table. This motion was carried. -
Senator Darlington, of Newberry, said
he was instructed by tho Committee on
Federal Relations to'rcport bill calling
Convention. He moved that the blanks
be filed, the first with the words Second
Monday in January, 1861, the second with
the Tuesday after the first Monday in
January, 1861, SO that the bill will read
as follows:
IL. Bcit.caacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives., now met and sitting IN
General Assembly, aad By the authority Of
the same, That Convention of the peo-
ple of the State cf South Carolina is here
by ordained to be assembled, in the city
of Columbia, on the second Monday in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-onc, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the dangers in
cident to the position of the State in the
Federal Union, established by the Con-
stitution of the United States, and the
measures which may be necessary and
proper for providing against the same;
and therefore, to take care that the Com
monwealth of South Carolina shall suffer
no detriment.
2. That on the Tuesday after the first
Monday of 1861 the Managers Of Elcc-
tions for the several Districts i'll this State,
shall, after giving public notice, as in Ca
scs of elections for members of the Leg
islature, open the pollssand hold elections
in their respective Districts for delegates
to the said Convention, in all respects in
the same manner and form and at the
same places as elections are now conduct
ed for members of the Legislature. And
all persons who are qualified and entitled
by the Constitution and laws of this State
to vote for members of the Legislature,
shall be qualified and entitled to vote for
said. delegates to said Convention; and in
case Of any vacancy occurring by death,
resignation or removal from the State, or
refusal to serve of any person elected a