The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-11-16
For The Ihtslliqencer.

the Inelhgencer will perceive from your seect'ohs
Of news matter for this week. that the Legislature
of the State, which was convened by uoV. 0isl ior
the purpose of electing Electors OF president anu
Vice President of the United States, have not only
discharged that duty but in view Of the election OF
nv Tineon to the Presidency, which is now as
certained to be the fact beyond doubt, have gone
on further to provide TOR the call of Convention
of the State. The Object of this Convention as
vour readers will be advised in due time, will be
TO take into consideration our Federal relations,
and determine for the State of South Carolina
whether in the future she will remain In this Union
upon terms of inequality with the other States of
this Confederacy, or whether she will establish
her independence out of it. Yourreadcrs cannot fail
to perceive that the Convention thus called will be
sadd}ed with grayer responsibilities than have ev
er been devolved upon any other Convention hith-
erto assembled in the State. The Senate, as we
have learned fixed the day of the election OF dele
gates TO this Convention ON the 9Th of January
next, and the meeting of the Convention OH the
18th of the same mouth. 1t seems to be the I'M
preston that the House of Representative will in
sist upon precpitatng the election upon the people
of the State at much earlier day than that adop-
ted by the Senate, and that the Senate will agree
TO it. If so, it is possible that this election, as
important as it will be, will be had before the
people shall be fully appfsed that it has been or
'dered. It's to be hoped, however, that the time
fixed by the Senate will be agreed upon, as that
will afford our people sufficient time for rejecting
upon the important considerations which must and
ought TO influence their choice of delegates to the
Convention of the State. The election Of Mr.. Liz
coin to the Presidency of the United States has
been a just cause of alarm 10 the people of the
South, and they cannot fail to perceive in 1t an un-
znistakable evidcl ce of the ascendency of party
Acnt upon the destruction of their property, and
eheir equality sovereign and Independent States
1t is nosy apparent to every man in the land that
the time has come whcn-thc people of the South,
not the cotton States alone, but the fifteen slave
holding States must determine definitely and for
ser ssether they a:e wiling to give up the lnsl-
tuition ef slavery, and remain IN the onion' OF
whether they will form Southern Conicderacy'
and pretect themselves and their property out oil
the. Union This is the issue, and there is no mis-
last eight or ten years have more forciby impress
cd the public mind that this is the alternative TO
Shich they have been driven, th'n the whole histo
ry of the anti-siarery agitation prior to that time.
The manner in which the election of Mr.. Lincoln
has been received all over the Southern States, the
profound sensation which It has cseated every
where, is consrmatiun strong rs need he, that the
South are becoming aroused TO the dangers Shich
threaten their future. New is the time fer tl:em
to say whether they do not believe the forssation
Of Southern Confedcracy is the only mcaus OF
protecting themselves and their institutions for the
future. Alabama vas the first to declare that the
principles upon which she had affiliated with the
National Democratic party we're subordinate i'll
dignity and Importance to tkc grest question OF
slavery. She took the lead in separating this from
all other questions, and giving it It's paramount
Importance in the struggle which has just terml-
mated so disastrc,isly fer the South il was her
position upon this subject in the National Dcno-
cratic Convention that divided the Democratic par
,y and prccipitated the election of Black Rcpub-
l;cnn President upon the country four years soon
cr thaa 1t might have otherwise Happened. VIII
she then, in the hour of trial be untrue TO tho po-
sition which she has assumed for herself III thls
great struggle. As Southern man, and aresis-
tancc man, but a resistance man with the co;Qpe-
ration of one or norc of Southern sisters be-
cause believe 1t is the only efcctud mode of re-
sistance, hope aud trust she will never faiter
trust for the sake of the South and her institu-
lions, that Alabama will continue true to her posi-
tion to the last; and nov that Lincoln is elected,
that she will declare in a convention Of tie State
that she is ready and willing to unite with any Of
her sisters in dissolring the government of this
Union. South Carolina is now ready and willing
TO go, and always has been She'lias only asked
the cooperation of those who are wronged in com
mon with herself, and whose destinies are hers be-
yond the power of human control In the Judg-
ment of your, humble correspondent, tie other
Southern States ought not to appeal to South Car
olina to take the lead in the measures of rcsis-
t.sc, they des::re to see inauguratcd, because the
stsse las once passed upo% the propriey oiits DO
lng so, and her people have condemned IT, bu. Il
the State shafl determine in the electlen g ae''-
gates to the Convention now ordered, that lhe
prospects OF cooperation OF one or more o' 'hc
Southern States is greater now than in 1881, and
that she is now willing for this reason to reverse
her policy settled then, by seeding from this |
Union alone then, citizen of the State shall
cling to hey in.adyersity as have done in pros !
pcrty. LuclcS
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How STANDS TIE CASE Since 1850 two more
Gree States Minnesota and oregon-hayc been ad-
mitted, giving the North Senatorial majority Of
six. Kansas will hc admitted this next winteI