Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-12-28
THE
THE
SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.
FIFTH DAY.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER III, 1850.
MORNING SESSION.

1
10 the morning papers. Ny name appears as member
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. am not men,
Der Of that committee. ..
Mr. Rhett then moved that the report Of the Commit
tee on the Address to the Southern people be read.
Mr.. Rbett then read the Address. In accordance
with the request OF the convention have postponed
publication until officially authorized to do go by the con-
veniOn.
Mr. earn moved that the report be printed and made
the special order of Saturday at Que o'clock.
Mr.. Mazyck moved to amend by saying Monday at one
The President The question will first be on making
It the special order for Saturday at one O'Clock.
| The motion was agreed TO.
Judge Wardlaw made the following Report, and NOV
ed its immediate consideration:
AN ORDINANCE ALTER THE CONSTITUTION OF TUE
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN RESPECT TO TIE OATH OF
)FEICE %
We he psople of the State Of South Ca1oliRd,iR Con-
usnon assembled do declare and OrdaH and u Is mere
BIZ delarsd aud ordained That the 4th Article OF the
Constitution of the State Of South Carolina heretofore
amended be now altered to read as follows:
All persons who shall be elected or appointed to
any Office of profit trust before entering upon the
execution thereof shall take besides special oaths not
repuguan to this Constitution prescribed by the General
| Assembly the following oath do solemny swear Tor
arm) that will be faithful and true allegiance bear TO
the State of South Carolina so long as may continue
citizen thereof and that am duly qualified according
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which have been appointed and that will, to the best
my ability discharge the duties thereof aud preserve
protect and defend the Constitution Of this State So
i help mo God"
Mr. Perrin moved the adoption of the report
The President The question will be upon the adop-
/ ton Of the Ordinance. Adopted.
Judge Wardlaw. l move that the Ordinance be en-
crossed and signed by the President soon as it can be
effected.
Mr.. Adams. now move that this Convention go iu-
-. a,fiOn nf ana VIII
may be allowed seat in this Convention officially.
Mr.. Kcitt. | wish TO understand whether il is impor-
ant what object We have in view in retaining one Re
portery
Mr.. Iuglss l will state my reasons We all know
that in determining what il done by the action OF bo
DIV in their Resolutions Acts Ordinances &c, great light
il often thrown upon them by the cOntemporaneous dis
cusSou. The only purpose have in view Is 10 preserve
the debates here The report might be the property oil
the Convention to be published at any time hereafter
when the COnycntionlmight deem il necessary. shall
not, however, insist upon the motion.
Mr. Means moved an amendment as to make it, all
Reporters and strangers be excluded with the exception
OF the Commissioners from the other Southern States
The resolution, amended was adopted, and he Con-
ycntion went into secret session.
EVENING SESSION
The President laid before the Convention the following
communication which was received information and
| left in the possession Of the President:
CnARLtsrON HoTEL, December 81, $50
| Hon. d. T. Iamison, President Of the South Caroline
Coaventioa nor s,tting u, Charleston
DEAR Sal have the honor TO lay before you for
information dispatch inst received by me from bis EK
celency John J. Pettus, Governor Of Mississippi, in
which he informs that in Kinds County, where the
most formidable opposition cooperation ticket in the
State was organized those in favor of separate State
action have succeeded by majority of 800, and that We
have the State Convention by mel GRITTY Of four 20 one
have the honor to enclose the dispatch To be disposed
| of at your pleasure
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. f. HOOKER.
The despatch referred to is as follows;
To Hon. e. T. Hooker, Commissioner:
Huds County gave 800 msjority for prompt secession
Our majority in Convention Is four to one
JOHN j. PETTUS.
The committee to whom committed the duty Of
preparing Address TO the people of the Southern
States TO declare the which Justify the secession
Of South Carolina from the Federal Union made their
pot follows;
DECLARATION CAUSES WHICH JUSTIFY THE SEEKS
sioS OF SOUTH CAROLINA THE FEDERAL UNION.
The State of South Carolina having determined 10
her separate aud equal place among nations deems
il due TO herself 10 the remaining United States Of
America, and to the nations Of the world that she
should declare the causes which have led to this act
In the year 1863 that portion Of the British Empire
S%Sraeng great B19 9 PSe s
American Colonies. struggle for the right O! selfgov
eminent enSued which resulted on the 18th july 1916,
| a
right out 20 be- FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES,
and thus as free and INDEPENDENT States they have full
power 10 levy war; conclude pace contract alliances,
establish commerce. and 10 do all other acts and things
which independent States may of right do"
They further solemny declared that whenever any
form Of government becomes destructive of the ends
Tor which il established it is the right OF the people
10 alter or abolish it. and TO institute government"
Deemng the government Of Great Britain to have be-
come destructive of these ends they declared that the
Colonies "are absOlved from all allegiance the British
Crown and that all political connection between them
aud the States Of Great Britain is and ought to be, to-
tally dissolved
In pursuance Of this Declaration Of Independence,
each Of the thirteen States proceeded 10 exercise its
parate sovereignty adopted for itself Constitution and
appointed officers for the administration Of government
in all is departments Legislative, Executive and Judi
ca For purposes Of defence, they united their arms
aud heir counses; and, in l77S they entered into
League known the Articles OF Confederation, where
by thew agreed TO the administration of their
ternal relations TO a common agent known the Con-
gress Of the United States, expressly declaring in the
first article "that each State retains its sovereignty,
freedom and independence, and every power lrsdcton
aud right which is not, by this Confederation expressly
delegated the United States in Congress assembled"
Under this Confederation the War Of the Revolution
was carried on and the 30 Of September 1853, the
contest ended and defnitiye Treaty signed by
Great Britain in which she acknowledged the ndepend-
ence OF the Colonies in the following terms:
Art. l. His Britannia Majesty acknowledges the said
United States viz New Hampshire, MASSACHUSETTS, Bay
R-ode Island aud Providence Plantations Connecticut,
New York, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Maryland aud Virginia North Carolina South Carolina
and Geo ga, to be FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDIE
! PENDENT STATES; that he treats with them as such;
and for himself his heirs and successors reinquishes ali
claims to the government property and territorial rights
Of the same and every part thereof"
Thus established the great principles asserted
by the Colonies, namely the right Of State TO govern
itself; aud the right Of a people TO abolish Govern
ment when it becomes destructive OF the ends for which
it instituted. And concurrent with the establish
ment Of these principles the fact that each COLONY
became and recognized by the mother country as
Free Sovereign and Independent State.
! In 1881 Deputies appointed by the States TO
wise the Articles of Confederation and 18th Sepem-
ber 1884, these Deputies recommended fer the adoption
of the States the Articles Of Union known as the Con-
stitution of the United States.
The parties TO whom this constitution was submitted
we're the several sovereign States they were to agree or
take effect among those coueurring; and the General
/ Government the common agent, then TO be in
vested with their authority
II only uine Of the thirteen States had concurred the
other four would have remained they then were-sep
arate sovereign States, independent of any Of the proys
ions OF the constitution In fact of the States did
no; accede 20 the constitution until long after had gone
into operation among the other eleven and during that
interval they exercised the functions OF independent
nation.
BY this Constitution certain duties were charged on
the several States and the exercise of certain Of their
powers restrained which necessarily implied their con-
tinued existence sovereign States. But remove all
| doubt an amendment added, which declared that
the powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, prohibited by it to the States,
served TO the States respectively to the people. 90
23d Nav, 1888 South Carolina by a Convention of her