The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-28
THE SOUTHERN DISUNI0N MOVEMENT
Important from South Carolina,
NE SIS SAGE OF GOV. CiSr.
PREPARATIONS FOR SECESSION.
THE FEELING IN CHARLESTON.
SECESSION MEETING IN MISSISSIPPI.
Conservative Meeting in Louisville, Ky.
IMPORTANT FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPORTANT FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 26.-This CITY has presented an
'''usuay busy appearance to-day, for the members
and other persons interested in their deliberations
have been arriving to be present at the opening OF
the Legislature tonight. That body is now in
session. Its deliberations will be principally con.
fined to the ordinary business of the State, and no
direct action can be taken regarding the secession
movement, for the Legislature has already gone to
the extent of its jurisdiction in having issued the
call for a Convention.
The Legislature, however, has just read, for the
first time, bill to arm the State, and to raise
$4,000 for that purpose.
Out of the 167 members there is not a single man
who is known to be co-operationist; every one is
in favor of unconditional secession 1t is believed
that, if q single member avowed his sentiments to
be otherwise, he would be summarily dealt with
There is little said here, however, upon the great
question which now agtates the nation The peo.
pie have reposed into quetude, but it is the repose
OF settled conviction, and calm, deliberate deermi
nation.
There is but one sentiment pervading the minds
the entire community, sentiment that is enter
tanned alike by all classes of citizens; and that is
that South Carolina will not, under anv circum-
stances, remain in the Union. There are MANY men
in South Carolina who have been dearly devoted to
the Union, men who deeply deplore the necessity
Few IN all the State who would not have preferred
that South Carolina could have been permitted to
SIT under the protecting wings of the parent con-
ederacy; and the great heart of the State as rep
resented in the thousands of her people, has bled as
she has been compelled to deliberately and consci-
entiousy resolve that she could not remain another
day in the Union. But the question was narrowed
down to this point, that she must either give up
the Union or give up all elements of her own vital
ty; and the first law of nature demanded that she
should protect herself Thnrafnra
is now out Of the Union as much as she can be. All
that remains to be done is the simple declaration of
the fact by the Convention which is to meet on the
18th of December. No human power, nothing but
an lnterpostion of Providence can avert it. 1t is
great pity that the North did not and does not or
will not, understand the South and her institutions
in their true character; fer if they did, matters
would certainly never have come to this larnenable
condition
The State is making active preparations to resist
any demonstration on the part of the Federal Gov.
ernment. Tenders of aid from ether States contin-
ue to come to the Governor, and strong and so
universal is the feeling, that the moment the COM
mand shall have been given, 70 900 soldiers within
her own boundaries, from the mountains to the sea-
will come forward to the defence of South Carroll
ma, and they all would sooner die, the State
subjugated province, than passively submit to a
continuance OF Northern encroachments on her
rights.
The Governor will send in his message at one
O'Clock tomorrow. lie will recommend that the
n
courage direct trade with Europe and the CONT
nent, by taking upon itself part of the losses that
might flow from the establishment of such direct
trade 10 this end the proposition of some citizens
OF Charleston to establish line of steamers between
that port and Liverpool is favorably thought Of
In the event of traitors arising within the State
after she shall have asserted her SOVEREIGNTY it is
probable that he will advise some legislation in
more particularly defining treason to the State
and settling the punishment for that offence 1t is
believed that be will recommend that law be
passed Furnishing summariy and severely-perhaps
with death-any person who circuates incepdiarv
documents, avows himselfan Aboiitionist or in an
way endeavors to incte the slaves to insubordina-
ton or nsurrection; and that South Carolina shall
bind herself to take fifty thousand dollars worth of
arms annually for five years, from Major Ripley in
accordance with the proposition of that gentleman;
and that negotiation be entered into between
South Carolina, Georgia rnd Alabama, to fix upon
site for the armory. He probably will recon-
mend what the Legislature has already anticipated
him In, that is TO arm the State at the earliest
practical period, so as to prepare for the first
act on the part of the Federal Government II is
believed, however, that the State is well armed al
ready, for, in addition to the arms in the arsenas
many OF which are of the most approved pattern
the existing law under which the military of the
state IS organized requires each man to have his
own firearms.
MESSAGE OF GOV. GIsT, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 27.-Governor Gist, in his Mes
sage to the Legislature, devotes many pages to the
consideration of local State affairs. He saws. ir
view of secession, it becomes doubly important tt
have direct trade with Europe, and advises tn,
State to foster enterprises for such purposes b,
giving guarantees of per cent. upon investments
Referring to postal matters, he says he is author
lied by the Postmaster of Charleston to saw, tha
so soon as the State secedes, he will sever his con
necton with the Federal Government and obev tb
nall Of ha Stota
This together with the designations of the postmas
ters generaly,will enable the State to be unembar
rassed in establishing for herself postal arrange
ments. lie suggests, as a temporary expedient
the use of Adams Express.
he also further suggests probable, that ar
rangements can be made between South Carolin
and the Federal authorities for given time unit
other States secede and Southern Confederac,
shall have been formed.
Ii the Federal Government insists on considerins
South Carolina in the Union, after the ordinance O
secession shall have been adopted the presen
postal arrangement must cease, and another, unde
State authority, be substituted.
The Governor next advises the prohibition of th
introduction of slaves from those States not mem
bers of the Southern Confederacy, particularly tn
border States. lie says, let them keep their slav,
property in their own borders, and the only alter
native left them will be emancipation by their ow,
act or the action of their confederates
The Governor hopes, however, that all the slave
States will unite in Southern Confederacy. He
advises the passage of the most ample and strin
gent laws against abolition incendiaries, to super
sede lynching, deter violations, and make the en-
forcement of the laws reliable and severe.
The Governor refers to the action of South Car.
al
his failure to obtain cooperation in Southern Con
terence except in Mississippi and Alabama II,
says that all hope of concerted action among thu
Southern States is lost, and there is but one course
left to South Carolina, consistently with her honor
interest and safety, and that is to look neither t.
the right nor to the left, but go straight forward
TO the consumma alton of her purposes Ii is toC
late now to receive propositions for conference ant
South Carolina would be wanting in selfrespect t;
entertain proposition looking to the continuance
of the present Union
The Governor entertains reasonable doub
but that Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
Texas, and Arkansas would Immediately follow
South Carolina; and that the other Southern State.
will eventually complete the galaxy He saya that
it is gratifying to know that if a resort to arm,
should be necessary, we have a tender of volun
teers from all the Southern and some of the North
ern States to repair promptly to the standard o
South Carolina and share her fortunes
He concludes his message thus:
81 cannot permit myself to believe that, in the
madness passion, an attempt will be made by the
present or the next Federal Administration te
coeree South Carolina after her secession, by re-
fusng to surrender the harbor defences or inter
fering with imports or exports; but, if mistaken
We must accept the issue, and meet it as become:
men end freemen, who infinitely prefer aunihilatior
to disgraeep'
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE
[sEcoND DESPATCH
COLUMBIA, Nov. 2.-In consequence of a mum
Der OF cases of smallpox having occurred in this
city, the Legislature will probably adjourn tc
Charleston.
resolution was offered today in the Legisla
ture' OF inquiry into the expedency of providing
coast police for the State
report was presented on raising supplies, re
commenting negotiating loan, instead of taxing
and the issuing of bonds for small amounts relying
upon the patriotism of citizens to take up some.