The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-26
Congress for that purpose or In such other
manner as may be best calculated to secur
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concert Of action.
l repeat what said in the letter alluded to.
AS 10 the means Southern Congress on sh
10 adopt 10 enforce these pro position IL won Id
oe presumption IN me to venture a suggest stion.
prefer rather TO stand mute before the " In.
dom OF its counsels aud bow submisstyeiy 20
It's decisions. l am willing to confide the I'm i
ierest, the honor and the rights of the South
ia the hands OF such body aud l feel sure
thSt It's moral influence, representing, as IL
would the PATRIOTS sm, the intaiiigencs and
ntm resolve OF the South, would be potent TO
ave the Union aud awaken the Nor rtheru
STATES to the danger With which their mis-
guided fanaticism has imperiled it,"
L should hope that a firm acd ca rnest appeal
by the South 10 the Northern States would be
Needed that they would, under q sense OF
constitutional obligation, repeal their "per-
sonal liberty bills" and cease to hinder the
surrender OF fngiuvs slaves. repeat, con
tinued and persistent disregard Of our righ is
ia this particular, by the non-siayehold ing
states, cannot, and ought not to be su bmi tied
To- 1t is time for the South 10 demand exemp
.ion from the agitation of slavery, from un-
Justihable interference with our domest tic
peace and security, from further aggressions
upon our rights, aud the aithful observance
by the Northern States of the requirement to
and guarantees OF the Constitution. Lst the
business OF redress be begun now and prose-
cuted TO final contamination. Let every ef-
tort bs made and every means be exhausted TO
restore The Union back To what il was Intend
ed TO be by its founders. II We fail in this,
Which Will not anticipate, then the Interest,
right. peace and honor OF the South will Ie-
qutre a dissoin ton of the Union.
Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, now in
New Orlean. ,addresses letter to his cors rstitu
ency in the Wheeling district reiterating his
determination TO resign after his present term
Speaking OF the question Of the day." the
writer says:
AS border people, you have peculiar in.
tpy af hn EaHa
msnt. The result OF the recent Presidential
election is made the pretext for an ASSAULT
upon the Constitution, under The forms of
which it has been decided.
The hot and indecent haste of South Caro-.
Ilna meets with my unq ualifed condemnation
IL periis whatever OF merit there may have
been hitherto in the cause Of the SOuth. II
affords no remedy for alleged grievances but
will in tensify every one of them 1t may pre-
clpitate revolution, which will end in re.
turn 10 colonial dependence under the crown
OF Esgland, or III making the cotton States
mare stipendlarIes upon the des potism OF
France.
II 10 not necessary now 10 enlarge upon
these considerations. l thank God! l have
lived 10 do you some service in this crisis i
shall resume my seat at the commencement OF
the session, and by my vote and by my voice
shall resist 1hs cousummation of this greai
wrong against the Constitution and the laws
shall obey no command except that which
comes from you. II you should differ Ia
opinion with me; if you should thIuk lha,
treason TO the Confederacy should be digni.
tied with the name CT patriotism, let your iu-
structiops meet me At Washington. aud will
ct once resign lntoyOur hands ali the official
mower you have so generously conferred upon
me.
The following dispatches from Charleston
and Columbus are published
CHARLESTON, Nov 23.-The Mercury in an
editorial this morning ridicules the idea OF
bl ockading Charleston, and saws federal
kaUa would ha
tion OF a Southern Confederacy, and could
fail to isolate South Carolina from the sister
cotton States, as the British EN- barge failed in
Ia 10 isolate Massachusetts from her sister
colonies.
ticket for the Conven ton appears in the
morning papers embracing the lames which
IL is generally conceded will be elected from
I 1e Charleston district. The ticket is headed
b. ex-senator Rhett and Judge Magrath, and
is composed partly of old secessi Jnists partly
of former co operationists, but the present po-
lit al views OF all Of them are announced by
authority to be expressed in the folio wins
propositions:
FL, u.-That the Conveu ton, when assem-
bleu. should withdraw South Carolina from
the Ctnfederacy Of the United States as soon
she ordinance Of secession can be framed.
SroOHd.-That after South Carolina with
draws from the C0rtederacy Of the United
State she should never he reunited with any
OF the non-slaveholding States OF this Union,
i'll any form of government whatever.
A bill Will be introd uced in the Legislature
ana will undoubtedly pass providing that free
negroes shall leave The State before the lst
January. 1862, or then shall choose mas ters
and be 81 sVes.
CJckao es are in such demand that news-
boys are selling them around the no tells.
THE SECESSION FEELING IN GEORGIA.
COLUMBUS, Nov. % "A mass meeting Of this
and surro undiHg counties in Georgia and A Ia
bama will be held here morrow. Promi.
men. men from Georgia, Alabama aud S0utb
Carolina vriil be here 10 hold private consul
tation TO L esise plan for probable secession
The merch ants will close their stores during
the day.
1t is tho agbt hire that ii will be advisable
for the Southern banks TO suspend III a shoC1
time
Ine Convention of Alabama has legislative
powers, ana will undoubtedly authorize tbs
sion.