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! EXPECTED RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY CASs
WASHINGTON, Dec. l4.-There is good reason to
believe that General Cass intends resgning his po-
sition Secretary of State. Indeed it is reported
that the President has been so informed, but will
endeavor to dissuade him from this course. There
is no doubt that the Assistant Secretary of State,
Mr.. Trescott, has resigned.
ACTION OF LOUISIANA.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 13.-The unanimous passage
of the Convention bill fixes the policy of Louisiana
| for immediate separation and State action.
After secession general Convention of the slave
holding States will be held, and Southern rights
forever secured on the formation of the Southern
confcdcracy.
Five hundred thousand dollars were appropria-
ted for arming the State.
The bills giving preference to foreign countries
over the North in the purchase of arms, and con-
! iscating Northern goods arriving after January
were defeated.
Public opinion is overwhelming for secession.
! The duty Of the Commissioner appointed by the
Governor is simply to devise and secure separate
| independence and secession.
REPORTS FROM CHARLESTON.
CuARLEsrov, Dec. 13.-The fumor that prevailed
yesterday that the banks had resumed is contra
dicted. It is expected that within n month after
secession, matters will settle down and business
brighten.
The Mercury of this morning publishes an ac-
count of the operations going on at harbOr forts
The garrisons are evidently in dread of an attack
and are preparing night and day for desperate re-
sistancs in such event. There is no disposition
here to mocst the forts unless the State orders it.
The people feel friendly towards the Federal Off
! GERS commanding there, but they regard the pos
session Of the forts rs essential to independence,
and would consider any reinforcement 4 threat of
coercion.
The Charleston Courier believes compromise i'm
possible.
CAUCUS or SOUTHERN MEMBERS or CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-At the request of Hon.
Reuben Davis, of Miss, member of the Committee
of States, the Southern members of Congress as
sembed at his rooms tonight, and adjourned at
eleven o'clock, which the following declaration
was made and signed by those present 1t had al
ready been presented to the Committee of Thirty
| three:
THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTO.
W.s-t~o-~-,, I',u 10, Ioov.
! To o,tr. Constituents:
! The argument is exhausted. All hope of relief in
! the Union, through the agency Of committees
Congressional legislation, constitutional amend
ments is extinguished, and we trust the South will
|
new guarantees. Tine Republicans are resolute in
| the purpose to grant nothing that will or ought to
satisfy the South. In Judgment the honor safe
ty and independence of the Southern people are to
! be found only in a Southern conederacy-the in
evitabe result of separate State secession. That
the sole and primary aim of each slavehodng
State ought to be its speedy and absolute separation
| from unnatural and hostile Union.
Signed by j. l.. Pugh, David Copton, Syden-
ham Moore, j. l.. NJ Curry, and J. A. StalIworth,
of Alabama; Alfred lverson, j. W. II. Underwood,
! l.. j. Gartrell, and James Jackson, (Senator
TOOmbs is not here, but would sign John j. Jones
and Martin ]. Crawford, of Georgia; George s.
Hawkins, of Florida. 1t is understood Mr.. Yulee
will sign it. T. G. Hindmap, of Arkansas. Both
Senators will also sign it. A. G. Brown, VIM.
Barksdale, o. L. Singleton, and Reuben Davis, of
Mississippi; Burton Craige and Thos. Rutlin, of
North Carolina; J. P. Benjamin and John NJ. Ian
drum, of Louisiana. Mr.. Slidell will also sign il.
Senators Wigfal and Hemphill, of Texas, will also
sign it.
Mr.. Davis made the following statement to the
caucus:
Being a member of the Committee of fThirty-three
state that the above witnessed dispatch was COM
municated to the committee this evening, and
resolution passed proposing specific relief eight
Northern States dissenting, aVowedy intended to
cOunteraCt the effect of the above dispatch, and
as believe, to mislead the people of the South.
From information derived from Republican mem
bers of the committee and other Northern repre-
sentatives, fully concur in the above dispatch.
REUBEN DAVIS.
TO the sever al constituencies of the gentlemen
named by telegraph.
1t is now ascertained with positive degree of
certainty that the following States will secede on
the days named, unless they conclude to keep their
conventions in session until that of Georgia meets
which is on the 18th Of January, when they will all
go out together:
South Carona-Conventon meets December II;
will retire from the cOnfederacy December IS.
Alabama-Convention meets January Z; retires
January 10.
Mississppi-C0nventiOn meets January 7; retires
January 10.
Florida-Convention meets January 8, and will !
probably retire with Alabama and Mississippi.
1t is expected Arkansas and Texas will not be |
long behind them.
The idea that any compromise can be offered that
will save these States to the Union may henceor |
ward be hopeessiy abandoned-Cor. of the ~ y
Herald.
THE RESOLUTION OF Mr.. STEWART, OF MARYLAND.
The following is the resolution presented in the
House of Representatives On Wednesday by Hon.
Jos. A. Stewart, of Maryland, and referred to the
Committee of Thirty-three:
ReSolred That the select committee appointed on the
Presidents message inquire among other things if
measures can be adopted to in their purity the
constitutional rights OF all the States within the Cnon
and it, in their judgment, this be impraccable, then
further to inquire to the most reasonable and Just
mode by which their rights may be secured in state Of
separation each sovereign State in that event being
possessed of its delegated authority Federal Un.ou
and adjusting the relative liabilities of each with such
other measures fair settlement may appear to them
just; and recommend also some plan in that event by
which, in the future if any disputes shall arise, they
may be fairly and speedily settled.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE MISSOURI COIPEo- |
MISE.
The New Y ork Tribune, of Wednesday, says:
the free States were ever decided and hearty |
any point, they have been that of refusing to |
extend the Missouri line to the Pacific and thus |
concede to slavery all present and future United !
States territory south of that line. And what |
they deliberately and repeatedly refused to do
when inoffensiveIy solicited they should not now |
be bued into doing by threats of dssolving the
Union. And we intend that they shall not.
THE HoPELEssNEss OF COMPROMISE.
The following is from a letter of the correspond
ent of the New York Tribune, dated Charleston,
December 8th, 1850:
| wish that Mr.. COrwin and his Congressional |
Committee if they entertain the slightest hope of
doing anything to keep the Union together, could |
for the brief space of thirty minutes, hear how the
leaders in South Carolina talk, and how all efforts |
at c0nciliation are viewed. If this is COnteder-
acy held together solely by public sentiment, and
that the bonds otraternal feeling only hold
together, then the is utterly hopeless, so far
as South Carolina is concerned and | believe IL |
the Cotton States. Words are too weak to express
the disgust they have for the Free States espec-
ally New England The human mind is not inven- |
tive enough to supply invective to express the |
scorn of the Northern ''brethren." The is be-
yOnd hope.
SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE BORDER STATES.
The Richmond Whig in discussing the propriety
of calling National Convention to consider our
present national difficulties, says:
We find in the Columbia South Caroltnian, of the
18th inst, the following
''The cry of cooperation of all the Southern
States through general conference, is device to
prevent the movement. This South Carolina is
determined to defeat. She is backed by party in
every Southern State, and she and will defeat
it, if it takes the issue of war to effect it. She
knows no danger equal to that of submission, and
that danger she will peril everything to avert"
! 1t may be quite true that South Carolina ''can
and will defeat the policy of mutual consultation
among all the slavehoding States, proposed with
view to the preservation Of their rights in the
Union. The signs of the times portend that she
will disregard the wishes of all or any among her
sisters who desire to preserve their rights and lib
critics in conjunction with the rights and liberties
guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and Sc
cured by the Federal Union, of which that Consti-
| tuition is the bond and symbol. We are deliberate