New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-29
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.


CHARLESTON, Dec %, 1860.
The proclamation BY Gov. Pickens, wherein he
declares to the world that the State Of South
Carolina (" is, as she has right TO be, separ-
a. ate. sovereign, and independent State, and as
I" such has right to levy war, conclude peice.
negotiate treaties, leagues, or covenants, and
to do all acts whatsoever that rghtfully ap-
90 pertain TO a free and independent State,
completes secession 80 far as parchment goes.
Practically secession as yet has gone no further.
Though the President the Secretary of War,
and the Federal Administration have shown
willingness TO see this treason 90 on, if they
have not positively melted it, even the consum-
nation of its plans, yet the handful of men at
Fort Moultrie, who alone keep the American flag
fying. forbid the execution Of the parchment
svowals. Matters cannot be kept SO long. The
multitude that have for 80 many weeks been en-
coureged to believe that secession meant practi-
cal action, will not long be held back. There is
determination on the part of this armed multi
tude to have fight. With them secession has
that practical significance. Though no states,
men, they conclude that secession is revolution
themselves into q fight, and if they don't have it
there will be q second rebellion. The leaders are
not masters of these men. The fact is quite the
reverse The leaders seoede for an idea. The
multitude, with muskets and rifles in their
hands, for practical results. Thus you may at
any moment expect something lively.
Chancellor Dunkin is probably the most prac-
Eat Ia
has been looking after the mails. His idea is
that nothing produces revolution 80 quick Ga fam
inc. and that if an intellectual famine is pro-
duced, such as would ensue from suspension Of
the mails, the revolution would fail Acting on
this principle, he has worked through the follow
ing ordinance, which 80 far repeats the ordinance
of &c cesson a, to continue the United States postal
system:
AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISIONAL POSTAL Ar
RAEGEsEETs IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Wkereds The State Of South Carolina owes il 10 her
own citizens and 10 those Of other States, that
Of the contracting parties, she should not prevent or
interrupt the performance Of the pending contrcts for
carrying and delivering Of the mails made by the Uni
ted States willie South Carolina Of said States
We the State of South Carolina, in Convention
sembled do declare and ordan, and 1t is hereby de-
cared and ordained that the existing postal contracts
and ARRANGEMENTS shal be continued ana the persons
c alRed with the duties thereof shall continue to dis
charge said duties unia postal treaty treaties shall
he concluded, until otherwise ordered by this Con-
yention.
The Convention spends much of its time in
secret session, where, it is understood, consider
able disagreement exists.
To-day the body is to meet at II M, when it
will probably adjourn to participate in the Christ
mas festivities, which, even at this early hour,
community generally show disposition to enjoy.
Your correspondent purposes to accept, by faith,
the compliments Of the season" from friends.
and more than friends, at home
One feels himself an alien indeed here: not
simply because, by an act of the Convention, all
are mnde so who belong 10 the Unon but more
than an alien when he feels that he cannot ut
ter aloud one word for that Union, or attempt to
excute even wrongs complained Of under it;
where il is little short Of treason, 10 be pun
ished almost, ~ look upon the American flag, as
did this morning from the Battery, while it
waved over Fort MOultrie; and where no shout
or song for il is heard-nOthing but derison, and
another and mOngrel flag, with every star but
enc blotted out, aud every stripe erased, is sch-