The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-22
The Rejoicings at the Secession OF
South Carolina.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOVEREIGN
CONVENTION
FIFTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

!
reading of the journal this morning Mr. Adam
hall. 0"- u"
Mr.. Harlee offered written substitute. appoint
ing committee to wait on the Governor. So tha
the Convention could have an opportunity to ad
wise with him in secret session. relative to the pre
! sent state of affairs
The resolution was, at the sugoestion of othars
laid aside for the present.
- Mr. Adams wanted to have the presence of the
Postmaster of Charleston. Agreed to-
MIR. lnglis, the official reporter to be present.
| Disagreed to.
Mr.. Rhett, from the committee appointed to nre
pare an address to the Southern people presented
report, and at the request of the President, read
| the same.
. After the report had been read, Mr.. Pope moved
the address should not be reported until final ac
tion had been taken upon it.
Mr. earn moved that it be printed and made the
! special order for tomorrow at l o'clock
a member desired that it be given to the world
In the precise form in which it was, as the voice of
the convention, not in mutilated shane by re-
porting 1t so as to convey wrong impression when
read tomorrow over the country.
Mr.. Pope desired that it should not be published
in the journals.
The Convention finally voted nearly unanimously.
there being only nays that the report shouId he
! published, but not in the public journals; and It
was made the special order of the dav for tomorrow
| at l O'Clock.
Mr. Wardlaw, from the committee appointed to
prepare an oath of Office reported the 4th articIa
of the State Constitution amended, to read az fol
lows All persons who shall be elected or appointed
TO any Office of profit, trust, before entering on
the execution thereof shall take, besides the special
oaths not repugnant to this Constitution urescrib
ed by the General Assembly, the following oath:
II 90 soemly swear or affirm that | will be faith
tu and true allegiance bear to South Carolina so
long as may continue citizen thereof: and that
L am duly qualified, according to the Constitution
OF this State, to exercise the office to which have
been appointed; and will to the best of nv abiIi
ty, discharge the duties of the office and preserve
protect and defend the Constitution of +bic Stota
so help me Cod
Mr.. Wardaw moved its adoption, and a debate
ensued on the motion to insert "high" before the
word "otlce," and emitting at the end the words
"of this State'
Mr.. Wthers said the clause-"that every oficar
appointed shall take the following oathp-imrIied
according to some authorities, that no o ther oath
shall be taken.
The Ordinance was adopted unanimously. Ex-
Governor Adams moved, and at 10 minutes to
O'Clock the Convention went into secret session.
[sECoND DESPATCH
CHARLESTON, Dec. 2l.-The Convention is still in
secret session. and it is rumored that it is in refer
ence to postal matters and the collection Of cus-
toms
The following ordinance was offered Yesterday
by Hon. b. F. Dunkin:
BE it Ordained by the Sovereign Convention of
South Carolina, that until otherwise provided the
governor Will be authorized to appoint collectors
SN''N' NiNSiSb
eral ports of South Carolina; also Dostmasters. and
until such appointments be made, the persons now
charged with said offices continue to DISCHARGE tho
same, Keeping an account of all moneys received
Ine IUmUwlng amendment was proposed by Mr..
II. Brown: That the Governor be Empowered to COL
lect duties on imports at the rates now existing nm
der the United States laws; and, that he apnoint
collectors and hold them subject to the further direc
uonS OF this body and continue the present postal
arrangements in part contracted in our behalf till
further arrangements.
Mr.. Gregg submitted the following ordinance az
NJ. Dunkirk: - --'H
We, the people of South Carolina. in Convention
assembled, declare and ordain, until otherwise pro-
Vlded, that the importation of merchandise be free
and unrestricted; and, that it shall be the duty of
the Governor to make such temporary regulations |
as are requisite, concerning entry and clearance
ana appoint such officers are needed. And il |
shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pro-
vide proper compensation to said officers. And. |
1t Is iurther ordained that, until otherwise proy
ded, it shall be the duty of the Governor to an
point postmasters and make such temporary ar !
rangements as may be requisite for the transnorta
ton OF the mails, having due ragard to the mail
contracts of the Government now subsisting
The following was submitted bv W. T. Hutson
as substitute for Hon. NJ. Dunkin's ordinance TO
provide for the continuance of commercial and nos
tai facilities: NN" Po'
We, the people of the Commonwealth of South
Carolina, in Convention assembled declare and or
daln that until otherwise provided all citizens now
holding office under the Government of the United
States within the limits ofSouth Carolina he and
they are hereby appointed to hold, under the Gov
ernment of this State, the same offices thev |
now ill, with the pay and emoluments they now re-
ceive.
And be it further ordained, that until the Assem-
ply otherwlse provide, the revenue and postal |
laws Of the United States be- and thew are hereby
adopted aud made the laws of the State saving and
excepting that no duties shall be collected upon |
m merchandise and productions imported from any
slaveholding Commonwealth of North America |
And further, that all moneys collected by the Off |
GERS aforesaid, SHALL after the deduction of the sums
necessary Tor the compensation of the officers aad
other expenses be paid into the Bank of the State
OF South carolina, subject to the order of the Gen
eral Assembly; and further, that the officers afore-
SAID retain in their hands all property of the United
States in their possession custody and control sub
lect to the disposal of the General Assembly who |
VIII .L account ior the same upon final settlement
with the Government of the United States
Mr.. John Middleton offered the following amend
ment, as an additional clause to the ordinance pro-
posed by Mr. Dunkin:-And collectors of customs
are hereby instructed to levy and collect duties on
all goods, wares and merchandise, at half the rates
heretofore exacted by the operation of the last tariff
act OF the United States Government until other
wise directed.
LATER.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 2l.-The Convention is now
taking second ballot for the election of three
commissioners to proceed to Washington, r. W.
Barnwell was elected on the first ballot. A. S. Ma
clance cleo
ton.
Third Despatch.
THE DECLARATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CHARLESTON, Dec 2l.-It seems to be the dispo-
sltlon or the Convention not to elect those who have
been in Congress and have got enemies there to an
pear as commissioners at Washington
The declaration of causes which Justify the seces
SION oil South Carolina from the Federal Union, as
reported by the committee appointed to preDare an
address to the people of the Southern States is as
follows
The State of South Carolina, having determined
to resume her separate and equal place amopp ma.
tlons, deems it due to hersefto the remaining mem.
oers OF the United States of America, and to the
nations of the world, that she should declare the
causes which have led her to the act.
In 100, that portion of the British Empire, en-
Oraclng Great Britain, undertook to make laws FIR
the government of the American Colonies. A
struggle for the right of self-government epsued
which resulted on the 4th of July, 1776, in a decla
ration by the Colonies that they are and of right
ought to be, free and Independent States; and that
as free and independent States, thev have fuII
power to levy war; conclude peace; contract alli
ances; establish commerce, and to do all tbinos
which independent States have right to do Tbey
further solemnly declared that whenever any form
ot government becomes destructive of the ends for
which 1t was established the right of the people to
alter or abolish 1t and institute new government.
was maintained
lad become destructive of these ends they declared
themselves free and absoved from allegiance to
he British Crown ,and political connection between
hem and Great Britain totally dissolved
The Committee next set forth the administration
ot the government formed by the colonies They
give the treaty of September 3d. l7S3 and say that
he right of State to govern ITSELF and the right
If the people to abolish government if it becomes
of the ends for which it was instituted
vas the reason for which the colonies separated |
rom the mother country and became free soyer-
,ign and independent States. The parties amend :
ng the Constitution on the 18th of September, |
7S7, were the several sovereign States On Nav !
I'D, 11SS, South Carolina, by Convention of her
people, assented to the Constitution of the United
States.
The mode of the formation of the Government | '
ubjects 1t to the laws of the compact and the COM
nittee maintain that the obligation beinp mutnaI
he failure of one of the contracting parties ra I
eases the other. Fifteen States have deliberataI
efused Tor years to fulfil their constitutional obli
alton. They refer their own statements for nroof
o the fourth article of the Constitution r. The %
reater number OF the CONTRACTING narties held
raves, but the increased hostility of the North to
ne institution of slavery, has led to the disregard
! the obligations of the laws of the General t
government which has thus ceased to effect the
oJects for which the Constitution was formed. | r
lame, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsyva- r
la, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin r
nd Iowa, have enacted laws either to nullify or f
ender useless the attempt to execute the acts of
congress. In many of these States, tugitves from
ervice or labor have been discharged when c
laimed, and in none of them has a