The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-20

The resolution in relation to slavehOlding State
| OF n OTth America adopted.
| The resolution appointing Committee Fo
| elgn Relations was taken up. Mr. Gregg heT
moved to add "and with other States"
The amendment was refused, and the origini
resolution adopted.
The third resolution, on Commercial Relations an
P0Stal Arrangements, was taken up.
Mr.. McCready said-We are only proposing t.
make arrangements for the people while we are i
a transition state. We must take special care
thepostal arrangements. Our Legislature has n
power. We are the power to pass measures, sut
Ject to their revision and alteration. We are OBJ
Iiged to take particular notice of the relations W
sustain to the United States Our faith is pledged
on are not to break in upon our arrangements
which are necessary to the convenience of our cit
zens and of other States. What will we do with
out information viii it not breed il-wi to
wards us? | think the Convention is bound t.
make arrangements, that the Post-oIice Depart
ment can be carried right on, or we will have con
tractors to pay.
Mr.. Duncan here took the floor and made
speech.
Mr.. Gregg-We can dissolve our union with tn.
United States and make arrangements for the con
hnuance of the mail service.
Mr.. Adams-The debate is out of order.
Mr.. Gregg-Our Minister to the United State!
VIII have the matter in charge.
The amendment adding the making of posta
arrangements to the duties Of the Committee or
Commerce was adopted.
me IOurth resolution was also adopted.
The second special order-the secession portion
of the Message of the President of the United
States-Was taken up.
Judge Magrath took the floor, and spoke in re,
gard to the question of the property of the United
States in South Carolina.
Mr.. Miles said-I have not the least idea that
the President of the United States, not the
idea that he will send reninforcements the forts
Will say frankly-for there should be conceal
ments among us in a Conventional know this to
have been said to the government in q written com
munication: 'If you send solitary soldier to these
forts, the instant the intelligence reaches our peo-
pie, and we will take that it does reach them
before they get onefth of the way to the forts, the
forts will be taken, because it will be necessary
to self-preservation."
Mr.. Miles spoke about the repairs to Fort Sum-
ter, and mentioned the cause of the resignation of
Secretery Cass. At Fort Moultrie, he said, there
were only sixty-five men, with five or six musi-
clans. Captain Anderson is in need of troops. He
felt the necessity, when the excitement first broke
out, of being watchful lest few persons from
Charleston should surprise him in the right All
repairs will be to advantage.
The blank in the resolution appointing the COM
mttee was, on motion of Mr.. Harlee, filled up with
thirteen.
Mr.. Inglis moved to insert an amendment to in
cude the subject of the debt of the United States
lie said the resolution it was, seemed to be one
sided
carried
The resolution was then adopted
Mr.. Detrevie's resolution for the appointment
ot Committee of Safety was made the special Or
der for tomorrow.
Mr.. Memminger offered resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee of seven members to
draft summary and statement of the causes justi-
tying South Carolina in withdrawing from the
Union. He said, we can present them to the whole
world, justifying South Carolina in leaving the
Union. He desired this, that it would dispel the
idea that South Carolina is in state of revolution
We are State already recognized by the world,
and in order to set ourselves right before the world
it is expedent to show our true position.
The resolution was then adopted.
MI. Dunkin offered resolution that a committee
be appointed to enquire and report what measures,
temporary permanent, can be adopted in refer.
ence to custom and postal arrangements, in cnnse-
quence of the withdrawal of South Carolina from
the Union.
Mr.. Hayne offered preamble and resolution, as
follows:
Whereas the which have produced the separa.
ton of South Carolina from the Federal Union ema-
mated from the States North of Mason and Dixon's line
which use hireling labor only; and
Whereas, 1t has not been against the Constitution of
the United States that South Carolina has opposed her
sovereignty but against the usurpation of the Govern
ment, violation of this instrument therefore,
ReSOIred That Commissioner be sent to each of the
slavehoiding States bearing copy of the ordinance
secession: and profTer to each State or any one or
more of them, the existing Constitution Of the
United States basis of Provisional Gov
ernment, to be adopted the part of South Carolina
and other slaveholdng States which, after seeding from
the present Federal Union shall be willing unite with
South Carolina in the formation Of conederacy and
hereby raty and confirm from the date thereof any
action taken by such Commissioner or Commissioners,
and with the of the Governor South Carolina
in the formation of such Provisional Union.
And we do further recommend, that in - days after
two or more States, in addition to South Carolina shall
have aCceded to said Provisional Union, and an election
shall be held for Senators and Representatives the
Congress, President, and Vice President of the
Confederacy;
Resolced, That three Commss toner's be appointed to
carry authenticated copy of the ordinance of secession
Washington to be laid before the President of the Uni
ted States, with the request that the same shall be com
muuicated to Congress, in session said Com
missioners hereby authorized and empowered to
for the delivery of forts, magazines Hghthou and
other zeal estate and all appurtenances thereto within
the geographical limits of south Carolina fbe
to treat these subjects to be extended to the day
Of February which shall be in the year of Our Lord 1861
Provided meantime, that the said forts magazines and
other places allowed to remain in the condition in
which they may be at the adoption of this ordinance
And they shall be further empow treat upon the
subject of the public debt and for proper division of all
other property now held by the Government of the United
States agent Of the States embraced in said Con-
ederacy until such time as confederacy of States
shall be formed of which South Carolina shall be one
These resolutions ELECTED considerable debate in
which Rhett heitt, Memminger and Middleton par
ticpated.
The first one was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed
The above is all that had come to hand up to 4
O'Clock this morning.
ACTION OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
MnLEDGEvILLE, Dec. ia meeting of the
members of the Legislature of this State was held
on Saturday, called by those who favor State CO.
operation, and Convention of such Southern
States as are desrious of cooperating. An ad-
dress was adopted and issued to the people of South
Carolina, Alabama Mississippi and Florida, signed
by ffty-two members of the Legislature.
In the Senate, resolution offering the services
of the members of the Legislature in case of the
of any Southern State and requesting the
Governor to order out all the members of the As
sembly first for the field, was lost
The discussion which took place in the Senate on
separate State action is reported to have been the
ablest of the session.
Mr.. Hill spoke in a blaze of eoquence. He char
acterized separate State action as the right of a
State to accomplish its own defeat-Liberty forging
its own chain-Happiness poisoning its own cup
Prosperity committing suicide
A resolution was adopted by a vote of yeas Sc,
nays 54, that as there is a common interest there
should be cooperation among the Southern States.
A consideration was moved, but was lost.
Mr.. Deaney's bill protecting citizens Of Georgia
from the processes of Federal courts, was lost by
lG majority.
iy
was courteousy received by the Legislature. He
addressed the Legislature to-day, and one thousand
copies of his speech were ordered to be printed.
GOV. HOUSTON ON THE CRISIS.
Under date of Dec. 8, Governor Houston has pub
ished an address to the citizens of Texas. He
says:
Although the excited state of public feeling
growing out of the late Presidential election has in
duced many to believe the people have become the
s. ILL hor-a
in their good sense to believe that they are not lost
to reason. Many efforts have been made to preju-
dice you, in advance of my action, and to convince
you that uumindful of your interests and blind
to the fact that the time has come when they may
be endangered unless vigiIantIv cared for The
fact that | have entertained and announced the
opinion that the election of a President in the mode
pointed out by the Constitution is Just cause for
revolution and dissolution of the Union, has been
construed and proclaimed by many of my enemies
to be an evidence that | would use my executive
powers to thwart the will of the people of Texas,
and that was ready to submit myself and see them
submit to violation of their rights by the Federal
Government Such ideas are repugnant to my feel.
ings. Because | believe we should not revolu-
tionze without a lust cause, it need not be sup
posed | advise submission to wrong. We have the
Constitution to maintain, and in maintaining the
Constitution we must maintain our rights; when
the Constitution fails to give them to us, am for
revolution.
Whatever may be my individual opinion as tc
the duties yet imposed upon us by the Constitu
tion, | yet recognize that a time has come when
we should plant ourselves firmly upon rights
and refuse to yield them; nor is this all; recog
nize that the fearful calamity of disunion, i'm
pending calls for the united action of the Southern
States, that it may if possible be averted. In my
belief, the precipitate action of two or three ex
treme Southern States would involve the border
States in destruction, drive slavery from them al
once and ruin their citizens. They have long stood
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