Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-12-26
The South Carolina Convention
The Secession ordinance ADOPTED.

The South Carolina Convention
The Secession ordinance Adopted.
The Convention met in Columbia, the Cap
itol of the State on Monday of last week, aud
after organizing, adjourned to Charleston
This step was taken in consequence of the
prevalence of the small pox 70 an alarming
extent in Columbia. On arriving at Charles
ton. :be Convenfics proceeded at once to the
transaction Of the business entrusted to it by
the people of the State. Several committees
were appointed, aud among them one to pre-
pare statement of the causes iustifying South
Carolina in Withdrawing from the Union
On Thursday the Committee appointed to pre-
pare an ordinance dissolviug the Union be-
tween South Carolina and the other States,
reported as follows:
We. the people of the State of South Car
oliua 10 Convention assembled, DO declare and
ordain, aud it is hereby declared and or6ain-
ed. that the ordinance adopted by us in Con-
vention on the 23rd of May, in the year of
our Lord 1888. whereby the Constitution of
the United States OF America was ratified ;
and also all acts and parts of acts OF the gen.
eral assembly of this State ratifyiug amend
ments of the said Constitution are hereby
repealed, and that the Union now subsi.tipp q
between South CareS1S and other States un-
der the name of the United States Of Ameri-
ca. is hereby dissolved
The ordinance was taken UP and passed
unanimously.
The proceedings of the Convention. thus
far. bave been harmonious aud digni6ed-
! Hon. Howell Cobb was in the hall at the time
the Secession ordinance was adopted. 1t is
confidently asserted that Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Texas are
/ prepared to follow the example of South Car
/ Olina. The forts aud other United States
/ property will not be interfered with at pres
ent at least. A committee of thirteen ha.
been appointed to make arrangements for
holding convention of the Seeding States
|
Ey- In recently looking over collection
Of old epi;aphs. our attention was arrested by
the two following. OF Sir Isaac Newton. The
one written by Pope, is pronounced by com
petent critics. the best P reduction of the kind
in the English Language.
o., SIR Isaac Ne,cton
/
''Tis Newton's name that consecrates this
shrine
! THAT sun of knowledge, whose meridian ray
'Kindled the gloom OF nature into day
That soul OF science, that unbouDded mind,
That genius which ennobled human kindl
Confessed supreme Of men. his country's . ride:
And half esteemed an angei-till he died:
Who in the eye of Heaven like Enoch stood,
And through the path of knowledge walked
with God:
Whose fame extends, sea without a shore,
Who but forsook one world to know The laws
| of more
On the same PORE,
Nature and natures laws Law hid in night;
God said, Let Newton be.' and all was light.
The following by Pope on his friend and
brother Poet, Gay has also been admir-
ed
Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit man; simplicity a child;
With native humor tenperiL virtuOus rage,
Formed to delight at once and last the age:
| Above temptation in low estate.
And uncorrupted even among the great:
y safe companion. and an easy friend.
Unbalanced through life, lamented in his end
| These are thy honoursi not that here thy bust
Is mixed with heroes, or with kings thy dust
But that the worthy and the good shall say,
Striking THAR pensive bosOms-Here lies Gay
APpoinfnents.-Th President has appoint
ed Hon Jeremiah S Black. Secretary o
State. vice Hon. Lewis Cass resigned. f
NJ. Stanton, Esq, takes the place of Judge
Black as Attorney General. OF course its
unnecessary for US to say anything with re.
gard to Judge Blacks qualifications for the
important post assigned him. He is certain
IL one of the ablest statesman of which oul