Red Wing sentinel., 1861-01-02
SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.
Election of Commissioners to Settle will,
the Upited States.
THE OATH OF OFFICE UNDER TIE NEW
GOVERNMENT.
DECLARATION OF CAUSES.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 21.-Hon. r. W.
Barnwell, Ex- Governor James II. Adams
and Hon. James L. Orr, We're elected Com
missioners to day, to treat with the govern
msnt at Washington.
The committee appointed to prepare ar
oath Of office for the fourth article of the
South Carolina Constitution, reported as fol.
lows: All persons who shall be elected o,
appointed to any Office of profit or trust, be.
fore entering into the execution thereof, shall
take, besides the special oaths not repugnan,
to this Constitution prescribed by the Gen.
eral Assembly, the following oath:
II do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
will bear faithful and true allegiance to South
Carolina, so long as may continue citizen
thereof, and that am duly qualified, accord
ing to the Constitution of this State, to ex-
ercise the Office to which l have been ap.
pointed, and will, to the best of my ability,
discharge the duties Of the Office, and pre-
serve, protect, ard defend the Constitution
Of this State. So help me God"
The ordinance was adopted.
The following is the declaration Of causes
which Justify the secession Of South Caro-.
lima from the Federal Union, as reported by
tho committee to prepare an address to the
people Of the Southern States.
"rhe State of South Carolina having de.
termined to resume separate and equal rank
among nations, deems it due to herself and
the remaining United States of America,
and the nations Of the world, that she should
declare the causes which led to the act
In l765, that portion Of the Br:thish en-
|p're, embracing Great Britain undertook to
make laws for the government Of the Ameri.
can colonies, A struggle for the right OF
self government ensued, which resulted on
the 4th Of July, 177G, in declaration by
the Colonies, that they are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent States,
and that as free and independent States they
have full power to levy war, conclude peace,
contract alliances, establish commerce, and
do such things as independent States have a
right to do.
They further solemnly declared that when
ever any form Of government bsomes des-
|structive of these ends, it is the established
right Of the people to alter and abolish it,
and institute new government Deemipg
that the government Of Great Britain had
become destructive Of these ends, they de.
clared the colonies free and absolved from
allegiance to the British crown, and the po-
litical connection between them and Great
Britain was totally dissolved.
The Committee say the right of state to
govern itself, and the right Of u people to
abolish a government when it becomes de-
structive Of the ends for which it was insti.
tuted were expressed when the colonies
from the mother country, and be-
came free and independent States. The
parties amending the Constitution on, the
18th September, 1857, were tho several
sovereign States.
On the 23d Of May, 1888, South Carolina,
by convention of her people assented to
the amended constitution Of the United
States. The failure Of one of the contract
ing parties to ma ntain constitutional cbliga-