New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-09
SOUTH CAROLINA SENTIMENT.

II Seems to be supposed by some of cotempo.
rSres that the movement precpitated by South Caro-
lna upon her Southern confederates and upon the
whole country takes It's origin and motive in recent
events. Those who entertain this opinion must have
been singulary unobservaDt Of public sentiment in
that State betrayed for MANY years through the
binary channels in which public sentiment finds
preston. Any such superstition, moreover, implies
The highest degree of insinoerty the part of the
leaders of public opinion in South CaroliDa it is
known that they have for many years engaged in de-
sgns founded as believed BY many at the South
ss well at the North, an abstract enmy to the
Union. Certain it is that expressions of hostility TO
the Federal Government were ten years ago, to say
nothing of earlier dates, quite as vehement If not as
general, in South Carolina as at the present day.
When, in the year 1859, il proposed TO convene
8 "Southern Congress" for the initiation of measures
looking TO the defense of the South debate was had
the topic in the Legislature Of South Carolina from
which we take few excerpts, sufficient to show the
Spirit which then prevailed in that body We quote
from The Charleston CoVrers report of the debate at
that tine:
@r Lyea said he wonid ecaPitulste the series Of
wrongs Inflicted and the only question which he you'd
consider was the remedy The remedy Is The union Of the south
The Southern other States S 70 ne acton Of
2 Go 81 and he %G9 make the there sS%d be
no concert among the southern States rnta blow struck
and The fSht Of secession and denied the & for the power
TIE General Government to the State in the of ece
anta al. State styikes ne bOT and makes the ssne
which had been upon the South. Gres they
been they uuimportan when compared with
consider What haze borne but what must bear hereafter
There remedy for these e in the GOyenmeut have
alternative left us then but 10 out Of he GorenmsHt
MIR Preston said he was opposed to calling Convention
becsuse lie thought would impede the aceon Of this STATE
the questions now before the country e thought Uoald i'm
Jtde progress fopdr6 dvar All bis objections to Con-
@ BE hoS SS s Sy sas q
the nece;ie. country aesc%tsy demand them He said
simply and entirely u the ries Of fastening the di''oHon Of
Mr Kt said he would us.ais the bin for elecng Delegates
to Southern Congress because be thought Ooad bring abort
Equally significant the declarations made in the
open sessions of the Sovereign Convention now AS
stmbled at South Carolina few extracts from the
debates Lad on the passage of the ordinance OF sece-
sion, and other proceedings, VIII set this point In a
clear light:
opinions h have been expressed that the public
min folly up the CREST occasion tina, awaits
a"jts 1adsay eTifnaing JOr iong o years until
TAT has 10 hot point ihen zee may any me matter Is
NJ I5ais-Mr President If there any gentleman PEe'en.
ho Tshss :, SeDss mi H. as % 81 for one o
opposed 70 IT, Asmy friend (ar Parker has said Of
nd Iyvme hare BY s time Grrired at deei'on upon
Mr. Keitt-sir we are performing great act, which in.
wolves only the stirring present but embraces the whole
ent c. siSes feniersd political ne vita what
has day and content with what will take place TO-
porrow have carried the body Of this Union to its last
stinr place and row we win drop its grave After
done ready adjourn and loaye the remaining eere
MI Rhett-TAe ss.On Of South Ce,o1n Is not an ssen'
Of day. anything produced BY NJ LfHehs ERECTION
o. ty nonezecufion Of The FEgre Stare Id IL has been
tsih been gathering head for thirty teGTs ne
seion az Lincoln Hsn the last straw on the osk Of
the But no, the only The back was near
broken before The point upon hch differ from friend
s says he thought e1peden for US to put TINS great
eesou before the world upon this simple matter OF wrong. on
ire question Slavery and that question turned upon The tus
tive Slave law. Now In regard to the Fugitive Slave law
pyse doubt consutiOnay, and doubted ON the hoor OF
The Senate member Of that body The States act
h the sovereign capacity should be responsible the rem
ditiop offugitiye That best security"
Any persons, therefore, in the Border Slaveholdng
States, Or elsewhere who are urging cooperation
with South Carolina at this uncnre, on the presump-
ton that sbe il endeavoring TO meet and start
ing emergency in our civil history, viii clearly see
that they entirely mistake the impetus well as the
diff Of the movement In which she has taken the lead
And they will also perceive that che has taken the lead
because as Mr. Lyles said in the South Carolina Leg
islatuIe ten years ago, it believed there woud
be concert among the Southern States until 6Lor
T0s struck" The blow has been struck. Tho " con-
cert will depend upon the disposition Of the other
Southern States to accept South Carolinas Hegemony