The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-15

f'ished soldier, so brief ard terse is ii, SO
pointed and NapoIeonic.
ia TIE heart OF an cnemy's country, with a
force comparatively small, Gen. Sherman bold
~ announces that be considers the obligations
Of suppressing armed combinations against the
constitutional authorities paramount to all
others" ThisasserLon is as plucky rs the'wliolo
address is wise and polite, and Gen Sherman
Is Just the man to support words with deeds II,
before reinorccments reach him, the rebels col
icct sufficient men to attack our troops, Gen.
Sherman Will show them that forts Beauregayd
and Walker are IN ADLER hands than before, and
Port Royal will be famous for another splendid
Union victory.
Highly Important from south Carolina
fickcns' Messngc-.An Inside View OF
the breaking mp Of the Cotton States.
IN another column, taken from the Charleston
Courier Of the 9th instant, will be found the
Message of the Governor Of South Carolina,
to the Senate and House Of Representatives at
Columbia, on the occasion Of its convention to
appoint Electors for President and Vice Prcsi
dent Of the rebel States. It is a significant
document, which viii amply repay the atten-
ton Of the reader 1t contains an exposition of
weakness local disorganization, and abject po-
litical misery, with a veneerng Of braggadocio
so thin and transparent as to deceive no one,
which almost subducs anger, and calls for the
profoundest pity. AT the very moment when
our gallant feet was landing the nucleus OF an
army Of sixty thousand men, within two days
march OF Charleston, tie Chief Magistrate OF the
State to which that city belongs, proclaims to
the world the utter impossibiiity of defending
it, and that the outside force that can be mus
tered to resist it, is about three thousand troops
and twcnty-one companies Of cavalry scattered
through the seacoast parishes that are most
exposed to danger lie confesses that the
entire war system of tie State is
out of joint; that the Legislature is
at variance with the Confederate gov
eminent on the subject of taxation; that
the time is about to expire for which
the greater part Of the enlistments from South
Carolina had been originally made; that sex
cessive suffering had visited the poor dnpes
who had been seduced into leaving their homes
for the soil Of Virginia; and he closes the sad
will be no hope for an independent and free re-
public, and the public mind will despondingly
turn to the stronger and more fixed forms of
the Old World"
Governor Pickens confesses that, although
South Carolina has contributed only nineteen
thousand men to aid in carrying on the war, yet
that to her, and to her alone, does the country
owe the origin of the terrible calamity Of wide
spread sedition, and the attempt to destroy
American nationality, which is convulsing the
continent. "From the goth of December last
until the 9th Of February" he says "this State
acted alone. She was entirely separate and
independent-we took the responsibility of
acting alone" Even earlier on the 18th of
December, he had summoned President
Buchanan to surrender Fort Sumter, and, three
days later, said to General Caleb Gushing,
whom the President had sent to confer with
him, that "there was no hope for the Union. and
that as far as he was concerned he intended to
maintain the separate independence Of South
Carolina, and that neither temptation nor dam
ger should deter him from it." Does history
present a parallel instance of impudent boast-
ing, in contact with the basest and most coward
ly imbecility? A Chief Magistrate of the
United States, with an army, if needed, of
million of troops at his back, cowed into
silence and inaction by bold traitor, who now
owns that the whole military strength which
the State he misgoverns has been able to nut
forth in year, is but little over twenty thou
sand men! Were the fact not engraven indeli-
bly, among the irrevocable records of the past
it would appear equally monstrous and incredi-
bic! For nearly two months, before symptom
of practical cooperation with secession had
been manifested, even in the Gulf States, Mr..
Buchanan had it in his power to crush out trea-
son in South Carolina in the very bud Had he
done so every single evil that has arisen would
have been ayerted, and the sacrifice of blood
and treasure that has been and must still be
made, would have been avoided But, alas! he
made no sign
The Governor of South Carolina, who once
told his constituents that he "was born insepsi-
bic to fear, remains true TO his Bombastes Flu
rioso antecedents when speaking of the loyal
States. Gas far as the Northern States are con-
eerned," he says, their government is hope
lessly gone. There is not the slightest danger
of our being subjugated by the North. They
are vastly defective in all military qualities ne
ccssary for INVASION Whether such language
is the result Of infatuation, that monomania
which will not believe, though the thunderings
and lighnings Of Sinai were enlisted in batter
ing down the bulwarks of falsehood or whether
it is such sheer eifrontery and nsolence as erim-
nails sometimes show on the gallows, it is hard
to tell. In either case there, at his very door,
with the roar of our artillery booming in
his ears; with terrified fugitivcs from
Beaufort, chasing each other through the streets
of Charleston; with the pale and appalled, faces
Of women and children, greeting him at every
step; with dispatches arriving from Tennessee
announcing defeat and the advance southwark
OF federal legons; with discouraged rebel
army, part Of which is on the eve of dsband-
ing, and coming home to head reaction in his
!