The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-01-23
Secession Movements in the Southern
States,

ot8t6S.
Four States have already severed their
!coDneSion with the Federal Government
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and
Alabama. Georgia has probably ere this
passed her Ordinapee Of Secession. Her
Convention assembled on the 10th Hon.
Geo. w. Crawford, secessiopst, was. on
the first day, elected President by acclama.
ton. The majority of members for Seces-
sion Was varously estimated eat from 100
to 1875. The secession of the conservative
and powerful State Of Georgia will i'm
mensely strengthen the revolutionary move
ments now going on, and will ensure the
speedy formation Of Southern Confe de-
rucy.
The Virginia House Of Delegates, on the
| 9th inst, passed the Bill calling Convcn.
uon OF the people, with amendments, pro-
viding that the action relative to secession
shall be referred back 10 the people for rat
iication or rejection. The Senate on the
following day passed the House Conven-
ton Bill! with an amendment fixing tho 18th
Of February as the time for the assembling
of the State Convention.
A Bill foi the call of Convention is bo
fore the North Carolina Legislature, and it
is believed that it will eventually pass.
The House of Representatives of the
State of Tennessee has passed II Bill call
ing State Convention, to meet on the 18th
OF February. The Delegates are to be- ell
ec,cd On the 9th, and il is provided that if
the Convention should pass an Ordinance
Of Secession, the question shall be submit
ted to vote of the people. The same
Bill has also passed second reading in
the Senate.
Louisiana has recently elected her dele
rs before reported, WAS overwhelmingly for
secession What she is going to do NAV
he best inferred from the following COM
ment on the Convention election, taken
from the Picdyune, one of the strongest
and most unyieIdng co operation papers in
the whole South
The vote in this city prcfgures the re.
suit in the S,atr. The chief hope Of the
favorers Of united Southern action, as op.
posed 10 immediate di,union, was in carry
ing the city for the 60 operationists. The
canvass Of votes. which shows twenty inl-
mediate secessionists to live co operation.
ists--a majority of ffleen in the CoEvrn
ton, from this parisll-scttIcs the point.
that Louisiana will be with the seeding
States as fast ns the forms of making the
Enactment by ordinance can be- got through,
at tho Convention. on the 23i. The devcl
opmen,s around US, in every direction, are
sufficient Indications, how eyer, that this
was only question of tipe. The section
al majority in Congress aud the Triumphant
Republicans uf tho Northern States, have
so willed il, that there is no Union party
left in thq Soy,brrn States.
The ArkF"sas Legislature. on the l6.h
inst, anonymously passed Il Bill submitting
the Convention question to the people on
the lSth Of February. II i.,s majority fa-
vors Convention, the Governor will ap-
poin. the day of meeting.
A bill for the call of Convention has
passed the Senate in the Missouri Lrgisla-
turc by II handsome majority. The bill
leaves the voters TO decide at the election
if the Secession Ordinance shall bc submit
ted to the people for ratification. The ell
ertion Il TO be held on the lS,h, and the
Convention on tho 18th February.