The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-09
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NO. 81.

| eral Government attempt TO employ force. an
active and cordial union of the whole south
would instantly be effected, and complete
| Southern Confederacy organized.
GOV. MEARs, OF c., To GEN. oUITMAN'
May Is, 1853.
"There ia now not the slightes' doubt thai
the next Legislature will call the Convention
together at period during the ensuing year,
and when that Convention meets, the State VIII
Sccede. We are anxious Tor co-operation
and also desire that some other State should
take The lead; but from recent developments
we are satisfied that South Carolina IS the only
| State in which sufficient unanimity exists to
commence the movement We will, therefore
lead off, even If we are to stand alone, but truss
that our sister States will unite with us.
COL. MAxY GREGG, y. C. TO GEN oUITMAN,
On The 10th OF May, 1851.
&c Let them contend msnfully for secession,
| and if beaten in the election, they viii form a
minority so powerful in moral influence that.
when South Carolina secedes, the INST drop 81
blood that is shed will cause an irresistible pop
ular impulse in their favar and the Submission
lists ,uiH be crushed Let the example be set in
Mississippi and it wall be followed in Alabama
and Georgia. Imparting and receiving courage
| from each others efforts the Southern Rights
men will be able to carry every thing before
them in all three of the States the moment the
first blow is struck in South Carolina"
| GEN. QUITMAN TO GOV. MEARS, May 25th
1851.
Experience has fully demonstrated that
united action cannot be had the frontier slave
States are even now indicating disposition tc
cling to the Union, at the hazard of their slave
institution. They will not, in my opinion unite
in any effectual remedy unless forced to choose
between Northern and Southern Confedera'
cy."
GOV. sEABRooK TO GEN. QUIrMAN, July 9th,
| 1851.
"The course Of the Convention will depend
somewhat on our Southern sister States. lfthey
affirm the right of secession aud the non-exisl-
ence of power to prevent u State from exercis
| ing it, shonld South carolina strlKe
decisive blow, may she confidently rely on the
| undivided support of her present friends i'll your
State =
GOV. sEABRooK TO GEN. QUIrMAN, July 18th,
1851.
6 speak advisedly when / say that volun-
teers by thousands are signifying their wish to
be received into our ranks. Our final
course will depend much on Mississippi. If >he
demands Of the central government indemnity
tor be past and security for the future, South
Carolina will undoubtedly recond the move
ment
IF this scheme fail. what thenP Let the
State proclaim TO the world that, at time to OF
designa ted, say six months she will withdraw
from the Union. II Mississippi be prepared to
follow her example, n SIMPLE aunuhciatlon on
hei part that any hostile. attempt direct or indt
rect, by Congress. to preDenf her { S"uM CarGtt
ma from exercising the rights Of IN independent
nation, or to keep her in the CORfcderGcy i1OMtd be
| con sideTed by gOur Commonwealth a SRbrerSt0n
OF fundamental principles on ichlch the HtateS
c0ntedeyated, and consequently full TefeDse Jo'
her obligations IN the Unt"n.
Here we have The entire programme upon
which the Southern conspiracy is now acting.
The calling OF the conventions; the withdTawai
of South Carolina 30 force the issue, the Mont
gnmery Congress the border slave States to
choose between Northern and Southern Con
federacy n Southern c. nederacy the propo
sition even of the Crtteuden Compromise; and
the cementing the Southern States by blood
letting.
Another important item may be added to the
above, from recent speech Of EX,Govern'
Thomas, Of Maryland. He states thai some
twenty four Or five years ago, g secret caba
of Southern members of Congress had trea
souable meeting, which, at the time; was the
occasion of II great deal Of excitement, at which
the following resolution was introduced and
discussed
ResoLped That no member of Congress re p
resenting Southern constituency, shall again
take his seat until resolution is passed, salts
factory to the South, on the subject OF slavery
Having by chance learned of the caucus ,thC
Governor, then a me nber Of Congress, went d.
rectly to the room, where he found +. w PICK
ems, the present rebel Governor Of South Caro-
llra, who was then representative in Congress
from that State urging the above resolution
upon the approval of The meeting.
Gov Thomas adds
''I said to Mr. Pickens-' What next do you
propose we shall do Are we 20 tell the PEG
Die tha, RepubhcanIsm failure? If you are
tor that am NOT. l came here TO sustain and
Uphold American institutions; 70 defend Snt
rights of the Nurih as we'll as the South to Sc.
cure harmony and good.fellowship between all
SECTIONS OF our common country. They dared
not answer these questions. The Southern TEN
per had not been gotten up. As my questions
were not answered, l moved an adjournment of
the caucus sine die. Mr.. Craig, OF Virginia,
seconded the mouon and the company was bro
ken I'D. We returned to the House, and Mr..
Ingers ILL., of Penn, glorious patriot then as
now, introduced resolution which temporarily
Gained the excitement"
Remarklng upon this speech, The National
Intetiigencer says -" However busy Mr. Pick
els mry have been in the caucus after it met,
the most active man in getting it up and pres
-, m me- n IN.
K. b Rhett also a membe, from South Caroli-
na." This arch traitor. Rhett, in the late South
Carolina Convention, made this defamation
The secession Of South Carolina is not the
event OF day t is not anything produced by
Mr.. LincoIr's eli criou, nor the non-executlon
Of the fugitive slave law. II is u matter that has
been gathering head far h.rty gears