Year: 1860

The Resolutions Inviting Cooperation.
THE FLAG OF THE PROPOSED
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.


SOUTH CAROLINA LEGTsLATURE-THE CONVENTION BILL
PASSED.


AUGUSTA, Nov. II The Senate bill to susnenf
the penalties of the suspension of specie payments
by the banks passed a second reading.
In the House the Convention bill was read tbir,
time and passed unanimously. The title wa
changed and the act was sent to the Senate, to br
ratified tomorrow morning.


Mr. Trenholm's resolutions that the Joint Com
mttee on Military of both Houses prepare, DURING
the recess, plan for arming the State, and that
the Joint Committee of Finance prepare a scheme
to raise the necessary supplies, were adopted.


Mr. Coffin proposed that the President of the
Dank OF the State be authorized to advertise till
the 23d of November for sealed proposals for loan
OF S4OO,OO0. He was authorized by a friend to saw
that he would take $4,000 at per cent. p,e
| MUM.


lhls measure was not considered
The bill to arm the State was re-committad


resolution was passed to give notice of the cleo
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| resolution for the Committee on M;Iit.rv 70
inquire into the propriety of fortifyng various ex
posed towns on the sea coast was lost.
The House met again this evening, and read tba
Bank bill third time, when its title was chapged
and the act sent to the Senate for ratifcstio,
| EXTREME MEASURES IN GEoRGIA-BTLLs 1NrRopUcED
IN THE LEGISLATURE DECLARING GEORGIA our or
THE UNION.


MILLEDGEvILLE, Ga, Nov. l2-The Legislature
re-assembled this morning.


Senator Toombs' resignation is to take effect on
the 4th of March, unless Georgia sooner secedes.
Mr.. Hartridge introduced resolution in the
House declaring Georgia out of the Union.


A similar bill was introduced in the Senate,
with provision calling Convention to ratifr the
same.


Both measures were referred to a committee.
Second Despatch
MHLEDGEvILLE, Nov. "a resolution vas aIso
offered in the House today nstructinp the Sena
tors and Representatives of the State in Congress-
to resist the counting of the Electoral College votes
of the States which nulied the fugitive slave Ioyr
1t was made the special order for the goth inst
A resolution was offered contemplating the call
of Southern Convention to meet in Februarv at
Atlanta. "


One of the provisions of the retaliatorv act av-
empts all foreign goods and merchandise imported
INTO Georgia and other Southern ports, from the
State county and corporation tax after the first of
January next.


bill was introduced in both Houses for calIino
Convention, to which all Federal affairs he re
ferred. "


WHAT VIRGINIA WILL Do


RICHMOND, Nov. l2.-The affairs now TRANSMITTING
in the South attract much attention here, but our
people are calmly awaiting the issue Meetings
will probably be held in the different counties. be-
fore the Legislature meets, for the expression of
public opinion.


The vote of the State is yet unascertained
Both parties continue to figure out maiories. Seve
raj counties are as yet unheard from


EXTRACT FROM THE MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR BROWN OF


GEORGIA.


Whether the sovereign will of the people of the
Southern States shall, in this crisis be ascertained
by general Convention of all the States hereaf
ter to be called, and all shall act together in con-
cert, or whether each State shall decide for herself
without conference with the others, are questions
upon which diversity of opinions may exist


entertain no doubt of the rights of each State |
to decide and act for herself The Union is a com
pact between the sovereign States of which she is
composed. Each State in the Union is in noint of
sovereignty, the equal of every other; and neither
IS dependent upon another for any of the attributes
OF sovereignty. So long as all States abide in pood
faith by their constitutional engagements to each
ah hq to tie oReT the
is violated by the refusal of part of the contracting
parties to abide by it, and submit to its burdens
while they receive the benefits arising from it. the
other parties longer bound by it, but NAV
declare it nullity, and refuse to abide by it on
their part. 1t is essential part of the law of con-
tracts, that both parties are bound or neither is
bound, and if one violates the contract the other is
no longer bound


But may be asked who is to Judge of the viola
ton OF the contract? | answer that each sovereign
State from the very nature of the case must iudpe
and decide for herself There is no common arbi
ter betweed them. Each being sovereign, acknowl.
EDGES no higher power on earth. The Federal
government is but the limited agent of all the
States and has no right to to dictate to the
principals from which it derives all the power il
possesses, nor to sit in judgment upon the conduct
OF the creator, whose creature it is, and bv whose
consent alone it exists for single day. 1t is to
be presumed that State will secede from the Union
without just Of the sutficiency of the cause
each sovereign State must judge for herself. When
her decision is made, one has right to reverse
the judgment, because no higher power exists to
which an appeal can be taken. The right of
State peaceaby to secede from the Union, when,
in the Judgment of her people, the compacts of the
Constitution have been violated, can only be denied
by those who deny the sovereignty of the States.


L am aware that some have attempted to anao.
glse the right of a portion of the States of the
Union to secede from it, even for Just cause to
the right of the Colonies to secede from the Bri.
tlsh Government and the Colonies possessed
only the right of revolution, it is argued that the
sovereign States ofthe Union possess no other right
There is no just analogy between the two cases
The Colonies, prior to the revolution, were not





ernment created by it, and belonging to it. They
had never claimed to be the equals of the Bri
tish Crown, nor had that government ever recog-
nlzed them as such, or formed any compact with
with them as sovereign powers.


When, therefore, they withdrew from the Gov
ernment OF Great Britain, it was of rebellion
on the part of the subjects against the power of the
sovereign-in other words, it was revolution; and
upon their success depended their exemption from
the penalties of treason, to the government whose
subjects (not equals) they were, till they had es
taollshed their right OF sovereignty by force of
arms. But the States of the Union are not the
subjects of the Federal Government were not Gre
ated by it, and do not belong to it. They created
it; from them it derives its powers to them it is
responsible and when it abuses the trust reposed in
it, they, equal sovereigns have a right to resume
the powers respectively delegated to it by them
Upon my mind there is doubt that Georgia or apy
other State in the Union has perfect right to Sc
cede from it whenever the people, in their sovereign
capacity, decide for themselves that the compact
has been broken by the other States. And neither
the Federal nor State Government has any more
right to make upon her for the exercise of this
act OF sovereignty than they have to make war
upon her Tor the exercise OF any other one of her
sovereign powers.


Should Georgia determine, while | exercise the
Executive power, to secede from the Union on ac-
count of the violation of the compact by other
States, should deny the right of any other State
or Government to cOerce her to return to it In
such case the allegiance of her citizens would be
due to her Alone and each would be entitled to the
protection of her flag. This they should have
And If any other Government should interfere and
assume jurisdiction them and take the lives of
any OF them upon charge of treason to its author
ity, for following the flag of Georgia, would re-
taliate promptly, by seizing and hanging upon the
nearest tree two of the subjects of such Government
for each citizen of Georgia whose life should be
thus Illegally taken. need only add that regard
the question of separate State action or of united
action upon the part of all the Southern States as
mere question of policy, and not as a question of
right AS the cause of the Southern States ia q
common cause, and as the aggressions upon their
rights are common, should think it wise that their
action be common.


FROM ALABAMA.


MONTGOMERY, Nov. Ex-Governor Moore ia absent
from the capitol. On his return he will issue an
address to the people stating the time at which he
will call the Convention. He thinks that under the
instructions of the last Legislature he is not author
lied to call a Convention until the Presidential
electors have balloted in December


The joint resolutions of the last Legislature, call
ing Convention in the contingency of the election
of Lincoln, as follows:-


Whereas Antslavery agitation persistently continu
ed in the savehoding States of this Union for more
than third OF century, marked at every stage of its
progress by contempt for the legations of law the
sanctity of compacts evncng deadly hostility to the
rights and institutions CT .he Southern people and set
tied purpose to effect their overthrow even by the sub
version OF the Constitution and the hazard of violence
ana poodshed and whereas, sectional party calling
itself Republican, committed alike by its own acts and
antecedents and the public avowas machina


ons of its leaders to the execution of these atrocous de-
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