The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1860, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8837. OUR NATIONAL TROUBLES. IMPORTANT FROM SOUTH CAROLINA Inauguration of Revolution by the People of Charleston. All the Shipping in the Harbor Dis- playing the Palmetto Flag. The United States Ensign Flying Over Fort Moultrie Only. Solemn Invocation to the Throne of Grace. REPORTS FROM ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. THE VIRGINIA PROGRAMME FOR THE SOUTH Repeal of Personal Liberty Laws, the Enforce- ment of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Right to Carry Slaves into Territories, and their Protection Therein. Fifty Thousand Free Negroes to be Sent North. Probable Suspension of Specie Payments by the Charleston Banks, ae, &., we THE REVOLUTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Cuartastoy, Nov. 17, 1860. ‘The people inaugurated the revolution at eleven o’clock ‘his morning. Our citizens are out en masse. Our lead- ‘mg importing merchants have erected a mammoth pole mear the Charleston Hotel, and the hoisting of the State fag on it has been duly celebrated. The pole was made of Carolina pine, one hundred feet high, and surmounted by the cap of liberty. Cables were stretohed across the wizects to prevent the passage of vehicles. There wasa dense crowd, extending over two squares, on Meoting otreet. ‘The neighboring house tops were crowded with peo- plo. Thourands of ladies of the highest respectability ‘Ubronged the baloonics and windows, waving their hand. kerchiefs, Impromptu stands were erected, and tho principal merchants took seats. The fiag was then hoisted, amid the tremendous cheering of the populace and the greatest excite nent ever krown here. ‘When the cheering succeeding the hoisting of the fiag wubsided, Rev. ©. P. Gadsden made the following prayer:— G, God! our refuge and strocgit., the shield of our help fand the sword of our exceliency, we come before Thee to express our dependence upop Thy succor, and our need of ‘Thy guidance and defence. The liberties with which Thy protection bieesed our fathers being imperiled, we ask ‘Thy favor and ald, Inspire us with courage, with a spirit of sel -racriice, with a love of law and order, and ‘with dependence upon Theo. Biess our State, and her sister States, in this great crisis. May they act as becometh a moral and religious peopie. Conrecraic with Thy favor the banner of liberty ‘this day hung in the heavens. May the city over which it floats be in Thy gracious keeping. Shield our com- merce on the seas, and protect our homes and firesides May agriculture bring her stores to our mart, and order and quict abide in our streets, if it bo Thy will. Avert from our land the horrors of war; but whatever we may be called upen to endure, be Thou our fortress and de ftencs. O God! our fathers have declared unto us the ble works which Thou didat in their days. Continue Thy ccodness to us their children, and make us that hap- Py people whose good Is the Lord, through Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen. After the prayer speeches were made by Messrs Barker, Roberwon, Canneac, Hammond and Northrup. ‘The Washington artillery paraded, and fred one bun- @red guns as the fag went up. Bells wore rung and the Bend played the Martcllaise Hymn. Thia fired up the French element of our population. 4 fler the Marseliaise, the band played the “‘Miserere,” from ‘‘Trovatore,” for ‘the Union. ‘The fiag is white, with a palmetto tree in the contre, and bears the words “Animas aseibusque parali.” At the same time the Charleston Hotei, the Mills House, and @her large hotels, fang ort the Palmetto fag. All this oocurred im the full biaze of the noonday sun, ‘and the people vowed that the stars and stripes should ever wave agaia in Charleston. Then speaking began. ‘The addresses were short but stirring, and all were from persons engaged in business, and who seldom meddle in public s fairs, ‘This was emphatically » movement of the people and ‘not of;politiciang. The speakers all addressed the crowd as “Oitizens of the Southern republic,” and eaid thie waee pledge of Southern commerce to support the great move- ment of Independence. During the speaking processions poured in from dif. ferent sections <f the city, with masic and cannon, each saloting the Palmetto banner. On the dwelling? there are bang oot banners with gach mottors as “Now or never. ‘No step backward," “The argument js ended,’ “Stand to your arms,” “fouth Carolina goee it alone—her trumps, Magrath, ‘Coloook and Connor—with these she claims @ march.’’ The tri color flag was hung out from the theatre, with the words inserted— Diu ¢! nos droits. Seocesion badges have become universal, Even child fem are all adorned by mothers with, the blue ribbon All classes are arming for the contingency of coercion. Revolvers and patent fire arms are selling like bot cakes Not aship in the harbor has the federal flag fying, bu Par down the Bay it cam till be discerned flying over Fort Mouliry ‘There was another great demenstration to night. The stand near the pole was beautifally illuminated. Spceeb- @ were made by Captain Thomas, of the State Military Academy, wbo aasured the audience that the Cadets were ready at ® moment's notice; also by Chancellor Carroll, and Mersre. Mikell, Cooper, Tennent, Kirkwood and | borers. There is 00 discount of as the commiseioner to settle with the government the terms of secession. He is learned, firmand cool. Public confidence in the success and beneficial results of the reyolu' ion grows stronger dally. AFFAIRS AT COLUMBIA. Convuna,'S. C., Nov. 17, 1860, There ts more quiet im political circles to-day, but there js guch an unanimity of feeling existing among the people of the State ag to make secession a fixed fact. ‘Mensrs, Orr and Perry and other old Union men, either €o operate in or unoppose the movement. Meetings are being held in all the districts aud parishes of the State, and all favor secession. IMFORTANT FROM VIRGINIA. Ricamonp, Nov. 17, 1860. I have faken considerable pains to ascertain ‘what the attitude of Virginia shal) be in the coming criais. Her purpoee is to maintain a position of armed neutrality uvti! she is prepared to tender her services as mediator, under the official ganction of the Legislature, or a Convention called by ite authority, It is known ‘hat the will, meanwhile, prepare for the worst, for if the States now threatening to secede shall adopt ber programme, and that shall fail to be carried out by non compliancefon ‘he part of the North, Virginia will unite in the secession movement. She will ask the Southern States to go nto a Southern Conference with her, and if is understood that they will'go, provided abe lays down before band the programme which shall form the basis of action, This, it is supposed, Virginia will do, and from information communicated to mo it will be of a character sufficiently comprebensive and exacting to sa Listy the most ultra Southern men. It will embrace, first, a repeal of the statutes nullifying the Fugitive Slave law by those States which have passed such statutes, with a guarantee of a faithful enforcement of that law in the fature; second, a concersion that the constitution authorizes the carrying of slaves into the common territory, and consequent protection for slave property therein; and, third, that Congress nor the Executive shall not interfere with slavery in the States or Territories, except for its protection in the latter when necessary. Some favor a change in the programme, to the extent of a demand for the passage of a law by Con- gress forthwith, for its protection in the Territories. If this programme shall be adopted by the Conference, ‘and the North show any disposition to compromiee upon it, then a National Conference will be called to adjust the pendipg difficulties upon that basis. Should these mea- sures fail to obtain the sanction of the North, secession of all the Southern States will follow. The seceding States will seek to render the programme more exacting, #0 as, if possible, to defeat the whole scheme; but in so doing they will defeat their own pur- pore, which is {fo conoiliate Virginia and the oiber border Btates to the secession move- ment, Thy cannot secure Virginia's committal to any demand of a more stringent character than is embraced iv ber own programme, She will yield her sanction to the alternative ef disunion only upon a refusal of the de- mands therein embodied, and she will require acquice- | eer oe‘ those eopeitions before she goes Into @ Southern Conference. Virginia is determined to exhaust cverything in the way of negotiation before rhe gives her sanction to se. cession, and the South will go with her, tn the hope that her effort may fail, and that ultimately she will be forced to adopt the last alternative—secession. Ten thousand stand of arms are now being dis'ribated ‘mn Missiesipp! by order of Governor Pettur. Avcounls recently reegived here represent that State a: almost unanimous for secession. A man camed Ryback, who keeps a small show case in front of a store on Royal street, New Orleans, narrowly escaped death at the hands o” a mob a few days ago, for exhibiting for sale some Lincoln medals, which he re- ceived by mistake among a package of Bell and Everett medals, purchased at a wholerale store in that city. He saved his life by taking refuge in store while the mob pas in hot pursuit of him. Minute Meo aro being rapifly organized throughout the | South. The ladies In the Southern citier, according to recent sccoun's, parade the streets with blue cockades displayed on their shoulders, ‘The policy of non-intercourse with the North is vigo- rously encouraged, and already the manufactare of home- spun goods i rapidly going forward in Virgimiaand North Carolina to meet the brisk ‘rade in that article which this new policy will inaugurate. The Southern papers contain sevoral advertisements of goods of this clees The foundries here are already reaping rich benefte from thie non intercourse policy. Orders for machinery of every class are pouring in from every Southern State, and the manufacturers, determined to avail themselves of this new born zeal to promote Southern manafactares, are establishing agencies in the principal Southern cities to facilitate business negotiations in their line. This non. totercourse policy will, I imagine, be far more compre bensive and enduring than was that which followed | the Jobn Brown raid. That circumstance was lo- cal, and the effects which 1, produced were cireumeeribed. Troe, there was much sympathy mani- feated with Virginia throughout the South, bot the evil was far from being a8 colossal or acute as tbat which bow fires up the indignation of the South. Tne effects, io 4 non-intercourte polst of view, will of course be in pro- portion. ‘The Beaminer of to day bas a woll written article in re gard to the relative susceptibility of the North aad South to commercial dieaster resulting from a panic soch as seome now to be impending. It argues that, inasmuch as the North bas scarce any element of wealth which does not rest on productions brought from other communities, over which it bas 0 control, and for which the nations of the earth are competing bidders, !t cannot maintain « trade for three months |” these elements are withheld. [t says the North proioces neither food or clothing to support ite population, and certainly nothing to gustain ite immense traMc and bosi- ‘pees operations The Eramincr, in estimating the eflects of « panic North and Bouth, truly adda that the cossation of trade, the utter destrection of paper mosey, the crash oof all credit, carry elther wast sor discomat to the dwellings of the Southern la- day, no market ay, no unpaid merchant's bill, for the laboring producing ‘To day the citizens are raising © great clamor for the | class atthe South. The negrosiave has no bank shares banks to murpend now. It is apposed that it may be | to lone, no State stock to tremble for, His food is in his done absot ibe middle of next week. The soles here, | house; his clothicg and bie dwelling are with him where however, are ns god an gold. ‘The Bank of Oharieston to day hoisted the State fig. ever he goes. He may change masters, bot he and his family are neither paupers nor disturbere of the public Notwithstanding the stringency in money affairs, the | peace. eity ia lively and business quite briek. The result of the election in this State is ati] very ‘The Convention wil) probadly sit a week, but the Ore | doubtfa’—counties recently beard from have unexpected: thing done will be secesvion. Magrath is much talked |y presented a new politica) comp'esior, an’ changed the few days ago. Tho odds on either side will not exceed two or three hundred, THE FEELING IN GEORGIA. Avevera, Ga, Nov. 17, 1860. ‘There is very little opposition to the secession move mennt by the people of this State, although the mass of them are unfavorable to presipitation, | THE DISUNION FEELING IN ALABAMA, Morrcomary, Noy. 17, 1860. A mass meeting of the citizens of this county was held this morning at the Capito! to nominate candidates for the Convention, All parties participated. Mr. Wm. I. Yancey and Mr. Thomas H. Watts, the leader of the Beli party of this State, were nominated by acclamation. ‘The Convention will be composed of one hundred mem- bers. From the indications given in private corres- pondence from leading men in each county, at least seventy-five members of the Convention will be for un- conditional disunion. Gov. Moore replies, in a letter published this morn- ing, to the Baptist Stato Convention, and thanks them for | the ald rendered by the Baptists to the cause of dis- union. Mr. Yanoey will undoubtedly be elected, and will be the ruling spirit of the Convention. THE REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON, Wasnixoton, Nov. 17, 1860. Gloomy is the day, but still more dark and depressing is the complexion of the news from the Southwest and South this morning. Disunion, the master cloud, is frowning upon us, and blackening all the horizon. SOUTH CAROLINA. Letters ‘10m Columbia, South Caroline, wear a cold, business aspect, of preparation for a Southern confederacy, They exprees no unkind feeling to the President elect. The idea of resisting bis inauguration is no part of their plan. On the contrary, regarding him az fuirly elected under the forms of the constitution, they think that every State that remains in the Northern Union is bound to see that her citizens yield all acquiescence to his rule. The inaugura- tion should goon, in their opinion, not only without ob- struction, but with all due form and ceremony. Nay, all official comity ought, im their judgment, to distinguish the intercourse between the rotiring functiona- ries of the present federal administration ani him who bas been elevated to the of- fice of Chief Magistrate, although by the suflrages of a sectional majority; and they are anxious that the cause of the seceding States should sot be lowered by apy vulgar or ferocious outburst of passion, or of merely personal hostility, from any citizen of these regions. Firmly believing that the slaveholding States have no hope of peace, or security, or fair dealing, under the pre vent federal Union, they merely wish to withdraw peace- | ably, and leave Mr. Linooln in the peaceable discharge of bis office as President of bis section, with which also they desire and are determined if possible to live at peace. - ‘MIBBISSTPPI. Letters from Mississippi express the same cool, delt. berate, caculating spirit, and indicate that the secession- ‘sta will carry that State in the wake of South . efore the ih of March. = ALABAMA, The Governor of Alabama will issue his proctama‘ion immediately after the first Wednesday of December, and the Convention will meet on the first Monday in January. LOUISIANA, A gentleman just arrived from New Orleans represents Lousiana as sound for the Union. The people are much exasperated against the’ republicans, and what they understand to be their policy on the question of slavery, bat they do not deem secresion necessary or de- sirable at prevent. South Carolina may precipitate mat- ters, as her political leaders feel bound in consistence to make 8c me Cemor stration. Money is becoming very scarce in the commercial con: | trea, and factors have to decline making usual adva ices to customers, because they are unable to effect exchanges. As money grows tight refiection oommer ces, and the under current of conservatiem is beginning to show iteclf. Bloe cockades are now much less numerovs in New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery than they were just before the election, and they, says my loformast, are chic fly worn | by Englishmen. South Caroling is the neck of the dis | union bottle, the cork of which having been drawa by the election of Lincoln, is undergoing the process of ac- tive cflervercence, This over, the wine will be found | pty GRORGIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. | Georgia is likely to present an interesting case of dis- | franchisement in the§eboice of President, which, if; rhe vote would change the resu!t, might cause great embar. rarsment. Her law requires Presidential electors to ro ceive @ majority of all the votes cast, failing in which their appointment devolves upon ihe Legislature. The | federal law requires the electors in all the States to be ®ppotnted on the same day. The people of Georgia having made no choice in obedience to the State law, it is too late for the Legislature to do it in conformity with fede- | ral Inw, and ber voice is lost. The recurrence of such an event ahould be provided against by State log inlation. THR OLIVE BRANCH. Ie there no statesman throughout the length and breadth of this land who hae the genius and the com manding power to prevent this disruption of our once giorious Union? Yes; be who is trusted with the sword | may most properly send forth also the olive branch of peace, as be will no doubt do at the proper time. } THR TRUR REMEDY. Dut the best and moe) active remedy would be the in- stant repeal, by the disunion and nullifying States North, of thetr hostile State legisiation against the South. Ab rogate your laws agstest the security of Southern proper: ty, acd the Union will be preserved. Keep them on Your statute books, and if,disunion does not come now, it will inevitably ensae hereafter. Your ant! Fugitive Slave law cnsctmente prove a reckless inattention to the copetitution and to politic>economical views of the condition of tbe Union, your own best interests, | and the stability of the best government ever devised by man. If our present political system shail be broken op, the blame will be with the republican party, and those who, even sow, with disunion staring them in | the face, refuse to strike from their State laws the pesti- lent provisions which cause al! the mischief. BOUTHERN FREE NEGROES TO BE SENT NORTH. It le understood that the Legisiatares of Virginia and North Careline wil) act st once on & propos. tion to send all ihe free segroee in their limite to the North, and perbape pay their expenses | thither out of the State treasury. There are over Oty thousand free negroes in those two States, it is nid other Southern States will pursue the same policy. THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR SOUTH CAROLINA, D. H Hamilton, United States Marshal for South Caro- lina, bas not yot resigned, but will probably do so very oor “THE NLACK REPUBLICANE OF BALTIMORR | it @ eald that the Lincoinites are contemplating a | PRICE TWO CENTS demcnatration in Baltimore, but their more prudent leaders advise against {t, as likely to produce trouble in ‘the present excited condition of the public mind. Mary- and i@ with the South, but against any inconsiderate or precipitate action. VIRGINIA, OUR MILFORD CORRESPONDENCE. Mirrorp, Caroline County, Nov. 15, 1860, ‘The Southern Prople Not Divided—Th: Southern Empha- now js perfectly manifest from the opinion and tone of the Northern press, with @ few exceptions. It is ® mistake, a fatal mistake, to suppose that the Southern people are now divided. Ocr partisan pa pers and their editors, who never look below the Surface of things in their orimimations and ro. criminations—who nover refer habitually to the laws which govern all men—furnish the pabulum for this part of the Northern press, which is #0 sadly in error, Ii your million of readers will jook, with me, at things as they are, we may come to understand cach other better. ‘The first great fact for hem to connider is, that the whole population im the slave States, toa man, voted against lo le jate these truths, there ia bo hope &f the resetion, you are striving soably to brirg about OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. Ricwmomp, Va. Nov. 16, 1860. The Unhappy Condition of the Country—The Fanatica Courte of the Minor Press in the Present Orisis—The Pre- sent and Prospective Seceding Stales—The South Will be United in the Movement—The Writing on the Wail Not to be Mistaken—The Southern the Producing States of the Unton—A Sad Prospect for Massachuselts Ootton Mane facturert—A Call upon Abraham Lincoln to Declare his Policy in Regard to the South, dc , de. Feeling deeply the unhappy condition of my whole country—threatered with terrible monetary and civil convulsione—I trust I may be pardoned in offering a few thoughts to that large portion of my countrymen who are daily readers of the Baxawp. Permit mo first, however, to congratulate you upon the conservative and patriotic position of your influential paper in the present contest. Did tbe other leading journalists of our distracted coun up to the help of the Union “against the * as you have done, then we should bave nothing to fear, Bot, North and South, we (ind the newspapers, ‘upon which the great mass of our people rely for their political opinions, vielng with each other in widening the breach between the sections until it has become « chasm, !mminently threatening to swallow up our laws, our inatitutions and our Union. South Carolina, as you bave truly remarked, i# siready de facto, if not de jure, out of the Union. Alabams, Geor gia and Mississippi will coon follow, When this Soutbern confederation 's once formed, rely upon it all the States south of Mason and Dixon's line will, sooner or later, come into it. The maintenance of their toatitutions, the necessities of their geograpbien! positions, their pecu ninry relations, the cogaanguinity of their people, will ‘all force them sooner or later into the Southern confede. ration Two mighty and formed, whose conflicting interests stant apd deadly ats leading to sulting in tbe demoralization of Ubrow of ovr republican institutions: ‘Men may close the'r eyes to the facts—my prophecies = be 4 Carsandran—but “writing on the wall”’ seems to me teo plain to be misanderstood or dis regarded. If, however, the alternative be forced upon as of d sa0- rea will thue be 1 engender a con 4 bisotsbed, re- and the fina! over tagonistio o lution, with all its acknowledged evils, or oa aboegation of our equal ri in the Union, we of the “Oid Demi Bion” acd of ‘South geoerally have determined to em brace the fcrmer. Such being the temper of our minds. let our Northern brethren pause in their faoati cal crusade opon the peculiar inetitution and corsider whether they will not more injare themeeires than ws, if by thelr aggressions upon our chartered rights we are goadet into a dismember ment of this glorious republic. Oars being the producing States of the Union, we poenres among ourselves the baris of prosperity, either in peace or war, whereas, sbould the North be cat oif from all the advantages of our pro duce end exports, what would beoome of her populous cities and thriving’ villages, ber cuterpriging manufacto rere and merebant prino +! Take, for example, New England States. What can they do without our cotton, the manufacture of which furnishes food and clothing to their laboring classes? I | tell you, gentiemen, Lowell would be in 8 state of riot aod rebellion to @ week after the close of ber cotton factories. Husbance and fathers would be demanding ‘‘broad,” “bread” for their starving families; Qod thon ba heretofore Enown the ‘ Manchester of witnessed the contented and cheerful operatives, the thrift and comfort now #0 conspicuour— ‘would know the place no more. mercantile communities safer tie “No” Against Abraham Lincoln—The Slaves of the Bouth Contented and Obedient When Let Alone by Northern Fanatico—Physical Philosophy—Phe Caste of Baces— Facts Worth Considering by Northern Men, dc Can the Northern people be made to understand the position of thelr Southern brethren? That they do not ly to ewear obedience—and my word for it, the ute > Dd preperation of war whion pow obtains use ‘sy (( peak advisedly) throughout the South would cease, and our swords be beaten into plougnsberes. Discord ‘would reign no longer, but there would be in thereof a “anion of bearis,”’ ap weil as @ “union of bands, for- ever ” Let Mr. Lincoln and bis advisers not lose precious time te deciding upen this course. Such action on bis part to Pacts must be immediate; to merrow may be too EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATUR® OF VIRGI ‘(4— FROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR, Whereas, by the covativution of this Commonwe.''® the Governor is invested with the authority to convene the Genera] Assembly, “when, in his opinion, the in- \ereat of the Commonwealth may require it.” And where- as, at the last session of the Legislature, a amour of tbe public busiaces wes left in an undo! condition for want of time to complete the same. And whereas, tines that time, a contract bas been entered into by the James River Kanawha Com; for the sale of its entire line of improvement, wi ie franchises wou {mmonities, including the large ix terest held iher in oy the Common wealth, and with stipulations for toe con te ‘ion Of the ex tire work, and it is necessary that the «0 tract, if approved, should be ratided by the General Assem- bly to g!ve validity and force to the agreement 60 mad» And whereas, in copsequence of the appoivtment of clec tors, a majority of whom are known to be favorabie to the election of sestional candidates as President and Vice Pre sicent of the United States, whose fig ond and views are believed (by @ large portion of Southern States) to be in direot hostility to their copstitutional rights and joterests, anf tm consequence thereof iteme Prevails ip the pr bile mind, and pradence requires that ‘he reprerentattves of the people of this Common wea'th should take into consideration the condition of public affaire, and determine, calmly and , what action is necertary in this emergency ; therefore, 1, John Letcher, Governor, by virtue of tbe authority aforesaid, do hereby require the Senators and de! Of the two houses of ‘the Gereral Atsembly of the wealth to convex at the Capitol, in the city of Riobmond, on Monday, the seventh day of January, A D 1861, ut twelve o'clock M., to legislate upon such subjects as they may deem ne.ws- tary ‘and proper. iven under my band as Governor, and under tte seal of the Or mmonwealth, at Richmond,on the 15 day o November, 1860, and in the eighty-fift year of the Com monwealtb, JOHN LEICBER. ALa BAMA. OUR SELMA OORRESPONDENCE. Qxima, Alabama, Nov. 12, 1860. The Preidential Election and Its Resullsa—The Southern Political Parties Uniting for Secession—What the South Is Doing—Business Dull, dc , cc. The smoke of the late political battle has scarcely died ‘away, and the number of the politically dead and wound- ed counted up, yet we see the three late parties of the South banded and banding together for mutual protec- tion. Blue cockades accumulate thicker and faster, and ‘8 quiet determination to secede from the Union is as plain assunlight. When the abolition States of the North nul- Iify the Fugitive Slave law by passing laws to fine and imprison every man who sttempted to recover his fugi tive, they violated tbat special proviso of the con- stitution which says, “Any person held to service im one State, csoaping to another shall be delivered up.” If they could not stay in the Union under such a law, why did they not have the ho- nesty to withdraw from tne Union, and let those who do believe in the constitution live together in and harmony? The honesty that they lack the South does not. We alroaty copsider oureelves wut of the Union—pesceably if we can, and forcibly if we must. Our names are enrolled, our for- ‘tunze and our honor are pledged to that end, and even if Liceolm should be withdrawn I doubt if seocesion can be prevented. There is vot @ dissenting voice, with rare exceptions of good old men. who would be glad to close — i im the Uaton, if Northern fanaticism would 7 With the first flash of the news over the wires an- nouncing the election of Lincoln, men made up their minds, abd mep, too, who had all at stake. 18, planters, mechanics, and all able to bear arms, prepared for the work. Weare not wanted in the Union, aud wo expect to be al to go out of it ‘quietly, and then our godly brethren of the North cav lift up their eyesin comfort, and thank (iod that they are no longer coptceted witb & pation of slaveholders This seome to be their greatest burthen, and they will now be relieved of it. Our ports wilt be thrown open to free foreign bottome will carry off our cotton, and Eng- juties of their consuls and pat wi prevent the philasthropic Yankees of the ‘Great North. erm Confedertey” from inundating us with wild Alricans witbout our cougent, and thus fave us the expense of a pavy. Having 50 commerce we can aflord to give Seward, Lincoln & Co. the navy, and throw in a few gingerbreads to pay them for taking the burthen off oar ban! Businesa is somewbat paralyzed with us, but we soon hope to get over it; and hereafver we eball not sufter a convulsion every four years to pleage the black repub!i- «ape. Oar President will be elected, | hope, for at least ten years, MISSISSIPPI. OUR JACKEON CORRESPONDENCE. Jackson, Mies., Nov. 18, 1860, The Proclamation of the Governor of the State Calling a State Convention—Intense Indignation Against the North— Union for Secession—Minule Men Organizing— ‘The Sentiment of the Southern Press, Bc. 1 enclore you the proclamation of the Governor of this State convening the Legislature on the 26th inst , together with the comments of the democratic State organ thereon: — Whereas, the of the non alaveholding States Dave, in various forme, declared purpoees hottie to the institutions of the slaveholding Jiater,and the State go- verpments of nearly ail the Northera States have evinced A retticd purpose to evade their constitusional obligations and dieregird their oaths in carrying on this war on the rights and fnatitutions of the Southern States. And whereas, tbe recent election of Mesers Lincola and Ham- lin Gemotstrates that thore who neither reverence the conetitution, obey the laws nor regard their oaths, hare now tbe power to elect to the bighest cilices in this con feceracy men who sympath!zo with them in ail their mad ‘neal to Gestroy the peace, property and prospe ity of the Southern section, and who wiil use the powers of the fo Gera! government to defeat all the purposes for which it was formed; and whereas, our dearest rights of the people depend for protection, under the coxstitation, on jelity to their oa:bs of those who administer the go i— iow, therefore, that the State of Mississippi enabled to take into consideration the 7 In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto and caused the great seal of the State to be [From the Mise#sippian, Nov 13 ) THE PROCLAMATION OF THR GOVERNOR. ‘We puodiiweh in oar columns to day tho prociamation of Govervor Pettes, convening the | sgisiatare on the fourth Monday, the 261) of November instaot ‘This measure » fally with the well known and upivervally exprested will of the people, as indicated by the almost unanimous vote of the Legisiatare at its late trenton, acd tbrovgh other channels leas authoritative, bat scarcely Jere pignificant of popular sentiment. The Northern Staien, after repeated one apon ibe Fouth, violative of the jetter and spirit of the national compact, after the perpetration of a long cataloguc of taunts, outrages and ingalte, bave crowned the whole by a formal declaration of hositlity in the election of Abrabam Lincoln to the Pris! Se who prociaims that the States of the Uaion can never Continae in ® sonfederacy whore States are balf slave acd balf free—whicb moans, of course, that abolition itm apd trcerdiary violocce must overwhelm the South, acd, for the advantage of Northera ambition, nd capidity, reduce it to abject submission and a ie lation. right, justice and the guaranter# of the const! Diack republican triamph of mere ounbers over ution de bat Uiseiaipp! rhould take prompt and immediate action for ber own protection and enfety. Now is the t'me to act. Let the foal step of secession be taken ard fully consammated while the federa! govern- ment i in friescly bende, Much may be scoomplished before the 4th of March next Bat then we are told that it will be several years before Lincoln will bare coptrol of the sword and the puree through the instrumentality of Congress, This farnishes an additional argument for ‘The feeling of indignation tn this section is intense, and abared by all parties = Many bitherto ardent Union men re rally ing to the secession standard. The ‘Minute Men” federal coart when the Misatesipp! will organize to night, The eMficere of 1 Dave expressed thetr determination t) res! bueiness of the present term is dirposet bas gone for Breokinri¢ge by 16,000 majority. FLORIDA. OUR TALLATASSE CORKESPONDE CR. Tarianaeea, Fie, Nov 12, 1880 an Appeal to the North de, he We Cown bore in thie little State of Florida, are csim, bot {t le the caimners o’ determination. Weare lookiog to our sister States of the South, awattiog their decision and ready to join them im defer ce of @ com non interest, Weare not firing ci guns and raising fogs and going crazy generally; we know exactly whether we are stand- ing on our beads or heels, and ¢iscoss affairs with as much coolness and common sense, and perhaps less Dombart, than some. Ido not say we are more fn earnest than those who talk @ great deal; I believe all the central and extreme Southern States «qually determined and in earnest, and ibis will be shown more fully when their several tures shall be in seasion, That of our State will meet en the ‘26th inet, simultaneously with that of south Caro- pa, I regard it oe moet unfortunate circumstance that the Northern people will not believe in the determination of ibe South, or at least a greater portion of the siavehold- re Staten, to recede; ana { very much fear tbat this dis- belief is due in no sma!) degree to an habitual cootempt of Seuthern people cherished st the North. We get no cre- dit for truth. senee or manlinetr: we are considered mere “blowerr,”’ apd deficient io that pluck and osrpestnvess which our bretbren of the North tmagine to be exclu- sively among their attributes and characteristics as @ jee dieposition in human nature to lord it over our weaker brethren; ard it 1* my conviction that if re- tpect, more becoming and more worthy of a great people, had been entertained tor ue, we should not have been sab- Jeoted to euch an amount of insult and vituperation, aad the eptrit of aggression would rot bave risen Lo a9 alarm. irg a height. ‘sympathy mapifetted for Jobn Brown, the endorsement of Helper, and the hideous doctrines of the “‘irrepreesibie coadict” school, which we covsider as baving triumphed im Lincoln’s election, were #0 many de- clarations of war on the Soutb, and bave aroused jo us aa abid pg conviction that we cannot look to tho Nortn for jamtice or feir play; that pot coly oar rights as sovereign States, but our very lives aud Property are fmperilied, and that we must take & firm apd decided stand to repel the threatened danger, The Legislature will undoubtedty call s conven- tion of the Feople, and the most active measures that way be consid adopted and inaugurated witout delay, Ican assure m ‘Uhat ip the adoption of those mearures the State will be unanimous, the Bell and Everett men cordially unitiog with the supporters of Breckinridge; apd when it 's remembered that the former polled avery x | Vote, leaving the otbers bat a trifling majority, you will perctive that the present revolution- ary movement is Lot confined to any one political pay eee, Nal the cenaioans of Wie: peopl sh nage le only aek justice. Would that the eyes of the Northern People could be opened, aud some patriotic and concilia- Vory movement set on foot to avert the storm which is rapidly gathering over our beloved coantry. NO PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL IN INDIANA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Ispiama State AGRNcy, New Yore, Nov. 17, 1860 I would respectfully call your attention to the enclosed, taken from the New Albany ({nd.) Ledger. Ite statement is true, ag the opposition to the democratic party has not bad the political power in Indiana since 1840, hence no such ‘‘Liberty bill” was ever pacsed. It is not for want of will that the black republican party of thet State has Bot enacted such a law, but for want of power. Respect- fully, D. C. STOVER. INDIANA AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW—A GREAT ERROR CORRECTED, [From the New Albapy (Ind.) Ledger, Nov. 14 } We find the following in last namber of the Naw ee joined table bows the posed: sal shows penalties im tp the reverse) Northern disunion States on those officers or citi- zeps who may aid in ‘ing the constitution intact by Preserving enforcineg the Fugitive Siave law, viz — States. Amprisonme 3237 re 38333 5 yeare om above that the Northern States are nearly all ip @ position of practical disunion —that is, they bave refused to eustain the constitution which their fathers adopted. ‘This does great injuetice to Indiana. By it she im placed jn a Woree position than any other State in the Union— «de to appear more fanatical even than Magsashu- ‘This is all wrong Indiace has never passed any hatever retarding or cbatructipg the «xecution of law, has never probibited her officers assistance in the capture or of i the use of ber jails for the * ald Lave mado such a grievous mis- to discover. It is caloalated ty do e injustice to our State aod her citizens, mauy of whom partly reside and do business in the South. We are rejoiced to be able to say that the legislation of In- diana ‘bas never yet been tainted by that of abotitioniem Which has prevalied in 80 mapy Northern Stater, and induced them to set the coastitution and Jaws of their couuiry at defianee. Her citizens have ever teen loyal to the iederal compact, and mobs have Dever, except in a tingle instance, we belicve, interfered to prevent the rendition of fogitive slaves. We hope the Herain wil! at once correct the erroxeona statement in regard to our State, and request all its com temporaries which may bave copied ite article to do tho In the preseot exeited condition of the Southern mind. such staementa might be the cause of trouble to our Citizens sojourning in that region. MR. LINCOLN bial | SECESSION MOVE- [From the Springfield (Li ) Journal (Lineoln’s home or- gan), Nov 13} INCIPIENT TREASON. Georgii —tbe principe! States the disvnion sentiment reems to be rampant. There may b fomething te all this blaster, and there may not be. We are incline? to the latter opinien, aud that when the flutter of dissffection occasiored by the news of Mr. Lin- coin’s election subsices these dieunion threats will disap- pear with it. But should we be mistaken in this, a new leeue te at orce presented to the American people, which ‘Will for the time rvepend ali others. We refer to that of union or disunion. Mr. |.ineola will represent the party of the constitution and the laws As such repre. tentative, duly elected by the people, opce rally around him, mot only North, but the entire conservative strength of the South. Ho is now the President elect of tho United States. His speeches, bis political record, the latform of the party on which be etands, all show that De proponss bo interference with the constitationel righte or internal affairs of acy State government Hie poticy * @ peace, bis administration will be conducted ob the principles which guided Washington and Jeffarson end “the men who made the Union.’ Should nuilifca Tat the lncd. blic eentiment will the firm and dauntiess determination of the Usion men Ibe conservatives of the South, who, oo such an issoe, ill rally around Mr. Lincoln at all bazard tentative of the government. But should worst, we fee! satisfied from what we know come of Mr. cein, tbat thoee who would destroy the law will be dealt Lio with by the strong arm of the law. Mr. Linoola meelf told the country what he would do in such an emergeney. You democrats greatly fear that the success of the re- biicans will arama an Coen. Why’ Do the repab- # declare egninat the Union? Nothing like it. ‘that ifthe biaek repablicans elect & Preeident, you won't stand it. You will break up | the Union. will To justify tt, cy gives you scticn. Can you deny that? When you attiomot it, you will find our policy i# exactly the policy men who made the Union—notht More, nor pothing kere, Do yeu k you are ) ‘verpment rather than to bave it ington, apd other administered 11? sod more reasonable men you. While we elect « Presiden tee that you submit. Old Juba treason againat a State, We cannot object, even though sin sery ie wrong. That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed ap 1) could avail bim nething that he might think bhimeeif it President, and you Union, it will be oar duty to deal with Brown was dealt with, We can oo 5 fo, if fore ap i | i d it ¥ z 3 Fa i Fe i | i! s £ H g 7 s 3 £ £ ; Hl i Er 4 4 $ 5 g 3 i ei hi i i a 4 BE PH eH a be