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A. 8z Cos., refer with confidence to a va number of gentlemen to whom they are known throughout the whole south. Solon Robinson, Travelling Agent, will also re ceive orders. feb27watwtf Forwarding and General Copinjisaion B ussiness. THE u ersigned will oon ,, nue the above bos siness in all its various branches, ape hopes hy strict attention to the same, to receive the same liberal support heietofore bestowed upon him WM P YGNGE, Savannah,Sept 10, 94 Bay .gtree s(j e (IJuues® VOLUME XI. | MUSIC. ST ALFRED B. STREET. Music, how strange her power ! her varied (trains Thrill with a magic spell the human heart. She wakens memory—brightens hope—the pains- The joyg of being at her bidding start. Now to her t. limpet-call the spirit leaps; Now to her brooding, tender tones it we pg. Sweet music ! is she portion of that breath With which the worlds were born—on which they wheel 1 One of lost Eden’a tones, eluding death, To make man what is best within him feel! Keep open his else sealed up depths of heart. And wakes to active life the better part Os his mixed nature, being thus the tie That links us to our God, and draws us toward the sky I ‘ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1851. SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN RIGHT3 CON VENTION. In redemption of our promise we lay before our readers the resolutions and address adopted by the convention at Charleston. We have said that this is the most important convention that has ever met tr> discuss great interests in an hour of great trial, in the States of the South. No rnan can read its proceedings, without being deeply impressed by the calmness and deliberation, yet heroic firmness, with which five hundred of the first men of the State, representingitin all its geographical parts, have met the issue of submission and dishonor or resistance and honor forced upon them. An eye witness to the pro ceedings of the convention informs us that not a ripple of intemperate passion or fac tious, party spirit marred the dignity of the occasion, whether in the speeches, the tones or the actions of the members of the convention. The speeches of Judge But ler, Messrs Orr, Barnwell and others, against separate action, although clearly opposed to the convictions of a large ma jority, were received with respectful at tention and courtesy. Those who were for, and those who were against action, appeared to meet and debate the great question, like brothers, who, all agreeing in the wrongs, all fully persuaded of the necessity of a remedy, and none for a mo ment dreaming of submission, differed only as to the character ofthe remedy and the time of applying it. The address breathes the spirit that animated the whole assembly—moderate yet firm ; regretful of trie necessity for action forced upon them, by a usurping Government and a Northern People, reckless of the obliga te ns of the constitution, yet with minds deeply conscious of innocence of all in strumentality in producing the crisis. The action of this convention is destined to have a powerful effect in the shaping; ot public opinion in the future develop* ment of the revolution of the confederacy, started by Northern Fanaticism. It will alarm the conservatism of the North, and arou>e it to efforts to save the union ; it ] will re-animate the courage ofthe friends j of the South, sinking in despondency amid the manifold evidences of a faltering and j submissive spirit throughout the South. Ini one spot at least, a stand is made for South-v. ern Rights and for the liberties of the Southern People. If the whole South would even now, come to the rescue and plant herself by Carolina, how easy would it be to restore the lost rights and violated honor of the South—how easy, to reform the administration ofthe Fei’eral Govern ment, and set up the overturned altars of the constitution in the Temple of Equali ty and Freedom, built by our fathers’ hands. How easy to force upon the North to take back, what they have in scornful mockery, given us as a compromise, and give us instead, justice Even in this ex tremity—Carolina falsifying the slanders of her enemies, tells the people of the Sou b, if they will show her any other mode of escaping dishonor and wrong, gladly will she follow it If then the South, would urite with her and demand the re peal of the compromise legislation, and a division ofthe territory of which she has been rifled, by the peace line of 1819-’2O, who doubts but South Carolina would re joice in herability to obtain justice, without a sereringof tieswhich have so long bouud her. And who doubts that, the North would be glad to give simple justice, as the price of a union in which she has so deep a stake I Thus, and thus only, can the union be saved. Courage can redeem it; it is hopelessly damned by submission But, if South Carolina is pers jaded, that her sisters ofthe South will not co-operate with her in saving the union, on the only terms, compatible with safety and honor she is right in the resolves foreshadowed by this convention. She speaks trutli and wisdom in heroic accents, when she tells i us in the memorable words which close ; the address, that “ the gloomy prospect of | inevitable ruin, to follow submission, ap pears to us more formidable than any danger to be encoHiiti-red in contending alone, against whatever odds for our rights. We have come to the deliberate conclu sion that if it be our fate to be left alone in the struggle, alone we must vindicate our liberty by secession.” THE SOUTHERN RIGHTS CONVENTION. Thi Convention of Southern Rights As sociations concluded its labors yesterday with the adoption ot the Resolutions and Address of the Committee of2J. The test vote was on substituting the report ot the minority ofthe Committee. It will be ob served that the two are not antagonistic, but only different modifications of the same idea of resistance to wrongs. The motion to substitute receive 4 but a small support; and that being of, the Resolutions ar.d Address were adopled almost unanimously. The importance of this arlfon, and the degree of unanimity that sustained it, cannot well be over-esti mated. The convention was composed of near five hundred delegates—the picked men of every part ofth,e State. Bound by no law but their own strong sense of what was due to themselves and the cause they maintained, they pa-sed through the ordeal of tour days’ earnest discussion, without an instant of uuseemly disorder, without the smallest appearaoce of wavering in the strength of their convictions, and without a symptom of impatience at the expression, elaborate, eloquent and earn- COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY ‘2O, 851. est, of opinions at variance with those of the well known majority ot the meeting. We have been deeply impressed with this dignity of bearing ofihe convention, from the first day of its session. It struck all spectators ; it was emphatically commend ed by the President, in his concluding ad dress in reply to the resolution of thanks to himself, so cordially adopted and so richly deserved. In every aspect, there fore, —m the generality of the representa tion of the State by this body; in the tatge ness of ils numbers; in the quality ofthe men; in the full and luminous discussiop which the subjects of its deliberation un derwent; in the high and patriotic tone that characterized equally the minority and the majority, and in the near approach to unanimity in the final decision, the session of this convention is an impos ing event, and its action must go forth as a formidable influence, not only over S. Carolina but over ti e whole South. That influence, we will not say, tendsdirecliy to Secession, as the remedy to be eventually ad pted by the State Convention, and we as little need to say, that this is our reme dy, and the only one in which we have any firm faith. We cannot close our notice of the Con vention without a more particular refer-, ence to the distinguished gentleman who presided over its deliberations. The choice of Governor Richaruson for that office, was in all respects most fortunate. He showed perfect knowledge of all its prac tical duties ; was always self-possessed, quiet and firm in the exercise ofau honty, and never failing either in dignity or in courtesy. Never did presiding officer bet ter merit the compliment of a vote of thanks, and the resolution no more than expressed the honest feeling of every member of the body.— Charleston Mercury. ALABAMA We publish the proceedings of the South ern Rights Convention tor the 2J Con gressional Distiict of Alabama, which re sulted in the nomination of the Hon. Wil liaai L. Yancey. In calling upon this gentleman to bear their standard before the people in the pending canvass, the Southern Rights Party of the District have testified to their own earnestness and de votedness to the cause ,n which they are engaged. An undecided people, vibrat ing between old and worn out party names and associations, and a whole-hearted du ty to their cause, would never have se lected a man of Mr Yancey’s stamp as the champion and exemplar of their ples./'Mr Y ancey is a Southern Rights ■man, per se. No voter in his district need make a mistake in voting for him. When! his poll goes yito the ballot box and it has, William L Yancey's name written on it, he may be sure, he has voted for no submis-I s.onist. This is a time for men like these. The Southern Rights Party owes it to the People, to itself and its cause to be open,! fearless and honest in the avowal of its; princip es and the selection of its men.— \ Xhe battle of the Rights ofthe South must! be fought on the square, openly, manfully and in the effu.gent face of the No man who is afraid of being tem porarily in the minority is fit to enlist in this cause ; nor yet, if he is dismayed by defeat. Stand firm—if driven back, un and at the enemy again ; lower the stand ard of your faith never —this is the duty of the Southern Rights Party. And it will have its reward in the revolution of time now hasteningon to develope great events, as surely as night follows day in the diur nal revolutions of the earth. Our friend-; in the 2d district of Alabama have taken this course ; we commend it to those in Georgia for imitation. A bold tront, patience under gloom, perse erance under difficulty, is what our party needs. With these we may be beaten, but can never be disgraced. SOUTHERN RIGHTS CONVENTION OF THE SE COND DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. The Southern Rights Convention of the econd Congressional District of Alabama asse nbled in C.ay’on on Monday, 28th of April, and organized by calling to the chair Sterling G. Cato, oi Baibour, and ap pointing W. A. M’Carty, of Macon, Se cretary. The roll of counties was called and the following.delegates reported. Barbour —Jas Clark, E S Ott, Joseph Jones, E R Flewellen, A C Mitchell, E S Hool, C R Woods, J P Maddox, J F Co mar, H D Clayton, C Petty, T Lomax, S M Lampley, H H Fields, I J Lowrance, J E Crews, J W Jackson, J A Pruit. Coffee— 3 H Calavvay, C W Boyier. Dale —E Wodford, A M Hughes. Henry- G W Williams', T T Smith. A C Gordon, Mathew Perymaii, Hon E Corbit, G W Sercey, A McAlister. Macon—3 P Baldwin, W W Nolon, A D | Cleckley, J Davis, G Caldwell. 1 i Montgomery —R W Sh-pherd, F H Brown Pike —Hat rill Hobdy, Jas Boatwright. Russell —Jas B Tate. On motion of E R Flewellen, persons present from either of the counties not represented in this convention, were in vited to a seat and to participate in the deliberations ofthe convention. Jno B Tate, of Russell responded to the inyitatiot) in a few appropriate and patri otic remarks, which railed forth raplurous applause, after his name was enrolled as a delegate from Russell county. On motion of T Lomax, of Barbour, a committee consisting of one delegate from ea:h county was appointed to report offi cers and rules loi the government ofthe convention. The following gentlemen were appoint ed on said committee : T Lomax of Bar bour, J Hosea Calaway of Coffee, A M Hughes of Dale, Geo \V Williams of Hen ry, J P Baldwin of Macon, R W Shepperd of Montgomery, Harrill Hobdy of Pike and Jno B Tate ot Russell. During the absence of the committee John Gill Shorter, one of the nominees of the Southern Rights party for the Legisla ture from Barbour,was called for. Col Shorter responded briefly tw the call, evinc ing to all, that the Southern Rights party of Barbour, in the selection of Col Shorter, had committed her cause, not only to an able and eloquent champion, but ‘also to one whose heart is iu the right place. The committee through theii chairman, T Lomax of Barbour, reported the follow ing gentlemen as officers of the conven tion: Geo W Williams, ofHepry, Presi dent; Juoß Tate of Russell and W W Nolon of Macon, Vice Presidents, and F H Browj) of Montgomery and Wm McCar ty of Macon, Secretaries, which was unani mously adopted. The committee further reported the fol lowing rules for the government ofthe convention ,—That each county shall be entitled to four votes for each Senator and “THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OI THE STATES,” Representative in the Legislature, and where two counties elect one Senator they shall divide the vote equally betweenthem; and moreover, that the usual Parliamen tary rules shall govern the deliberations of the convention- all of wh’Ch was unani mously concurred in. The President on taking his seat, in a brief and eloquent address, explained the objects ofthe convention. On motion of A M Hughes of Dale, a committee consisting of one delegate from each county, was appointed to report to the convention a suitable person to repre sent the second Congressional district of Alabama in the. Congress of the United States. The following gentlemen were appoint ed on said committee:—Joseph Jones of Barbour, C W Boyier of Coffee, A M Hughes of Dale, A C Gordon of Henry, A D Cleckly of Macon, R W Shenperd of Montgomery, Harrill Hobdy of Pike and Jno B Tate of Russell. The committee retired for a short time and upon their re turn reported the name of Hon. WILLIAM L. YANCEY, of Montgomery—wherfedpon tne convention nominated Mr Yancey unanimously and hy acclamation, as tin l Southern Rights candidate to represent the Second Congressional district of Alabama in the Congress ofthe United States’ Col Joh . Cochran of Barbour, was then called to the stand, and in a speech of great power and thrilling eloquence re viewed the position of the parties—exhib iting in his own clear and felicitous man ner, the tendencies of the submission par ty to freesoilism, while the tendencies of the Southern Rights party were,toappmach nearer and nearer to the main enance of our rights. Great unanimity prevailed in the convention. Every one felt that with such a leader and such a cause as the South rn Rights party present to the se cond Congressional district of Alabama, our banner must come forth from the can test, on the first Monday of August next, borne aloft by ottr able standard bearer to victory, and floating in triumph over a people unfettered by the shackles that have hitherto bound them as captives, to grace the triumph of a relentless enemy. On motion if AC Mitchell of Barbour, the following letter was read in conven tion, and directed to the Hon William L Yancey, each delegate subscribing his name thereto. Clayton, Ala. April 28, 1851. Dear Sir:—We, the undersigned, dele gates in convention assembled, for the purpose of nominating a Southern Rights candidate to represent the second District of Alabama in the Congress ofthe United States, profoundly impressed with the im portance ol presenting for that office the name ot one whose past course has shown him to be one ofthe truest ami most dis interested ot Southern patriots and whose distinguished ability and unquestionable soundness unite to make him the fittest champion of our rights in this great emer gency, notwithstanding your express wish to the contrary, have unanimously and by acclamation, determined to call you from the retirement which you prefer, to bear our standard in the approaching contest. We know the reluctance which you will .feel at entering again upon the arena from which atter so brilliant a can er, you, years ago, vo'nntarily retired. We are not ignorant ofthe sacrifices which such a course will entail upon you. but we know also your devotion to our cause, and we confidently hope that in this day of her peril, you will not withhold Irom the South the services which she has a right to demand of all her true sons. To you pre-eminently, were the eyes of the convention turned, and to you above all. do they desire to commit the interests of their country and their party in the ap proaching canvass. To your keeping they confide tiie standard ot the South in this district, in the full belief that however great the personal sacrifice demanded of you, you will not refuse to bear it alott to battle and to victory. To Hon William L. Yancey. We omit the names of the delegates from each county. Our readers will find them at the head of the proceedings.—Ed. On motion, it was resolved, that the pa pers in this district favorable to Southern Rights, be requested to publish the pro ceedings of tins convention. On motion of J B Tate, of Russell, ihe convention adjourned sine die. GEO. W. WILLIAMS, Pres. F H Brown, ) q , Wm A McCarty, j c,ec * y ’ SPW. notice lit the ,N. Y- Express the death of the Sam’i Thurston, the delegate in Congress from Oregon, front dysent try, on bo ml..the Steamer Califor nia, on her passage from Panama to San Francisco. Seimtot^G>vinn, of Cabs rnia, also a pas.'enger on board the same vessel had been dangerously ill, but was recover ing. Periodical Literatdrk.— We find .on nur table this morning, the April number ol the “West minster Review,” American edition, by Leonard, Scolt & Cos. Contents—Modern Bailed Writers Recent India Campaigns, English Mathematics Literature Martineau and Alkcnsnn on Man’s Na ture and Develnpement, Revolution arid Counter- Revolution. Diplomatic Reform.. Miniate.vil Crisis Education, Foreign Literature, Critical Notices. The “Southerly Quarterly Review ” April num ber, published bv Walker & Riehar’s, Chaiie-lon. S. C,. with tile following articles : Slavery through out the World, Cirnon an I Feric’es, Americus Ves pucius. Diversity of the Races—ils bg/iring upon Negro Slavery, Physical Science, Ever/tt’s Ora tions and Speeches, Journalism in the JJ• States, The Prospect Before Us, An Inquiry into Roman Jurisprudence, Critical Notices, y “The U. S. Magazine Democratic Review,’ the May number, publiihed monthly in New York by Kettell & Moore. This number sustains the character ofthe work for ability and intofest, in the followuig table of contents: £■’onstituitilnal Com promises, F tllacies of Legislation. Lord.Hollar d’s Remini-cences, The English in Ceylon, Geograph ieal Mora ity, Paris, The Podesta’s Daughter, The Race of American Indians, The Tear, The Mint. The Legend of the Lake Bolsena, (J’ ill. Stewart, U. 8 N-, The Challenge, Democratic Senators, Financial & Commercial Review, Northern De mocracy and the U- inn. Notices rs New Turk. A Salutary Thought. — When I was a young man there lived in ourneighborhootl a Presbyterian, who was universally repor ted tube a very liberal nan, and unc >rn monly upright in his dealings. When he had any of the produce of his farm to dis pose of, he made it an invariable rule to give good measure, over good, rather more than could be required of Lina. One of his friends, observing his frequently doing so, questioned him why he did if, told him he gave too much, and said if would not be to his own advantage. New, my friends mark the answer of this Presbyterian, •God Almighty has permitted me one j >ur ney through the world, and when gone I car.ijot return to rectify mistakes/ Think of this, friends, but one j mrney through the world.— [J. Simpson. FIT The following is a copy of the sign upon an academy for teaching youth, in one of the Western States: “Freeman and Huggs, School Teachers. Freeman ttach es the Boys and Huggs the Girls. fcF’Society. like a shaded silk must be viewed in all situations, or its colors will deceive us SOUTH C VROLINA. Convention of Sontliern Rights Association’s. Charleston, May 6th, 1851. Mr. ~xregg, front the Select Committee of Twentv-or.e, submitted the following Resolutions as t xpressive r f thesentiments of the Ci nvention, and an Address to the Southern Rights Associations of tae South ern States; ‘ RESOLUTIONS. 1. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting the Suite ol South Carolina cannot submit to the wrongs and aggressions which have been perpetrated by the Fed rial Gov ernment and the Northern States, without dishonor and ruin; and that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom, whether with or without the co-operation of other South ern States. 2- Resolved, That concert ofaction with one or more of our sister Statesofthe S >uth. whether through the proposed Soutnern Congress, or in auv other manner, is an ob ject. worth any sacrifice involved in sub mission. 3. Resolved, That we hold the right of Secession to be essential to the sovereignty and freedom of the States of the Confed eracy; and that the denial of that rignt would furnish to an injured State the strongest additional cause for ils exercise. 4. Resolved, That this mteting looks with confidence and hope to the Conven tion of the People, to exert til? sovereign power of the State in defence of its rights, at the earliert practicable period and in the most effectual manner; and the Legislature to adupt the most speedy and effectual mensurts towards the same end. Address. From the Delegates of the Southern Rights Associations of South Carolina, assembled in Charleston, to the Southern Rights As soci itions of the other Southern States. Having met to take C’ unsel together, and having rgreed upon that course which we think it right and necessary to pursue we wish to lay before you the considera tions by which we have been governed, with that (rankness which our respect for you, and our desire to merit your good opinion, require. We regard the position of the Smthern States in this Confederacy as degraded and ruinous. The manifest tendency of those systematic aggressions which they have suffered for many years past, is to subvert the institution of slavery. If those acts ol hi.stile domination, which have been ren dered more insulting by mockery of lan guage, under the term of a Compromise, were final in their nature, and were not to lie followed by any turther aggressions, we should still regard them as outrages, to which sovereign S'ates, possessingthe spi rit if freedom, ought never to submit But those measures only form part of a system, gradually commenced, steadily carried forward, gathering strength from dt velopnn nt, and proceeding with fatal momentum to its end. That t rid is the abolition of negro slavery in the Southern States, and the lowering of the free white population of the South to the same level s ill) that agrarian rabble, which already strong and dangerous, seems destined, be fore very long, to be the controlling power in the Northern States. We see no rente, dy and no safety for the South in the pres ent Union. But we kn. w that in this we differ from very many citizens of the oth er Southern States, S| iritedand intelligent, hav-ng the same interest, and suffering under the same wrongs with nurse ves, ami who cherish the hope that the rights i fthe S ‘Uth may be vindicated and secur ed without dissolving the existing Confed eracy. In It is difference, it does not be come us to assume to dictate, and we hope to stand free from that charge. Up tc this time, the citizens of South Carolina, aware t -at peculiarity oi political position, aris ing Irom past events, rendered a certain reserve on their part prudent and proper, have studiously avoided everything which might look like assuming the lead in the defence ol Seuthern Rights. They de sired to act, because they believed that safety and honor required action; but they hoped that ihey might find leaders in oth er States, whom they might follow in de fence of the common cause. When the ancient Commonwealth of Virginia the pro per leader of the South, declared her determination to resist, at all hazards and to tr.e last extremity, hostile mtasures then threatened, South Carolina, with ail alacri ty , stood ready to support Virginia in ctr rying cut her high resolution. When Georgia,—whose former resistance to Fed era! usurpation, under iter heroic states, matt, Troup, gave promise of unflinching firmness in any contest in with .h she might engage—proclaimed her determination to make a stand for the rights of the S >uth, South Carolina rej iced at the prospict of rallying under the banner of Georgia.—. And when her young an i gallant sister, Mississippi proposed the wise measure of a Southern Convention, for the purp >se of endeavoring to ur ite the Southern States in maintaining their constitutional rights, and at the same time preserving, if possi ble, the existing Union, South Carolina heartily entered into this measure; and she has curried out the recommendation of the Convention, so assembled at the in stance of Mississippi, hy providing for the election of Delegates to a Southern Con gress, to whose meeting she st'll looks with anxious interest. In all these proceedings, we tl ink that the citizens if South Carolina have evinced all proper anxiety to avoid the appearance of arrogance or dictation, to act in concert with the citizens of the other Southern States.and to do nothing separately or pre cipitately. And now. strongly as we have expn ssed our b lief that there is no hope for the South iu the existing Union, we are prepared to give a trial, fairly and in good faith, to any effectual plan which may be proposed by any sister Slate of the South, for obtaining redress forthe past and secu rity for the tutgre, ” jihcuft i dissolution ot t e existing Union, if there be a possibility of such a consummation. But we find ourselves forced to consider the ulterioi question* whal we are to do, if we find that there is no reasonable hope of the co-operation of any other southern State m any effectual plan of relief, and the alternative is presented to us, of submit ting, oracting by ourselves. And, reluct ant as vve are to separate oursehes from our natural friends and allies, we have made up our minds. We cannot submit. We know that South Carolina entered ibis Contederacy as a sovereign and independ sent Stale, and that having been wronged, she has the perfect right to withdraw from it. Her sons must exercise the right and meet the consequences. If no other State will join us in relieving ourselves from the wrongs already mflicted, we see no hope in waiting lor new outrage to arouse a higher spirit of resistance. The new out rages, we are well convinced, will come in due tin e; but we feel no assurance that the spirit of the vassal will rise in proportion to the indignities heaped upon hi* head. On the contrary, we see that the South has air ady borne what it would n l for a mo iimtit have submitted to leu years ago, and what the North would not then have ven tured to perpetrate. We are not willing to try the ( xperiment how long it will be before our spirit is completely broken, by gradual and con tinually yielding to slow and gradual but unceasing encroachments. And if the exercise of the right of se cession is to be followed i.y the attempt on the’ part of the G vernment of this Confed eracy to subjugate South Carolina, it is better tha’ we should meet that attempt while we still hive some spirit and some power of resistance left. If we nre to sub mit to the condition if a conquered people, we think it less dishonorable not to do so until we have first been Conquered. And if anything could add to the necessity which we bt-iieve exists for a withdrawal from the existing l mon, it wuuid be the denial of the right of secession. For the denial of that right indicates of itself ex treme danger. Tile right of s cession has heretofore,and in better days, been regard ed as unquestionable by all Southern poli ticians, with the exception of an inconsid erable number of consolidaiionists. And if ever that right can be denied without arousing the whole South to sustain it, the South will be ripe for the most miserable fate which has ever befallen any people It will then, ns a permanent sectional mi nority, have no defence against the tyr anny ol a Government combining all the vices of I lie corrupt’ st democracy and the most oppressive foreign despotism. We know the consequences which will follow a failure tn our effort to maintain our liberty We see c early that a trium phant exertion • fthe power ofthe Federal Government, in subjugating a Stale, w.li vastly increase that power, and greatly ac celerate the chang-, already fur advanced, of our Federative system into a consolida ted central despot sin. We see, also, that Soutli Carolina will not suffer the coose qu rices of this change alone, hut that toe rest of the S lutiiern S.ates must suffer in au equal degree. They will have no safe guard again? the Central G >vernnirnt, strengthened by crushing opposition, and render and, by triumphant lorce, what our Northern enemies have long been endeav oring to make it by fraudulent usurpation —-the supreme Goverturn ntofac msolida ted nation. The sovereign yof one South ern State cannot be destroyed by ail the others. We are aware ot the responsibil ity ot doing an act which may hasten these consequences. We fee! the respect which we owe to States having a common interest, threatened by a common dangt r, but not equally persuaded with ourselves ofthe nee- ssity of actit n. And nothing would induce us to take, without their con currency, a course which is to involve them in ils consequences, but a thorough conviction of ihe necessity which urges us, and ol our right to do so. Addressing citizens of Southern States, associated to maintain the rights of the S uth, we cannot imagine it to be nece.'X g-ary to argue about the right of secession. We hold it to be the great State right, without which all others are nugatory and inc’apab e of being enforced; and your po sition assures us that your faith cannot be different from ■ ins* Nor can we reyard it as necessary any farther to discuss the wrongs which have been inflicted on the Southern Slates. They may be denied by those who shut their eyes 10 them, but you do hot belong to that class. Southern and tale Rights men may difler as to the necessity ot exercising the right of secession at a par* ticular tune, on account of those wrmgs. But as certainly as the right exists, each Slate must possess the right ot judging for herself, as to the occasion and tune for its exercise. If Sooth Carolina decides that honor and safety require tier to secede, she has the right to leave the Confederacy peacably and without molestation. If the act of secession is not permitted to be peuc able, it will be from usurpation of power i y the Federal Government, not from the nature < f tfie act performed by South Car” olinu, Accustomed as we have been to violations of the Constitution, and of the rights of the Southern States by the Feder al Government, we have.to look -forward to the probability of another outrage by that Government, in the attempt to force, the State to remain in the Union. We suppose the attempt will be made, if the other Southern Suites permit it. Those States mustdecide for themselves whether it is necessary to secede. Her sister States of tile South wii! h ive no right to complain that she forces them into a posi tion where they must either interpose t • prevent her subjugation, or, by consenting to it, abandon their own sovereignty, and lay themselves at the mercy of a despotic power. In seceding, South Car iina will simply do an act which all Southern men who believe n the existence of State rights at all must admit that she has a perfect right to do, and which she regards as anso iutely necessary. She will be act ing on her sacred right. She would be acting, as she would have to act, if none of the other Southern Sta'es were in exist ence, and she were ike on.y object of ag gression by the Northern Stales and the Federal Government. Sue is not answer able for the usurpations and injustice which may be committed against her. And for her sister States of the South to ask of her to refrain from an exe.cise ot right which she regards as indispensable iu sell-preservation, would bean interference with her fiee action of a lard flerent char acter from any with which she can be charged towards them. Sovereigns are equals, in seceding alone, South Caioli. na would be placing* her sister States of the South under no constraint. If they should find themselves in a position of Constraint it woulc. come from the action of the Fed eral Government not of South Carolina. But and they should insist upon her n fram ing f.om the exercise of her right, and suhmitt.ng toa condition which she re gards as intolerable, they would make tnemselves parties with the Government in placing an unjustifiable constraint upon a sovereign and an equal. We wish that the necessity of .■ eparate ac'mti by South Carolina, which we have contein|>! aed. may he averted. We confide ill the gallant spirits wh m we address. There may it- some hope ol tbo as sembling of a Southern Congress, to d> vise mea sures of redross and relief, upon which some of the injured Slates may unite. We have heretofore been willing to sacrifice much for 8 uthern Union. We still are. We do not desire to lead but to follow Propose any effectual measures tor vindicating our comm m rights, and providing for our common safe ty, and we wifi heartily unit, yvitu you in carrying them out. We should icgret most deeply to incur the censure of friends, with whom we have the strongest desire to act in concert. 6ut we leel a deep conviction that we have riot acted heretofore with any precip tation, and that we are ii the right in the determination which we have formed. The seli’-abaseii'.eut of submission, appears to us unwor thy of men still preteuding to*bc free. The gloo.ny prospect of inevitable ruin, to follow submission, appears to us more f irmida le than any dangers to he encounte ed in contending .and me, against what ever odds, for our rights. We have erme to the deliberate conclusion, that if it be our fate to be left alone in the struggle, aionawe feist vindicate our liberty to secession. fe, * | NUMBER 22. Imaginary Evils. Lt to-morrow take care of tomorrow, Luve things of the futuie to fate, Wh it’s the use to anticipate sorrow? Life’s troubles come never too late; J:t hope over much error, •Tis one tfiat the wise have preferr’d; And how often have hearts been in terror Os evils that never oecurr’d Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow; Short aid dark as our life may appear, Wo may make it still darker by sorrow Still shorter by folly and fear. Half our troubles are half our invention. And olten from blessings conlerr and Have we shrunk, in the wild apprehension Os e'ils that never occurr’o! ONE WAY TO FIGHT A DUEL. A Scotch naj ir, tvh > had been so skill ful with a sword as to fight several duels, with repeated suxesa, but who, on account of his extreme desire for quarreling, when a little intoxicated, and lor his boasted cour age, was deserted and despistd by his lirutherolficers, > aiue one evening to a large company. There happened to be present a Yankee, an officer of the same retinient which was then stationed, He related a mong other things, the failure of a certain expedition, in which he had the tnisfoituße to be wounded. ‘That was because you were a rascally set of cowards,’observed the major. •You are a d—d liar! says the Yan kee. The company started. The Scotchman looked down on him with as much contempt as G Mali did upon David, and immediately asked, ‘Are you a man to meet me?” • Ye?,* replied the Yankee, at any time and where you please, only with the pro viso, that we meet w ithout sec mds.’ ‘Well, then to-morrow morning at 5 o’- clock, at -.- ‘Agieed.’ The company present endeavo ed to Jissuide the Yankee, telling him the ina j>r had every advantage where he had nq|p, and he had betu r compromise mat ters ere he sh< uld have cause to repent his rashness, but I e still pers'sted. The next morning the Yankee repaired to the place somewhat before the appoint ed hour, armed with a large musket.— Sh rtlv after, ihu major made his appear ance with a brace of pistols and sword.— Before he had advanced far, the Y’ui.kee. in an austere tone, bid him stop or he would blow his brains out. l’he major, struck with aimizeirn lit at this unexpected stra tagem, reluctantly obeyed, but expostulat ed with him on the injustice of such un gentlemanlike proceedings. The Yankee was implacable, and determined to punish him f >r past conduct, and the abuse he had himself received. ‘Lay down your sword and pistols!’ says he, (still presenting his ’and to the right about face, march!’ The pooi major w as again under the ne cessity of obeying, and, uttering a volley of curses against his star, passively submit ted. The Yankee then quietly took pos session of his arms. ’’Tis base, ’tis cowardly, thus to disarm me of ail defence!’ says the major. •No,’ replied Ins fellow combatant, I will deal honorably with you ; there, take my musket (thr< wing it towards him, ) and de fend your life!’ He,quite incensed, seized the weapon with a mixture of exultation and precipitate vengeance, and, rushing forward, deniaii ded his arms, or he would blow’ him to hell! ‘Blow away and bed and !’ says the Yankee. Provoked at su< h unparalleled insolence in a fi’ of phienzy he drew the trigger.— Bm, alas ! the musket had not betn charged ! The glory of ourbrqggndocia was so sul lied. and his feelings so mortally tvi tttided by this indignity, that he sold his com mission and left the place. A Word to the Ladie s —Sew Mode of Making Bread. —Here is the recipe for a good sized loaf large enough to fill a com mon bread pan: Take three pounds of flou' - , mix with it three tea-spoonsfull of soda, passing the u-.holethrough a sieve in ord- rihat the soda may be W'ell mixed with the tlnur ; to one quart of water add a tgble spoonful of muriat ic acid in ihe liquid form; pour the mixture into the flour, and t:.i* the whole just enough to oet the ingredients fairly irnor orated together. Wet the hand in cold water and mouid it into shape, clap it at once into the oven, and during the cook ing of any meal, with five minutes’ labor, V u can have excellent biead. The soda and acids constitute the elements of com mon salt, and they not only raise the bread by combination, but salt it in tiie bargain. Try the experiment, ladies.r— Chicago 7Yi fjune. Precocity. —Charles the Twelfth trans lated Quintus Curtins at eight years <>f age. j Montaigne was tauyhi Litm in his nurse’s j arms; it was the first language which he I spoke. Cartier was master ol five lan- i guagesal the age of nine years. When Cato was but fourteen years of age, he was in Scylla’s house a witness of his tyiunnies. “Give 11 e a sword.” said he, “and l will kill him. 1 am not afraid of him.” What three authors would you name, in commenting on an extensive conflagration? Dickons How itt, Burns. President’s Proclamation. —The pro clamaliou of the Piesident if the United States, (says the R.chmond tjaminer.j C ut fi.rth in consequence ot anew attempt at the invasion of Cubs, wlvch has fieen rumored for the last lew weeks, would give some weight to that report, did we not re collect what sort of Administration is now at the head of our affairs. Milliard Fill more is the “pale reflex” of the Regen cy’s folly. He starts at shadows, and a mong realities lie lias proven himself an imbteile. The present rumors about Cu ba are more baseless than shadows. No sensible person pays the slightest attention to them. The abortive attempt of Lopez, which did really take place a year or so ago, found no obstacle in the Whig admin istration. And when it was all over,those really engaged in it were allowed to j aes untouched while a number of the most distinguished, worthy and sober citizens of the South, who never had lot or part in it. were diaeged from their homes and put upon tri. I like so ni*.ny malefactors, before the Federal Court ol The ma jesty if a swvereign State insulted— ner rights laughed to scorn—and tier Gov ernor diaggfd at the hetfs of Federal pow er. This is what the Administration did in the South, while Boston, in the North, was resisting tfie laws which Vice President FiHinofe had s vujrn to maintain. His pro clamation is put out on these vague stories tor no other-purpose we can Conceive ‘of. than to fill up the measure ofpopalar scorn for himself and his party. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 16,1861. Southern Rights Meeting. At a meeting us the Southern Rights party o Muscogee county, held by previous appointment at the Court House, in Columbus, at 12 o’clock on Tuesday the 13th inst, On motion of the Hon. Joseph Sturgis, Col Vast Leoyard was railed to the Chair, and Wita liam H. Chambers appointed Secretary. The Chairman announced the object of the meet? ing to lie to appoint delegatee to represent the South ern Rights paity of Muscogee county in the several convei lions, which are to meet, respec'ivcly, at Mil* ledgeville and Albany, for the nomination us candi dates for Governor aid Congressman On motion of lion. A. Iversoy, the Chairman appointed a committee consisting of Judge Ivkiisoy Col. Beyyiyg. Mahtiy J. Crawford, Judge Thomas, and H. S. Smith, Esq., with in structions UP report to the meeting the names of suitable delegates to represent this county in each of the proposed conventions. After a shoit conference, the committee report ed the following names: Delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention at Mi'ledgeville: Maj JOHN H. HOW ‘ RD. MAR TIN J. CRAWFORD. JAMES COOK, ‘of Hal lota.) JOHN FORSYTH and D WEST. E-q*. Delegates to ihe Convention at Albany: Major WILEY WILLIAMS. R. J. MOSES. Esq., Gen. P. J.SEMMES. A. H. FLEW ELLEN, (of James town.) and W. A. BEDELL, Esqrs. These nominations were unanimously corfirin ed by the meeting, and each delegation was autho rized to ill! any vacancy that might occur in its number. On motion of Mr. Wriiir Williams, it was Resolved , That the Southern Ri-hts party in each district of Muscogee cou. ty he requested to meet at their respective Cosu r t Houses on the first Saturday in June next, and si-point two delegates each, to meet with the delegates front Stewait coun ty in convention, to nominate a candidate for the State Senate for this District. 2d. That we concur in the suggestion made by our friends of Stewart county, that this Conven tion be held in Columbus on the 3J of July next. On motion of Maj. Wiley Williams, it was Resolved, That a committee of eleven persons be appointed hv the chairm <u of this in°etin ;, with in structions to report to an adjourned me-ting a se ries of resolutions expressive of the principles and policy of the Southern Rights party of Muscogee county. The following persons contiiute that committee . Messrs. Wiley Williams, Alfred Iversoy 11. L. Bknviyo. M. J Crawford. G. E. Thomas H S. Smith, R. J. M sks. Juhy Fohstth, Y v m H. Crawford, Jso. A. Joses and A. S. Ruth erford. On motion of Judge Sturgis, the proceedings of this meeting were ordered to he published in the Times and Sentinel of this city. The meeting then adjourned to Saturday next at 12 o’clock, when it will re-assemble at this place to hear the re| ort of the committee, at which time a general attendance of the party is requested. VAN LEONARD. Chairman, Williay H. Chambers, Secretary. WHERE ARE WE ? Asa m mber if the Southern Rights Party, this question forces itself upon us for an answer. Are we at sea without chart, compass or aim, or are we fast-an? chored to a grand an 1 determined purpose by the unyielding chain cable of princi ple 1 Are we fighting for something, to-w it: the rights of our Southern country; or are we fighting for nothing —to-wit: the hon ors and the offices of a mere party victory over our party adversaries? These ques tions demand a solution. We desire for our own edification and guidance to have them authoritatively answered and settled. r Jpon the answer wholly depends our course of action during the months of can? vass to intervene before October next. If we are to contend for a great purpose, a practical end and the triumph of Southern Rights principles, we are ready to enter the arena, stripped and armed for the con flict, to do battle with our best might against all corners, in a glorious cause.— But, if the object he only, to beat the Na tional Union Macon Regency candidate of the subm.ssionists, and that is to be done bycloaking our real principles and hid ing our supposed unpopular “'iews from the people ; why then, we shall take very little trouble and interest in a contest so bootless, in a quarrel so impotent and puerile. With our earnest and solemn convictions of the perils of the times, and the momentous interests at stak- , noth ing less than the rights and liberties of a whole people, and all, as we have fondly supposed in the sacred keei ing efthe Southern Rights party ; we cannot waste our ink or our feelings in a contest, whereat the threshold,the banner is thrown down, for the sake of tfie great principles inscribed on which, the field Js alone woith contesting and the victory worth having. “The game is not worth the Qan? die.” Our friends are shortly going into con vention to nominate a candidate for Gov ernor and we suppose to adopt a creed, which as a party, they will offer for the acceptance or rejection ot the People.— In anticipation of this, we regret to see, efforts in several quarters already being made, to prepare the convention tor the work of emasculating the Southern Rights Party. Having first demented themselves ! with the idea that the cause rtf the South is unpopular with the people of the South, on account of the sternness of the remedies | necessary to its defence; these gentlemen 1 propose to soften all these asperities and to make it palatable so a submissive and spiritless people, by plucking from resis tance’ everything but its name. They are frightened by their own cause, and alaim ed at its exigencies of duty and danger an.d they are doubly alarmed lest the Peo ple can never be persuaded to dare take those steps, which they know and believe are necessary to save the rights of the People. Now all this, we hold to be false policy, fal*e logic, false morals, false poli ties, and a lettinv down from the high du; ties which attach fi the Southern Rights Party, as the only shield that stands be tween Fanaticism and its victim—the South. If our cause is a good one, stand by it, and be not ashamed of it, through minority or majority, through evil or good report. If the safety of the South requires that Seces sion should be looked fairly in the laca (and sophistry jtself cannot gainsay it) why let us look at it boldly and unblench ingly, no matter how ugly its squint or for bidding its look. What we would inculcate in the case is the virtue of “ honesty as a policy” and to protest loudly against the a.tempt to loiver our standard because it appears to be unpopular. We must have faitti and hope. Our causo must be popu lar in the end. Moral causes of a mighty nature aye conspiring to push on and heap up tfie dangers and aggressions from which we are now suffering. Abolition bigotry will force the crisis to a head, anti then our standard will wave in triumph, else the South will go down in ruin. It ia the destiny of the Southern Rights party (if true to itself) to save the South; if QLse, -to pei ish with it. , Tn the'Tederal Union of the 6th inst. is an article Warded tfie “Wilkinson county