Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...peace, safety, and honor of South Carolina required imperatively that she should no longer continue in alliance with a people thus faithless to their Constitutional obligations. From men whom no treaty could bind, she held it idle to ask for additional guaranties, and resolved, with unparalleled unanimity, to separate herself from them. - Some of the members of the Georgia Legislature have urged that final State action be deferred until a meeting of the Southern States can be had, to confer together for our common safety; but simultaneously we have received from Alabama, Mississippi and from Georgia, communications urging immediate and finiil action as indispensable to the safety of the entire South. These communications are from sources entitled to our utmost respect. If a conference of the Southern States is had, it can have but two objects: one to patch up a hollow truce with anti-slavery, which denounces our institution as a crime, and which will hold all the power of the Government in all its departments in all time to come; the other to concert measures for final separation, and for the formation of a Southern Confederacy. South Carolina has ordained her separation from the Federal Union. This she has done under a high sense of the responsibilities which attach to her, and her relations to her Southern sister States. Having weighed the consequences, she has resolved to go out of the Union alone, sooner than submit to the open as well as secret warfare carried on against her peace and safety. The other object of a Southern Conference--the formation of a Southern Confederacy, she anxiously desires, and most cordially invites. The Committee submit the following resolution: Resolved, That a copy of this report be transmitted by the...