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MEETING AT ORANGEBURG. Pursuant to a call, a meeting of the citizens of Orangehurg District was held this day, 6th insl., in the Court House, which was well filledOn motion of Capt. Jacob Stroman, Hon. S-Glover was called to the Chair, and Drs. T. A. Elliott and J. W. Taylor appointed Secretaries. ThejCbairman then made some brief remarks stating,the object of the meeting._ Gen. D. F. Jamison then rose and moved e appointment of a Committee of Twenty-Fire, to take into consideration the continued agitation by Congress of the question of slavery, whereupon the following Committee was ap .pointed:—Gen. D. F. Jamison, Capt. Jacolt Sfoman. Capt. Donald Rowe, Capt. P. S. Jennings. Major D. J- Rumph. Col. W. L. Lew,,, Capt. Murray Robison. Dr. W. S. Rowe, J. B-M'Michael, John H. Felder. Dr. J. D. Rumph, Col. A. On, J. J- Wannamaker. Thos. Oliver, Capt. Lewis Felder, Major D. S. Dannelly, Capt. O. M. Dantzler, Capt. D. HU*er. J. J. Andrews, Dr. Benjamin Lewis. Henry Ellis, L. E. Cooner, Dr. J. H. Morgan, Capt. L. E. D. Bowman, Capt. V. D. V. Jamison.During the absence of the Committee, Capt. T. B. Whaley addressed the meeting; alter which, the Committee through their Chairman, Gen. Jamison, made the following report:The Cotnmitlpee appointed to take into con-aideralion the continued agitation by Congress of the question of alavery, what checks can be interposed to prevent such attacks upon the character and inslituiions of the Sooth; and if that cannot be prevented, to declare what -:-ind they are now prepared to take on this most im-porlant sulqect, beg leave to submit the fid-lowing Report and the accompanying Resolu-tions:The ime has arrived when the slaveholding Slates ofthis confederacy must take decided ac. iioo upon the continued attacks of the North against their domestic institutions, nr submit in silence to that humilaling proposition in the opinions of mankind that longer acquiescence must inevitably reduce them. Forliearanre is often a virtue with tuitions as with individuals, but when it involves the loss of position or character in either, it i* base, dishonorable sub-mission. If the South wil! permit the Const itution to bo trampled under foot—if she is willing to become a fixed minority, used only to assist in registering edicts for a jealous, bos-tile and unjust majority, who admit no rule to govern but their own wills, and no measure but the keenest conception of ihoir own interest, it is best that it should be known to us at once, and that we should endeav .r to accommodate ourselves, as well as we may. to a state of things so degrading. That such will be the inevitable result of longer mbmission to the incessant attacks on our characters and institutions, your Committee for a moment doubt, unless the South shall take firm and concerted action to prevent (t. The agitation of the subject of slavery commenced in the fanatical murmurings of a few scattered abolitionists, to whom it was a long time confined; but now it has swelled into a torrent of popular opinion at the North; it bas invaded the fireside and the Church, the press and the balls of Legislation ; it has seized upon the deliberations of Congress, and at this moment is sapping the foundations, and about to overthrow the fairest political structure that the ingenuity of man has ever devised.The overt efforts of abolitionism were con-fined foi a long period to annoying applications to Congress, uuder color of the pretended right of petition—it has since directed the whole weight of its malign influenre against the annexation of Texas, and had well nigh cost to tbe country the loss of that important province; but emboldened by success and the inaction of the South, in an unjust and selfish spirit of national agrarianism, it would now appropriate the whole public domain. It might well have been supposed that the undisturbed possession of the whole of Oregon Territory would have satisfied the non-slarebolding Slates. This lt;her now hold, by the incorporation of the Ordinance of 1787 into the bill of the last session for establishing a territorial government for Oregon. 'ITiat provision, however, was not sostained by them from any apprehension that the territory could ever be settled from the States of the South, but it was intended as a gratuitous insult to the Southern people, and a malignant and unjustifiable attack upon the in-atiinlion of slavery.Tbe boundary between the slaveholding and nofl-alaveholding Slates was supposed to be fixed by a solemn compact on the two sections known as tbe Missouri Compromise, and the line of 30 deg. 30 min. North latitude was a-doptefl as the limit between them. Whatever may be the opinions of your Committee as to lt;b« propriety of this compact, and of the concessions made hy the South to preserve tho U-nilt;m, they would not now be willing to see it disturbed, as it has been sanctioned by time and long acquiescence; but beyond that, they would not concede one inch, should it shalterthis con (ederacy into thirty fragments. It i« this further concession that we are no w called upon to make. Indeed, no new line has ever been hinted at. Weir e called upon to give up the whole public domain to the fanatical cravings of abolitionism and tbe unholy lust of political power. A territory, acquired by the whole country for the use of all, where treasure has been squandered like chaff, and Southern blond has been poured out like water, is sought be appropriated by one section, because the other chose to adhere to an institution, held not only under the guarantees of the constitution that brought this confederacy into exiilence but under the higher sanction of Heaven. Should we quietly fold our hands under this assumption on the part of the non-slaveholding States, the fate of the South is sealed, the institution of slavery is gone, and its existence will be but a '.uestion ol limo — Are tbe Southern people prepared for such a base abandonment 0f their natural, social and political rights? Your Committee hope not— they believe it not. What, then, shall be the remedy? Your Commitee are unwilling to anticipate what will be ihe result of the combined windom and joint acticn ofthe Southern portion of tbe confederacy on this question; but as an initiatory step to a concert of action on the part of the people ofSouth Carolina, they respect-fully recommend for the adoption of this meeting tbe following Resolutions:Resolved, 1 si. That the continued agitation of the question of slavery by the people of the non-slaveholding States, by their Legislatures, and by their Representatives in Congress, exhibits not only a want of national courtesy, which should always exist between kindred 8tates, but is a palpable violation of good faith towards the slave-holding Slates, who adopted tbe present Constitution “in order to form a more perfect Union.”Resolved, 2d. That while we acquiesce in adopting the boundary between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States, known as tho Missouri compromise line, we will not submit to any fur'ber restriction upon the rights ol any Southern man to carry his property and his institutions into territory xcquired hy Southern treasure and by Southern blood.Resolved, 3rd. That should the W’ilmot Pro. viso, or any similar instruction, be applied by Congress to the territories ol the United Stales, south of 38 degrees. 30 minutes North latitude, we recommend to our Representative in Congress, as the decided opinion of this portion of his district, to leave his seat in that body and return home.Resolved. 4/A. That we respectfully suggest to both Houses of the Legislature of Smith-Carolina to adopt a similar recommendation as to our Senators in Congress, from this Stale.Resolved, 5th. Thai upon the return home of one Senators and Representatives in Congress, the Legislature of South-Carolina should be forthwith assembled, to adopt such measures as as the exigency may demand.Resolved. 6/A. That a copy of the foregoing Report and Resolutions be. transmitted by the Chairman ol this meeting to our Represetita-tive in Congress, and that copies of the same be laid before both bodies of the Legislature of South-Carolina.After a few remarks by the Chairman of the Committee, tho Report and Resolutions were seconded by Capt. V. D. V. Jamison, who was followed by Capt. O. M. Dantzler.The Resolutions were then submitted seriatim, and together with the Report, were unanimously adopted.On motion of Capt. Jamison, it was ordered that copies of the proceedings of this meeting be sent In the Charleston Courier and Mercury, and the South-Carolinian, wilh a request that they should be published.S. GLOVER, Chairman.J. W. Taylor,T. A. Elliott,Secretaries.From ttic Columbia Telegraph.MEETING IN FAIRFIELD.November 6, 9 p. m.Drab Sir : I hasten to give you the result | ofthe Fairfield Southern safely movement.—| At 12 M., today, one of the most respectable j meetings, in point of numbers and intelligence, | I hnve ever seen, assembled in the Court House | at Winnsboro’. After the usual preliminaries j had been gone through, a Preamble and Reso- j lulinns, expressive of the sense ofthe meeting on the grave subjects which had called them [ together, was reported by the committee of I twenfy one appointed for the purpose. As these Resolutions will soon be furnished fir the press.it is unnecessary to notice them, further than lo say they embody ihe trtto boutnern | spirit. The Resolutions were opposed by ( Messrs. Rutland and Buchanan, two promising , young lawyers, as premature and not indicating the. proper course of action. They were replied lo hy Gen. Means, in one ofthe most elo. quenl and convincing arguments I have ever listened to. He was ably sustained by Messrs. McCall, Black, and Elliott, Upon the final passage of the resolutions, there was but two dissenting voices out ofthe immense crowd there assembled. It is lait just to the two gen-tlemea opposing the resolutions to state that they avowed their readiness, when the proper time came, to go as far as any one in defence of our right* and our institutions. So too of the two gentlemen who voted against the final passage ofthe resolutions. We may differ asto time and the mode of action, but there can be no difference among us as to the extent of the wrong.You, my dear tir, know how despondent 1 have been upon this subject. I will despond no longer. I have never seen sn much enthu-siasm at any meeting upon any si lijeet as this The people, the unpitrchased people, were there in their strength, showing by their inter est in ihe proceedings, their unalterable deter-mination to stand hy the Constitution, and their rights under that Constitution. It would have cheered your drooping spirits lo have been there and witness the harmony between Democrats and Whigs, Cass men and anti-Cass men, Taylor men, all sacrificing their prejudices and political defforences upon the altar ofthe public good. Let this sprit pervade nil sections ol Ihe South, and she will jet be regenerated and disenthralled. Tho spirit which animated a glorious ancestry sldl nestles in the bosoms of our people. It is “not dead, but sleepelh.”— Let but Virginia or the Old North State or Georgia, whose gallant sons once threw down Ihe gauntlet ofdefiancc lothe insolence of power and stayed the strong arm of the Federal Gov-eminent, but lead off in his matter, and my life upon it, South Carolina will be there. In a great cause like this, the post of honor is a private slalion.” We covet no other. A patriot who fight* for his country, fight* as bravely in the ranks as at the head of a division. Yet should ourco.Slates of the South Inil us in tho hour of utmost—need—shall we lamely submit to an act of damnable injustice nnd wrong, he-cause we may stand alone? God forbid. Wc ask the co operation of our suffering allies; we ask them to lead off in the contest—will they do it? Who can doubt it? A common sen*e of injury will bring about a common struggle, and the Constitution will yet be preserved, and tbe rights of tbe South maintained.Yours, ‘A Democrat.Gallantry of ax American Whaleman. \ citizen of New.Bedford furnishes theWashington Union with the following record ofthe gallantry of the officers and crew of an American Whaler:You have recorded in your columns repeated instance* of American valor and hardihood exhibited during the late war. But a few days since, you noticed the affair of San Jose, in Lower California- About the same time, the whale ship Magnolia, Capt. B. Simmons, lie-longing to Charles W. Morgan, Esq., of (his city, arrived in port wilh n full cargo. I he incident* connected wilh her voyage along the California coast possesses so much interest, display the energy, promtilude, and courage ofthe American character, together with the patriotic spirit of our seamen, to such a degree, that upon becoming acquainted wilh them, I resolved to communicate them to your paper.As the Magnolia was proceeding down the const, at a considerable distance from Sail Jose, she was hailed by two cr three launches, or small vessels, full of people- Upon approaching nearer, Capl. Siminnnx discovered that ono of ihein contained the alcalde of San Jose, who with others of the best families of the town, had taken refuge on hoard these boats. 'I bey informed him lhat there had been an insurrection against the United Stales aulhnrily, and that the Californians had pillaged the town and committed numberless outrages, and were then besieging tho priest’s house, which was the strongest in the place, and was occupied as a fiirl by the Americans. It was commanded hy Lieut. Haywood, and defended by only twenty five men. The alcalde further stated that there had been much firing during ihe day and night previoux, and he knew he must have nearly exhausted their ammunition, and must surrenderby tlspeedily unless immediate assistance wax rendered. Capt. Simmons, upon consultation withduct i sclvt
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