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From the Carolinian and Telegraph.

To Many "Voters."

I am grateful to "Many Voters" for the courteous and kindly tone of the card published in the Carolinian of yesterday. and respectfully answer, that in discussing the main question at issue in the State, I supposed I had distinctly defined my own position in relation to it. I will repeat, that I believe concert of action so highly to be desired that it must be earnestly sought through the proposed Southern Congress, or otherwise; and in the language of a prominent citizen and secessionist of Richland, in his published speech, "what may take place hereafter, when we fail to procure co-operation, if we should fail, may properly be left to the future;" especially, I would add, as that future has in part been provided for by "the people of the State," acting through two-thirds of the Legislature.

Lest, however, this may not seem sufficiently explicit, I beg to repeat language of my own, published within a month past:

"I that Congress meets and dissolves without adjusting the preliminaries of a Southern Confederacy, I believe South Carolina will be justified in any course she may choose to adopt." Whatever that course may be, either for single secession or co-operation, I will support it with all the energies with which I am endowed. I do not feel myself, or any citizen, justified in deciding or dictating beforehand what the ordinance of that convention should be.

The keenest prophecy cannot foretell what may be necessary to save the commonwealth from detriment. The convention will be entirely competent to that end.

JNO S. PRESTON.

Mount Elon, Darlington Dist.

September 5th, 1851.