The Athens Post

South Carolina State Convention.
We copy the report of the Committee of Twenty-One appointed by the South Carolina State Convention, recently assembled at Columbia, from the Charleston Courier of the 1st instant:
The report was presented by Mr. Cheves and is as follows:
"The Committee of Twenty-one, to whom was referred an act to provide for the election of deputies to a Southern Congress and the call of a Convention, with instructions to consider and report thereon, respectfully report
That they have considered the subject referred to them, and have concluded to recommend to the Convention the adoption of the accompanying Resolution and Ordinance:
Resolved, by the people of South Carolina in Convention assembled, That the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the sovereign States of this Union, especially in relation to slavery, amply justify this State, so far as any duty or obligation to her confederates is involved, in dissolving at once all political connection with her co-States, and that she forbears the exercise of that manifest right of self-government from considerations of expediency only.
An Ordinance to declare the right of this State to secede from the Federal Union.
We the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained,
That South Carolina in the exercise of her sovereign will, as an independent State, acceded to the Federal Union, known as the United States of America, and that in the exercise of the same sovereign will, it is her right, without let, hindrance, or molestation from any power whatsoever, to secede from the said Federal Union: and that for the sufficiency of the causes which may impel her to such separation, she is responsible alone, under God, to the tribunal of public opinion among the nations of the earth."