South Branch Intelligencer

Governor Hayne, of South Carolina, has issued an official paper, in the nature of an Executive Proclamation, on subject of the late decision of the Court of Appeals against the Test Oath. It is moderate in tone, and directs with much dignity the course to be pursued by those entrusted with the execution of the laws. Until the constitution is amended or, the decision is reversed, he holds that the decision of the court must be rigorously conformed. to, and therefore directs the commissions in the re-organized militia to be issued in pursuance of that decision, requiring no other oath than that which it recognizes as constitutional.

The Governor does not consider the crisis to require the summoning of an extra session of the legislature, as had been suggested in other quarters, but reserves the whole subject to the next legislature, to be chosen in October next, The test oath having been adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the present legislature, will, if passed by a similar vote in the next, be legally incorporated into the State constitution. This he calls an appeal to the highest source of power—the people.

The elections at the polls in October will, therefore, turn upon the test oath question.—Balt. Amer.