THE NATIONAL CRISIS: Proceedings of the South Carolina Convention; Editorial: The Bugbear of Coercion; THE POLITICAL CRISIS: Views Regarding the Question of Secession (12/22/1860)

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CHARLESTON, Friday, Dec. 21.

The Convention met at noon.

Prayer was offered, invoking God's blessing on the new Confederacy.

Immediately after reading the journal --

Mr. ADAMS moved to exclude the reporters and strangers.

Mr. HARLLER offered a written substitute, appointing a Committee to wait on the Governor, so that the Convention can advise with him, in secret session, relative to the present state of affairs. Laid aside.

Mr. ADAMS wanted the presence of the Postmaster Carried.

Mr. INGLIS wanted an official reporter. Lost.

Mr. RHETT reported from the Committee appointed to prepare an address to the Southern people. Mr. RHETT read the report on the request of the President.

After being read, Mr. POPE moved that an address be not reported until final action was taken.

Mr. CARN moved that it be printed, and made the special order for to-morrow, at 1 o'clock.

A member desired that it should be given to the world in the precise form and voice as the action of the Convention, not subject to alteration in reporting, to convey wrong impressions when it was read to-morrow over the country.

Mr. POPE desired that it be not published in the journals.

The vote on the question that the report be published, but not in the public journals, was carried -- only 3 nays.

The question making it a special order for 1 o'clock to-morrow was carried unanimously.

Mr. WARDLAW, from the Committee appointed to prepare an oath of office for the fourth article of the South Carolina Constitution, reported as follows:

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The National Crisis: Proceedings of the South Carolina Convention – 2-3
Our Washington Dispatches – 3-4
Editorial: The Bugbear of Coercion – 4-5
A False Representation – 5
Information – 5
Hon. Edward Bates and the Cabinet – 5
Brutalities Committed by the Indians in Texas – 5
Military and Naval Intelligence – 5
Conflagration: Twelve Buildings Burned at Adams – 5
The Political Crisis: Views Regarding the Question of Secession – 7-11
Editorial: What Mr. Buchanan Means – 11