The General Parkhill

In December last, a convention of delegates, whose election had been provided for by the Legislature of South Carolina, proclaimed her independence of the Constitutional Government of the United States. This revolutionary attempt has been followed by similar acts of such conventions in ten other States. The eleven States are contiguous. A revolutionary Constitutional Confederation has been organized in them under the usurped authority of these conventions, with a co-operation, or acquiescence, of those administering the former State Governments. Incidental hostilities against the United…