Message From Governor Pickers

On Murch 2S, Gov. Piekens8ent in a long Message to tho Süiilh 'Carolina State Convention, now in session. First he explains the inactton in re Fort Sumpter, - tho G. S. A. took from him nll respons! bil) ty in tho premises. The troop which Lhe Stato (-nlitod for this parpóse, with the officers, are still in oommÍ8aioo, and Gov, Pickens urges the neceesity of their being provided lor by iho Confedérate ftötbority. - Thusfar the exjjonditures oí the State in her now cxpei iuient t)uveJjeed[$6ÏO, 017, ot which ainount 8190,000 was disbursed by the Ordinnnce Board. Sinue tilia expensó was inínfred for the eoinmon woal, Gov. PiokoDSOshemhes the belief tliai the 0. S. A. will nesume it. Sorne aetioo shou!d bo t:iken auborizrng the transfer to the new Govèroment of tho irras Beized by the C. S. A. Having di.posed of these practical muttero, Gov. Piekeos proceeded to set lbrth the pliüosophy of' the seocsiioii movement. Hitherto ui the histoty of the worlj the Btruggtu bas been to secure personal 1'igbín. That has been nccoHTplished, The United Si atos Government vas framed to secure the riglits of poütical communitifiR ; and having failud in tliat object it boonme ÉecesBary to make a new nttempt. The Governor ad ds : "Our State truc to tho groat principies upop which tho Confederacy was fbrmed, and trup to those great and progreFsiye ideas which were ao dentified with Amcrienn Indepandancc, was forced to resume her original powors ot goverhinent ; and ïf she succeeds in engraftiiig the. fundamental nghts of a separate and independent State to with draw f rom. ani Confederan that may be formcd, whejiecer her people, in sovereigi concention assemhlcd, shall so decide, then shall we have made anuther advahce in the science of government, and added another guaraatee to the great principie of civil libcrty. And ií' thij principie could be secured without an appèal to arins und blood, it would show that the country has progretsaed in civilization and utelligoncc, so far as to be able to settle all eontroversies and issues involving polilical rights by an appeal to reason, to interest, to [ree discussion, to conventiors, to treaties and covenants, rather than by an appeal to brutal forcé."