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To the Hon. the President and Members of the 
 
 Convention of the Independent State of South Carolina: 
 
 Gentlemen — I am to-night informed that a resolution 
 was this day adopted, inviting me to a seat on the floor of 
 your Convention. P#r the compliment thus paid my State, 
 in my person, please accepl my grateful acknowledgments. 
 I regret that engagements elsewhere imperatively forbid 
 the enjoyment of your proffered courtesy. 
 
 Intelligence receded to-night makes " assurance douhly 
 sure," that Alabama stands by the side of South Carolina, 
 prepared to share with her a common destiny. 
 
 Information obtained on diligent inquiry in the last few 
 days, justifies me in saying that the gallant sons of North 
 Carolina, ami Virginia, are now ready to rally around the 
 standard of Southern Rights and Honor, which you have 
 so gloriously reared ; and that those two States will also be 
 members, in all probability, of the Great Southern Confed- 
 eracy by the 4th of next March. The other Slave States 
 must sooner or later take the same course, or be involved 
 in inevitable ruin. To the bold, deliberate, and decisive 
 action of your body, arc the people of the South indebted 
 for the great movement which must end in the vindication 
 of their rights : and the future historian must award to 
 South Carolina the honor of leadership in carrying out the 
 measures destined to release them from the wrongs and 
 oppressions under which they have so long and so patiently 
 suffered. 
 
 With sentiments of profound consideration, I am, 
 Most respectfully, 
 
 J. W. GARROTT. 
 
 Charleston, December 26, 1860. 
 
George Washington Flowers 
 Memorial Collection 
 
 DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
 
 ESTABLISHED BY THE 
 
 FAMILY OF 
 
 COLONEL FLOWERS 
 
 Duke Uaiver«ity Library 
 

 
 
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