South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-29

/ Noah and Webb, and their coadiutors
denounce the Aboitionists, TO win
golden opinions" at the South boasI
Of their devotion to southern interests
and the former has recently publicly
adUertiscd has paper and himself "to
let" 70 southern men and while these
earnest manifestations of s'pecalidr''
zeal are so ostentatiousiy exhibiting,
obviously for sinister purposes, they
have the shameless audacity TO pretend
that Mr.. Yam Buren, is the candidate
of the aboitionists and this gross SLAM
der is greediIy seized upon by Duff
Green and his multiplying friends, and
accompanied with the paragraphs from
the Wing journals, protesting their alb
horrence of abolitionists, given to the
people ofthe South as public opinion at
the North Here, within the compass
of a nut she'll may be seen the whole
game. Noah is quoted, to prove that the
Wings of t:,e North are against the alb.
olitionists he is also quoted, to prove
that Mr.. Van Buren, is the candidate
Of the aboitionists; and to make the
deception complete, and give success
to their nefarious plot, the Richmond
Wing affects the greatest CONSERVATION,
and declares that if Mr.. Van Buren,
should be elected, fifty thousand Viz
ginians will be found ready to resist
him! These are not accidental coin.-
cidences-ihey are premeditated e.
forts parts carefully arranged in the
great political drama which is now
playing before the eyes OF the Ameri-
can people. Why then is the Enquir.
er anxious to know the "numbers,
means and designs of the Northern in
cendiaries?'' They dare not lay a
finger upon the Constitution-upon
that sacred and cherished instrument
of our Union which throws its protec-
Ting egis over the rights, the hves, and
the liberties of our southern brethren.
1t is agitation, agitation that they
want and is that all3 And if SO. is
not that enoughf Do not the politi-
cal fanatics at the North know that
it is just what their multiplying coadju-
tors of the South desite1 Will it not
aid them in building up southern
party /; in playing their political game;
in getting up prejudice against the
North and against MIR. Van Buren,, to
prevent whose triumph they would
shiver this Union tomorrow. The
charge that the northern agitators are
acting in concert and with a full under.
standing with the Nullifers ofthe South,
may seem harsh and uncharitable (; but
it is extraordinary that their movements
should be precisely such as the enemies
of the Union at the South desire, to
further their factious and reasonable
designs. To deny that there are in-
dividuals who are influenced by no
sinister purposes in the support they
give the fanatics, would indeed be
uncharitable; but while we readily
concede honesty of intentions to some,
and regret their delusion, we feel as
sured that the prominent and leading
agitators can plead no such excuse in
mitigation of their conduct.
Henry Clay sinking into Obscurity.'
The Globe, in talking about half
dozen things which il does not under
stand, says that tMr. Clay finds himself
fast sinking into obscurity.' Henry
Clay sinking into obscurity III! The
eloquen, defender OF rational liberty
the distinguished Senator-the states
man, whose praise is in all the civilized
earth, aud 10 whose labors in an emi-
uent degree does America owe her
present prosperity-such a man feel
himself sinking into obscurity !! AS
we'll might the monday feel that it was
going out in darkness. 1t is not for
sach man as Henry Clay to sink into
obscurity. There is no obscurity for
such man. Whatever situation he
occupies is an eminence--he makes it
SO. He may go forth among the mil.
lions of his kind, among men elevated
by office and by Office only, and with.
out extraneous aid, without the glare Of
station or the accidental advantage OF
patronage, he must stow above them
like the Hebrew youth, "higher than
they all from his shoulders upwards"
The only obscutation which such
iuminary as Henry Clay can suffer,
must be from "conjunclion" by those
dirty planets which shine with borrow"
ed light, and whose fulness is reieraoie
alone to their "oppOsition" to him.
The Globe mistakes absence from ex'
ecutive office for obscurity, and The
o~;s,oLa 10 n,,uraI The writers for