South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-22

xation of the nation iteslf--the rights ola
certain description of property are TO be
SECURED. and tho evils flowing from ia
Iaticism. arrested, exterminated. We,
therefore. cannot be better represented
in the Senate than we are. If Mr.. Van
Buren, speaks at all land he must speak,
pe advise him to avoid his accustomed
mystical phraseoogy; for such is the
growth of the abohtionists. both in num-
hers and wealth, and such the frightful
aspect of the fanatics, that morality. hu.
manity, and every thing dear to the RAJ
tional man, is in jeopardy. 1t is not the
southern people alone who are interested.
the whole are equally so. A convulsion
would unsettle every thing, and throw
the country upon the areas o" blood and
carnage" Therefore, it is, that we look
to the national government alone-what-
ever is done must be national, and not Of
a sectional. character.
The elements Of discord are already
too widely spread for action through the
states separately; and we give the fol.
lowing items from the east and south
which will show how inadequate will be
any attempt at state legislation on the
subject.
From the Richmond Wing.
Tile North and the South-Fdnati-
cism--and Syren Songs.
The Journal of Commerce, which has
manifested full share of liberality in
words towards the South, on occasion of
the injuries it has sustained from the Fa-
natics--somewhat to our surprise, from
the general Anti Southern tendency of
its opinions, and hide bound theology
sHRiNKs when the North is invited and
entreated by the South to shield her
rights by the interposition of the law.
The Journal says.
"We shall adopt no such measures
as the Wing recommends. The thing
is as impracticable as the plans Of the
Abolitionists. We reason errors down
in this part Of the country, except that
now and then Of late years we have
tried mob. But the new process has
been found to work exactly by con.
traries, and we hope will never be tri-
ed again. By the process of reason.
ing we have brod8ht the Aboli,ionists
10 a stand, and by the same process,
with the favour Of Providence, (if the
South will lei US alone, will we entire
ly deprive them Of any power to do
mischief. II is about two years since
the Garrison sect assumed consequence
enough to attract public attehtion, and
we dare engage its race is fall halfrun.
We acknowledge that we think The
South has reason to complain loudly,
and TO be in some measura alarmed for
the effects of the inf1ammatory conduct
ofthe furious Aboitionists; and if their
course should ever come 10 be pursued
by the great mass OF Norlhern men, the
South would have reason to look a.
bout for remedies, perhaps even for
those which are violent. But why
should the South be separated from its
.t,iends--from a community, an i'm
mense majority ofwhom are for repress.
ing all violence-why take such
course merely 10 revenge the doings Of
asmall minority 7"
They REASON errors down at the
North! They have reasoned them down
with vengeance! They have reasoned
down the Atheists, the Agrarians, the
Abliotionists and Amalgamationists!--
Both the implied imputation upon the
South in HER treatment of errors, and
the compliment to the North are devoid
of force, because they are devoid oftruth.
Where is the evidence that the Abolition
lists have been "brought to stand"
either by reason or mobs? Were they
ever SO numerous, active, insolent, and
supplied with money and means for mis-
chief, as at this moment? The Journal
must have been sensible, that it was in
dting an assertion, refuted by all the
evidence in the case. We have been
told from the beginning, that public opin-
ion would put down the Abolitionists.
The cuckoo note has been repeated from
year to year, and the South has been
passive under the influence Of the delusive
promise. The Press at the North, with
one or two honorable exceptions, of edi-
tors who dare tell the truth, AGAINST
THEIR INTEREST, is now nearly unani-
mousin singing the same syren tune with
the Journal of Commerce. "Public opin-
ion is against the Fanatics--Ir will put
them down--they are few and conlemp-
tible y &c. The Van Buren, Press tells
the South so, for the benefit oftheir mas
ier--lha Whiu Press to allv Snnthern