Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-11-29

IONS mat are TO constitute the capital OF the wamongeIs
There is to be much noise and bullying We bea
this, il is to be hoped The history Of the country from th
Revolution to this day, has shown clearly the true tempe
Of the South, and especially of South Carolina where tn
rights and honor of the Union involved for any bod
TO be disturbed by the auterees of sefseekng politicians w
fear not with Great Britain for righteous cause w
forced the last war; when that section whose wer
outraged and whose ships harassed and consated
only opposed it, but ready before ended to side witt
the enemy.
Give good and will be ready for war again
although TO the South only be unmgated evil
is otherwise to the North and West AT the North the ta
IS now the predomnaing interest and rather than its powe
should be sapped, the whole tariff party will go for war; 70
the same reason that they formerly opposed WARRIOR the
reason that they now support every profgae scheme
expenditure Another war, and the tariff policy is fixed for
ever on the country, from the public debt wi
create and the heavy taxation imports necessary to the ex
tinguishment Of that debt Another war; and the Fedora
Government may acquire such strength and mastery as TO b.
completely consolidated All struggles for State rights ant
the limitations of the Constitution will be smohered in III,
oveshadowing usurpatons Of the central power All reform
will be Desperate and the majority Of Congress- which is with
the North, will be substituted for the Constitution wal
will thus make the free States predominant and the South
subject.
To the West also offers its brbes No invader will
d
brave people indeed if there is any thing they love bette
than Dragging, it is actual blows They will have all the plea
sures OF buster turmoil, and fighting with Of the bgh
and horrors Of They will have eye business also
and will not be nsensbe to the profit of feeding armies
at waprces In the last they sold -four at their own
doors for twenty dollars barrel What &scble argument
this to prove that Western interests require war Thus
the Eastern manufacturers will flourish by complete mono
poly OF the market OF the Unon and the Western farm
er will flourish through the demands of the army for their
produce
How will il be with us The South will be the seat of the
war; Her every interest will be sacrificed while il continues
and when it is she will be ground down by oppressive
taxes to pay its Property power safety, all will be
enguphed in the abyss which they urging u.s. Those
efforts for reform and liberty which have been her impulse and
life for twenty years. and to se which is the very aim of
this project OF will perish exhaustion and impotence
Even the shipping interest Of the North may indemnify it.
self for the interruption of peaceful commerce. by pundernp
the commerce OF the enemy What resource what aeva-
hon. what indemnity is there for the South What to be-
come OF her two million bales of cotton consumed in Europe
What of her other products dependant on the market of the
world The North and West have little that other nations
want the South finds abroad almost the entire market for her
products Is there any comparison h between the losses
OF the different sections of the Union BY with the chief
customer of the South and the powerful nation of the
world
Among Christian surely canno be necessary to urge
reasons against the policy of If there be no high and
urgent necessity for bringing upon the country and the world
its consuming wasefor letting loose lis beasy passions and
staining the earth with bood-then iswar of the most
enormous crimes man commit The humanzing inter-
course OF nations the arts of peace the security of home the
of religion, the love of justice, t impulses of mercy
all shrink from the track of and perish in its triumphs
Is not imperative duty demand our rulers to show
not only that rights involved in tbs dispute with Eng
land but that every peaceful of swing them has been
exhausted. our title TO Oregon indeed clear and
unquestonabe the President deems not taken
from ourselves the moral right of pushing excu
sive claim after twice offering divide the territory with
England, and submitting to joint occupation of with her
for twenty years And when she offers TO leave it to
the judgment of impartial third party how can we refuse
without loading ourselves with the responsibility of wuy
and unprovokedy breaking the peace Of the world Shall
we not be in the wrong in the estimation of all chsendom and
fight those must who fight against the moral of
kind But when have in reality title at all to Oregon
when is scarcely worth the trouble Of diplomatic
ic and when all difficulties concerning be peacefully
settled It is outrage religion and law and sense talk
of Every who values the honor and the character
Of the country ought stand up and dsnnce it. and our
rulers ought to be made feel that the People something
more than dice in their games for power.
We have thus laid views of this grave question before
readers If have misunderstood the designs the
Administration shall be very ready to acknowledge
But neither be answered silenced by de-
nuncaton and noise We believe have the truth and the
right of the question: and that duty and honor and the saliva
ton of the South demand the of these convc
lions. We know the risk in announcing them but
act in the belief that the People will be u.s. as we
shall prove ourselves true 10 them.