Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-03
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1916.
"THE SOUTH IN DANGER"

through their fears children who reason not, OF
in their heads to be able to govern otherwise. Un-
able to manage them with sense authority, they
resort to alarms threaten them with "raw-head
and bloody bones;'' and by the terrors Of some
thing that acts easily on their imaginatons-ol
things which they have never seen and never will
see--subdue them to their purpose.
This trick upon little people by those who are
only fit to misgovern them, has long ago been CO.
pied into what are called politics, and is much used
those whom they govern under pupilage, and rely
on the arts practised upon children as the main
means for bringing about, through mere unreason-
ing dread, all that cannot be effected through the
opposite imposture OF false hopes. Upon the SAN
guine they work by humbugs, and by bug-bears
uron the timid.
For this double mandatory Of alarms and of
gay expectations, the Locofoco cabals have long
been notorious. They ply the public credulity of
every quarter. While it served, they made MIR.
VAN buren, paragon of g Southern principles !"
and when he and Mr.. CLAY took the same ground
on annexation, they denounced him-then, for the
first time, recollecting his on the Missouri
compromise and the question of negro suffrage in
New York Always working on the unreasoning
passion of the day, they rely upon u to carry them
through every difficulty, every contradiction, every
mischief they infict, every crime they commit /;
nventing all the while new rights as soon as the
old are worn, out, and new promises as soon as the
old have grown ridiculous, they seem to think that
their followers, remaining in perpetual political
childhood, will continue to shudder just whenever
they drum some terror in their ears, and will dance
and clap their hands with infantile delight just
whenever it pleases them to show them some
bauble.
At this sort of tactics, our learned neighbor Of
the government organ here is strong. He was in
the time of the Southampton tragedy in Virginia,
so dreadully convused with dislike of slavery and
with the idea Of its dangers and wrongs, that it was
the utmost which sober Wings like Mr.. BENJAMIN
WATKINS LEIGH could do to argue down the rash
measures of emancipation into which he THAT ed-
tori would have hurried his State; and that very
Mr.. LEIGH he has since had the courage and the
conscience to accuse of being an Abolitionist for
to do so suited the party purpose of the moment.
No one ever heard whisper of dispeasure from
him when Mr.. MORTON, one of the most notorious
Abolitionsts of all the North was selected as the
Locofoco candidate for the Governorship of Mas
sachusetts, and was even 1--WE need not say by
what corruption) elected His loyalty to the
South was as little alarmed when the Admnistra-
ton of which he is magma pars' conferred upon
the same parsonage the reward Of an eminent fede-
rift IF a.
degree ruffled when Messrs. TAPpAN and DUNCAN,
two great guns of Abolition and Democracy in
Ohio, Numbered their anathemas at Southern slave
ry. Such, in word, is the versatility of the
Unions apprehensions, and so merely are these
directed to the party convenience of the instant
that its Edilor-himsef almost an Abolitionist in
ls3O-is now persisting in trying to frighten the
South against yhgism, by noise about certain
Abolition resolutions introduced into the late Wing
Convention in Massachusetts, although those reso-
buttons were most decisiuey REJECTED by that
Contention.
We have already abundantly explained to the
public this matter; but the Union perseveres in its
attempt TO make handle of it, For one thing above
almost all others distinguishes that journal. Horace
himself when, in laying down his rules for the bad
man of tragedy, he insists that he shall never re-
pent, but be to the last such as he began, could
have required nothing less capable than the Union
OF correcting mistake or repairing wrong. An
ticipating however, all such perversions and per-
sistance, the Boston Daily .fdUertiser-a paper not
more known for its authority among the Wings Of
Massachusetts than esteemed and trusted for its
moderation and candor-has, it seems, been at the
pains to disdUow for the Wings of Massachusetts
the doctrines and the policy of the rejected abol-
ton resolutions. That excellent and wise journal
confutes 1--WE think unanswerably) Mr.. PHLLrPs's
opinions and, whether it does or not, it certainly
explodes all pretence that the Wings there are
moving, as party, to catch the assistance of men
like this Political Abolition party" whom the
Wings know so well as fatal enemies in the cleo
ton which placed Mr.. Polk in the Presiden-
tial chair.
The Advertiser speaks Of the matter as follows !:
n publishing these resolutions length together with
the remarks Of the honorable introducing them
courtesy him. and part Of the proceedings Of the day.
il to ourselves, well the Wing party, ex-
press distinctly approval Of the Of the Convention by
cumsances should be disposed, the recction by
large majority Of propositions brought forward in body Of
this character let the pass by without remark
and to let the apparent discrepancy Of views between
bers of the Convention pass oblivion There are