Weekly national intelligencer., 1846-11-21

and OF morality towards our Mexican nelghbors-
which many of the friends Of this war and Of its
contriyers would propagate As if the South were
nothing less than an idiot as to policy and ruflian
as 10 principles, it is piled with arguments as afro
cious these, and that by public blunderers SO
wanting in discretion as 10 put in print and scatter
by post over the whole country scheme at best
impossible as soon as made public, and las every
man knows who at all knows the South) quite as
abhorrent to very great majority Of is population
as to that of any other section
Let those who are so wilul or 50 needless as 10
proclaim these counsels, corrupt or so heart
less as 10 accept them, know somewhat better
the land which they have so wretchedly abused,
and which now, with the effort at this new deu-
sion, gloomer, more monstrous, and more fouy
homicdal than all the past, they SO much mistake
To wrap country like this in those civil fures
which they would gladly kinde up, something more
than mere arocity of purposes is necessary. Cat-
lnarian schemes besides demanding Catilina-
rian ability, ask influence which they have not,
credit which they never had but in the fiction Of
party, authority over something better than the
lowest myrmdons OF office, and the confidence of
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for an intestine war. Where are theirs for an enter
prise like this Who, even among the bad, will
trust people alike reckless and perfdious? 1t is
not such as they, then, who tear the country to
pieces. They aflct and they disgrace it.,
for their appointed time but to dismember it, by
fraricdal plot like this, is much beyond their
genius, il would appear to be within their will,
of public mischief
On the other hand. from North TO South, there
sa firm league of sober and just men, always good
against danger like this. Loosened, nay dissolv-
ed, by ordinary contests, by local diversities OF
view, it re-knits the instant you would attack that
UNION which has come, among us all, to embody
the pures and most sacred idea of country, for
every man capable Of feeling any such tie, or ov-
ing even his birthplace, his State, or his section.
OF this sentiment, in spite Of every effort of politi-
clans TO weaken it for their own i'll ends, there is
quite as much in the South as any where else; and
lei Tariff agations or Slavery aarmsm put on what
aspect Of unreal disatiection they may, the moment
people begin TO think the thing is ceasing to be a
mere make-believe, counterfeit for some party or
politician purpose, men recover their senses, see
the question with dsenchanted eyes, resume their
loyalty, and return to their duty
4 Nor is this all. The theory of Southern aggran
dizement now proposed will win The appreciation o
no man who will look twice at it, or who stops tc
consider, Uha BENEFIT 10 Southern power, mha
adcanfage to the permanent security of slave pro-
perty, has been realized by Annexation and its
sequel, this irrupGon into Mexico! What has the
South gained by it Nothing as yet, but an Ad-
ministration that was barely prevented from plung-
ing us into British war, which the South breads
more than all other things; quarrel with Mexico
which has already cost US more brave men thar
that whole country would be worth to us; grea
public debt; the raising up among us of terrbl,
spirit of ambition and aggression; the reproacl
against slavery, having set all this i'll foot III,
coming transfer of the slave population only little
further South so that that interest will lose as much
at this end it gains at the other and two Texan
Senators
Again: suppose New York ruined to build up
New Orleans; and suppose hundred millions ol
dollars wasted in Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico
what good will either do TO Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, none Of which are
provision-growing States and which will, therefore
furnish no part of the supplies required for our
armies in Mexico, but that of brave young hearts OF
our own to moulder beneath her soil