Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-23
THE FEELING OF THE SOUTH.

! We trust that our friends in the States which,
are happily exempt from all the and RESPONSE
btes inherited by those States 10 which slavery
has been bequeashed by our forefahers. win credit
us when we state that, in placing before them the
subjoned extracts from business leiser from one
of our Subscribers, we are Influenced by no con-
sideration but that OF desire 10 keep them well.
advised Of what we believe to be now the actual
feeling among considerable class Of the People al
the South. The Letter, as the reader will readily
perceive, was not designed for publication, but -
the natural efuson Of an upright and truthful mind
communicating with persons who, though person.
ally unknown to him, he looks upon as friends:
CHAnLxsros, NovKssSa n, 1850.
Messrs. GALES q SEArox:s We ere rsshsr i'm
petuous in this States but, when you consider the proper
ton of negroes whites, nearly ooe you wonder
at the excitement here, when the Of people csoscn
iousy believe that Northern intend destroy the nsi-
tuition Of slavery by all in their power merely 70 ana
hfy feeling of one-sided philanthropy
have lately returned from trip Georgia; and from
all can learn, that State is determined to secss
resist but will certainly do should the fugitive sw
be not carried in efficiency That Ibelieve is,hs plat
form upon which all moderate and conservative men o the
upon the destruction Of the very frame wok Of our society.
have written to you the subject Of politics. nor
have ever attended any political meeting here. endesvor
to read both sides Of the saverysgaon question and
have to the conclusion that the fugitivessve Inv will
test the love of the Union at the North Should il DO repeal
cd, or modified in any way to lose It's efficiency, do
believe that the South will and ought resist. We should
be ruined by remaining in the Union, and may possibly be
by going o fit We shall lose all but honor by adopt
ing the latter course Yours &C.
p s. am large savehoder-avel extensively through
this State and Georga-and believe know something about
the popular feeling here and elsewhere in the South am
nufer secessionis but lover Of the whole Union
have written to you thus thinking that the opinion Of
individual however obscure, in these times would not be
wholly disregarded.
After the foregoing was in type we received aao-
ther letter of business from one Of our subscribers in
Alabama, whose casual remarks equally disclose
what we believe to be. the prevalent feeling among
the Conservatives lin which definition we include
all good citzens) in that State. The following is
an extract from the letter:
I" ALABASA, Nov. 8, $780,.
"Allow me to add, that / am plain farmers
private American citizen, and hold your paper in
high esteem because of its nationality. If Won,
| and such as you, can put down the higher law
faction at the North, the people Of the South will
pledge their most unreserved assurances that the
Disunionists of the South shall be numbered and
: labelled. | have just read in your paper Mr..
L WEBsTER's letter to the New York mass meeting
also the proceedings of that meeting in full. L
need not tell you that these proceedings inspire
me with new hopes for the permanence Of the
| : Union. They do more they strengthen my 10y
atty to that Union, and confirm me in sentiment
s / have long entertained, that the Union should
not be considered the immediate or remote cause
Of any political grievance"