Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-16

Governor take the matter in hand and appoint delegates
The Fayetteville Csronian says the plan ought TO be adopt
ed and seconds proposition make the State pay the ira
Yelling expenses of said delegates.
Now with all due Difference to the opinions Of these wise
Democratic gentlemen, we would suggest that tne PeoP
ought have say n this matter and when they nominate
delegates the State Conventions TO bring out lot
Governor let them also at the same time grant hose dee
gates the power appoint representatives, to Nashville
they fail do this think the Conventions VIII uanscenu
their powers if they attempt carry out the suggestions OF
these gentlemen Those Conventions at present. con-
tempad for the single purpose Of bringing LOT
Governor. Nothing more And without clear anu ui.
tinct expression Of the wishes Of the people the subject
any acon they might take in relation to the Nashville Con-
venon especially touching the appointment OF delegates
to that body would be regarded most fagant violation
OF trust Moreover, the people should also be distinctly IN
formed the and remedy the Nashville Con-
venion proposes to adopt and apply. With sct ooser-
Of all their rights in these respects we snail oe no
objection the procedure, though should still doubt the
propriey of the under existing circumstances
NASHVILLE GAZETTE
II remarked day since, by grey-haired pa.
o who has served his country in the council chamber ana
the battlefield that if such assembly as the proposed
Nashville Convention having disunion in view, had met
whilst Gen. Jackson President he would have dispersed
it band Of traitors Our venerable friend loves this
glorious Union it is associated with all that s haowed In ms
memory and he cannot tolerate that spirit Of evil that would
destroy it.
JACKSON (MISsIsSIPPl) ''soUTHHoS.
ssThey who without exhaustng pacific measures on the
least motive indicate disposition push things to
remies show that just6catve reasons in their mouths
only preences they eagerly seize the opportunity OF
indugng their passions and Of gratifying their ambition
under some color of right
Are there not these times plenty Of cases
resembling that which the above passage from eminent
pubc applies Some have immense bumps Of destructive
ness in their heads and like certain unwieldy animal IN
china shop cannot round but what their natures compel
them smash something They have for the
great the beautiful the harmonious and therefore ever
ready lay sacregous hands upon the most sacred and
venerable institutions from the love OF novelty and
change Such men arehe 5ane Of Republics and the de-
stroyers Of human liberty.
NASHVILLE BANNER OF FEBRUARY Il.
Ifthe men who form this Convention come here to pass
long string of resolutions having little meaning the
viii be simply misunderstanding Of which
they themselves now indicate their fears
IT. the other hand they come here to advocate dis
solution of the Union plot the destruction OF the labors OF
Washington, and franklin and Jefferson and Madison,
they will be stamped workers of treason in all future me
fully obnoxious to the censures eoqueny
upon the South Carolina conventonss by Gen. Jackson
Let them take any they please the movements OF
these men, besides being peous in the extreme so far as
their position hereafter may be involved is full Of dam
ger the State, and cannot be justified by any thing which
likely to occur respecting the rights or interests OF the
South.
FROM THE NEW ORLEANS Bee
The who deliberately disuuon to be desirable
that he belongs not to those who would only adopt
terrible alternative in the last resort but rather to that
misguided and feeble band who have taught themselves long
regard separation Of material interest 10 the
South that their notions have become ncurabe
monomania. The South must be stricken with hopeless
judicial blindness she to take single step under
the guidance Of such rash and desperate leaders.
But have few fears Of the South at this momenous
uncure. The public sentiment of ninetenths Other citizens
will rebuke the opinion Of Mr.. Calhoun, and stamp it as
caumny upon the slavehodng part of the community The
he so
evable look confidently for honorable and friendly com
promise of existing difficulties by which the links that bind
State to State will be rendered stronger than adaant 50
far from echong the guilty aspiration that dsunon is de-
sirabe, they would consider such appalling consumma
ton blasting evidence ofAmighty wrath, and would con-
template the first of those huge downward leaps by which
nations precpated from prosperity and power, to eebe
ness, degradation, and contempt Thus believing the South
stands prepared support the Union, while exactng
due respect for her rights She is be driven out Of this
Union, but will maintain and uphold it, in all its integrity
and with all its guarantees.
THE ORLEANS BULLETIN.
The SOUTHERN CoyvESTIos.-We have before express
ed hostility convention Of politicians who do not re-
pesen. the will Of the peopewho do not receive their COM
mission from this only legitimate Of all powe-to such
Convention will meet Nashville in June next For such
Convention Of resoutionmonge have an utter aversion
the portentous crisis, which has been retod for f,centy
years being at hand, is actually impending and
the emergency calls for immediate and decisive action let
those act who most nteestedwho have the largest stake
sk-the people, Let the people meet in their primary
Observation-Disclosures and counsel together and decide for
themselves upon definite Of action, when the
time for such action shall arrives and let the busy agtaors
who stirring the public mutny their true
posionthat they only integral parts OF the whole with
peculiar attributes of authority and no right to dictate or
prescribe any paculer of conduct is particularly
inappropriate the functions Of Legislators to determine upon
this important NATTER without first consulting with their
stituents, and receiving their instructions.
If the emergency require action let US have convention
of the people, and whatever they determine upon will be by
authority" and will meet with hearty response from the
but the voice that will be emitted from such body
of politicians will constitute the Nashville Convention will
be but (" sound and fury signifying nothing
FROM THE LEBANON (TEssEssEE) PACKET.
The slavery question to be exciting interest
than any question has since the organization of Govern
ment and patriot friend of liberty look for
the fate of glorious country. Northern fanatics fanacr
Of the South design and contemplate with perfect
composure the dissolution Of this Unon cemented by the
blood Of the braves that died in the defence of the
rights of They have forgotten the cost at which
ereced-to have forgotten the mighty struggle that
fathers made achieve it. 1t 10 unless they
dead every noble impulse Of the human heart they would
review the history of their country and bring to their minds
the Of the Revouosee their fathers march through
seepes nights and anxious days. through blood and DEATH
from battlefield battlefield, with nothing animate them
but the love of liberty and the hope that their children might
be free, would force them to pause in their wild and heed
less Of ruin and destruction, and shrink back aghas at
the idea of laying their sacregous hands the bonds of this
Union, the pride and glory of every American citizen
They may talk Of Northern republic, Southern republic