Washington telegraph., 1850-04-24

We publish ia another column letter
from the Hon. r. ". johnson to the
editor Of the National Intelligeucer re!a-
tiveto the publication by that journal Of
which he says are not a fair reflex OF
public opinion in this State Oh the South
ern question. One of the extracts TO
which be alludes, and the only one which
came under his observation, was raken
from the "Arkansas Democrat" which
journal, he thinks, cannot be relied upon
at present on the Southern question, but
he would not be surprised in short time.
to find it, moved by public opinion, as
strongly Southern as any other. We do
article to which MIR. johnson objects as
ani-southern, but having read it when it
appeared in the Democrat" we do not
he,i,ate to say that it comes much nearer
rejecting public opinion in this State, a;
least as far as our observation extends.
than does either Mr.. Johnson's address to
hisconstituents, or the letter appended to
Accommodation to the 'Intelligencer
Asfsr as regards the opinion presented in
.ha, letter, we do not think there are
twenty men in the State who entertain
similar sentiments. With one solitary
exception, in addition to the writer of that
letter, we have yet to see or hear of, the
first man who regards dissolution OF the
Union as "the only remedy,the only specif-
1.-THE only hope Of salvation" for the south.
1t certainly cannot be contended that the
views of this writer are fair ret2e.r Of
public opinion i'll Arkansas.
There are in the South, and in Con-
gress too. men who look upon Southern
Convention as a sovereign remedy for all
our ills--as the only balm for healing the
dissentions which SO unhappily exist be-
tween the different sections of the Union.
The very idea Of Southern Convention
they seem to think. will have potent and
magic influence in allaying the excitement
and deterring Northern fanatics from fur
ther aggression. 1t is to be used as sort
of bug bear by which they are to be fright
ened into sense ofpropriety. BY others,
equally as jealous Of their rights, South
ern convention at the present time, is re-
~: nd
tendency, as ill advised premature and
dangerous, because of its tendency TO
drive from the support of the South, Nor
thern men, who have always manfully
advocated her rights under the constitu-
ton. There are in Congress, men whose
giant minds, not contracted by the mar
row limits of the State they represent,
can comprehend the whole Union in all
lis length and breadth, and through whose
cooperation the South will yet be able to
maintain her position under the constitu-
ton. With the first intellects of both the
great political parties sedulousiy support
ing the fundamental law under which
our country has risen to such emf
nence, we have nothing to fear from
fanaticlsm. Let us beware, then, of ,lrv-
ing from our support those who have al
ways been with us and for US.
The scheme of Southern Convention
although ostensibly originating in Mis-
sisslppi, was undoubtedly conceived in
South Carolina, and the origina,ors, or a,
least many Of then, have boldly avowed
the object to be, to fix upon some plan OF
separation-of dissolution of the bonds
of our Union. AS an evidence of this
fact we make the following extracts from
several papers, which strenuously advo-
cate the measure. We will first, how
ever, quote passage from the address"
to the Southern States in which the
project for forming Southern confede-
racy is confessed
"ShoIld, in the result such Conventions be
called and meet, they may lead to like regularly
constituted Convention of all the assailed States,
to proc,de, in the last resort for their SEPARATE
WELFARE, BY THE FORMATION OF A CONTACT AND
UNION that ,0H cford protection to their Liberties
and rights"
The Aurora, from Wilmington. N. c.. holds
the following language:
WHATS the Remedy7 1t is g. Southern Con-
federacy. with CAPITAL a; Asheville, some
where else ON the mountains, where the lines of
Georgia, South and North Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia meet.
"What .ciH the Southern Contention do? We
hope to have more barren addresses. If that
is all the delegates intend, they had better stay
at home. If they ,DiH methodize PLAN To DIS
SOLVE THE UNION, zoe sciU hail them"
The following is fom the Fairfield, S. c.,
Herald: