The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-05-23

the Southern States that preparatio
for self protection was now necessitt
unless they were ready to sink dow
and be trampled in the mTe by thei
enemies. They are notorious. "A sim
pie statement of them, unwarmed b,
any words of passion. and accompanied
by no appeals and no suggestions, thrill
cd through the whole Southern mind
and gave to the Southern Address,
naked array Of. incontestible, facts,
power such as but seldom belongs to tn,
grandest efforts Of eloquence. III,
Convention Of Mississippi, and Ii.
call for a Southern Convention al Nash
vile, were the result. N
II was when the evidences accumu
lated that this Convention had IL,
| sympathy Of the Southern people, and
would be composed Of representative:
Of many States, bert on counselhno
honesty and fearlessly for the honor
and the safety Of their country, that the
lntelhgencer rushed from its couch and
with a confused din of outcries, made
that surprising exhibition which we
noticed in the commencement Of this
article. The scene has been periodi-
cally repeated ever since. Its features
are curious as well as pitiabIe. AT one
time it denounced the movement as
formidable, and the result Of a secret
and Sng concocted plot TO dismember
the Cpnfederacy. At another, it afirms
with Equal assurriance. that the Con-
ventifn is dead, and will have no sup
port 'ut of South Carolina and Missis.
siPPl One day it fills it columns with
extrafts from Southern papers, to prove
that I IeasonSCivil war are stalking about
the threshold; the next, il PAT AIDES a
batch from the scattered journals of The
So&t4 sOho aduSse every Submission and
6aseafss rather than visdicate tie just
rig1d and UitaI interests Of their section,
and hese are made to prove that the
bodyofthe Southern people have no
symhthy with the cause Of their own
homo and their own safety.
With the declarations, fresh before
il AM repeated in every form, on the
part bf all the leading men and all the
pubic meetings oftbe South, that their
purposes are loyal and peaceable; that
theyIaim only at securing their plain
rights and preventing the Government
|. Of all The States from being perverted
into an engine Of the majority to asaiPI
and wrong the minority, and that no
circumstances can ever induce them
% go beyond the limits of peaceful
opposition, but a conviction that the
Ills that have reused them are reroedi.
ess, and the spirit of hostility on the
part Of their enemies, unappeasable;
With all these declarations fresh before
I, the Intelligencer has the effrontery
Q quote an obscure romance published
ltteen years ago, as conclusive proof
hat scheme Of disunion was concocS
ed at that time, and that the avowedI
grounds Of discomfort on which the
south is now acting, are only SO many
onvenient pretexts to cover FORE
'one determination. These accusa,
ions are as false as they are absurd as
as they are contemplate and
I'll becomes paper that assumes
ne dignihed, the decent and the reserS
ed, to bring into the great controversy
! its most critical moment, a tone so
tiensive and a spirit of calumnious
ccusation 50 aggravating as is thus in>
icated. 1t is neither by jeers nor
''sstatements. but only by justice, that
le people ofthe south can be disarmedl'
nd the peace Of a united and harmo>
lous confederacy can again be difFu-
ID over our land, Give us that and
'e lntelligencer may again sink back
its elysium of dreams. T.