Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-02-02

holding States" &c.
This movement in Mississippi has been haile'
with feelings of lively satisfaction" and its pro
position cordially assented to, by the Legislature Of
SOUTH CAROLINA, and Delegates appointed to~it
four by the Legislature, and two others ordered Il
be appointed from each Congressional District O.
that State. GEORGIA has followed suit, and ALA
BAMA also. VIRGINIA will do so, if her people dc
not in time reproye the temper exhibited in hel
Legislature, now in session at Richmond and ever
the Legislature of MARYLAND, sitting almos. II
sight of Mount Vernon, and in the very Hall il
which the Continental Congress received the re-
signation by Gen. WASHINGTON of his commission
at the close of the Revolutionary War-a State
bound to the Union by ties of affection and inter.
est, and for the loss Of her place in which earthly
boon could, even in Imagination, compensate her
has, in her House of Delegates, by unanimous
vote, proclaimed her willingness to be represented
in the Nashville Convention.
These facts, with other concurrent testimony
show that there exists deep and settled deermi.
nation, accompanied bya highly excited state Of
feeling, TO try the strength OF the South, not only
against the Northern fanatics-in which enterprise
were itpracicabe, we would bid them God speed =
but against the true men of the North against the
best friends they have against the entire North and
Northwestern tiers of States.
OF the existence of this determination sufficient
evidence has been given, we are grieyed 70 say,
on the floor of either House of Congress, and
yet less unreservedy, is understood, in the pri
vate intercourse and declarations Of Members, and
in speeches and votes in the Legislatures of Vir-
ginia and Georgia, now in session. And what is
most alarming of all is the fact that gentlemen who
have ever heretofore been most Conservative and
even thoroughly Wing, are to be found still more
excited than those who have been habiually raisrs
against the North, and underwriters of the Union
And so with the Press. We cite, as evidence of
this, the !" Richmond Republican last paper
in whose columns we should have expected to find
such language as this:
We affaid these men will find the South is in ear
nest ohen too late. The South cannot resist in a
vance, the aggressive of the North by any ohsr
weapons than reason persuaon and the declaration of Ter
purposes yet in this, her only remedy, she is nsued with
the declaration that she is nsincere and does not
what she says. 1t is melancholy contemplate such
of things for whatever Northern citizens may believe
affect to believe, every Southern kno,ps that persist
in those which form the principal points of Moth
ern policy upon the subject of slavery, ,v result in
SOLUTION THE UNION"
This language, from citizen as devotedly at
tached to the Union, we believe, as any one we
know, it is enough to fill the heart with grief to
believe sincere. Much more is it to be cared for,
as significant of Southern feeling, than the report
which has been made by Mr.. SEABoRN JOINS in
the Georgia Legislature, by the title Of 81 bill to
strengthen the military arm of this State, and to
enable the Government to provide for the defence
of the People''-their defence against the United
States of course, unless it be against themselves
the enemy they have in truth reason to dread
which bill provides (says letter in a Savannah
paper for g the armng and equipping thirty thou
sand soldiers militia or volunteers, we presume
and appropriating 100000 to defray the expense
thereof"
In one Southern paper which has just fallen into
our hands from Wilmington, N. g. we find such
language as this:
WHAT'S the Remedy? II is Southern Contederacy,
with Capital at Ashevle, somewhere else the
tan where the lines Of Georgia. South and North Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia meet.
What ,ciN the Southern Convention do We hope to
have barren addresses If that is all the delegates
intend they had better stay at home IF they ,oW metho-
die DISSOLVE THE UNION, zoe ,viNhal them y
Here is ultraism at one extreme. But it is to be
found at both. An Anti-Slavery Mass Conven-
ton" lately sat at Syracuse, in New York. to which
Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison addressed a Letter, in
which we find the following
I" There must be union with shareholders, reigousy
politically to me impossible to utter palmer
proposition On the part Of the South, the condition Of
union has been and u.s. that Of the North shall give alb
soute protection and encouragement Of the slave system
this hour that condition has been complied with refusal
comply with dssolves the Union inevitably and
sarily" 'The time has to preach disunon the
highest moral and religious grounds The Constitution Of
the United States is with DEATH and agree
ment with hell In the Of God, Of Christ, &C. it
must be denounced and repudiated, &c. for the
abolition Of slavery,
THE UNION"
This man is, Of course, mere fanatic mad
man. But there is method in his madness. He
too, as well as the Wilmington Editor and others
who have not spoken out so bluntly, is for ga dis
solution of the Union" The rawlings Of such a
man, however, excite in the mind no sensation APP
preaching to alarm, because they do not indicate
any corresponding temper or purpose among the
intelligent and sound portion of the People Of the
part Of the country from which he halls whilst the
conviction that has but just flashed upon our own
mind, that there is wide and deep-seated dsaffec-
ton in the breasts Of very different order Of men,