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From the Fairfield Is. C.) Herald
Letter from the Hon. Armistcad Burt.
WASHINGTON CRY, May 13, 1850.
GENTLEMEN: have just received your letter in.
forming me of your election as Delegates to the
Convention to be held at Nashville, and also, that
the Convention by which you were chosen, instruct
ed YOU to ask me, as their Representative in Con
gress the most authentic information to the pre-
sent state of the slavery question, the prospect of
compromise, if any, and how many States will Ger
tainly be represented in the Nashville Convention
You add the expression of your wish, that would
reply at an early day. l shall. proceed to do so
promptly, but it must be done concisely. had not
occupied my seat one month, as a member of the
Twenty-eighth Congress, when thought saw a re.
solute and fixed purpose, on the part of the North.
en States. to diminish by all the means, and to the
extent, that the South would endure, the value and
security of domestic slavery, with the settled and
scarcely disguised determination, that it should be
ultimately and finally abolished. should have been
this sense of impending danger, had not steadily
observed its progress. its incidents and its results.
Indeed have looked upon it as paramount to all
other questions of public policy, and to all other
sderations, as constitute the chief if the sole
duty, of Southern Representative. have embrac-
ed all fitting occasions to make known my opinions
to nv constituents. Since the session Of Congress
in eighteen hundred and forty-three, Abolition has
moved forward with fearful and unaultering strides
and with a courage and constancy, which scarce
finds parallel in history Its advance in the East
ern States has been steady and onward. But it has
swept over the Northwestern States with celerity
and frenzy, that wholly unPrepared to witness.
had hoped that this great section of our Union,
would resist and subdue the madness and the folly
of that passion, which had seized, with such terri
Bile power, the mind of New England. But, on my
conscience, believe, the anti-slavery sentiment of
the West is as deeply seated, and infinitely more
formidable, than that of Massachusetts,. Carefully
ascertaned information from intelligent and reliable
sources, authorizes to declare my conviction that
all the Departments of the Federal Government are
inadequate, if they had the will, to arrest the head
long impetuosity of these enemies of peace, and
of our Constitution. There are few members Of
Congress who would make patriotic personal sacri-
fees, in effort to resist and put down this move
ment. But it will never be done by Congress. and
never, fear, attempted. The evidences which lead
to this conclusion are too manifold for enumeration
in letter hastily written as must be this but
will not forbear to allude to one which, to my mind,
is conclusive, and should not be unheeded by the
South. 1t is the fate of Mr.. Webster. The recent
speech of this eminent and distinguished statesman
in the Senate, contained cautious and well-consid
cred expression of his views of the constitutional
rights Of the South and the corresponding duties of
the North There was not a word in vindication,
and think may say. in extenuatlon OF slavery
and not sentiment that did not seem extorted by
obligation of the oath of Senator. My own opin-
ion was if any man in America could quiet the rag
ing elements and calm the storm, the commanding
alea,s and the high position-the boast and the pride
Of his native New acknowledgement Daniel
Webster as that benefactor to his country and to
man nd Rnfav nhf uo inn
potent as chld's. The response of New England
and the North to that temperate, but noble speech,
a rebuke and a reprimand. believe it found no
echo in the heart Of a solitary Northern Whig. The
press at the North denounced 1t as betrayal of his
party and his section. The result of all my obser
vaton and experience, is the conviction, that North
hostility slavery, is this day ferocious,
more universal, more confident of its strength, and
more assured of its victim, than it ever was.
see no hope of satisfactory, or of even any ad-
justment of the sectional issues which have so un-
happily disturbed the repose of the country. have
long snce utterly and forever, despared of obtaining
even the Missouri Compromise, which was denounc-
ed by the South when it made, thirty years ago.
as craven submission to the North. The Compromise
reported by Mr.. Clay, from the Select Committee of
the Senate, regard as capitulaton to the Aboli-
tioniss-as the first, but decided step, towards the
overthrow and disaster of the South. But even this
mockery will fail, because it falls short of their inso
lent and arrogant demands. ! have been careful to
consulted of the most intelligent and infuen-
tial members of the House, of the Northern Wing
party. 1have not heard of one Northern Wing
Representative who will support it. But think it
will be supported by many of the Northern Demo
crats by a majority of Southern Democrats, and l
presume, by the Southern Wings. The President
adheres to his policy of admitting California. she
is, and of Withholding territorial governments from
Deseret and New Mexico. and, 1 have reason to be-
lleve, will give no countenance to any other plan.
1nl h~u .sx>
laton, they, like California, to be admitted into
the Union. The Northern Wings have determined
to sustain the recommendations of the President.
The Mexican laws are relied on by the North, as ex-
GLIDING slavery from these territories as eectualy
as the Wlmot Proviso. Hence all but the mere
Abolitionists, are content to forego the as
Mr.. Webster, contemptuously called it. l have
heard but single Northern Representative, of either
political party, express the opinion, that the South
had right, or his readiness to concede that right,
In any compromise, to carry its property into those
territories. My opinion, therefore, is, that every
Northern Senator and Representative, be he Wing,
Democrat, or Free Soilef, and many Southern De-
mocrats and Wings, will vote for the admission of
California, and that all schemes of Compromise will
fail. >
But if 1 should be mistaken in this opinion. and
compromise shall be made by Congress, cannot
too strongly express my belief that should not be
mistaken In supposing it will be hollow and de-
cetfu truce. 1t will remove but one cause of dis.
cord and irritation others will remain to fret and
phrensy the public mind, until the South is driven to
Resistance. or submits in humiliation and despair to
the bidding of an imperious master. The North
will never give US any peace but that which the soli-
tude Of desola ton will spread over the South l
have always supposed that the determined resistance
o. the Southern States to the Wilmot Proviso
itom a sense of the wrong and degradation that
would be inflicted upon them BY exclusion from the