Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-07

we once so dearly valued point with grief Of heart TO Ii
often perperated attempted encroachments by Ccngcs
on the reserved rights Of the States the ncenday esou
tons Of State Legislatures the sweeping denuncaons
Mating from different associations formed for the special en-
Of carrying throughout borders the torch Of nsuecon
the bitter and vndcve feelings Of the press, the bar and
may add the pulpit the niammatory haangues at popua
meetings the actual robbery Of millions Of our slave properly
by emissares not only without an effort by the Northern
State Governments enforce the provisions Of the consu
ton concerning fngves held to labor, but by the autho
ry of law and the force Of public opinion. encouraging an,
sustaining these fanaca exhibitions Of public sentiment thu
humiliation at blow Of the principle OF State equality by h
exclusion of half Of the citizens OF the Coniederacy from
all participation in the newly acquired domain the violation
of great sectional compromise by the dismemberment of
Southern member Of the Union, in Order at convenient
season. to from lis bosom free and hostile State
fine the unceasng assaults upon the character OF the slave
holder by all classes in public and in private enemy
God and unworthy Of seat at the table Of the Lord
enjoy coparners, the noble bequest inherited
feemen. The ultimate object Of this consentaneous
men in which and people the actors the
emancipation Of the negro throughout the region in which he
constutonaly held property, although its execution
may consgn the the master and the slave and
spread desolation over their common home.
While rejoice in the conviction that large number of in
dvduals the North do entertain conservative opinions
the matter slave property and whose voice occasionally
heard in the uproar Of the waters Of strife yet overawed
npeuosy Of the which perhaps destined
whelm the land they Involuntary shrink from the task Of
attempting to stay its progress The instances in
which, where the effort has been made, deprivation Of Office
other mark Of dspeasue and rebuke, did not quickly fol-
low This Of ITSELF proof were needed procams the deep
seatedness and apevadng character Of the disease which
affects the body polite Of that extensive and popuous region
For about one-thd Of her political existence South Caro-
lima has presented almost uninterrupted scene Of Dispute
tude and excitement under the provocaon Of contumees
and threats poured from thousand tongues and in forms
The ho
affirmed that the public mind has not for year been free from
the most painful solctude Peace indeed has long fled from
bode and discomfort and alarm every where pre-,
Better, far better would have been for the South
engage in deadly conflict with the North than have
dued the torturng anxiety of anomalous struggle the
sequences of which beyond the ken of human precedence
An open limited by the which produce it but
the further continuance Of such awarpoca religious and
socas has been waged by party against the other and
in which strictly defensvs attitude has unwaverng been
preserved by the weaker would asy and d.honor the his
tory Of the AngloSaxon race Whatever may be said BY
the demagogue and the fanatic it is our pride and high pv
ege declare that the unexamped bearance of the South
is rerabe solely its unaffected devotion to the compact Of
1889 and the principles Of constitutional liberty.
Our present distressed and agtatsd condition has not arisen
solely from the recent aggressive measures Of the Federal CO.
vernment These, effected by illicit and willy combinations,
having destroyed forever the balance power between the
sections the equality of the Staes and the equality Of right
in the people Of the States constitute the crownng evidence
Of the fixed determination Of dominant majority to
actmen the entire inheritance Of ancestry The
startling truth at length stands openly revealed that the last
hope Of aesng the Of infatuated rulers gone for
The final of the drama over, and when the
tain which the future from the eye of the patriot shall
be lifted, may be that the Palmetto banner will be SEEM
among other Standards waving triumphant people,
united in institutions and in determination to maintain with
fidelity their relations with their cosoveregns and the
tons of the world But should it please the Awse Dspose
Of events in His scruable Providence, assign the
don Of the British islands Of the West and to ve the chains
with which manacled the people Of South Carolina will
al least be comoed with the that while ignorant Of
their destiny they not unmndfu Of the duty they owed
to themselves their descendants, and their country
Does hope still lnger in your bosoms that the dark
cloud which envelopes the political horizon will yet be dis
PEELED That the enemy will forego bis premediated design
Of reducing your honored Commonwealth to colonial vassa
age To these questions satisfactory answer will be found
in the melancholy experience Of the pasthe overshadowng
influence Of the General Government insured by the pema
nent ascendency Of the sectional party which aims at the
initiation of property the history Of fanatcismhe
newed and augmented agitation of the slavery question: and
the recent practical vecaon Of fears that the North
the provisions Of the constitution behalf of Southern rights
cannot be enforced without the shedding Of blood.
# to that section, 1.-THE North which now has the con-
troll Of every department Of the Government the preservation
Of the Confderacy is indispensable to the completion Of its
work Of Dissertation and ruin to its dissolution,
pact between thone States is necessary to social and
political quiet and the safety Of institutions. Ordained
to establish JUSTICE insure domestic tranquility, provide for
the Defence promote the general welare and secure
the blessings Of liberty ourselves and postery in
aon to each and all of these essential objects, the bond of
Union having been deliberately muaed by majority of the
contracting paries the minority have longer any security
for lfe liberty, and property.
The me them has arrived to the exercise of the
powers Of protection which, in the hour Of unsuspecng
confidence surrendered to foreign hands, We must
organize political system and safer basis
There is no power, moral physical that can prevent it.
The event indssolub linked with its cause, and fixed as
destiny In the admonory language of our amented states
the worst calamity thatcoud be would be to lose
independence and to sink down into state Of acknowl
edged nferioy, depending for security upon obearance
aud not capacity and disposition defend ourselves
have OF attempted to discuss the question of secession
from the and principles Of the constitutional compact
to which the States sovereign parties While adherng
faithfully to the remedy Of joint State action for redress Of
common grievances beseech you to remember that no
uncue Of events ought induce abandon the right Of
deciding ultimately destiny.
In recommending, now do, that South Carolina
should inerpose her sovereignty in order protect her c
zens and that BY corporation with her aggeved sister States
she may be enabled adin avering the doom which i'm
ponds over the civil institutions Of the SOUTH is fit and pro-
per that Commonwealth, should, an early day, to
be designated by you mpore the God Of fathers for the
pardon OF manifold ransgresons and invoke his potec
ton and guidance in this day of trouble and affection,
that he would grciou vouchsafe enlghen the minds Of
Federal rulers the North and its citizens and direct them
in the Of truth, Of reason and of JUSTICE and preserve
happy political family from the unspeakabe horrors Of
civil strife. WHITEMARSH b. SEABROOK.
AN ECCLESIASTICAL TRIAL.
An ecclesiastical in session at Trinity church,
Boston, for the trial of Rev. o. s. PaEscorr late assistant
minister the Church Of the Advent otha. city The follow