The North-Carolina standard., 1850-03-06
THE NATIONAL 1NTELLIGENcER.

THE NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.
This PRINT, which is one of the organs Of the Ad-
ministation, and well known for its antslavery feel
ings and biases, alludes At some length in recent
number to IN article which lit copies from the Will
mington Commercial. on the subject of Slavery and
Disunion. Mr.. Lorings article is calm considerate,
and dignifed, and its sentiments such as should
meet the appreciation of every truehearted Southern
man; yet the Intelligencer pronounces him fanatic,
and says the people " in the neghborhood of Will
mington seem pretty generally to haze parted ,oith
their Senses" This latter allusion is of course, to
the recent action Of the Wilmington Meeting the
Slavery question, and to their Resolutions, which
were presented to the Senate by Mr.. Mangum.
We take leave to assure the Editors of the Intei-
gencer that in this matter they are laborng under
strange delusion. The people of Wilmington, and
indeed of North Carolina, were never more in earnest
in their lives. They are as much devoted to the
Union the Intelligencer can be, and they have
shown this devotion by patient endurance of insult
and aggression for years past Their patience is we'll
nigh exhaHsted-they can bear no more. Let the
Northern people do them justice, and in the language
of Mr.. Whiting of New York, "you will hear no more
of dissolution of the Union but let this justice be
withheld, and these aggressons continued, and disso-
luton is inevitable We approve every word in the
article copied by the Integencer from the CONNER
cal and We assure the Editors of that paper, again
and again, that that article, and others Of similar
and character which constantly appearing in our
public journals embody the views, the feelings, and
the determination of ninety-nine-hundredths of the
people of North Carolina. The Commercials article
is as follows:
s'The Editors of the National Intellgencer misun-
derstand if they suppose have become converts
to the doctrine of the Ohio Senator who sad s. II
this Government of ours who destroyed Tomorrow,
we could make good one in six weeks
We have no more idea that we could form good
one as we might now enjoy, if influenced by the
Constitution, than We have that find bet
ter home than that of his own household. But, if
driven from the Union by the persevering encroach-
ments on her rights, the South must form the best
Government she can, and do the best she may.
We should be very sorry to be classed among
those who look with indifference on the issue. We
have duly pondered the dreadful consequences that
NAV ensue. We have admitted to our mind the GER
ainty that no republic will hereafter attain to the
power and glory of our own, should disunon occur.
1t will be political explosion that will astound the
world and strike dismay to the hearts of the friends
of freedom every where.
but let IL De remembered thdt the SOutn SUBMITS
to disunion, not from choice, but from necessity, if
it ever occurs. Werepeat what have before said
that the North is alone responsible for the consequences.
Let the people Of the non-slauehoding States treat the
question Of slavery national oe and riew the mat
ter TN the light Of the Constitution, and all wiN be ueN
We observe that the Intelligencer has been for
some time pursuing course on this subject, which
is calculated keep the Northern people in the dark
to the real views and intentions of the savehold
ing States. 1t eagerly catches up and copies articles
from such Southern papers as far in the rear of
public opinion, or IS for the Union unconditional
ly,'' as evidence to its Northern readers that the
South is opposed in any event to dsunion while ar
tices from other Southern prints, which speak the
sentiments of nine-tenths of our whole population,
are carefully excluded from its columns. We see
that Mr.. Hiliard, of Alabama, in Card published
in that paper protests against this of the Edi-
tors, for the very reason above mentioned by our
selves. Such course, have no hesitation in say
ing, is unjust to both the North and the South. and
calculated rather to destroy than preserve the Union.
The Intelligencer has been pouring out column upon
column, for the last three four weeks what i,
calls the evil of the day. We respectfully sug-
gest that it now produce few pages about itself.
We know of no greater " evil of the day" than the
National Intelligencer.