Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-09

slaves" the Southern States have the same right
o protect themselves by furnishing such offenders
within their borders, as the People Of other parts
Of the country, happily otherwise situated have TO
protect themselves by penal laws against burglars
and highwaymen. But the South would only make
itself ridiculous by getting up Convention for sup
pressing /" the Northern societies and newspapers,
debating clubs and lecturers, pamphlets and other
publications" !" to which the address" alludes as
in the neighsorhoods to which they be-
long, opinions obnoxious to the Institution of Sla-
very. Better far better, to take the advice and act
upon the principle of that worthy Member of Con-
gress, who, in his place in the Senate, few days
ago, expressed himself on this head sensibly and
acutely as follows:
"Why s these persons not satisfied with correcting
the institutions ehe South they determined to correct
the institutions Of the North Things the North
ofnsive the very organization of society soensive the
church OF God Is offensive and if these gentlemen could
succeed and have their should have in the funess
of time, the perfection of the progress of the age But
swha is 10 be done with these persons What can you DO
swh them Sir it will do pass sedition laws. That
experiment has been tried il s likely be repeat
ed What, them you do with them Why, sir,.
let them phosophize let them shed the light Of their pecu-
good sense Judge ofit and dispose Of it. stop it,
'Mr. Presidents would be idle for attempt suppress
all the have home and would be equally
idle to attempt suppress great deal Of the that
we find abroad Legae their wfetched theories
Legsate give brains enough understand tie folly
sof Why, sir il is not in the power Of human egis!a
ton to this folly Nothing short Of creative power
can relieve from the extraordinary mental obiquy by
which they are affected"
The South, moreover, really wounded and natu-
rally excited by some of these things, has no
son, on this account, to turn its anger against the
Union. The same state of things existed, as we
have already been told by its address" before
the Constitution came into being and will be GER
tain to continue, with more fatal results, when, if
ever, the shield Of that Constitution be Withdrawn
which now protects the rights Of the Slaveholding
States beyond their limits.
With regard to the War vith Aenico, preceded
by the .anneration Of Teas, and terminating with
the .acquisition of Ne,0 Merico and California, the
effects CT which are SO strongly stated in the Ad-
Dress it is due to the North to say that neither
that War, nor that " Annexation !" which induced
it, nor the acquisition of New Mexico and Cali
fornia which followed it, can be reckoned among
the aggressons" Of the North upon the South.
Whatever title any public measure adopted by the
constituted authorities Of country may have
to be classed as an aggression" Of one division
of the country upon another, the annexation
Of Texas certainly had to be regarded as an !. ag
gression " Of the South atpon the North, rather
than of the North upon the South. That !" an
nexation = was projected by Southern President.
The project was not attempted to be put in execu-
tion so long as Northern Statesman presided over
the Department of State, nor after has retirement,
whilst that enlightened patriot HUeH s, LEGARE his
successor in the Department. lived. But, within
few days after his lamented decease, it was set on
foot, an eminent Virginian being called, by Vir--
ginia President to succeed him, apparently for the
purpose Of bringing about that event. There being
associated with him also in the Cabinet another
virginian and Marylander, there were two-thirds
Of the Cabinet, besides the President himself, all
deeply in the Southern interest. By an Admins
tration thus constituted, negotiation with Texas
was opened, and assduously prosecuted until the
melancholy catastrophe of the explosion on board
of the steamship Princeton, which struck down at
once two Members of the Administrations Sc
cretary of State and the Secretary Of the Navy !;
when the Hon. Mr.. CALHOUN, of South Carolina,
was called with general approbation to the head of
the Department of State, and the Hon. JOHN Y.
Mason of Virginia, was installed in the vacant De-
partment ofthe Navy, by which the predominance Of
the Southern nerestin the Cabinet was retained, FIVE
to of the whole Administration being Southern
men, and two only Northern. What share Mr..
CALHOUN himself had in the negotiation with Texas,
and in the formation Of the Treaty Of Annexation
what zeal he brought in aid of that object and by
what arguments he advocated the annexation in the
European correspondence Of his Department as
well as at home, is now matter of history. From
the State Papers of that day, we might cite pas
sages to show that the protection and extension of
the slave powerin this Government were the objects
of the Administration, and especially of the leading
member Of the Cabinet, in pushing the annexation
of Texas with such nordinate eagerness. Few
Of our readers have forgotten, we presume, the let
ter Of Mr.. Secretary CALHOUN TO Mr.. PAKENHAM,
at that time recently arrived here, in the capacity
of Minister from Great Britain to the United Statesr
in which, without availing himself Of the con-
ventional reserve of diplomacy, he {Mr. CALHoUN)
eneredinto demonstration, by statistics drawn from
the census of deaf and dumb blind idiots, and in
ofthe African in the United States prove
how much more favorable slavery is than freedom
to the colored race, concluding by the affirmation
that what is called slavery ia in reality nol;t;caI