Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-02
AN HONEST VOICE FROM BUNcoMBE.
..om rHr .su.vrIIr q. c.) nr.s.sora.

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FROM THE AsHEvILLE (H. c) hEssEssxR.
| The CRIsIs-For nine months our country and the
councils of our nation have been distracted by conten
tons and fears on questions of the most unfortunate
and momentous character and magnitude; and after
exhaustng the whole vocabulary of political science
national safety, and State policy, set or series Of
laws have been passed by the law-making powers
of the land, as in their wisdom they thought bes
calculated to promote the peace, prosperity, and
general welfare of the nation. Most of these have
been sent out to the world, and now in success
ful operation; to these large number OF both the
Northern and Southern people alike objected. So
that we have now two parties in the South and the
| N0rth-the true "Southroners," the largest "Li-
berty" party, and what are called the Submis-
si0nists." The two former go for resistance to the
present compromise laws and future aggressions
the latter 60 for the Jnion the Constitution, and
the Compromise rather than soar and bloodshed.
So far as the South is concerned, as the laws now
stand, no Southern Rights Associations, State Con-
ventions, Governors Proclamations, or Nashville
Conventions can couer up or mislead the public
mind as to the issue. The grievances complained
of have become La,os of the land; resistance noto
to those laws by any State or States is resistance
to the General Government, is resistance to the
Union, and at once unequivocally makes an assault
on the aw-making power, rebels against the autho-
rites of the nation, and opens the gateway to anar-
chy and disunon, with all their horrd features and
calamities staring us in the face. Every effort
now made either North or South land they are
being made at both) against the laws just passed
by Congress, is an effort to dissoIUe the Union.
| No other reasonable construction can be placed
upon it, and every friend of the Union should look
upon it in no other light and be ready to meet it
at every point. Whatever their present declara-
tions may now be, the ultimate object is unques-
tionably to dissolve and break up the confederacy
of these States; and we have witnessed all sorts
of efforts for the last few months, both North and
South to prepare the public mind for such an
event by showing that the North, on the one hand,
could get along better than the South and on the
other, that the South could get along much better
than the North; and that both, according to their
own showing, would be infinitely better off than
they n0sC are that both have given away to I" "Gg-
gression" till endurance any longer isinsuferable
and incompatible with human rights, State soUe-
reignty, the laws of right and the laws of God;
and exhortatons have been poured upon air to
induce the industrious, prosperous, and hard-work-
ing farmers of the land to prepare for the conflict,
to brighten their blades pick their fnts, and fire
their heads with the spirit that actuated their fathers
of '76 and the Revolution, till some no doubt have
smelt powder and heard the distant of cannon,
the clash of glittering steel, and the shrieks and
groans Of the dying! But, Notwithstanding all
this, thank Heaven! the contending armies are not
yet arrayed, marshalled, nor eeneralled. Thank
Heaven, the stars and stripes wave over every hill
and dale, from Maine to the highest peaks of Ore
gon, California, and New Mexico Long may they
wave over the land Of the free and the home of the
brave! So far as we are concerned we are a
Sub,issiOnsst - that is we submit to eUery LatD
that Is noU passed, rather than leopard the Union
for moment and, rather than do this, we would
see all Merico, California, and Utah sunk to a
water level, sIauery or no sl1very. A portion of
our people have fought, bled, and died for these
wild waste lands and the Eving, by conquest Of
arms, have taken by force stolen, all that coun-
try, and carried on the war for party purposes ;
the South to extend the Z" area Of slavery, and
the North to extend the area" of "human liberty
|, and freedom" Both have been somewhat disap-
pointed, and both are quarreling about the spoils
The majority have made the land free, or greater
portion Of it, and if they had not the people them.
selves would in the end, so that what they have
done is only the consequence of what would in
the end have been the result of their refusing to do
it. NE are opposed in the beginning, all the 1Oay
through, and to the last ertremify," to any en-
croachments upon or interference acih slavery
as IL nosO eEisfs and to carry out this opposition
we will be ever ready to unite with any portion or
all the South, in any measure to maintain and de-
| fend it.
We see no cause noo for dissolution, and are
utterly opposed to 1t under any pretence Whateuer.
If the people are let alone they will go on and be
prosperous and happy, in spite Of demagogues,
asprants, and politicians. We go out and out for
the Constitution, the Union, Fillmore, and the
Whig party and nothing shall deter US from our
allegiance to them but their abolshment or trea-
cherry.