The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-02-14
INTIMIDATION.

We have never known the system of intimida-
ton pushed to such an extreme in our National
Councils as at present. Every demand is
threat--every speaker from the South seems to
think himself called upon to crack his whip about
the ears of Northern members, who are treated
like interiors, not equals No matter what the
language or sentiments of resolutions presented
from the slave States, they are received with pro-
found Difference, and ordered to be printed.
Vermont presuming, as sister State, upon a
similar reception, is repealed with words of scorn,
and, though one month ago her resolutions were
presented to this hour the Senate has not made
up its mind whether it will print them or not,
And Northern Senators submit
Some people of Wilmington, North Carolina,
get together, pass resolutions denouncing the
fanatcism of the North, in favor of Slavery, and
threatening the Union, Mr.. Mangum takes oc-
cason to submit them to the Senate, accompany
ing them with bitter assault on the free States
and threatening war, bloody war, should they
persist in their aggressions The Senate, over
awed, gracously receives the papers, treating
them with marked respect But let a Northern
Senator present petition against the extension
of Slavery, and the Senate refuses even to enter
tain the question of its reception That body is
cowed by the menaces of the Shareholders
1--WE have but to show our teeth, y said Mr.
Holmes Of South Carolina, the other day, and
the North is frightened Great was the exulta-
ton among Southern members on the 9Th, in the
House, when so many Northern men voted to lay
Roots resolution on the table. Ii was triumph
they had not anticipated quite so soon, not dream
ing that their threats could accomplish SO much
all at once.
The Northern People, they presume, are like
their Representatives. They regard them as
shopkeepers; tame-spirted, eaten up with the love
of gain. The Richmond Wing, Of Virginia, COM
menting upon some bellgerent remarks in the
North Aaerican of Philadelphia, sneers at the
prandloquent talk of its editors, and coolly tells
them that they had better stick to the COUNTER
Twice in Congress have mensces of bloody
conflict within the Capitol been thrown out by
slayeholding members. In the Senate, Mr.. Davis
of Mississippi thought the struggle, if Northern
men persisted in their sggressions, should COM
mence "here and now" between the Representa-
tives of the two sections. Mr.. Clingman, in the
House, thought if the worst came to the worst,
not a Quorum would be left in the Halls Of Con-
gress to do business.
While these brutal threats are common In
both Houses, craven-spirited members from the
North are writing home letters calculated to
create panic among their constituents Mr.
Buchanan, sort Of lobby member, never feared
before for the Union he does now-melsn-
choly are his forebodings. General Cass, TOO,
is shaken with alarms and, conversiDg with one
of the Indiana members, who has been taken
under the special care Of the South, he learns
that in the event Of dissolution Of the Union,
the State of Indiana will 60 with the South |!
Letter.writers do their share to get up North
ern panic; and the newspapers in Northern cities
give currency to all kinds Of fearful rumors.
The Southern men are determined, they say, to
dissolve the Union any how-they have marked
| of several Confederacies already-the seat of
Government for the great slaveholding Confede'