Southern shield., 1850-06-29
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
 The Nashville Convention.


 Gas the Nashville papers will probably soon furnish us with) of the composition, de- bates, decisions, and Public Address of the Nashville Convention, as to enable us, upon any thing like full view of them, to speak of them as they deserve. Enough, how ever, is discernible of the points of the whole to authorize the belief that the Con- vention will have done no harm to the country-not although from the want of will in some of its members, but chiefly from the impotency of its organization two or three States onl y having in it any thing like substantial representations, the remaining States counted as being present being known to have refused to be repre- scented, as States, in the Convention, and the persons actually present as Delegates having no such warrant or authority as to justify their undertaking to pledge their States to any course whatever.
 The subjoined summary views of the Convention, its composition, and its issues, appear to have been prepared by one who has paid more particular attention 10 its proceedings, as reported by the Telegraph, than our engagements have allowed us to do. FROM THE N. Y. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
 THE NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
 The long agony is over; the Nashville Convention has met, talked, voted, ad- journed, and the Union is not dissolved. The bands of brotherhood, the cords that bind us, have scarcely felt the strain which it was predicted would be brought to bear upon them by the Southern diSunionists, and the whole movement has turned out to be, what thinking men predicted it would be, very lame effort at cOnuentionising for Buncombe. Little more than bare majority of the Southern States have sent delegates to the Convention, and of the gentlemen there from the nine States repre- sented it may be truly said that some off thenl rode in upon a worry small vote indeed:l and scarcely one, if one, could be properly said to represent the majority of the people of the district from which he came. As to q Congressional district, and because only one or two districts in the State would have any thing to do with the business, claimed to represent the whole State on the ground that "they knew the sentiment of the South," we can only say that their re- publican education must have been sadly neglected.
 If readers have been at the pains to pe- ruse the daily proceedings at Nashville, they can scarcely have failed to observe how evidently the gentlemen there have felt the trammels of their position. The idea of such Convention was started by disunion- ists, in the belief that it would be popularI at the South, or would at least be numer- ously attended, and that the consequent ex- citemant might be made tributary to the triumph of the Southern party in Congress. A more egregious error has seldom been committed. The good people of the South
 laughed in their sleeves while the noiSier politicians talked so loudly and grandio- quently, but the same people were very unwilling that their sanction should be given to any actual movements in the direction off dsunion. And thus we have ever judged the people of the South. Their own repre- sentatives and leading men ought at least to have known them as well. We can only account for such lack of knowledge on the supposition that they, the said representa- lives and leading men, had talked them selves out of judgment, and had so often asserted that the South would dissolve the Union rather than yield little of their ar rogant claims, that they had become the victims of their own hallucination.
 The experiment was made, and "what a falling off was there!" Not complete representation from any Southern State; from the majority of them a most imperfect or nominal delegation; and from many States only couple of district representatives. The result was most perplexing inequality of representation from even the slave States, and no marvel that there was great difficult ty in arranging how the Convention should Uote upon any question. And still less wonder that the gentlemen who, in the face of such marked neglect and disapproval from the South, had the courage to attend the Convention, should feel themselves en- barrassed by their position. A more re- markable specimen of "contradiction off sinners" against themselves we have never seen. Most of them seem to have desired to sin against the Constitution, but some of them were restrained in their course by the force of public sentiment around them.-- Some, on the other hand, could not in their hearts approve of disunionism, but they believed all the other members came there for no other purpose, and it is amusing to read how they deprecated the wrath ot the Convention before they declared their sen- timents.