Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-23

in the North South who would disturb their peace or
sail the Union Of the States. verify believe then-I be
ieye it regiously believe that there is God-tha
il it for these territorial questions we should hav
present difficulty; and that if they were removed th
true oe South would be adhere her past policy
of letting all the other questions aone And will go fur
ther, and declare my belief to be- that the South is opposing
her interest when she asks for present Congressional
ton, whether affirmative negative, upon the questions
slavery in this District the slave trade between the States
If she demanding that Congress shall upon these
tons, in any form, shall admit them 10 be n Congress
sonal jasdcio does she that she has yielded
of the important points heretofore insisted by her,
and placed interests Of which she insists that Congress
has constitutional cognizance directly iciin The reach
of fanatics and agitaors All that these men desire az;
taiiOn They their existence to it. II is the aiment
upon which they live. Deprived Of it, and they sink into
that obscuriy into which public opinion will inevitably
sign all the disturbes Of the public peace The ground
for the South, then is expressed in two simple words
HAsDs orr Lether come forward and these territorial
questions her fame and her honor Let her. by
consentng fair and honorable compromise Of them,
oil present of excitement and for the FUTURE
upon all other queson she will have that security which
will fail her, because il is security founded in bro
therly love- the ties of kindred and the common fame Of
common country When speak Of the fame and honor Of
the light beneath ber mild sky the bones Of whose fathers
sleep under her sod and who loves her with devotion which
neither age, time, Absence circumstance
abate and under the influence of all those emotions which
crowd upon me- solemnly that would counsel her
to deed that could suy that fame tarnsh that honor
No, not for my life would perpetrae act of such para
cda baseness. But when speak Of the fame and honor Of
the South speak Of blended with the and the honor
OF the Norhas part and parcel of that national
whose brightness has amazed toe whole christian world And
when call upon the South to maintain her fame and
her own honor impore her, she loves the and
cherishes the other to stand by the Union Of the States
for without that unon there nothing left either North
South but degradation, misery, and bloodshed All fame
and all honor would be gone Nothing would for the
patriot look upon but universal Of desolaton
beneath the sight Of which his heart would sink within him.
But il is not Southern people alone who need to be ad
dressed in behalf Of national fame and honor. There
those of the North who have asaied with reckless malg
nifty of heart, the integrity Of the Union. Pofing By the
example Of Robespere who cut short in the midst OF
his because he had learned that revolutions be
successful must STOP retire, rest secure
pose, sleep" they have kept the cadron Of
their passions continually boiling by the heated fires Of
faction. They have endeavored up their reasonable
designs beneath the preence of humanity and philanthropy
They have assaed the Constitution under the preext
Vi feliSous
y Like the veiled Prophet Of Khorassn, they have tried
conceal their deormy beneath the cloak Of assumed v
tue They have borne about with them the torch Of the n
cendary, with which they would fire the very Capitol from
its basement its dome They would light up the fires Of
civil dscord all the land, and exut in their work Of de-
ISOLATION did Nero when be Rome in flames. Upon
the Of these he calls Of patriotism fall unheard and
unheeded To them need not address ourselves. But
the peope Of the North true to the impulses of lofty
patriotism arethe people Of The South, the needle
the pole They love the Union with uncaculang de-
voon, and will stand by through good report and through
evil report. They will trust the South, if the South will
them, and each will trust the ohe when Present poll
teal ealousies removed For these people Of the North,
would be willing to pledge every thing that could rightly
pledge, that these exciting territorial questions
Of the way they would stand by and the rights and
interests Of the South that they would shield them against
aggression from every quarter, whether at home abroad
Will not the South take warning by the past When she
caused be adopted the celebrated twenty first rule which
excluded petitions the subject Of slavery from the House
Of Representatives, she supposed that the agitation Of that
question would But what its effect The parry
opposed that rule in the North united with the question of
its repeal the constitutional right Of petition and caused
be stricken from the rules Of the House. Since then
gle right of the SOUTH intended to be guarded by that rule
has been invaded by the North. No of legislation
mas been by which OF her interests nave
been assailed The North does intend that any such
shall be consummated # however, the South shall
admit what by that rule she deniedthe right Of Con-
gess egslate slavery in the District the savetrade
between the States, either amaivey negativey-does
she that she has given her their aga
ton hereaer and may that agitation lead mchev
results But shall make this article longer than de-
signed pursue this branch Of the subject further may
to it again. suppoing myself fully understood, pro-
pose make additional Suggestions upon the plan nd-
Gated my first article, furnishing safe ground Of
promise for both the North and the South.
The great question out Of which all others grow the
seon by the North Of the power Of Congress prohibit the
introduction Of slavery into California, New Mexico, and De-
Those who maintain the affirmative Of this proposition
divided into two partesone insisting that the prohbi
operative only upon the Territories, and the other that
goes beyond that and nos the power of the States. 1t
easy tell which Of these parties the strong
the Probability however s that the latter is gradually
becoming less than formerly 1t has always been
the popular belief the States formed northwest Of the Ohio
river that the ordinance Of 1887 still binding upon them
yet difficult reconcile this belief with the
Car this subject will do much towards regulating the
sentiments Of these States and apprehend the result will
be that very lage majority Of the North will settle down
into conviction that the power control sovereign Slate
in her municipal regulations in relation property has not
been girea 10 Congress by the constitution. had myself
supposed that the ordinance Of 1877 in existence
the time Of the formation OF the constitution, and the
If hv Of