Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-23
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.
The NashpNe Banner, in publishing so much
Of the admirable message of Governor CRITTENDEN,
of kentucky, as relates TO the excitement about The
"Wilmot proyiso" and the new Territories, accom-
panies it with the strongest possible expressions OF
commendation, and says, in conclusions
.Ws do not speak Uithout oar host when we
saw. should that time ever come (may Heaven avert
the direful, awful hour , when this Union shall be
placed in jeopardy, TENNESSEE, too, side by side
with KENTUCKY, will stand by and abide with the
Union 10 the last
The .augusta Geo. Chronicle, in publishing
few extracts from the first Annual Message of the
Governor Of the State of CALIFORNIA to the Legis-
gisature of that State, makes the following remarks
which we were happy to find in paper OF i's
standing:
at is true, California is not yet admitted as a
State, but we presume she will 1e before ine close
of the present session of Congress. If the course
. recommended by the President should be adopted
by Congress, we feel assured that the present ag-
tatinp questions which now distract our happy
country will all be amicaby adjusted, and the
danger which seems to threaten our Union forever
buried"
Happy to recognise patriotic sentiments where
ever we find them, we have additional pleasure in
giving TO the Democratic paper from which we copy
il due credit for the following
FROM THE ALBANY ARGUS
NOBLE MorTo-The Legislature of Indiana
having taken the necessary measures 70 forward
block of Indiana marble to Washington, to be placed
in the National Monment, Governor WRIGHT has
requested that the following patriotic sentiment be
engraved upon it /" Indiana kaoscs no NORTH, no
South NOTHING BUT THE UNION.
That is noble sentiment, worthy to come from
a Democratic Governor. 1t is at this time the
watchword of the Democracy" NOTHING BUT THE
UNION"
FROM THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF coMNEncE
THE UNIoN.-The history of the world affords
no example Of nation arising in SO short period,
from such small beginnings, to such height OF
greatness and glory as has been attained by these
United States. No other population on the globe,
twenty millions in number, are so generally pros
perous, intelligent, and happy. Instead OF wasting
our energies in fierce and bloody wars, one State or
section against another-instead OF imposing all
manner Of restrictions and hindrances upon each
other-we have lived together in harmony, cooper
atng in all matters of joint concern, but leaving the
own way When we call to mind the vast and i'm
measurable sacrifices made by our fathers in laying
the foundations of this great Republic, we cannot
but admire their far-reaching sagacy, nor less the
deyotedness with which they laid themselves and
their all upon the altar of their country They felt
that the prize for which they contended was Of in
esimabe value, and therefore that no hardships or
sufferngs no expense of blood or treasure, were
too great to be endured in such cause. Yet we
6 of noIo tod
the realization in so short period, of the wonders
which we now behold. ss
Having received such glorious inheritance from
our aters, the question is whether will sell it
for mess of potage; nay, for what s OF less value
even thar, that-an abstraction? All now admit
that there canbe slavery in the new Territories;
yet with strange infatuation, many still persist in
urging the passage of the Wilmot proviso. by Con-
gress, although they know it will endanger our
very existence as nation.
FROM TEE BATIMoRE cLIIPER.
MARYLAND is emphatically for aquiet settlement
Of differences; and he commits great mistake
who supposes that she will actively participate
either with the North or South in any measure
which may have the slightest tendency to dissolve
the Union. Her people are calm and temperate
on the subject which produces SO much excite
ment elsewhere. They take deliberate and i'm
partial survey Of the whole ground, and are not to
be driven from firm adherence to the Union by
threats from any quarter, nor euen By the imprit-
dent pledgesof their own Legislature. She knows
and feels the value of the Union, and sOiN not send
delegates to Northern or Southern Conpeafion,
to deliberate on the propriety Of separating the
States.
PROM DAILY ADVERTISER.
There is class Of politicians in the South whose
object is to induce the belief among the people that
the great question now occupying SO much Of the
public mind is beyond the reach of adjustments and
that there is no alternative but fight, or dissO.