Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-14
THE SOUTHERN PRESS. "

The journal which was established in this city
as Southern organ-and which has, during its
existence. done more than all other journals of the
country put together to damage the interests which
it processes to represents determined that South
Carolina, at least, shall not be content with
any redress for alleged aggressons from the North
short of revolution, under the name of " Secession"
We copy from that paper Of yesterday the follow
ing opening sentences-all that require any notice
whatever at our haads-of an Editorial article, in
which the objects and motives of the National In
telligencer are misrepresented in an iRdefensible
manner:
"CANDoR OF THE INTELLIGRNcER:-In the arti-
Gle from this paper republshed yesterday, it will
be seen that the editors charge upon South Caro-
9 lima the proposition to tax the sale of Northern
productions in the Southern States. Nobody
knows better than the Editors of the Inteligencer
that this is not South Carolina movement and
that she has expressed preference invariably
for other remedies, which she regards as more
efficient, and more surely calculated to secure
justice to the South
That South CAROLINA may have a preference
for other remedies y which she regards as more
efficient than retaliatory taxation is quite probable,
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intent on making for measures more serious than
merely restrictive ones. But that she does not
contemplate, as an alternative, the establishment Of
non-intercourse with certain States of the Union
by means Of prohibitory taxetion-the only means
by which she can effect such purposes not
true On the 29th of November,as appears by
newspaper now before us, the Legislature Of that
State had under discussion resolution to instruct
committee to report Blu Of Non-intercourse
Nth all States that trow obstzclessin the syuy Of
the enforcement Of the Fugitive SJave LaD: that
is to say, proposition that the Legislature Of
South Carolina resent an idle and unconstitutional
act on the part of certain 9th er State or States by
itself passing an unconstitutional law: as though
the wilful violation ofthe Corstiation by State
could remedy or punish like offence previously
committed by another.
The Southern Press - seems to be apprehen-
sive that South Carolina m ay draw back from the
leap which she seems, by every indication, pre-
pared to take. That jou rnal breads, apparently
the effect of the counsels of her own wise and ex-
perienced citizens against rashresolves and hasty
action. Let the !" Southern Press instead Of
urging that State on with blind precipitation to
measures which nothing less than revolutionary,
heed the faithful warnings Of other Southern presses
which have just met our eye, in the following
terms:
FROM THE MARrINsBURa IVA. GAZETTE OF DEC. 10.
"Let South Carolina beware! She may do
6 much mischief, but she can do no good by her
present desperate course. She is now between
the acting Of dreadful thing and the first motion.
sob let her pause !-because 'being done, there
g is no pause.
MOBILE (ALABAMA) REGISTER OF DECEMBER 8.
"South Carolina is preparing to assume an
i" extreme position, which we fear will bring dis
" aster upon her, and do more to crush the cause
I" of the South and endanger all our institutions
" than can arise in any other way. Every friend
Z" of Southern Rights should endeavor to restrain
I" such rash precpitancy, which would hazard the
great issues of national existence and human
happiness upon the separate action Of one State,
and that one whose whole white population is
!" not much more than half that Of the city of New
!" York;
The paper from which we copy the last extract
was, during the tendency Of the compromise mea-
sures in Congress, as decided in its opposition to
them as any paper at the South, not even except