Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-26

be ovehadowed by strange alterations and rendered useless
and sometimes dangerous by waywad views originating in
passing impressions, and maintained with characteristic tena-
city, and with little respect for the opinions Of others.
In this diary the compromise by which the constitution
established and without which it could have been
established denounced "he bargain between freedom
and slavery and pronounced morally and politically
vicious with various harsh eptets and illogical deductions
little credabe 10 the judgment of the writer at any tme
and least Of all at that time, considering the position 10 the
Government he then occupied and the claims
he had 10 still higher distinction.
This condemnation Of the constitution morally ucious,
is LETT upon record by who sought and enjoyed
the confidence Of his country IN many stations Of high honor
and responsbty-in more indeed PeA4s than any o.As,
The OF the present Government and continu-
ed almost without nermisson until his was terminal
ed by DEATH AT the very time he thus embodied this opinion
Of constitution, he the second officer OF the Execu
tive Department Of the Government and became ere long,
the first and in each of these capacities In many pre-
cedng ONE be voluntarily assumed, under the most solemn
sanction, the obligation to support this constitution thus
stamped with the charge of moral and political Uice take
no pleasure in the expression of these But the docu
has been given the country. and regret it as we may
and must has already passed into hsory and like all
the other materials of which history is composed, cannot
escape the scruny nor will escape the censure of
like this Nor should it. Its tone of moral sentiment is
bad The doctrine and the example are bad That the con-
sution Is vicious instrument is opinion seems to me-
that rght-minded American hold. That its honos
and emoumens may be sought and enoyed and It's obga-
tons assumed by him who considers liable this grave
sure is certainly not reconceabe with any elevated standard
Of moraty nor is the opinion the example by which po
sion held under such calculated to produce
saIuary impression upon the American youth. am sorry
say there other positions Of this resusctated
equally obnoxious to the of patriotism and OF good
TASTE How different it's tone and temper from that ega-
cy Of true wisdom and patroism the Farewell Address
monument of high moral and political feeling, and Of aec-
tonae interest," well of practical WISDOM such
other citizen ever bequeathed to his countrymen.
The one appeals the better feelings Of nature-to
the common name of America and bids hold to
the unity Of Government which constitutes people,
by all the that belong to the past and the preseno
common exerions crowned with success and to common
hopes as bright as in the providence Of God, offer
ed any people. also of the mischief Of
ona preudice and Of the danger of sectional questions,
which tend render alien to each other those who ought
to be bound together by aterna Affection And that voice,
which now comes from the tomb, should speak in
trumpet every American ear and strike responsive
chord in every American heart when it calls upon>us to
"FRowN INDIGNANTLY THE FIRST DAwSING OF
EVERY ATTEMPT ALLEVIATE ONE PORTION OF OUR coUN-
TRY FROM THE REST, WEAKEN THE VARIOUS TIES
WHICH NOW BIND TOGETHER VARIOUS PARTS"
The other -- but will not speak of it as might
well do Better that had been entombed like the ancient
Egyptian records till its language lost than have been
hus exposed the light of day. will place in contact and
that viii place in contrast few passages from the Farewell
Address and from the Diary of Mr. Adams and close this
ungrateful topic with few remarks