The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-19
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New York, Tuesday, November 10, 1850.
rnipoItant Intelligence from the south
Adjournment OF tlic Nashville Convention.


passing series Of revolutionary resolutions, and
adopting an address breathing secession dissoiu-
non, and everything else, number of resolutions
were carried by of six States to one, declar
ing attachment 10 the Union, and containing
Thing thai, as far as we learn, be consd-
cred Objectionable. The proceedings will be foun
under the Geographic hea md will be read with
interest Now that matters have taken such course
in the South, IL be hoped that every exertion
will he made to deprive the abolition fan tics of
abe North of the rover of continuing the slavery
agitation. In good faith towards the Southern
States, who have thus, notwithstanding all the ag-
tTessions that have been heaped upon them, patr-
0tically come forward in favor of the UHion, and
sisnfed their attachment 10 it, We should do
Let a similar feeling pervade the North, and the
whole wCIld combined cannot prevent from
fulfilling the glorious destiny which Providence
has, evidently, in store for oar country Those
patriotic resolutions were opposed by only
Slate-Tennessee.
There is another important point connected with
the resolutions thus passed by the Nashville Con-
vention, which is worthy of notice. IL will be
seen that they recommend the Southern States
not 10 go into a national convention for the nomi-
nation Of Pre- sident The effect of this will pro-
baby be, as we stated some days since, TO make the
mex, contest scrub race, and TO throw the election
iato The House of Representatives, where they will
hold the balance OF power, and use it in such
manner as may seen to them best, and most con-
daeive TO their own interests.
The great Union and Constitution meeting,
which was held al Cincinnati on the nth instant,
was very enthusiastic.
II is said that Mr. Fillmore has ritten letter
10 the owner of the fugitive slaves, Crafts and his
wife, who are in Boston, in which he states that
me law will be enforced, and that, if necessary,
The power of the government will be applied to
that purpose. This is no more than what he would
he obliged TO do in case the law was obstructed;
bu, whether he wrote the letter in question not,
is spother matter.
Speech OF MIR. Cnyton-,iore Developments
-hnother Presidential Movements.
We publish, today, the speech Of Hon. John NJ.
Clay ton. delivered at Wilmington, Del, on Satur-
day evening last tits evidently the result of care
fsl preparation, and the official history Of Gen.
Tayloi's policy, il is very interesting and inn
perisnt document Ii is also highly creditable to
she late Secretary of State, for the ability aud
eieantss with which his chain OF facts and argu-
nents is put together. The retirement at Bueaa
Vista appears to have thoroughly restored all the
sigor OF intellect for which Mr.. Clayton was dis
tinguished in the Senate, ana which il was feared
he had entirely lost in the puzzling perplexities Of
the State Department. The speech il, therefore,
refreshing in every view, and IN several points Of
paramount importance.
Mr. Clayton, after an apology for the whig de-
feat in Delaware, begins his official deposition by
saying that the election Of General Taylor consti-
tuted a new era. Il was but the prelude
90 a new era-the overture to the opera---the
mere prologue to the grand drama which s now
eonvulsing the Union lie next proceeds to the all
sngrossing tlsvery question, and laments, very
naturally, the death Of the celebrated " Clayton
Compromise" in the House. as the source Of all
Ger Subsequent disasters and our present mutf.-
rious difficulties. Following the thread Of history,
President Pslk and his messages are cited as the
origin and basis Of the policy Of Gen. Taylor-ihe
nor-ac,ion pocy-and the true policy Of the govern
ment Being perfectly ineredulous OF the danger TO
the Union, 60 repeatedly painted in such awful CO.
lors by Clay, Casr, Foote, and the Committee Of
Thirteen, and being himself passenger in
the opposition line, Mr. Clayton, of course,
considers that MIR. Clsy's Omnibus bill was a
humbur-a regular Bsnum humbug-and gull
trap. This brsnch Of the speech places a high
wall and deep ditch between Messrs. Clayton and
Clay. The daring Kentyckisn having charged in
the Senate the cabinet Of General Tsy lor-snd par
tcularly tae Secretary OF State-with an interned-
ding and oficous opposition to the Omnibus,
in getting up a certain hostile meeting in Delaware
"a charge which Mr.. Clayton says was abso-
lutely untrue" though persisted in," and "never
renacted "-of course, there is a split between
Messrs. Clayton and Clay, and Mr.. Clayton makes
love to another hero, "a he did in 1913 In IN.
meantime, Mr.. ClaJ ton thinks it the beat policy to
sustain Mr. Fillmore and the laws, and 4, alto
rether satisfied with the Union as it il, which is
very sensible decision Short work lie made Of the
California missicn u Mr.. King. Of which there is
doubtless something sIll 10 be learned, and Mr..
Clayton slips over the subject Of prescription in a
hor. slip end jump. The least said on that score
the soones, nended.
But IL is proper % cay That the statement Of the
late Secretary Of state regarding the fraudulent
aud swihdling Calphn claim, relieves him from
any suspicion Of being ywficeps cyimiais in that
enormous operation upon The Treasury. II appears,
that had the cabinet kn9wn of Crawford's interest
in this msgnificen ut haul, the claim would not have
been allowed. BE that - IL NAV, let it pass Pass
irg BY, also, tia, insufficient Hungarian mission,
and the Cuba business, in which the cabinet asd
MFR. Clayton did cas- well as could be expected"
we come TO that complex Mosquito net, and the
Nicaragua treaty.
Kothipg could be more emphatic or more clear
tk.a LIr Cl1y:eas s.a;cmsEl Of Ii: imao!! and