Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-22
THE NASHVILLE CONVENTION.

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Nashville papers will probably soon furnish us
witty of the composition, debates, decisions, and
Public Address of the Nashville Convention, as 70
enable us, upon any thing like full view of them,
to speak Of them as they deserve. Enough, how
ever, is discernibe of the points of the Whole TO
authorize the belief that the Convention will have
done no harm to the country-not altogether from
the want Of will in some of its members, but chiefly
from the impotency Of its organization-two or
three States only having in it any thing like
substantial representations, the remaining States
counted as being present being known to have
refused to be represented, as States in the Conven-
ton, and the persons actually present as Delegates
having no such warrant or authority as to justify
their undertaking to pledge their States to any
course whatever.
The subjoined summary views of the Conven-
ton, its composition and its issues appear to have
been prepared by one who has paid more particular
attention to its proceedings, as reported by the Ie-
legraph, than our engagements have allowed us
to do.
FROM THE NEW York COMMERCIAL ADvERTIsER'
The NASHVILLE CONVENTION long agonyis over !;
the Nashville Convention has met, talked voted Adjourned
and the Union is not dissolved The bands Of brotherhood
the cords that bind us have scarcely felt the strain which It
predicted would be brought to bear upon them by the
Southern dsunonss and the whole movement has turned
out to be, what thinking predicted it would be, very
lame effort conpentionisng for Buncombe. Little more
than bare majority Of the Southern States have sent dele
gates to the Convention, and Of the gentlemen there from the
nine States represented may be truly said that some OF them
rode in upon very small vote indeed and scarcely one
one could be properly said to represent the majority OF the
people of the district from which he As to certain
members who from single Congressional district AMI
because only districts in the State would have any
thing do with the business claimed to represent the whole
State the ground that hey knew the sentiment OF the
South only say that their epubcan education must
have been sadly neglected
If readers have been at the pains to peruse the daily pro-
ceedng Nashville they scarcely have failed to observe
how evidently the gentlemen there have felt the uammeis OF
their position. The idea of such Convention started
by dsunons in the belief that would be popular at the
Souk or would at least be numerouy attended, and that
the consequent excitement might be made tributary to the
triumph of the Southern party Congress more eyre
gous has seldom been committed The good people OF
the South laughed in their while the nose politicians
talked loudly and grandoquenty but the same people
very unwilling that their sanction should be given to
any actual movements in the direction of disunen And
thus have judged the people of the South Their
representatives and leading ought at least to have
known them as we'll We only account for such lack Of
knowledge the supposon that they the said representa-
tves and leading men, had talked themselves out Of Judgment
and had often asserted that the South would dissolve the
Union rather than yield title Of her arrogant claims, that
they had become the victims of their hallucnaon
The experiment made, and "what "a falling of was
there " Not complete representation from any Southern
State from the majority Of them most imperfect nominal
delegations and from many States only couple Of district
representatives The result most perplexing inequality
of representation from the slave States and no marvel
that there great difficulty in arranging how the Conven-
ton should rote upon question. And still less wonder
that the gentlemen who, in the face of such marked neglect
and dsapprova from the South had the courage attend the
Convention, should feel themselves embarrassed by their posi-
on remarkable specimen Of contradiction Of sin
ners against themselves have Most of them
have desired to sin against the Constitution, but
of them restrained in their by the force Of public
sentiment around them. Some, the other hand, could
in their hearts approve of dsunonm, but they believed
all the other members there for other purpose and
amusing read how they deprecated the wrath of the Con-
vention before they declared their sentiments.
Some talked Of and bloodshed and advised the South
in effect to polish up all the old bayonets they could find,
kes but they did this in thoroughly pacific and
moved that may well be inferred that the counsel not
sincerely given. In Short regard the assembly Of the
Nashville Convention godsend the Of peace and
Union They have dispersed and their exultant coming
geher, with their sad and mournful separation "unt six
weeks after Congress had adjourned may, taken together
afford lesson which would fain hope be lost upon
the most hoheaded Of Southern agaors That lesson
this: The Southern People deest the practical purpose
which Southern Senators and Representatives have avowed
While the North evinces it's present disposition to deal ber
ally, brothers should with the South the cry of dis
union will daily become unpopular. desire for
promise will become more and general; it will be uni
versa and he will justly be accounted traitor his country
who prefers disunion to compromise.
A vessel at New Orleans, which left Tampa
Bay on the I'd instant reports that as she came
out she met with the steamer Col. Clay, with some
Of the Florida Indians on board from Charlotte
Harbor for the West.
FROM MEXICO.
Files of the Monitor Republican,, of the city
of Mexico, to the 2lst ultimo, state that an extra
session of Congress was to assemble on the goth
of this month to arrange the treasury, upon which,
the Republican, says, depends the salvation of the