Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-02
TO THE EDITORS.

TO THE EDITORS.
Messrs. GALES & SEAToN: As the Richmond
Enquirer received last evening does not contain my
letter in to its structures my address to my
constituents ask the favor of you 70 publish this
FEBRUAnY 90 1850. ]. NJ H. BEALE.
WASHINGTON FEBRUARY Is, 1850.
To the Editors of the Enquirer:
GENTLEMEN observe in your paper Of the 18th instant
the stictures you have thought proper make upon my let
ter to the people Of the fourteenth Congressional district Of
Virginia a scft answer putteth away wrath" intend
to answer in thisspir although might justly complain that,
instead Of combating my opinions your observations have de-
scended into personal attack
You say that hundreds Of my letters my
constituents before stray copy fell into the hands Of of
my colleagues two days after it published Now, the
facts attending the distribution of those letters plainly
follows The evening which this letter struck from
the press obtained few copies, and that
ing ten twelve of them Richmond, and five to my dis
Iict. The next morning handed them to the Virginia
delegation in Congress How different from your statement
My letter known in Richmond before it could possibly
reach my constituents.
You ask, also, "how one of her sons trusted with her
honor abroad could have put forth such paper unless it
was under counsels alien his State Again hear the
facts. consulted no one-neither Whg Democrat
mau--nOne
such letter written or intended be written. This
alusion Of yours to my being alien 10 the party with which
usually act alien my State, is the unkndest cut of
ALL Srs you do not know When great question like
this, less than that of the of the Conedeacy
up, overdes all the miserable efforts of party
tonal strife When formerly occasions much less inn
portant alone Of the Democratic party then in Congress
voted for the Independent Subreasuy, offered by the
Wings; voted against putting the Peoples money into about
forty pet banks Ga afterwards acknowledged by Gen.
Jackson have been j voted against that act of in
justice and nhumaniy called the Cherokee treaty, which, by
quick retibuton brought the Seminole by which
lost many valuable lives and expended forty millions of
money them now charged with:being alien to my
party, but time has proved that right have ouived
those suspicious and hope yet survive the mputaon of
alien attempted to be affixed by the generous editors of
the Enquirer.
Now srs permit me to make this observation cannot
attribute you that you would hazard your reputation for
justice and fairness in thus charging upon me crooked
and ahles policy, unless you had grounds to make
those charges and, from your position you could know
nothing Of yourself the only conclusion left, that
you acted from information received from Wash
ng.on.
In the spirit of personal reproach you observe To
say that is the result Of his reflections is say that
Mr. BEALE is wiser than all his party" This is argd-
against the man, and not against his opinions Are
you unchartable, and somewhat rude. in atbung
lofty selfconcei because upon question Of deep
tonal concerns and in discharge Of high duty with which
entrusted, have ventued differ with you and with.
many Of my countymen to whom accord ell patriotic merit
Can you make mercifu abatement for this independent
mode Of action in the of old man. who from the
force of habit brought up and living in the secluson Of
country farm where consultation often excluded had
acquired the habit Of thinking for himself and saying what he
thought
my gross ignorance of the laws of Virginia relation
the slave trade that necessary my purpose know
that the transportation of slaves the State for
the purposes of sale is prohibited by her laws and that there
fore, in bill settle possible this slavery question: it
would be great NATTER by way of concession agree that
the District of Columbia in relation to that natter should be
placed in the condition of many the slave States of
the Union.
In the short period intervening between the publication of
letter and the receipt of your structures upon it. several
have happened going show the truth Of he remarks
made in that letter
First The Legislature of Virginia has stricken out Of her
resolutions that part relating the abolition of the slave trade
in this District by Congress, giving Virginia just cause of
resorng Convention and devsng modes Of redress In
this the action Of the Legislature in accordance to the oPn
4 ions advanced in my letter.
Second In this interval have received the account
Of Convention held North Carolina, growing out Of the
agitation of the slavery question, in which Convention the
whole people the North without discrimination, de-
nounced being hostile Southern rights This the den
teal appehended would be taken Nashville Con-
ven,ion. Comment is unnecessary.
Third. Northern Convention has been threatened to be
held at Buffalo an;agonscal Nashville Convention;
thus leading step by step higher excitement of the public
mind and thereby endangering and the stability
Of the Unon
Let pray you, keep cool until (of which there
The
passed law, and the President have signed it, invading the
rights Of the South Then shall determine rst upon the
modes of obtaining restitution under the constitution and
the laws and lastly, upon the policy Of independent political
| existence. JAMES M. H. BEALE.
/ THE LION DAr.-On Friday morning, Mrs Lilo
Victoria attached Raymond & Warnings Menagene
presented this interesting world less than little
ons much the qualification OF the on-tamer Of the estab
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