Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-20
THE .soUTHERN coNFEDERAcY" SCHEME.


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SECESSION the plot, and long meditated- States
EUidence-ls49 the year-British .dhiance-
D Judge Tucker the ,oitaess-FaH proof
IN the National IntelIigencer of the | tn instant
is oue of its crashing broadsides, on " the Evil OF
the Day, ] and among the proofs produced in that
number is the resurrection of book which excited
butlitle attention at the time it written, and
has sunk into oblivion for some years, but now
rises up in the killing form Of g States eUidenee."
Its title is that of Partisan Leader" It's author
was Judge Beverly Tucker: its printer was DUFF
GREEN; It's time of publication was 1886, but dated
1885, and il purpor,ed TO be history of what had
taktnsplace in I849. Never was such piece of
history written beforehand! It is the exact his
tory Of what was in progress in lS49, with the ad-
dii0n of the British alliance, which is part of the
plst which had been before discovered. The fol-
loving is an extract from this book, which we take
from the Intelligencer
isUpder these circumsances the Southern States had
bsen aengtb forced that the day for decisive action
hsd lrsed They therefore determined no longer to abide
eo6gaiions Of Consultation, the forms Of which alone
remained, aid haung, By movement nearly simultaneous,
'sEcEDED FRon TIE UsIos, they had Immediately formed
tG SOUTHERN CoNFEDERAcr. The .suddenness Of these
remarkable than the prudence with which
they had beenronduced. The together left little doubt
that there had een pTeconcert among the leading
fhe several Stats arranging Professionally wha should be
done, heneuer circumstances should hroto pope the
ha,ds of those cho, the bidding of the usurper the
people had onc dyiuen from their councils. II is now
known that her was such concert. Nor it confined
to the seeding States alone In VIRGINIA, also, there
toere men ,uho ttred into the pcs. But while the
President beetd that decisive step would be taken by
the more Souhtn States without her operation he had
devoted all powers, direct and indirect and
influence her eIcons. OF tumuuary nsurrecon he had
no fear. The organized operation OF the State Govern
tmens wha he dreaded, &c
This is sample. The book consists of two
volumes, andis disunion throughout No man
was more fittd 10 write this history of dsunion in
Advance than Judge Beverly Tucker. He was a
Nulfer hims&f, and by his sentiments, connexions,
local residences in different States, and ardent tenn
permanent, wasperfectly calculated to know all the
secrets of the Disunionists. He was Nullifca-
ton Judge in Missouri, and the friend and asso-
cate of all theother multiplying Judges, and the IA
mily connexioI of Judge Napton. He was con-
nected with the nullifers in South Carolina both
| by blood and marriage; he came from Virginia
and went bick to Virginia, and to the hot-bed Of
nullifcationat old Williamsburgh. All these cir
cumstances make Judge Tucker the best witness
in the work in this case, and, without intending
it, he has become I" States evidence at the very
moment that he was wanted.
| The Partisan Leader is now book to be
sought for, and studied. No doubt but some oi
the old Nulliiers in Missouri have copies of it.
We will give them double price for copy, as it is
wanted now. Only one thing differs in ls49 from
what it was written down to be; and that is, in tht
cause for secession. The cause in the history o
Judge Tucker was that of the first notification
1t ,cas protective tariff AT the time Judge Tuck
er wrote, the slavery pretext had not bean invent
ed! Davy Wilmot had not been heard. Of! The
admission Of California had not been heard Of
Texas annexation had not been heard Of! It wa.
I'll f,riE prnolor, tion-fnrca bill-hloodv hill
then And for these it was, and with the aid o
British alliance, that the secession was to take
place in ls49-proof that all the causes now al
legged are only pretexts, invented since to cover
| plot Of twenty years incubation.
Well! the year lS49 came. The dissolution
of the Union ,cas openly commenced. Fortunate
! ly, however, the conspirators commenced the
operations upon Senator Benton; and he gave
them fight which has reused the country.