Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-04-06

We observe in the Richmond Enquirer Of Tues
day reiteration Of its efforts to breathe life into
the proposed Convention at Nashville, recommend
ing to its readers to meet together " as band of
brothers" to send Delegates from Richmond to the
Nashville Convention. Has the Editor OF the
9 Enquire" not yet got his eyes open. or does he
believe, with some Of his Wing brethren at Rich
,uond, that this scheme Of CsEyenton. instead of
tsing part Of plot for The Dissolution Of the Union
is really harmless, because when the Delegates get
to Nashville-if ever they get there-they are to
do nothing! If they are to do nothing there, what
on earth are they to go there fer Oh! says the
correspondent Of the Enquirer who calls the meet
ing, they are to "co-operate with Georgia, with
Mississippi, and with the rest of the States OF the
South That is to say, to cooperate in doing
nothing-unless it be in exposing themselves to the
SCOTS and ieers of the Tennesseans, all friends of
the Union, or so nearly all that there is hardly
dissenting voice. Besides, the Enquirer perfectly
well knows that, if South Carolina and Mississippi
are represented at Nashville at the time appointed,
ii is at least doubtful whether any other State will
be : certainly ten out Of the fifteen States of the
South will not be, unless by Ruckerite Delegates.
We cut out of the Richmond Whig, the other
day, truly patriotic and constitutional argument
against the course recommended by the Enquirer,
which we shall not perhaps find a moment more
opportune than the present to place before our
readers:
TO the Editors Of the Uhig.
trust the suggestion Of town meeting the exciting
question Of the day will be pressed The time for has
arrived maynay, have to hope aoiN
arrive The people should not be unmndul, permit
others be So of their and proud poson their high
yet responsible attributes under form of government
Here they constitute the of last esthe supreme
ard FINAL arber Of all questions arising beyond the Cons
ution of ntolerable grievances abuses under it. In their
hands only the final destiny of this great country for
for wo, for glory shame The views Of their repre-
senatve may be disayowed the resolutions Of their Le
gsatures be superseded the dca of their Governors
disregarded laws Of Congress and decisions OF
Courts be reversed annud when they declare their
seigr will From all these tie appeal lies people bt
from the ultimate decisions OF the people there is appeal
of them there solution acquescence force They
the extreme medicine of the body polite and should
be reserved therefore for of the last extremity No such
extremity exists The controversy at present confined
representatives between them it has yet
sumed definite shape ard the notifications is undergoing
Of good rather than Of evil The late violent
burst OF feelings and opinions long pent up, but half dis
closed have relieved the lowering clouds and the uncheck
served to show the breakers which the good ship
driving in time humbly trust, to her If do
yet what will the Unon plainly enough
least something that would destroy it. The pretension that
this is pro sauery Government, and the demand by
and almost absurd concessions, by forced interpretations Of
the Constitution, for its aere Intervention aor of slave
D all calm and sensible demands that be
persisted in consistently ch the preservation the Union
The pretenson, the other hand, that this anti sace
ry Governmentthe sophisty by which bad men, eudng
the plain provisions Of the Constitution seek to render
tu inmical to that instuton-all must WILL in
iks manner, persisted in sign the dea.-wanan of the
Union Between these lies the path of safety and
of truth II was found amid similar pretensons when the
Constitution formed in provisions that the concur.
of ADAMS and MADISON of FRANKLIN and of PRICK
SErof the great body of the Convention and of the patriotic
massesof the people, North and South Maywe hopewi
be und again fair and just Interpretation of thoe prov-
sons and efficient measures for the fment othe obligations
they impose which shall be soncured in by CLAT and CAss
and WEBSTER by the Senate ard the House. sustained
they will be by the wise and good the mod rate and patriotic
from end of the Union to tie other In their hands let
leave it. At present might but enbarrass them in the
good work to which they have devoted themselves.
WASHINGTON.