Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-28
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

The Editor of the Southern Sentinel" published
at Columbus, in the State of Georgia, replying to
the request of " Friend" who had asked him to
repubsh Speech delivered at w arrenton, in Geor-
ola, by Mr. STEPHENS, the able Representative from
that State, distinguished, as every body knows, by
his zeal on all occasions in support of the rights
and claims of the South, Indignantly refuses the
request; declaring that his friend cannot be in
earnest" and adding to this impeachment of his
friends sincerity the following:
Whether, however, our friend is in earnest
or not, the vile, insidious, and DANGEROUS docu-
: ment can have no place in this paper. II may be
: true, as our friend states, that the National
{ InteHigencer at Washington 1oouid, and other
: Southern presses near home haze gwen currency
: and circulation TO this speech. They may have
: right to do so. These presses do not claim to
be the guardians of the property and honor OF the
South, and may possibly be INDUCED in publish
ing and circulating documents the only tendency
of which is to teach the men OF the South to
submit to wrong. We have nothing to do with
the Lteigencer and are of the deliberate opinion
that if it is to be the vehicle of scattering through
the South such matter as we have mentioned,
: Mr.. Stephens's Speeches, to wit, the sooner
the slave-owners of this region cut its acquaint-
. ance the better"
Conscious of having deserved, by the uniformity
with which, through aperiod of more than forty
years. this press has sustained all the just claims
and the true interests Of the South, las it has been
our aim to do those Of every quarter OF the Union
it certainly gives us no pain to find the National
Intelligencer disrespectully alluded to by jour-
nalist who, when Mr.. STEPHENS is engaged in en-
of nd
in his own State, deuounces his patriotic efforts as
!" vile, insidious, and dangerous"
How, indeed, could any other emotion than pity
be excited in us by the rawlings of a mind so dis
tempered to be capable of seriously uttering SEN
timents such as the following, taken from an adj
Joining column of the same paper:
"WHAr Now I'VE are informed by Telegraph that all
the measures of abominaon including the bill to admit Cali
oa as State have passed both Houses of Congress- and
have doubtless ere this become by the Executive sane
ton The question which springs spontaneously from the lips
of every one is WHAT twill not require many words
to define our position We have all along commended that
the admission of California would fill OVERLOOKING the poi
soned cup degradation which the North has for years been
preparing for the South We have declared determine
ton to hold the Union long there was hope that
we would be safe the Union That hope has now been
disappointed and abandon the Union as an engine OF IN
famous oppression VIZ ARE FOR SECESSION, open unqua
lifted naked SECESSION. Hencetorth zoe WAR
UPON THE GovERsMEsr has existed but for our ruin,
and to the extent of ability destroy it it shall exist no
longer We loathe the very of tyranny and whether
it shows itself in the expressions Of crowned monarch, or OF
despoc majority, it equally the object Of our unmgated
unqualified adherence"
War upon the Government With mind SO
blinded by insensate passion as to be incapable of
distinguishing between right and wrong for any
other purpose than to pursue the wrong-which, in
another column Of the same paper, reversing the con-
stitutonal definition of treason, charges treach-
cry" upon contemporary in his own town be-
cause he is not ready to levy war against the Gov
eminent of the United States-and all this, be it
observed, after every constitutional object desired
by any part of the South has been obtained no OBJ
ject sought by it remaining unaccomplished, except
that one heretofore denounced in the btterest terms
by Georgia herself, as well as by South Carolina, OF
refusing admission into the Union of the State Of
California, because municipal provision In that
Constitution is not to their taste-of what possible
consequence to Mr.. STEPHENS, or to us, can be the
denuncations of the Editor of the Southern Sen
tinel 20 This Editor, however, rabid as he is, has
vet method in his madness. He knows what he
would be at, and explicitly avows it. He is for
" secession" but he makes no pretence, as some
others do, of its being peaceable process. He is
no believer in peaceable secession. Demented, as
he seems TO be, he is wiser than that! He is for
secession, without any such qualification. lie
knows that secession means war, and he declares
himself for secession" in that sense. He is
ready to engage in war, though not assailed, MOI
even menaced. He is ready noD {" henceforth''
for war upon the Government, and in the spiri
which prompts him to unprovoked war upon thu
Government of the United States, he turns upor
the National hafeligencer, because it IS National
because it desires and labors for the good Of tn
whole country and is not sectional, factious, ant
frantic as himself.
We seriously advise this misguided individual
who is in such hot haste to make ,car upon tn
Government, and all others laboring under thu
same unhappy distemper, to ponder well before
they expose themselves, not to danger, SO much al
to ridicule-the shafts of which, we do not doubt
would have more terror for their souls than whist
ling balls or glistenng bayonets--upon two points
first, in what way they, who are to be the assailan
by their own choice-for it is they who are to make
war upon the GoUernment--are to get into the war
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