Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-03-30
=, (MIssIssIPPI,) March Z, 1850.

Messrs. GALES g. SEAroS beg you to for
troubling ysu with this letter. have read the National In
tegencer than twenty years. and have always regard
ed safe and firm prop to our national prosperity You
have aered in what you regarded your duty and
am satisfied you have wiully misled your readers
think discover danger Of your yielding too much
to delusion and living in community which think is
greatly misrepresened am you will this attempt
to correct you, instruct you, but recall you
yourselves. .. ....a.
suspect that you begin to yield the assertions often
repeated by political leaders, that here fealy
excited the slavery question. speak for the body of the
county in which ve-a wealthy and slaveholding commu-
n,y-and far my knowledge extends there not the
slightest of alarm. We excited upon the sub
ject and of the ranks Of demagogues and political
agtao, there very few who goa whether the in
stuton of slavery is extended the newly acquired Terri
tories or Why should care If the possession Of
slave property be great blessing, why shove it from
selves upon others who don't desire il If it be really
bighing curse, why nfct it upon country which is now
exempt from it
We have read so much about the encroachments of the
North upon the rights of the South, that passvey think
there may be something Of the kind to complain Of though
we are unable to define it. We know that of the
Northern States withhold from their assistance
fugitive slaves, and they condemned for it by every
class of community but the Unon-the Federal Gov
ernment-has heretofore done e and think is like do
little hereafter, this subject for to complain Of
After reading the speeches in both Houses Of the National
Legislature in which Congress is assured that aggra.
waited the Of disunon revolution, and civil war,
have inquired of our merchants mechanics and slaveowners
and have been uniformly answered that they nothing
about the matter And satisfied there not half
dozen in the wealthy river county in which reside
who would be willing raise any strife upon any determine
ton, by Congress, Of the question of slavery in the Terri
tories. Wha, the demagogues may DO and how far the
may ac9uiesce in their proceedings, and what mis-
chevous consequences might result from the Vaccinations
the and the passive acquescence Of the other ques
tons which your philosophy better able toreach than mine
They questions that comprehend all ttat you have to fear
The community ITSELF if LET alone will be satisfied with what
ever Congress may determine in regard to the various slavery
questions connected with the Territories
We satisfied with the doctrines Of the grea, spesch
General CAs We satisfied with the proposed
IN the California message Of President TAYLOR. We are
satisfied with the compromise resolutions offered by Mr. CLAr
We are pleased with the temper of short speech made BY
Mr. Dickinson, of New York. and Of long speech made
by Mr. PHxiPs, of Vermont. We are deyotedy attached
to the perpeuao Of the Ulon of the States and woue
regard its dissolution for any that now be though
Of, consummaon Of the vest reachery.
Do not regard writing with wish of going int
print. write for you alone. Though you know nothins