Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-27
THE DEFEATED SCHEME OF DIsUNIoN.

Ii any doubt yet hung over the fate OF the pro-
ject of Convention at Nashville, the contortions
of the Richmond Enquirer, the dying spasms of a
defeated faction, would suffice to remove it. They
are fearful to behold. No veteran sinner, sensible
Of his approaching end, but yet too hardened to
repent and pray, ever poured forth so fierce voey
of imprecation upon those whom he supposed to
have been instrumental in defeating his evil designs,
than this organ Of the anti-naonal school of poll
ticians, the +" Enquirer" has now done upon the
National hateligencer, for having, within the last
month or two, exerted its feeble powers to uphold
the Union and defend it against a Combination
which had threatened it with destruction.
Intending to notice some Of its positions, we
place before readers the following TRADE of the
Enquirer at the National Intelligencer:
sThe National luieligmcr has exerted itself with an
energy which, far observation goes, is without
parallel sgmatze the in favor Of the Nashville
Convention The ISLANDERS of that paper bold and indie
fnsble upon the patriotism Of the South and the purposes
Of the Convention It's tory predictions wholly b.
erate its Judgment its old blackcockade federalism
Obscure its vision for it that defence Of
esdes not TO the nation. That paper lays itself
open fairly the vehement suspicion Of freesoi tain
of abolition ITSELF by its abd denuncaton Of every
ment at the South calculated to resist either Its columns
filled from day day with evidences going show that
the South will not resist expressions from the North Every
paragraph emanang from any village press however obscure
casting reproach upon the motives Of Southern PATRIOTS is
eagerly seized upon and paaded proof of public sentiment
the South This is precisely the say to The
Northern fanatics, Go in your of DISCRIMINATION,
there danger Of resistance from the South Break down
the barriers Of the Constitution here ard then great central
government with unlimited powers is established beyond all
doubt This being effected, slavery is swept from the Ame-
rcan continent .> II"
How comes to pass that the auaons of Seward for his
abolition speech, and the denuncaons of Webster for his
concatoy one the papers of the North, have found
place in the columns of the Intelgencer Why its
readers kept in total ignorance Of the real danger which
threatens from the North II tells us how many papers
from the South against the Southern Convention. Why
tell how many from the North opposed Webster
and in favor of Seward for their respective in the
senate clutches eagerly at the proceedings Of little meet
in the South against concert of action why not give its
readers information of the abolition meetings, the anti
slavery lectures, the constant peachings Of the ministers of
the Gospel-a having for their object the concentration Of
public opinion and action against the South and Southern
slavery The attachment the Union, vauntingly
proclaimed by the ntegence will be narrowly looked by
the Southhey will not fail to remember that to the
rights Of the South is than peril the Union-they
will not fail TO remember that asseveraons of loyalty
the best tests of paotsmhey will forget that Judas
Iscarot betrayed the Saviour Of mankind with KISS"
1t is with this efusion of spleen and spitefuness
that the Enquirer in Of its numbers of last
week, winds up long bill of indictment against
the Northern States for alleged undue freedom of
speech and Of the press against Congress for acts
which exist only in the imagination Of the g En-
qurer," never to be realized; against freedom Of
Debate in the House of the People-the Capitol of
the United States; and against any opinion differ
last relation Of life, to judge from the monotonous
refrain Of its late carnations, is, in the view of the
!" Enquirer" the only blessing on earth which is
much worth living or dying for.
Before responding to certain points in the FORE
going quotation from the :" Enquirer" we take this
opportunity the only one we have had, with
out giving it more consequence than it deserves)
to notice charge, blurted out against the National
Intelligencer some days ago from the same source,
of thrusting its advice, unasked, concerning the
Nashville Convention,) upon its Virginia readers.
When we were told by that paper, three months
ago, that the :" United States" were, in contempla-
ton Of the Conventionists, no longer a Union,'
we were far from understanding the expression
literally. We supposed it to be figure Of speech
merely. We did not then imagine, as now seems
to be the idea Of the Enquirer tina, VIRGINIA
is to be considered already out of the Union
so far least that any address to her citizens, on
matter concerning us quite much as them, and
the People Of all the States and Territories just as
much as those of the State Of Virginia and the Dis
trict Of Columbia, was an offence against the dig
nifty Of the Ancient Dominion. We had no con-
ception that things had gone SO far as that We
had never observed that the " Enquirer considered
Itself restrained, by considerations such as it would
now apply to others, from sowing broadcast its
opinions, good, bad, or Indifferent, over every soil
to which its reach extends The circulation of that
paper we presume, like that Of the National Intel
ligencer, penetrates every State and Territory in
the Union. in some paris of which, beyond doubt,
its anti-national doctrines odous as they are
to us, who have made no secret Of our opinions
that they are repugnant TO the Constitution, and
dangerous, above all, to the prosperity, the quiet
and the repose of all the Southern States. In
its own State The enquirer has, Of course
a very general circulation. But the National In
telligencer has also circulation in Virginia, i'll
not as wide as that of the Enquirer, perhaps not
less respectable in any other particular. Without