Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-09


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These charges, specifications, or usinuaions are
Isy That the South portion Of the Southern peo-
pe plotting disunion, making the slavery question merely
the pretext to accomplish that end.
2dy That deliberate and distinct avowas of such end
and aim have been made by Southern politicians and leading
presses.
3dy. That this Southern movement is but renewal of
South Carolina notification; and that she has been plotting
destroy the Union for twenty years, and instgaed Mississippi
to take the decisive step which that gallant State has taken
the call for the Convention.
4thly. That the personal ambition of John c. Calhoun
and his peculiar views and purposes at the bottom of the
agitation in South Carolina.
5hly That the Southern people divided in sentiment
as to the necessity Of action, the mode and of
redress to be demanded.
These specifications might be multiplied, but the main
charges embodied those given above, each and all of
which The fact is put in ISSUE and the production Of proofs
to sustain them challenged and declared impossible. To
the first charge opposed the notorious fact that all the
ings all the petitions, all the recommendations Congress
praying dissolution of the Union, have from the
Norfh not the South and that the agitation of this danger
question has from the quarte-he South stand
ing only the defensive The proceedings of public
ngs at the South the language used by their politicians and
presses, matters of record and neither be adduced
fair Interpretation Of which would confirm the truth of such
| q charge.
Individual opinions which free press refuse
erance, carry neither weight authority with them
supported by any public ratification which to base
broad assertion In the columns Of the Inegencer
municaons often appear for which the conductors of that
journal would deem very unfair that they should be held
responsible. II this justice editor, how much wider
should be the application Of the rule communities whole
sections of country This first charge therefore, needs
i l.
support it., those accused not called prove
gatve unless they be denounced and condemned on
the "good old principle adopted by the majority during the
French Revolution, viz son suspicion of being suspected
To the second CHARGE relation to the avowa either direct
Indirect of such apurpose, either express implied, by
the Southern politicians presses, direct denial is given
Let proofs be Produced the charge be abandoned Fur
ther tan this such deliberate and distinct have been
made but not Southern presses such threats have been
uttered but by Southern they have in each and
every instance come from the North. The NeU York 1r
bune which, with the exception of the Herld is the
potential and popular exponent of public opinion in the cap
tai city of the Empire State in its leading editorial Of Feb
ruary 20h calculates the value Of the Union in way
which shows its estimate of its worth, for is well known
that the following declaration if adopted will lead disunion
"We in for struggle, willing unwilling, and our
adveraries proer alternative but defeat victory
We preserve the Territories intact to freedom
gandss is the line Of $50 3U the Pacific, with all below
it slave Territory, and of Cuba, Hay, and the
balance Of Mexico whenever shall be convenient to take
them. Give this, is virtually their demand, 'or we
hold Nashville Convention and secede from the Union
Our answer is unequiysca: Let the Union be thousand
times shrered rather than should aid you to plant
slacery on Free Slp Let those the Free States who
dissent from this position speak out so that the People may
I know where to find them"
The sentiment, only not openly expressed, is de-
cared by hundreds of their presses home and by the great
bulk of their Representatives in Congress- Yet the South
which only resis Wrong is to bear all the blame. sThe
weknown fable of Eop appropriately quoted
once by the present President than could be now by
Southern President in reference to this quarrel
To the third insnuaton, when made by the Senator from
Texas in his effort in the Senate, full and satisfactory
ply made by the Senators from Mississippi and South
Caroline to satisfy all fair and just minds for honora
bic for believe that Mr. FooTE Mr. DAvIs,
Mr. BurIER would for any purpose oop to the utteance
Of falssbood That bubble broken then, and the
Texan could persist ia its repetition, if he cared
meet the consequences Of such skepticism.
To the fourth, which makes Mr. CALHOUN the chief ns-
gator and this natter further than his public
and printed speeches may have contributed awaken public
interest in it. an unqualified denial itposed for he
consulted to the calling of the preliminary meetings
even in his State, made cognzant of the nten-
enton hold Convention until the matter had made
siderable headway He at Washington, and those who
organized the first steps not in communication with Mr.
CALHOUN and many of them his old
and old Union The in South Carolina, in
this NATTER did not originate with the politicians but
the spontaneous action Of her people This charge there
fore, groundess the rest and malicious in i'm
putting knavey great statesman and plant dupery to the
people he represents who could thus to be made the
mere tools OF a selfish ambition.
The fifth allegation, to the divisions existing among the
Southern people, soothe the minds of tBsse who differ
from Sir Boyle Roche not thinking that the best way
to avoid danger meet it pumps; but if they "ay that
fatering JUNCTION their souls grevous will be their error
disastrous their Disappointment and dire the possible
quences Danger yet avoided by shutting ones
eyes to its approaches as great man truly said when for
eign aggression reused people to resistance far gev
be the result of this raterna aggression the North
listens to the song OF infatuated selconfdence while
the tong its notes OF alarm half of this
land, and warning the of the North that although
their Southern white brethren love the Union much, they
love their liberties yet more, and will protect pre-
serve and defend them all hazards and the last
ty. The history Of all reyoutionss prove that high
minded and patriotic people yet stopped count the cost
calculate the odds in struggle in which honor at stake;
and you gentlemen whose rrened experience cautious
conversation, and patriotic devotion to the Unou can pro-
pey appreciate while deprecaDg the extent to which you
carry them, would cite the warning words of of
wsest statesmen applicable than at the time
Of their uterancehe reference to revolutionary struggle
by DANIEL WEBSTER, who, speaking of ancestors
these memorable words
It against the recital Of an act of Parliament rather