Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-03-30
THE OBJECT OF THE NASHVILLE CONVENTION.

The Union" newspaper has-every one knows
who reads t-repeatedly called us to account on
grounds directly opposite, different days, in con-
nexion with the excitement into which the country
has of late been artfully wrought, and which we
have discussed under the title Of !" the Evil of the
Day." On one day the Union has charged the
National Intelligencer with disappearing the
character and eraggerating the dangers Of the pro-
posed Nashville Contention, and on the very next
day has made it matter Of accusation that we have
concealed from readers the extent Of the danger
and all this the Union" has done whilst it was it.
self holding every day equvoca language on the
subject. We have more than once had occasion to
assure the senior Editor Of that print that the time
was at hand when he must take decided ground as
every public journalist ought to do, on one side or
the other-.jor the UNION (of the Staes) AS IT IS,
or against it. We infer from leading article
under the Editorial head Of his paper of yesterday,
that he has himself at last been driven to the con-
clusion, not only that the UNION is really menaced
by the Nashville Convention movement but that it
is his duty, patriotic Citizen now to discourage
that movement We are glad to see this symptom
in that quarter, tardy as it is
We subjoin the main part Of the article to which
we refer. Not having ourselves seen the Letter in
the Charleston Mercury from which the extract is
made, las below,) we infer that the attacks upon
Gen. CAss and Gen. FooTE, to which allusion is
made, are founded upon the attachment to the Con-
stitution Of the United States which has been ex-
pressed by those gentlemen in late speeches in the
Senate. II such be the case, we congratulate them
upon the enviabe distinction thus bestowed upon
them.
FROM "THE UNION" OF YESTERDAY MORNING.
An occasional correspondent" of the Charles
tom Mercury writes from Washington on the 10th !;
and we regret to see the extent to which prejudice
and passion may discolor the measures and charac-
tiers Of the most distinguished in these agitating
times. We pass over his attacks upon Gen. CAss
and Gen. FooTE. Every one who is acquainted
with these gentlemen would scorn to notice the mo-
tives which he attributes to them. Who, for ex-
ample-who that knows any thing Of Gen. FooTE's
independent character dream of suspecting
him of being tool of any other man, or of the
character OF winning the VicePresidency by his
noble efforts to compromise the present controversy
and of saving the Union But there are passages
in this letter of still more exceptionable and pre-
JUDGED description. What friend of the Union will
not be startled by such bold, and imprisoned, and
unfounded assertions as the following:
The issues the North and the South be
permanently satisfactorily settled compromised There
medium ground The spirit of power and acquisition,
on the one hand exutngy overbearng but blind,
and right and selfpreservaton the other uM preclude
yieldng, and lead to separation. Dsunio is the only
remedy and to The South the only source Of safety ndpend
ence and prosperity This evident truth will take
deep and wide hold the Southern mind and be to the
Southern politician who not up to the true and
high mark Of Southern rights and tone All the horrors of
attempted abolition will be put upon unless we open
our eyes. Every moment made here and feel it.
"The miserable caucus system, putting in party
hacks, has brought about in Congress- particularly in
the lower House. the existence of less talent from the South
than North in the Democratic than the Wing party, and in
put forward their best men. ....
But for the very reasons facts and designs have gven
the Nashville Convention should take but the and the
higher course 1t should insist additional constitutional
guarantees or separation The first will be given
and may proceed to the ork preservation"
The senior editor of this paper the Union'']
has heard said in his presence that there dis
unionists in the South per Sc. He has uniformly
denied that he-ever met with one, but he now adj
ms that here is monster, a disunionist fanatic,
and as mschevous the abolitionists of the North
Let such heresies be reprobated, and let the men
who dare to propagate them be branded as conspi-
rators against the Union Of our country.