Southern shield., 1850-03-09
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The Nashville Convention Again.

The Nashville Convention Agaln.
 We think we may safely venture to declare that no class of the community are subjected to greater trials than members of the Editorial pro- fesson From the humblest to the highest they are accustomed to receive the criticisms, to ln- cur the misrepresentatlons and often to share the unjust animadversons of those persons who con- stitute what is called "the public" This many headed tribunal is as various in its tastes and opinions as it Is often censorious and uncharita- ble in declaring them. Happy indeed is that miserable wight of an editor who can frame 8 paragraph, or advance an opinion upon any sub ject that will receive the appreciation of even a majority of those who constitute it. Sad indeed will be his disappointment if he ever aspire to accomplish more than this. Melancholy will be bis fate if he dare assume the privilege of a free born citizen and commit to paper one opinion upon any subject which may conflict with the professions or prejudices of any considerable portion of the members of this vast Areopagus, which assumes to iIself the lofty prerogative of deciding all questions which may agitate this busy lit.le earth of ours.
 Having been conductor, boy and man, of a public newspaper for more than ten years, our experience at the bar of this Court has not been inconsiderable. We have been the subject of its decrees both favorable and unfavorable.
 Recently we appeared before it to argue a cause which, in our humble opinion, we regard ed as being fraught with the deepest interest to all the people of this great country. We did not express our views at great length upon this cause, but it seems that what we did say has given mortal offence to some of it's members who, to use fayorite phrase of our honored friend Gen. Taylor, have 'noienS 0oiens' placed them- selves on the front benches as shining lights to guide tl.eir benighted fellow-ritizens to the for nation of a correct oplnl0nin regard 10 1t. These bright particular geniuses have no doubt tho- roughly investigated this whole subject, (the propriety of holding Southern Convention at Nashville in June next,) and have made up and expressed positive opinion in favor of it. We are not, however, favored with any of the lucid
 
 ble systems of profound ratocination which have induced them to arrive at such an unchangeable opinion, and which have forced portion of them to deliver it, through the columns of our contemporaries of the Bulletin and Issue No doubt their reasons are as plenty as biackber ries, or to speak more to their taste and com prehension, as abundant as the words, the class cal allusions, or the chaste explosives which constitute the staple of those statesmanlike es- says upon this subject, with which the columns of our contemporaries have been graced.
 We must however confess our disappointment at not finding any of these vulgar things in sup port of the opinion so flippantly advanced both in the Bulletin and Issue, that the Nashville Con- ,ention is the genuine panacea for the political ills under which the South Is now laboring, or that the other opinion, so chartaby insinuated that those who oppose this system of doctoring are traitors to the South and worthy of the stake or halter From so great an omission we art led to believe that the ''associaton" ofnew lights which illuminate the pages of the Bulletin with their brilliant cilusions, are fed from gase ons fountains or some other unsubstantal places where reasons do least abound Perhaps like Dogberry's reading and writing, their opinion upon this subject came by natur' without ever rag of treason to clothe its nakedness.
 Be this as 1t may, however, ,ce protes against being read out of the great Southern Church by these self elected exponents of public opinion, particularly when that act is done with out rhyme or reason. We happened to have been born here in the South;-we have breath ell its atmosphere and hope to die within its limits, and this is what cannot be said of some ofthose who call in question our loyalty to t or this subject, namely, the slavery question. Oul Glialiove to the South, however, shall not prevent us from boldly opposing those schemes of public policy which may be set on foot by crafty poli- tcians, and which in their tendency may sub vert this precious Union of States and engulpf in one undistinguishable mass of ruin all we have and all we hope to have of happiness in this world. This Union, so transcendanlly glo- rous, is no school-boy's rattle, to De broken to pieces by every tyro in politics. Il is blood bought heritage, and God willing, we will be the last to raise parricidal arm to strike from il one scintla of that greatness which has given Il worldwide fame
 We have ever entertained, as do all Southern- CTS, an utter loathing for the abolition spirit oi the North. We deprecaie as much as any ono the aggressive tendency towards the South which It has manifested, and continues to manifest, to