Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

INA llOlVAL llN i LLLluEllNOGNs
To the true men Of The South, who own them
selves friends of the whole country, and Of cours
of the Union, and the benefits which it confer
equally on the North, the East the West and tn
South-to those who count for something the glo
ries Of the past and the hopes Of the future-w'
heartily commend the counsel of wisdom, in TIT
present circumstances of the country, contained in
the subjoined extract from Tennessee paper
The good sense of this article is, we are happy to
see, not confined to single paper but in other
papers Of Tennessee, as well as of Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, and occasionally in other South
ern States, (and in all the Western slaveholding
States,) the same rational views here and there
presented. What influence such indications may
exert upon the minds of readers generally, we can
not say but speaking for ourselves, they have all
the effect upon us of such beams of light as pre-
ceds and herald the coming of new day.
FROM NASHVILLE WING.
The most anomalous feature in the war Of Sec
tons is, that the extremists from both the North
and the South, hating each other with cordial ha-
tired they do, meet together in the fulness of their
infatuation, and shake hands the defeat, at
tempted defeat, of every measure brought forward
with view to conciliate and harmonic the people,
and perpetnate the Union. Thus do extremes
unite, and the public welfare is mutually perillei for
directly opposite ends.
In this emergency it becomes question of vital
interest to every Southern patriot to inquire calmly
and earnestly sCtaf is the true policy of the
South? Dissolve the Union? By no means.
Dissolution would prove no adequate remedy for
any of the evils complained of and would incon-
ceivably aggravate many of them. A line of picket
forts from the Maryland seaboard to the frontier
of Missouri would then hardly be sufficient to re-
strain the escape Of fugitive slaves even within its
present bounds, and constantly recurring hostile
collisions along the dividing line would be ineyita-
BILE. Besides, where would the dividing line be
run? Should we have one, two, three, or more
Southern confederacies! Is there any security
that the homogeneous political elements of South
Carolina and Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississip-
pi, Maryland and Alabama, Missouri and Florida,
Louisiana and Georgia, could be brought to har-
monte upon any single plan of federation, when
the palladium of our venerated Constitution had
been shorn of its prestige? We speak not now
particularly of the free States. Theirs would De
still more hopeless prospect Of permanent union
among themselves.
What then, shall the South do! Dissolve the
Union! By no means. Shall we be dashed into
fury and return railing for railing against the ia
natical free-soilers and abolionists of the North
This is their meat and drink-iheir nourishing
pabulum-the genial atmosphere in which they
live and move and have their being. Fools and
madmen are apt to get the better in contest of
railing The South has abundant means quietly
and peaceably to protect her essential interests
,cithin the Union. Why should we desecrate with
civil strife and drench with the blood of brothers
the fairest land that ever the shone upon, or
benignant Providence fostered with his smiles,
merely to avenge the vaporing pugnacity of ideal
fanatics!
LET THE SOUTH "KEEP COOL" and steadily de-
velop her inerhaustible resources. Lethe multi
plyher manufactures and her railroads-sustain
her oUn institutions oflearning appropriate
premiums for prize productions in agriculture and all
the industrial arts-estabish her oton line of steam
ships Dih Earope-build up her oacn importing
cities, at Charleston Savannah, Norfolk, Richmond,
New Orleans, Mobile, &c. Let her expend her
own money among her own citizens. Let her peo-
pie have done with visiting Saratoga and Cape May,
and other Northern watering places, where their
lavish expenditures are rewarded with insult and
the abduction Of their servants.
In this view, the speedy completion of the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad is becoming daily
an object Of increasing interest," not only to Ten
nesSee, but TO the whole South w ltnln elgnteen
months from this date, we shall have continuous
line of railroad communication direct between Nash
vile and the southern seaports of Charleston and
Savannah. The Cumberland river, connecting this
road directly with the whole line of navigation upon
the Mississippi and its tributaries, will furnish
cheap and convenient access from all the South
western States to the numerous mineral springs Of
Tennessee, which, whether for the excellence o.
their waters, saubrty Of atmosphere, or the delight
full recreations of rural scenery, will compare ad
vantageously with the most distinguished resorts
fashion and wealth in any part of the world. W.
therefore anticipate, at no distant day, an influx
yisiters from all parts of the South, from tn
Southern .seaboard and the remote Southwest il
search of health, pleasure, and recreation, to TIT
various mineral springs of Tennessee, bordering
the whole line of the railroad from Nashville Z
East Tennessee, equal to that which has for years
past contributed so much to the overgrown opulenc'
of the Eastern States, which have claimed hitherto
sort of patent right Of locality to these social ant
pscuniary advantages.
The increase in the population of Washington county
Ohio since $40 has been upwards Of so per cent In
growth of Cleveland and Cuyahoga countless in the sam
State has been still rapid the increase being over IL
per cent.
The RIO GRASDE-The Brownsville (Texas) Sentne