Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-01

Ouler Ctascs to JOIN mcnl. iWiuCoo MIC PaoihiSoo,
by their leaders to their followers, of halcyon
days which are to come upon the success OF the
Revolution Of which they are the pioneers
seBy our physical power" said Of the foremost OF
those leaders. in late speech to his constituents, we can
protect ourselves against foreign nations whilst by our pro-
ducons command their peace support ihe Keys
of their ,oeaHk and in hands, which we
will freely Offer to them by system Of free trades making our
prosperity their nterest-our security their care The nm
gerng or decayng cities Of the South, which, before our
Revoutior carried on ell their foreign comrerce buoyant
with prosperity and wealth, but which are only ProVin
cal towns sluggish sburbs Of Boston and New York, WIN
up their natural destiny, and again eotd IN tar e
braces the richest oo~erce of the Dord Wealth hono
and power, and of the most glorious destnies 'oh'ch
aro,oned greet and hapy people aOats the s0A'
she but control her fate but controlled BY another Peo
p what pen shall paint the infamous and bloody
which must mark her fall !"
This was said before the passage OF the late revo-
utonary act of the Legislature of his State and is
by no means either as exulting in lis contemplation
of victory, as ferocous in its apprehension OF de-
feat, as the speech Of Mr.. CHEvEs, or as many ad-
dresses delivered about the same time. Here is
specimen, Of later date of the ecstatc visions which
now beam upon the minds of the Disunionsts:
At meeting Of ethe Southern Rights Association of
Christ Church Parish held the 18th January the Presi
dent of the Association INDUCED in the following strain
"We mast form a separate Government. The slavehod
ing States all yet that their only salvation consists
in uniting, and that promptly too in organizing Southern
Coniederacy Should be wise enough thus to unite,
all California aoit her erhastlss treasures,
all Neo Merco ao and the ,oould shine upon
country rich, great and poUcrfu ,oould be
our Southern Republic"
How lamentable is not all this How utterly
the reverse Of it all would not be the consequences
Of an attempt by any two or three States to with
draw from the Government for the purpose Of form
ing Confederacy to themselves [! We say nothing
of what course the Government Of the Union would
pursue in such contngency-which, within
our day, be it understood, we no more expect to
witness than we do to see the sun (which is to
Z" shine" upon iD stricken from the armament.
Should nothing else arise to prevent SO dread a
catastrophe, does any man, who understands the
character Of the different divisions of his own
country, believe that the States Of THE WEST ,oiH
permit any such ampaation from the body ofthe
Union? If he does, let him undeceive himself.
If the Census of 1850 does not disclose the fact,
that Of 1850 will undoubtedly prove that the seat
Of empire, the numerical strength or majority of
the Union is in the great Valley of the Mississippi
We are sufficiently confident in our information
of the interest well the disposition of that vast
region to undertake to say that the bonds Of an
indissouble mutual interest must forever keep the
people of THE VALLEY one nation. No interest
now perceptble, or ever likely to be developed,
can induce any part of it to voluntarily seek a
separation from the rest, or make the whole wish
to cast off any Of its parts.
Seated in the centre of that valley the two large
slaveholding States TENNESSEE and KENTUCKY.
Separated by mere geographical line, they have
an identity Of interest, habits, manners, and char
acter, which, with the aid of natural position, binds
them together in ssterly embrace that can never
be torn asunder. Whichever way the one goes the
other must follow; or, if one Of them cannot be
moved from her position, the other must stand still
also. No conceivable interest can induce the one
to seek separation from the other. They have
young and thrifty daughter across the great river,
which is bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh,
and which, though not having precisely the same
identity of interest with them that they have with
each other, yet has with them more similarity of
interest," habits manners, and character, than with
any other portion of the Union. These three
largest slave States Of the Valley may therefore be
said to have common and inseparable interest.
Their strength and position, in the very centre of
the Valley, give them such an influence over the
remaining States in the Valley that no separation
can take place without their consent; and, as their
interest will never prompt such separation we may
well conclude that no separation of the Valley can
ever take place. Evenifby any unforeseen casualty,
or from excess of irritation, it were torn asunder
the strong necessity Of mutual interest would soon
compel the severed parts to again coalesce and
speedily reunite under the same Government. So
strong and universal is this conviction, that not
single man can be found in these three States who
believes that any mode of dissolution can pro-
mote their interests, or, if such man there be, he
does not avow an opinion so obnoxious to public
sentiment.
We have spoken of the interest and the affinity
of the Slave States in the Valley, because it is to
their sympathies that the Southern Confederates
have appealed against the Union. The feelings of
the People Of ONO, INDIANA, and ILLINOIS, not to
speak of other States Of the West, are in every
thing connected with the unity and inseparability
Of the States in the Great Valley, identically the
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