Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-01

~ the nrsS place, the feopie oil Louisiana VIII Do
yuilty of no such blind folly. They know their
interest too well, even TO wish 10 detach themselves
rom the Valley. They know still better their i'm
potency to effect it. They know, as all the world
knows, that the true ultimate owners of the mouth
Of the Mississippi live higher up stream; that all
the Powers OF earth cannot permanently wrest it
from the grasp Of those true owners.
Important as this main outlet is to the Great
Valley, yet the West needs the other access TO the
ocean afforded it through the Middle Atlantic States.
1t needs this for the expectation of its products, as
well as the importation of its goods. Such an en-
pire is now seated in the Valley, to say nothing
of what it will be hereafter, cannot submit to have
only one outlet to the ocean, such as the mouth of
the Mississippi, where its commerce cannot have
any protection from an adequate naval force.
Neither Louisiana nor the Southern Atlantic
States can furnish such naval force. To obtain
it, the West must preserve its connexion with the
Middle Atlantic States.
II they were to attempt severance from the
States of the Valley, they would have TO prove
themselves the strongest But no fears are en-
tertained of the matter ever being brought to such
an arbitrament. The Middle and Northern States
are, without any outlay of the West, furnishing
all sorts of facilities to the commerce of the latter,
thus showing that they already understand the full
benefits to themselves Of the closest alliance with
them.
We set it down as probable, therefore, that not
even the State of MIssIssIPPI, upon which the Dis
unionists calculate with perhaps more confidence
than any other State, can be induced to separate
herself from the interest of the Valley OF which she
is integral part; and that certainly no other State
will incur the hazard Of incorporating herself with
South Carolina in a scheme so desperate and so
full of hazard as the formation of Southern
Confederacy.
But, suppose the possibility of our calculations
in this respect being erroneous, and that SOUTH
CAROLINA should succeed in seducing into her
Southern Confederacy," beside herself, one, two,
three, or more of the Southern States, what would
be her position in that Confederacy? Without
pretending to make array Of all the humiliatons
that in store for her on that hypothesis, let US
advert to one or two of them. -" "s
First. There is reflection connected with the
South Carolina notion of Southern Confederation
which does not appear to have so much as once
occurred to the politicians of that State. This re-
Election and its consequences are those which be-
long to the resources of State, fiscal and numeri-
cal. Now, the whole white population of South
Carolina is, we believe, somewhere between
two and three hundred thousand. Her fiscal re-
sources are somewhat proportional to these num-
bers. Comparing her in these respects with any
one Of the other slaveholding States, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mis-
souri, and even with Texas, her resources in these
particulars would place her at the lower end Of the
list and certainly she could not expect to play a
more important part in such Confederacy than
one proportioned to her population and her fiscal
resources.
Secondly. But it may be said that South Caro-
lima would assume the position due to her claimed
intellectual superiority. This is position to
which assuredly no one of her sister States would
yield, and which it would puzzle the most devoted
of the South Carolina school to find facts to sus-
tain. Her highest rank in the Confederacy would
be that of equality with the other members of it.
Thirdly. AT the bottom Of this great cry from
South Carolina for Southern Confederation, it
must be observed lies profound and vast specula-
ton. Charleston is to be the great port of the
Southern Confederation, the great centre of trade,
the New York of the South" HoW! Charles
ton, with but eighteen feet water her seabar to
become the centre Of trade What, then, is to be-
come of New Orleans, of Mobile, Of Pensacola, Of
Savannah, of Norfolk 1--WE do not name Balti-
more, as Baltimore is North of the Potomac"
If there were the depth Of water, the resources,
the energy the industry, the business habits to make
Charleston the centre of Southern trade, why
has it not been done, and how can the facilities
for such purpose ever be as great as under the
present Union?
In conclusion, we invoke the better feelings of
the SOUTH and of the NORTH to abide by the late
measures of Compromise. We ask them to con-
slider whether their objections to any part of these
measures should be put in competition with the
prosperity and glory of their country. We call
upon every patriot, every Christian, every friend of
morality and good order, every one who desires the
prosperity of his species, every one who would
avoid WAR in its most awful and desolating forms,
10 contribute his influence to restore feeling Of
brotherhood throughout the country.
Among the present visiters in our city are the
Hon. GEORGE M. DALLAS, Ex-Vice President of
bo ITn;ted St,tes and the Hon IAMre Rrcu