Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-18
TRUTH FITLY AND BRAvELY SPOKEN.

TRUTH FETLf AND bhAfEL II orOhEN.
We are glad to find that the I" Southern Patriot,
the fearless and generous supporter of the prnci-
Piles Of the Union as is, or, in other words, me
Consultation Of the United States as has been
for sirfyodd years, disdains to join in the general
cry Of accusation against the General Government,
as expressing, or prosecuting, or menacng the State
of South Carolina. We copy from that paper,
(publshed, as our readers know, at Greenyile, s.
C.l under date of the lst instant, the following
remarks:
1t is high for the co-operationists, whilst fighting
secession and knowing that will bring down the State
nothing but disaster ruin, and dishono 10 close Their er-
aggerated misrepresentation Of The expressions Of the Fed
ral Government They cannot, at the time go with
the secessions and beyond the secessonsts in depicting
the pretended misery and degradation of the people of South
Carons and then ask them be quiet and submit to it till
other States come aid who have already declared
overwhelming major,ies that they will under
existing circumstances.
These pictures Of vrongs untrue and where
out South Carolina they been pronounced by
the Southern people. Were they true, the whole South
would man. shiveng pieces the Republic, the
Union and the Government In admitting them to be rue
the distinguished co-o Grafton leaders do, they the
secessonss with weapons which they cannot resist is
not in human nature to bear such wrongs. No honorable
would take his seat in Congress from the South if the
Northern members all set Of cu,throas ncendiaries
and robbers trying set negroes free, steal from US our
property, and set the midnight torch to houses
Good men and true who love their country and who love
order peace and regulated liberty, seeking from their public
information ss;ounded hear such paPable contra
cons the speeches and addresses Of their leading states
They reply, very naturally there must be mistake
somewhere. These pictures of Federal oppression and
Northern aggression not te the people of the other
Southern States woud instantly fly to and fight their
death by the side of South Carolina.
1t is high lime for the co-operaionists quit this suicidal
Let them resent things fairly the people, and tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth There
would be danger in secession, in separate State action
at af all that has been said and is said in South
Carolina true. There would be waiting for CO
operation it would be immediate and simultaneous through
out the whole South.
We are happy and prosperous as people, and feel no
tyranny oppression Wrongs may have been attempted
insults may have been offered, and injuries done by the
Federal Government but they have been of such cha
racter justify in commencing revolution and civil
This is known and felt every where out of South
Carolina, and admitted by the Southern Rights party
themselves in Mississippi Georgia. louisiana and the other
Southern States But in South Carolina it has been race
and contest oih politicians, and newspaper presses,
and stump orators, to who could make things the black
est and toulest.
mother Southern States the people have heard both sides,
and have correct conclusions. But in South Caro-
na they have heard neither sde They have heard nothing
but misrepresentation and eIaggeraon side and by
these e1aggeraons and Misrepresentation they have been
diven by the honorable impulses, the brink Of
awful precpice and they disposed jump in
order avoid dangers behind.
The who away and hung himself to avoid being
killed in battle under greater deusion than the
cessonss flying certain dshonor and destruction
auoid epiis and dangers ,ohich 1i