Washington telegraph., 1851-06-04
From the N. O. Bulletin.
AMERICAN JACOBINISM.

hlCAlN
Cen. A. H. brisbane. of South Carolina.
writes in the following peremptory and
ro;u,ed style to Col. Jacob Bond. Presi-
lsn, of the Charleston Southern Rights
Associations;
~ write TO request that you strike my
n.me from the Southern Rights Associa-
ZION. When had it placed there it was
with the distinct understanding that it
yas not to constitute me member of
club, to be actively engaged in subverting
the peace and good government of the
,oyereiyn State of South Carolina, but
simply as one upon whom the State could
;mnhcity rely, in the event of her being
brought into conflict with the General
Government, IN the assertion of rights
clearly appertaining TO her under the
Constitution Of the United STATES. If
there be anything on this earth ;hat
allow myself utterly to dispise. it is Jacob
;n;sm. Tha: should be instrumental in
substituting this abhorrent prlnciple of
action for the lofty dignity of State sove-
,eiquty, and in the State of South Caro-
lima. 100, the very embodiment of this
oxalted doctrine, is what l cannot permit
for one instant.
Bu, this is not my only motive for
nr2mpt action. l see, in the exhibition
Of Jacohinism in the South. the surest
guaranty of inveterate A5olitionism i'll
the North; and when, instead of the cool
oud deliberate action and reaction of
sovereign State upon sovereign State, we
shall have the ceremony of club against
club, blow will be struck al the instilu-
tons of the South, which no power on
earth shall ward OFT.
So, it seems that Gen. a. II. Brisbane
wished to be considered Zone upon whom
the State could implicitly rely, in she
event of her being brought into conflict
with the General Government, in :he
assertion of rights clearly apperlaining to
her under the Constitution of the United
States" but he did not wish to be con-
s,ituted ga member of club, to be active
" engaged in subverting the peace aud
good government of the sovereign State
Of South Carolina" He most emphati-
caIlv did not wish to substitute the "ab-
borent principle of Jacobinism "for the
lofty dignity of State sovereignty
Well, all this is sensible enough. Gen.
B has made discovery, but it is one
only on his own account. He has looked
down iuto the pitfall of disunion. treason,
and civil war, and has been startled with
vision of shattered systems, disloined
Skeletons of historic exlstences. aud all
things foul and horrible. Other persons
saw something of this: the friends of the
COMPROMISE saw something of it; but
taev were not 10y any means as much
startled as Gen. b., by things Which
came 10 them iii the revelation of sober
study, and to him in the surprise of
sudden discovery. All of these things
of the .laoobinical impulse of Nashville
Conventions, Southern Rights Associa-
.ions, aud Southern Rights Vigilance
Committees. there was ample warning;
but progressive gentlemen could not
pause 10 listen. They rushed on in their
path, and now they suddenly find Them
selves upon the brink of that abysmal
view, whose Jacobinical horrors have
startled the South Carolina seceders. He
is the first one who has given the Chivalry
n hint, in his own individual secession,
of what must be the general result of
their wild operations III the science ct
secession. He and they may begin to
realize that secession is division, aud that
division is all but infinite in its possible
inde6uiteness. The South Caroliua Hot.
spurs do not like the Union; they organize
themselves as Chartis,s, Jacobins, Guelphs
and IIumlnati have doue before them,
into Associations. and swear from the
social system of which they are part.
Gen. Brisbane joins them at first; upon
second thought, he does not like their
system, aud he has his own private seces-
siou-his own Individual minority-rights
notions, aud he swears secession from
them. Here is the beginning of very
remote end-a gloomy vista opening upon
sea of Jacohinical troubles.
The Intelligent conservatives OF the
Sonth-nlen preierring well-ordered pro-
gress 10 convulsive revolutions, and capa'
bic Of realzing the difference between
,hem-long since foretold the coming Of
this state of things. They were men for
whom the past tad lesson, and they
knew its echos in the present. When
ultraisn raised its revolutionary hurrah,
without once deigning TO resort to the
yet unexhausted remedies of an estab-
lished Constitution, they knew the old
Jacobinical war-cry; and. though not un-
conscious of abstract rights attacked, they
stood up to battle for that order and
observance Of recognized forms which
are the best shelter and bulwark of the
most sacred rights of home, franchies
and commerce.
When the Wilmot Proviso was applied
to Oregon in and under the Constitution.
they resisted, though some of the leading
uraisls Of the present day aided aud
abelted in its application. When the ap-
pllcatlon of the same Proyiso was sought