Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-11

I" and aself-opinionated assumption Of supremacy"
as being characteristics of her policy, we have a
combination Of qualities which account for much
in her political history which would be otherwise
incomprehensible.
With this understanding of the character of the
State, it becomes much more easy to comprehend
how an enlightened and gifted circle such as thatof
the political leaders in that State, may have been
enabled to work not only themselves, but the body
of the qualified voters of the State-not, however,
the mass Of those who would in almost every other
State in the Union constitute the body of the voters
at electons-up to the state of exaltation which
has at different times, but especially within the
last year, characterized all her movements-the
tone of the debates in her Legislative Houses and
other public assemblies, the intemperance OF her
public prints and of her anniversary explosions OF
sentiments and the desperation of her present at
tempt to break up the Government to which she
owes her past security and that prosperity which
has to all appearance actually turned her head.
Not only her journalists and her political declaim-
ers, but her pulpit orators, betray, in their
most studied illusions, an alteration of sense, the
natural consequence of continual excitement and
inflammation of the mind, stimulated by repre-
sentations of imputed indignities and aggres-
sions on the part of the General Government,
and on the part Of some OF the individual States,
! which, no more than the General Government, ca
tertain any sentiment Of ill-w towards the People
or State of South Carolina, and of others which, in
taking care Of their own interests, have not been
even thinking of that State.
| To what else than derangement.of the senses
mpute the falsifcatons, absurdities, and i'm
pieties which have lately, and within the last few
days. been uttered in South Carolina not only from
the press and by the young Apollos' in the Le-
gislatve bodies, but from the pulpit? What but a
knowledge Of an entire concurrence of sentiment
between the journalist and his readers could, for
example, have led the recognised organ of the ruling
party in the State and city in which it is published,
on the first day of the New Year-the arrival of
which is ordinarily in all communities distinguish
ed by acts Of courtesy, by reciprocal amenities, by
reconciliation Of old feuds and enmities-in word,
by the exercise of all the charities of life
to the train Of thought in which he has INDUCED
in the subjoned extract? What, short of absolute
fermentation, could have conceived the idea of its
being pleasing task to the future historian to relate
as glories of the year that has passed, :" the mar
shalng and arraying Of those hostile forces which
are to "resut +" in " dissolution Of the American
Union;'' or have indulged in such disgusting
levity upon the Encouragement of our American
States around new central points, as things not in
themselves to be deplored or deprecated except by
" blind idolaters - of the Union!
| Let any man in his senses consider well the pas
sages which we have italicized in the following
paragraphs, and say whether he who feels any
qualification in uttering such sentiments as these,
or those who receive them with complacency, can
be of sound mind and understanding
FROM THE "coIuMBIA TELEGRAPH" JANUARY l, 1850.
When the future historian shall address himself the task
of portraying the RISE progress, and decline tie american
Unon the year 1850 will his attention denoting
and presenting the first MARsHALLIss and ARRAr1sG Of
those HOSTILE FORCES and opposing elements WHICH
DIssoLUrIoN and the world will have another illus
aon of the great truth that forms and modes of govern
men however correct in theory, only valuable they
conduee to the great ends Of all peace quiet
and conscious security Of the governed. ..
1t becomes this indulge in specuations as
to the time when the manner in which, such
the dissolution of present league and the re-arange
ent of american States around central points will
take place, but that it will and must occur, firmly
convinced be Of any thing beyond the immediate
cognizance of the external Nor do deem this
matter to be depored or nened in ITSELF unless by the
blind idoaters who look upon the framework and scat
folding Of government inrnsicaly valuable. There is
something in the word family beyond the roof that shell
ter the parents and children there something in the idea
of the church than wood stone and there lv
ing spirit and essence Of repubcanm, which exist
dpendenty Of the rsb badges By which its presence may
be denoted any ceremonies with which
may be for time connected" &c. .&
But even this is surpassed in absurdity and sedi-
tious spirit by other contemporaneous publications
in the same State, by those eraltes who visions
and dream dreams of things which are not even
shadows of reality. Among these we have lately
seen some passages from Discourse delivered in
the city of Charleston on Fast Day, (about month
ago. by Clergyman whose mind is obviously so
deeply tainted by the prevailing mania of Dis
union to be disqualified not only for the proper
functions of his station, but for Distinguishing be-
tween right and wrong.t The debates at the late
Such the following Volunteer Toasts, for example,
drunk at the last Fourth Of July Celebration at Beaufort
By Edmund Rhett-The Union A splendid failure of
the first modern attempt by people Of different institutions to
live under the same Government
BY Dr.. Talbrd-The Union For it have endured
much for have sacrificed much. Let beware lest
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