Washington telegraph., 1851-06-04

A0~o""'i"CtiuS governmental system Tor
the protection of all social interest, of
exposing PERSONAL safety and property
interests to dismal interval of suspend
ed laws, and Of giving to the strong hand
aud the leaders or armed soldiery, the
mastery of domestic peace and CONNER
cial prosperity. Hence, prudent, con.
servative men. opposed and censured the
Nashville and Buffalo Conventions as
dangerous movements. deeply imbued
with Jacobinical spirit, seeking, outside
of the Constitution and the laws, to make
their own hot aud crude sentiment arbi-
trate the destiny of the Republic. They
saw IN them precedents upon which
power. of attack or resistance, would con-
stantly claim to make an issue with law.
Conservative patriotism said, appeal to
reason, justice, the Constitution, the Su-
preme Court; and i'll the veriest spirit of
reckless and defiant Jacobinism, ultraism,
embodied III the Buffalo and Nashville
Conventions, arro9ated to itself sovereign
superiority, and disregarded all reasonable
considerations, and proved philosophy and
sound conditions of social systems, claim
ed dispotically, TO decide the fate of the
Republic. Conservatism and common
sense were fortunately stronger than
ultraism and insanity; the Compromise
was successfully established. aud the Re-
public quietej and strengthened This
day, JacobinisIn, humbled and palsied,
dare not, outside of South Carolina, make
the issue of Oisunion against the frieuds
of the Compromise.
But in South Carolina it is rampant.
aud. in the address of the recent Con-
vention of Southern Rights Associations
at Charleston, holds this lawless, defiant
and iusolvent language; speaking of the
consequences OF the proposed secession
of South Carolina:
"SOuth Carolina must decide for her
self whether 1t is necessary to secede-
Her sister States Of the South will have
no right to complain that she forces them
into position where they must either
interpose to prevent her subjugation. or,
by consenting to it. abandon their own
sovereignty aud lay themselves at the
mercy of despotic power"
Similar language runs through the
whole address; anG what is the meaning
of it! Why, nothing more than this:
The other Southern States are not half
as wise as South Carolina; she sees
plain necessity for secession. immediate
secession, and they, not half so sensitive
to their own honor, not half so inteli-
gent of their own interests. do not: there
tore. South Carolina, Tor rather her clubs)
set up school for their benefit. She will
'J0rcs them anto q position which will
make secession and disruption of the
Union almost certain contingencies and
South Carolina plots. arranges. is the
master spirit of the whole drama. while
her Southern sisters are the mere inst ru-
ments of her imperial petulanoe. This
is the language of the South Carolina
Clubs, and il is the echo of Jaoobinism
1t is the exact reflection, the actual pro-
duction of the machinery of an histori-
cal revolution. To the lantern with the
aristocra.s-mark and strike down their
friends-declare war against all Europe's S
k!ngs-invotve every thing aid every
body. and France is irrevocably upon the
revolutionary torrent, was at one time
the nightly cry at the club of Jacobins
VIC tuCu POwCA W IioHOC, luu tuc
South Carolina Clubs echo almost the
very cry. Their intolerance Of all differ
ence of opinion is as fierce, their thirst
for revolution as lawless and violent, as
ever marked the Iacobius; and find a
present parallel only in the Aholitionists
at the North. Force anto a position,-
a petty, aristocratic, land privileged mi
nority of Southern citizens force the
great States of the South into revolution
aud its countless horrors! This is genuine
Jacobinism-a setting up of peculiar
prejudices and local convictions over and
above the great and solid mass of the
well reasoned sentiment. the boundless
interest and the established system of the
South. the Constitution, aud the laws.
What matter it, if the cold-blooded i'll
cendiary set fire first TO my house, or
first to his house if the destruction OF my
sheltering home be the certain result.
The South Carolina Clubs. in the insiEu-
ated threat of torcing the Southern States
INTO q position, have revealed the spirit
of genuine Jacobinism, whose path has,
in all historic records. been upon the ruins
of laws, constitutions, the rights OF MAJOR
tiles, and the interests of society, and
whose whole history is red with blood,
and dark with horrors. cher sister
States of the South will have no right to
complain that she forces them into a po'
sition" Here is the Legitimate birth Of
the Nashville, Convention. Revolu'
tionary Jacobiuisn.