Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-22
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.

PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
We have been desrous for several days past TO
find room for the subjoined letter from the Hon.
John M. BORIS, of Virginia, breathing as it does
manly and honorable spirit and aoounding with
lust and patriotic sentiments, forclbly expressed II
was written, as the reader will perceive, In answer
70 an applica,ion to Mr.. Boris from number of
the voters of his district to suffer himself to be put
nm as a candidate for Congress:
@ RIcHMoSD, JANUARY, 1851.
GrExnEx; Your letter Of this date has just been receiv
cd in which YOU desire know whether willing to be
considered candidate for this Congressional district subject
TO the decision Of District Convention
With the highest respect for those whose attach
ed to The letter. and with due of gratitude for their
partaty must bs pardoned for Withholding my consent TO
being considered candidate in any sense any con-
dons short Of an invitation become by the Wing party
of the entire district, through the insrumenay Of Con-
venton.
In justification Of this course, any be necessary need
only say that my present position very different from that
which occupied another OCCASION when some
arose among my friends in regard TO the necessity OF
Convention. The circumstances that surrounded me then
were altogether dissima from those which surround me now
would be construed into condemnation Of or detracon from
another No effort has been directed against any particular
individuals inammatory appeals have been made TO the
excited passions party select one oi their own number az
victim for sacrifice upon the altar Of intemperate enthu-
sissm; consequently necessity has arisen for any one
among all stand before the district to Nndicae the
purity and unseshness Of his motives or make manifest the
propriey OF his conduct The field now is not only unoccu-
Pied but open ALL without dsparagement to any, and
have no wish to place myself in the way, through any
agency Of my prevent obsruc retad the fullest and
ees expression of preference on the part OF the entire Whg
party Of the district.
This was the position assumed substantially in my Speech
delivered in the county of Powhatan in June last and have
reason to depart from it since.
To consent that you should announce me as candidate
with the condition annexed that it was to be subject to
the decision Of Convention, would be in some sort to pre-
occupy the ground and might to some extent foesta that
untrammeled freedom of action that desire to prevail
throughout the districts might be the oexcng sym
pathetic chord among ofmy warm and Jealous friends or
whose consancy be sufficiently gratefully whose
support consequence thereof might be withheld given
with Indifference any other candidate upon whon the choice
of the district might ultimately fall Such state Of thngsI
cannot be instrumental in producing by consenng to have
my placed before the district candidate for the Of
fce by manesDg any desire to be enstated the
preventative of the district.
AT such time this, when not only the supersucure
but the foundation Of the Government has embled as by
great convuo Of nature and the rumbngs Of the earth
quake have died away upon when threats Of
Modification and Disunion still heard in the distance
when in midst of intelligence, respecabliy,
and influence stand in open day. the bold and unabashed
advocates of that and Iasttobeogiven political heesy
Of the South Carolina school of polcans among whom
Of my warme and sinceIes ends,) to wit, the right
Of Secession not revolutionary right from which none
would dissent but as constitutional remedy for every ILL.,
real imaginary other words the right ofany one State
Withdraw from the Union whenever may suit her whm
fancy caprice and thus destroy the whole without viola
ting her constitutional obligations to when public prints
have been established and supported the organs of
this political school, to pull down this only remaining fabric
Of human liberty in the world to which the oppressed of all
nations focking the only haven of safety when the
friends of the Union are by them and their prints denounced
tame and degraded submissionist there should be
united cooperation among all peace loving, La,Ooving,
Union Of all parties, to crush in the bud this
pdyincreasng faction, and annihate at blow these
ploes of mischief and destroyes peace homes
and Independence this time for the friends Of the
Union to wrangle among themselves.
do argue here either the question Of Nulf-
cation Secession; but how many there now 10 this
State prepared admit the right Of Vermont to nuy the
Fugitive Slave Law the right Of Massachusetts to dissolve
the Unon because the law not suited to their tase And
yet If the right belongs State to do either for the pas
sage Of law, belongs all for the passage Of any
South Carolina has the right to judge and act for herself
has Vermont Massachusetts, Rhode lsland and Delaware
Moreover of the South especially, owe tohe fidelity
and discretion of Chief Magistrate hmself Northern
nan) to cheer him on, and encourage him in his patriotic
determination enforce the execution Of the laws we'll in
the South the North and this not to be done by
endorsement of who stands ready condemn this crown
ing act Of his administration.
In my opinion, there should be at this time, not only in
this district but throughout the country, entire unanmy
among the Union of both political parties In Demo-
cratic districts the conservative Wings should unite upon the
strongest conservative Democrat and in the Wing districts
the conservative Democrats should unite upon the strongest
conservative Wing, until ultimately weed out this moral
pesence from the land until drive the whole faction into
ndscmnate association with other Of the two great
parties Of the country force them to take distinct and
Independent oganzaon the avowed enemies Of the Cen
era Government and, by consequence of the Union itself
Let them do this at renounce the devil and all his
works."
will not deny to these gentlemen certain degree, and
certain sort Of patriotism but the objection to il is that is
not Of the right know is scessre and oreo,ong
for the State Governments especially for the Southern States
but attaching little value the Unon they concentrate
all their patriotism the States separate and divided They
doubt honestly believe that the South would be benefited
by seeding from the Union but we believe that benefit
would result from Dsunion any On the contrary, do we
not know that it would prove the ultimate ruin of all
II, then, they for attempting the impossbiy Of peace
able secession let them say If they for secession BY
revolution, let them say that And let try the question
and lsetle and forever But, in Gods name do
not let them work in disguise Do not let them, pretend
ed friends of the Union, undermine the temple while are