Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-28

by good marching than by good shooting Secession will
bring battle believe, but at least us not belle our
to Animps opibusque parati'"
From the Columbia Telegraph Of June IA.
TIE WoMEs THE SoUrH-In these times of doubt and
trial. (says the Black River Watehman) when strong men
begin to finch from bold perseverance id the path of duty
il is matter of pride to find the ,oomen Of the South, and
particularly Of our State, UNFOLDING the high and honor
able position sustained by the Of the revolution
The liberty Of country be finally lost when the
women Of that country continue to be looked upon
with respect. and animated by the patriotic adherence Of
tyranny and an incorporating spirit Of resistance TO
tiona wrong.
The race Of herones is altogether extinct in State
and our people not moved bold determined and
compromising resistance the usupaon of the Federal
Government, the spirit Of their wipes their mothers and
their daughters will cover them with shame
The following is sample of the stimulaAts adj
minstered by persons out Of the reach of the con-
flict who humanely desire to see the South Caro-
linians engaged in shedding one another's blood:
COLUMBIA TELEeRArH.
Extract Of Letter from gentleman in Alabama dated
llM June.
'I write this letter from the city of Montgomery, where
have been attending upon the Southern Rights Convention Of
Alabama. Our meeting was harmonious. We passed
solution, nenne contr0dicentc that South Carolina, in
sovereign capacity, chooses secede from the Union and
Federal Government attempts coercion, pledged the
State Rights Party of Alabama resist force by force We
going into the contest with prospects Frightening The
hopes and the liberties Of the South the hands of your
| noble Commonwealth. We WISH TIE QUESTION rREcIrI-
| rArED. Delaysare dangerous"
| FROM SEwsURH SENTINEL.
| OAKLAND, (FLoRIDA,) Mar Is, 1851. \
"l read with much joy the proceedings of your South
Rights Conpestion lately held in Charleston. hope
and pray, in the full ervor Of heart that your people may
stand up and sustain you. Indeed, hope the spirit will
and spread throughout the length and breadth Of your
broad land; that your affairs may all burn with fervd heat
with sacrifices brought up from free hearts that the fire Of
freedom may burn with intenseness until euy foe
sumed and that the may spread, Trust in God
suspense and soEeitu for fear the old State may degrade
herself 'RArHER PERIsH.' Her sons, euery one
so far as know, ready to offer their Hues and fortunes
TO her, Liberty herself 1.-The liberty of cutting the throas Of
their fellow men will take her eternal departure from us il
she submit feel morally certain that if South Carolina
stands firm every cotton State will be with her in twelve
months The Government will not dare touch her. If it
should, all is II should not her free trade and free
dom generally will challenge the admiration of ALL
Some respect might be entertained even for the
Disunionists of the South, were there any reality
in their allegations of suffering and oppression by
the General Government; were their complaints,
curses, and denunciations, and their projects of
cession, any thing more than the consequence of
that dangerously vaetudinary habit of society spo-
ken Of by EDMUND BURKE as being brought about
by the continual talk of "resstance and revolution,
for which there is not even ostensible cause nor
decent pretext. It is of persons thus possessed by
the foul 6end of general discomfort that the same
great man said "A cheap bloodless reformation, a
guihless liberty. appear fat and vapid to their
taste. There must be a great change Of scene; a
magnificent stage effect: there must be grand
"spectacle to raise the Imagination, grown torpid
with the Lazy enjoyment Of sirty gears security,
"and the still Illuminating repose Of public
prosperity
This paints to the life the actual condition of the
State of South Carolina. Never, during the whole
period Of her existence member of the Union,
have her People been SO prosperous and well
doing, in their respective occupations of planters,
merchants, tradesmen, mechanics and even COM
mon laborers. But an unfortunate mania has seized
upon them and is urging them on to destruction
They want to be better than well. They want to
be great; to become the nucleus of vast empire,
far transcendng in extent the limits of the United
States before the annexation of Texas, which their
day-dreams have gided with all the magnifcence
and splendor imagined by Arabian fabulsts They
weary Of the sameness of security and the tedi-
Gus monotony Of general prosperity. AMBITION, not
freedom or security, is the real impulse of the
leading agitators-of those who control, for the
most part such assemblies as the late Convention
of Southern Rights Associations at Charleston.
We cannot better illustrate this truth, in bringing
to close for to-day our remarks on the movements
of the Dsunionists, than by quoting the peroration
of discourse delivered by him who appears to be
now the prime leader Of the Revolutionary party.
It was in an Address delivered by the Hon. r. B.
RHETT at marlborough, at meeting of the People
to hear their Representatives on their return from
the Nashville Convention, that the high aspirations
and actual purposes of these Disunionsts were
casually disclosed, as follows:
Within eighteen months latter the beginning
Of the end we shall have the whole South with
us, and more than that: We UiN ertend our
8 borders: We WILL HAVE New Mexico, UTAH,
AND CALIFORNIA. Utah already has slaves we
: will march into California and we will ask them
if they will have slaves, and her people will
: swer, Ay! we will have slaves And what of
Mexico? Why, when we are ready for them,
and her people are fitted to come among us, WE
WILL TAKE HER TOO, or as much Of her as zoe
: ,cant We will form most glorious Republic,
MORE GLORIOUS THAN THE ANCIENT REPUBLIc OF
ROME, which lasted seven hundred years, and had
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