Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-07
THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION.


Having no desire to misrepresent the rin
ciples or the actions Of public men, or to mieat
the judgment Of our readers in regard to any pplic
question, we consider due 70 fairness to trapfel
to our columns thsapnexed article, which appered
in theS Southern Press Of yesterday; althogh
SO far from admitting thereby that il establishesny
inaccnracy in our allusion to Judge BurLER, we
are still confident in the correctness Of all thaiwe
said regarding that genteman's course and posion
before the Convention Of Disunionists held in
Charleston. u aA0 vea- aa 3t
To the Editors efthe Southern Press.
GxSTLxnxx Ara witness Of the proceedings d thate
southern Rights Convention at Chsestoh South Carana,
the plain motive Of common justice has suggested to mi the
fitness Of "yndicssng the truth Of history agans the i'm
pieations involved in the following paragraph from hs Ma
fionol Integec The Editors speaking Of b speech
Of Judge BurLER before the Convention. Phey ".
cit must be obvious indeed to ay inteiOent rer that
the worthy Senator himself would have fofborne 4 small
portion of the whole of this part of his discourse 81 Il not
been necessary, before he could expect bis grave "A wise
counsel to be received with decent respectwhich acdns
70 the newspaper accounts hardly was notwhsaupg
fOibes and soothing their pfejodices" "
speech Of Judge BUrLrs, before IT. nor after il Oh il
be Convention nor out y n aaordng the .lishts srupd
for the insnuation that Judge BurIxa vas coIpea q
qualify Or modify OF Disguise his real sen.nsnts il order
"to be receiued With decent respect"
Your deponen friend Of the Union and entertaining for
the National IateAigeney that respect vAich personal
knowledge Of the Editors fails to command grets Their
treatment in this instance particularly, Of SouA Carolina,
because it can do good, and may rsst in Mischief.
So far from Judge BuTLER being IN any degree embar-
raised BY having occasion be embarrassed by the evil
dent disposition Of the Convention towas himself be was
received, and welcomed and listened to- 18th not only de-
and respect really aerng, but VIII that veneraon
which natural from liberal peopldowards faithful
Senator To stranger it could hardly "a to be remarked
that, if Judge BuTLER embarrassed, was by the faI
kindness Of the Convention towards him. diff they were de-
srous to hear his advice in all frankness om and fam
laiy, and profit by it as possible may have been
somewhat taken aback, as was your depSent and MANY
Others at the overwhelming strength Of TIL spirit and the
party for separate State action in seeding Tom the Union
And from what was witnessed in that Conviction and from
what any man may ascertain in direct nepurse with the
people Of South Carolina, they who take The Greenvie
Southern Patriot the true exponent Of d public sent-
Of the State widely deceivedhan they who
suppose that Mr. WEBSTER represents the poplar opinions
Massachusetts. '3 ~
But the simple object Of this article is ID indicate the
truth respecting the Convention. While its spirit and the
result Of its proceedings revolutionary inc looking
nothing else than misunderstanding else and nothing less
have we witnessed in any public aseblIe, on any
occasion Of very many occasions, such dispositions Of har-
mony and Cancellation among the members or nch marked
and encouraging kindness to the minority to spea their views
freely and "to the fullest extent" This saurein the Con-
venon very remarkable. II looked to The writer like
spirit Of unity and earnesness misguided and dehded if you
please but spirit too earnest too nearly unanimous too
grave and decoroas and solemn, be met successfully with
derision and contempt Concord and harmony come not
of such agencies. JUsTICE.
We are quite willing to accept the testimony Of
" Justice" against the newspaper accounts" to
which we referred, SO far as respects any open
manifestation of disrespect, or any demonstrations
of temper in the Convention " compelling Judge
BUTLER to qualify, modify, or disguise his senti.
ments !" but we are sure that the write, Of Justice
is too candid not to admit that Judge BUTLER must
have felt and did feel, the necessity Of propitating
the dspleasure and fattering the prejudices of an
exasperated assembly, revolutionary in its pro-
ceedings" and I" looking to nothing else and nothing
less than disunion," before he ventred to throw
himself in opposition to their desperate purpose,
or expect to be heard with decent respect. What
ever the personal reverence of the members for
Judge BUTLER, SO long as he was supposed to be
the counsellor Of extreme measures yet, when
/" taken aback" by the spirit which lie witnessed
in the assembly, he no doubt saw the necessity
of deprecating its violence by soothing concessions
before he could expect his, adverse sage counsel
to be received with patience or favor. How far it
was wise in him to yield to this feeling, or to exe-
nuate or in any degree justify the reasonable char
acter and purposes Of the assembly, DE questions
not now relevant. 1t appears, however, to have
failed of any visible good effect on those to whom
he addressed himself. 0}&s
ROTATION OF THE EARTH.-We learn from the
Boston papers that the apparatus for testing the
experiment Of M. FoUcAuLT at the Bunker Hill
Monument is nearly completed, and win be opened
to the public early this week. On Friday morn.
ing, Professor HoRsEoRD, in presence Of the officers
of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the
Committee of the Mechanic Association, and seve
raj scientific gentlemen, set the pendulum in mo
ton, and in the afternoon the experiment was re
peated for the benefit Of members Of the press
The Transcript says Of it:
The apparatus is very perfect, and cannot fail to Civ
satisfaction The ball is suspended by small piano fort
wire, annealed and fixed in brass setting, with iro
point. The length Of the wire il two hundred and xtee