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

10 be tending towards the development Of important
results when the time for defnie action shall come.
Ii is not the ultraism of the apwed Secessionists
that constitutes the most omino,s aspect of things
in that quarter; for if the Unioi men of the South
are sustained by the conservatives of the North
faithfully and in earnest on the hsis Of the Consti-
tuition and its guarantees, the Sceders will be dis
armed and be rendered incapable of holding their
ground. But the danger is thu the pertnacious
continuance of the slavery aghtion at the North
may compel the Unionists Of South to slacken in
their efforts to preserve nationjty in political is
sues, and to drive them, as meare of sefdefence,
into the attitude of sectional hrty for the main
tenance Of their sectional institutions.
The Southern Rights Associations Of ALABA-
MA have recently had Conviction, and the tone
and purpose of their moveme} may be gathered
from the subjoined resolutions
"Wheress in the opinion Of hii Convention, events of
recent indicate that one ohe sovereign States OF
this Union is placing herself in poson to secsde and will
secede, from The Union
'sAnd whereas in fhe opinion of Is body any State has
the right secede and from the vel nature of The case 10
the only judge Of the justice and proey Of such act
And whereas it 10 not improbaH that the exercise OF
such right by the seeding State will + opposed, with arms
by the General Government: Therede be il
RESOLVED, That, in the even Sny Southern State In
the exercise Of it, Judgment Mould think proper for
which exist TO secede om the Union, in the
opinion Of this Convention it wouscOms the duty Of this
State Of all other States 70 opp with force any attempt
the parto the General to c0erce such So
ceding State"
The opinions here expresssdSare quite in keep
ing with the spirit of the South Carolina Conven-
ton, which was composed Of similar elements Of
ultraism. How far these views and purposes are
entertained by the mass of the PEoPLE Of ALADAMA
cannot yet be known. The approaching elections
will give some Indications on that point. We have
quoted the resolutions for the purpose Of placing
them in juxtapostion with the following paragraph
from the New York Tribune Of Thursday, referring
to the next Presidential election:
g" Is not yet well settled what ae to be the issues this
election. AT the South especially e pablo mind is not in
good state to consider the subject is not the needfn
calmness and seposesson. Thesavey ssation has not
quite settled The furry kicked u there for some time past
STILL to extent blnd the eys and obfuscates the wits
Of the people. Why. just nowthre even talk Of carrying
the dust and fig Of this hutbub to the Presidential election
But who will presume to say hat this will be thought Of
year hence year is longtime, and many things can
happen in it. Now it would io be much for Southern
brethren cool off their fever heat during the
suing twelve months One uld suppose that might be long
enough for their ardor rme the language Of
sense and to learn emae the Fugitive Slave Law at its
real worth to them Shofd they do thsand obstacle
ought to be put in their 1t would change quite seriously
the aspect of things"
The affectation of ignorance could hardly appear
with worse grace than in this assumed doubt as to
the issues that are to knter into the next Presiden
tial election. A Journal which has labored SO zeal
ousy as the Tribune to force sectional controver-
sy into the political field and to keep it there, might
at least know that flhis same sectional controversy
does not form the main issue the election of Pre-
sident next year, it will not b fof want Of efforts
on its part to make il so. The course which that
journal and others like it are pursuing is calculated
to bring on the very danger to which we referred
at the beginning Of this article Bait. american.