The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-19

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"- let the harmless creature rage
Secure in duIIness, blindness want aud age. -
For, il is an antideluvian organ of by-gone
age and its prejudices and perversions, and ted
Gus twatte, produce a. sensation of lasstude on
It's readers, but usually no other. Nevertheless
we have occasionally been compelled TO break
its slumbers, and disturb its dreams, when, at
Irregular intervals, il half-opened its eyes to
malign the dead or misrepresent the living
straghtway relapsing into its stertorous re-
pose again Yet, forgetful of our forbear-
ance and mpenitent for its past sins the Iatelli-
gencer actually tempts to scold us, with shrill
volubity, for laughing at its last absurd effort
to keep pace with 1.-THE Marchof Epenis in South
Carolina" Nay, obivious is the antique Or
gan in its wrath, as to charge the Southern Press
with firing "a volley of vulgar abuse" at its de-
fenceless head, though the entire notice to which
itrefers, does not contain any epithets as coarse
and svulgar" as the expression which it uses to
characterize our article
Until of late the MteHigencer piqued itself on
the courtesy and propriety of its expressions ;
masking its magnity and unfairness under
language of affected amiabiity, and giving utter
ance TO its Sentiments" in the precise style of
JOSEPH SURFACE in the "School for Scandal"
But, wincing and writhing under its recent ex-
posures it loses sight of its old policy, and be-
comes abusive, adopting the argument of cpl
thet,' because no other resort is left it.
Such displays of bad temper, as that which
we subjoin, afford the best evidence of the sense
of discontinue and shame which produces
them.
We do not lose our tempe, because we have
gained our cause and beseech the Intellgencer
although the weather is warm-to keep cool,
ifpossible.
We have no idea of doing anything so
ridiculous, as gravely to answer the diatribes of
the Inteligencer, or its laborious specimens of
ingenious patchwork, betrayng equally its
poverty of invention and lack of materials
But its last specimen is so amusing-such " a
thing Of shreds and patches" that we cannot
forbear showing it up to our readers AS it is
stretched over several columns however, like
large patchwork quilt, we have only space
for fewlsquares which will serve as sample
From the ntelligsncer Of Tuesday, June IL.
The MARCH CT EVENTS In SOUTH CARoLINA
Our Introductory article under this head-ir
which, among other things, we desired our read
ers to bear in mind that the object of tn
Southern rights convention" lately held a
Charleston was to force an earlier issue tina
hv l,,r; al,t;,
thority of the State between the disunonist
Supposed to be in a majority in the State) an
the general government-has procured for u
the compliment of a volly of vulgar abnse fror
the I" Southern Press" the central organ of tn
malcontents of the South, in which the onl
thing fit TO be noticed is the denial that the oh
iect of the late Southern rights convention
was as stated above This denial is couched il
the following terms:
"The Lfeihgencer presumes so far popular
ignorance of the movements in South Caroline
as unblushingly to make assertion which tn,
call for that convention, Its whole proceedings ,anC
final action, as well the speeches of its mem
hers, all stamp with falsehood. Such no
the object Of the convention Of delegates M
such intention eper entertained or expressed
either in the call or in the subsequent action bu
in express terms disavowed. " &c.
To this ii might be sufficient reply, that tn
Convention in question, being one composed o
persons who were already all of one way o
thinking in regard to what is in the South gen
orally termed resistance" to the "aggressiv
measures" of thu. general governmten, the pur
pose for which il was assembled could have bee
no other than TO precipitate action by the State
and especially by ts separate secession" iron
the Union, instead of mating for the concurren
action of the States of the South which the lie
gisature had in it's act invoked, and, on its part
provided for. Either this was the 'object" OIL
the Convention, or il could have none that was
not merely absurd Four numbered individuals
the prime of the chivary and aristocracy of the
State. were surely not called together only to
reterate their oaths or reissue and stamp anew
their proclamations, of hate and hostility TO the
Unonl No real friend of the Dsunionists
themselves would do them the unkiudness to
throw out such suggestion. We have before
us, indeed, in article from the "South Caro-
Imam" leading and reliable organ of the Anti
Unionists, published week or two before the
time set for the meeting of the Convention,
fully confirming this view of the subject
'If," said the South Carolinisn, 'the proposed
meeting is simply to be convened for the purpose
Of passing rapid and deoiamatorp resolutions, full Of
sound and meaning nothing, it will be considered a
humbug by every body, and the up country dele
gates will return from the city disspirited and dis
coureged. If, as 1t has been suggested its object
be to adopt some means whereby the Safe can
gracefully retire from her present attitude of re-
s'stance, there will be precious slim attendance
Of country delegates. II, in short, IL is 10 do mo-
Thing, 1t had better be indefinitely postponed. But
we have much mistaken the objects of the original
movers OF this meeting-the people OF Orange.
burg-to suppose for moment tina, they intended
any such exhibition OF romrooLxRY as we hsv'
alluded to-, &c.
And after quoting some editorial speculation
on this subject, irrelevant to the issue made b,
us, the Intelligencer adds
abundance Of this sort Of evidence nigh
have been adduced, had we taken the trouble I
preserve the papers containing it. The characte
Of the journal from which we quote the pre-
ccding is such ma to make IL conclusive as I
the object of the Charleston convention.
the result Of that convention fell short Of tn
intentions of its originators, il Is not the frs
time by many that sounding promises have lie
In insi0niiennt conclusions The convention