The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-25
g4E SOUTHERN PRESS.
Tho national IntclIlgcneer.

The National IntcIIlgencer.
Our readers will bear US witness, that we
have exhibited great forbearance and modera-
ton towards that antique organ the National
InieHigencer, under great provocation, content
to
60 let the harmless creature rage
Secure in dullness, blindness, want and age"
For, it is an antideluvian organ Of aby-gone
age, and its prejudices and perversions and tedl-
GUS twattle, produce sensation of lassitude on
its renders, but usually no other. Nevertheless,
we have occasionally been compelled to break
its slumbers, and disturb its dreams, when, at
irregular intervals, it half-opened its eyes to
malipn the dead or misrepresent the living
stsaightwsy relapsing into its stertorous re-
pose again. Yet forgetful Of our forbear-
ance, and impenitent for its past sins, the Inte-
gencer actually a tempts to scold us, with shril
volubity, for laughing at its last absurd effort
to keep pace with "1'he Marchef Euentsi South
Carolina" Nay, so oblivious is the antique or
gan in its wrath, as to charge the Southern Press
with firing ga volley Of vulga. abuse" at its de-
fenceIess head, though the entire notice to which
it refers, does not contain any epthets as coarse
and "vulgar" as the expression which it uses to
characterize our article.
Until of late the Intelligencer piqued itself on
the courtesy and propriety of its expressions
masking its maignity and unfairness under
language Of affected amability, and giving utter
ance to its sentiments" in the precise style of
JOSEPH SURFACE in the aSchool 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 subioin, 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 Intelligencer
although the weather is warm-to keep cool,
ifpossible.
We have no idea of doing anything 80
ridiculous, as grayely to answer the diatrlbes OF
the Intelligencer, or it's laborious specimens OF
ingenious patchwork, betraying 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 few squares, which will serve as sample
From the Inielligencer of Tuesday, June IL.
The. MARCH CT EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Our Introductory article under this head-in
which, among other things, we desired our read
ers to bear in mind that the object OF the
Southern rights convention" lately held at
Charleston was to force an earlier issue than
that already authorized by the legislative au-
thority of the State between the disunonists
{supposed to be in majority in the State) and
the general government-has procured Tor us
The Compliment of volly of vulgar abuse from
the q Southern Press" the central organ Of the
malcontents of the South, in which the only
thing fit to be noticed is the denial that the OBJ.
iect of the late Southern rights convention"
was as stated above. This denial is couched in
the following terms:
"Thc Jnieiligeneer presumes so far on popular
IGNORANCE of the movements in South Carolina
as unblushingly to make an assertion which the
call for that convention, its whole proceedngs,and
final action, as well as the speeches Of Its mem
bers, all stamp with falsehood. Such was not
stbe object OF the convention OF delegates No
such intention pas eper entertained expressed,
either in the call in the subsequent action, but
il express terms disavowed. DC.
To this Il might be sufficient reply, that the
Convention in question, being one composed OF
persons who were already all of one way OF
thinking in regard to what is in the South gen.
eraly termed resistance" to the aggressive
measures" Of the general governmten, the .pur-
pose for which il was assembled could have been
no other than to precipitate action by the State,
and especially by its separate secession" from
the Union, instead Of mating for the concurrent
action Of the States of the South which the le-
gisature had in its act invoked and, on its part,
provided for. Either this was the "object" of
the Convention, or il could have none that was
not merely absurd. -Four numbered individuals,
the prime of the chivalry and aristocracy Of the
State, were surely not called together only to
reiterate their oaths, or reissue and stamp anew
their proclamations, Of hate and hostility to the
Union No real friend of tn. Dsunionists
themselves would do them the unkindness to
throw out such suggestion. We have before
us, indeed, in article from the "South Caro-
Iinan," leading and reliable organ of the Anti
Unionists, published a week or two before the
time set for the meeting of the Convention,
fully confirming this view of the subject:
ar" said the South Carolinian, the proposed
meeting is simply to be convened for the purpose
of passine papd and deciamaory resolutions full Of
sound and meaning nothing, it will be considered
humbug by every body, and the up country dele
gates will return from the city disspired and dis
Outraged. II, as it has been suggested, its object
be 10 adopt some means whereby the State can
gracefully retire from her present attitude Of re-
sistance, there will be a precious slim attendance
of country delegates. If, in short, Il Is TO do no
thing. Il had better be indefinitely postponed But
we have much mistaken the objects Of the original
movers OF this meeting--the people or Orange,
burg-to suppose for moment that they INTENDED
any such exhibition Of TONI ooLERY as we have
alluded to" &c.
And after quoting some editorial spcculations
on this subject irrelevant to the issue made by
as, the Intelligencer adds
Abundance Of this sort Of evidence might
have been adduced, had we taken the trouble TO