Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-08

TINS DC so we nave no alternative et must ngh
act though desoaon should rear It's hond crest But
so VIII we be Infamous if decline to act alone,
when those whom nature and destiny have linked with US
shall have deserted US Who will call US towards, while
voice is heard above the storm, calling brethren
stand by us in defence Of fsg Is it timdiy
Is poltronery to defer action submit judgment
to that OF the fourteen States who equally interested J"
The more earnest of the Carolina Disunoniss,
however, appear to have given up all hope Of the
success OF their plan of Southern Congress, I"
as recommended by the few gentlemen from South
Carolina and other States, who lately paid flying
visit to Nashville and passed resolves upon which
the project OF !" Southern Congress was based
because, as one Of their writers says in the Colum-
bia Telegraph, many persons considered I" that the
Southern (Nashville) Convention yas in fact an
abortion, and that, consequently, its suggestions
were not binding" We quote his exact language
Another portion Of the members who constituted large
msj,y OF the Legislature, urged the contrary, that the
Southern Convention in fact aborion and that
sequenty it's suggestions not binding They saw
general acquescence by all the Southern States in the COM
promise schemes Of the last session of Congress and
deng the immense patronage Of the General Government
and the great compatibility Of politicians they conceived the
idea Of ga union of the South for the sake of the Unon
Of Southern Conedsracy aauable without shock, to
be utterly preposerous Southern Congress also occurred
to them thing wholly impracicable until some Of the
States al the South had seeded in the unapt phrase Of the
day, plunged into the midst Of revolution"
Another sfi,er, in the same paper, treats this
same Nashville Convention, by which some re-
spectacle people last year suffered themselves TO
be infatuated, even less respectfully than the pre-
ceding extract Thus:
"The compromise spoken Of Tin the Legislaturel was
principally in regard to time The friends of Convention,
and Of early separate State action deemed folly and an
becoming hesitation, wait for Southern Congress- ,chct
TO assemble to look to the suggestions Of
impotent Nashville Convention, ohose deliberations had
rey failed to subserre my vauab purpose and had
thrown obstacles in the way of the accomplishment Of
i freedom"
The same writer dscloses the fact that the
election of Delegates to State Convention was
fixed by the Legislature Of South Carolina at SO
early period as next Monday (when the Con-
vention is not p meet for twelvemonth) in order
"to pledge the State to action"
"A similar reau he adds moved those in the ascen-
dency to require that the Convention should be called toge-
ther by simple majority Of the Legislature, who should also
designate the day @ its meeting They knew the proneness
Of to falter and the approach Of dreadful
gency, and they were ho,v difficult it for
stout-heared sodiet, to face the music the of de
, perate conflict"
Indeed, according to the same writer, no art was
unessayed to MAZE their medated work of disrup
ton of the Unpn binding and effective. For
says he:
every member 1 the Legislature, except perhaps o
two, when that bodywas deiberang the of the Fed
eral Government relang the interests and institutions
the slavehoding Ststes avowed that his sole object in the
he pursued was 10 procure dissolution of Union
at the earliest practicable period In regard to the
be employed and the mode Of conduct be adopted pro-
duce such resulb there was difference of opinion"
Another reason for referring the election Of Dele
gates to the Safe Convention to the People at 81
early day, wits, it seems, the hope that Congress
t might at its present Session do something whcl
, might exasper,te the remaining Southern State.
to move against the Union, in which event thi
f Convention WOULD be all ready to take advantag,
of any such godsend We again quote
Should the Congress of the United States become in
auated by the victory has already achieved the South
SO confident Of power and forgeu of right and the
sution as to pyyate foul aggression calculated t
rouse the sleeping spirit of the slaveholdng States and
galva,iSe their dead sensibies into life and motion, by
eeciing your delegates February next you will put in
the power Of the Govenorto call together Convention
thorized to cooperate heartily and eec,uay with Rip
Van Winkle siters.
It is given up, within the last two weeks, by the
!, most zealo,s of the Carolina Revoutonists tina,
in the PROPOSED Southern Congress" SOUTH
CAROLINA will, as we predicted some weeks ago
that she would, be left " alone in her glory
SIT is now well known" says the Anderson Gazette OF
January o. that every other Southern State with the
cepon perhaps Of Misssspp has nslorousy fled from the
noble banner p constitutional equality involved in the ter
rtoral question, suenderDg every foot Of the common terri
tory to .sa aboionism &C., and have taken refuge
under the poor pful enactment Of the fugitive slave law
New lines have been drawn, other platforms have been
suced And can be possible that the sovereign people
Carolina are to convoked in Convention for the purpose
arrayng themselves any Of these rotten, rckety subm
} sion superstudures No, no, no One question alone
should engage attention in the election Of delegates
that is immediate secession by separate State action This
meets the issue fairly, broadly, and fully Any thing shor
Of this is suberuge bravado, submission"
sAny proposition which looks beyond separate Stat.
action" says the writer, Sis indirect and base ap
peal to the fears Of the people. The Nashville Conventions
hare had their day; the Southern Congress is already
dead letter. and if there is remedy at all for the grievance
under which live, alone to be found h the sovereignty
and moral courage Of the people of the State'
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