Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
WASHINGTON.
LIBERTY and Union, now ana loretsr, one and
inseparable."
TUESDAY, AgGUSTN h5l.>
AsS NSNisiSlrffY dE re UNION.

~~S NDNISIblLTTf VI The UNlON.
1 In another column will be found a CORE.
spspdence between Mr.. WEBSTER and a citizen Of
NoRfH. CAROLINA (whose Letter is in our hands)
oi4he question Of the right Of any State, at its
mere will and pleasure, to withdraw from the
Union.
Il was the language Of WAsHNeToN, that the
Union constitutes us one Government" Such
were the doctrine and the language of all the Fa-
theirs Of the Republic. The Government was
twenty years old before the notion was publicly
avowed, and then with general reprobation, Of the
right Of State to withdraw from the Union,
The Letter of Mr.. WEBSTER to his North Caro-
lima correspondent reminds US that weihave seen;
the name of the late NATHANIEL MACON, OF North
Carolina, cited as favoring the idea OF the right
of any State to break up the Union, He could
have held no such opinion. We have heard him,
on different occasions, express, in language as
strong as ever flowed from the lips Of man, opin-.
ions directly the reverse of this. fis'.Ss
One of these occasions our memory enables US
directly to refer to. II was that of Debate in the
House Of Representatives in March, 1912, on the
occasion OF the reception and disposition Of a
Message from the President of the United States,
transmitting to that body series Of papers (the
commission and correspondence Of John Henry. a
British AGENT proving, in the language Of Mr.. Ma
olson, that, at then recent period, whist the two
countries were still at peace, 6 a secret agent Of
the British Government was employed in certain
States in fomenting disaffecton to the constituted
authorities Of the nation, and in intrgaes with the
disafected for the purpose of bringing about re-
sstance to the laws, and eventually, in concert with
British force, Of destroying the Union, and form
ing the Eastern part thereof into political con-
nexion with Great Britain" This exposition, as
may well be conceived, produced. ! great excite
ment, in and out of Congress-. No one believed
the persons in New England, with whom Henry
held communication, had any thought Of ,'s seces-
sion from the Union, though some Of their pub
lie writers had made violent obtestations Of what
they would do. Yet from a feeling that this dis
closure reflected upon them in some degree, some Of
the old Federal party in Congress resented it, whilst
others affected to ridicule the whole matter upon
which demonstrations Of feeling old Mt. WIDeERY
--we then thought him old-from down East,
quoted, against those who made them, the old say
ing among gunners, that "you may know the
wounded pigeons By their Jauttering.'' Towards
the close Of this Debate, the veteran patriot from
North Carolina took part in it in aspeech report
ed in the National Intellgenceref March l2, 1912,
from which we quote SO much as shows what was
his opinion Of the inviolability Of the Union, and
of the conduct of those who should conspire to
aissOIvc E
" Mr.. MACON said this was one Of those debates
which sometimes arose in the House, in which
all were on one side of the question. Nothing
can be more true than that these papers do prove
that Great Britain has not yet ceased her attempts
to disturb the peace of this nation. In this case,
: a man who had been in the service of this Gov
ernment, preferring the British, was, whilst in
Canada, engaged by Gov. Craig to 60 into part
of this country to endeavor TO procure division
Of the Union. Mr.. M. said he had four years
ago stated that both Great Britain and France had
agents in this country. Had they not had them
in other countries! They had and he cited Hol-
land as particular instance.
!" The Constitution (said Mr. NJ is founded on
the Union Of these STATES and (if | may be al
lowed to use word once fashonabe) ON THE IN
sDIvIsIBIL1TY OF THE EMPIRE. And what was the
object of Great Britain For what did she en-
. ! ploy this man! TO separate the Union; to de-
sroy the Constitution, the greatest oork Of the
greatest men this country has produced. Sir, |
was almost struck with horror, when such docu-
men,s were reading, to see that any man could
laugh at them. They expose an attempt not 70
stab an individual, but to stab nation.''
81 understood enough Of the papers, as read, to
know that he Henry was an agent Of the Br
tish Government sent here to sos0 dis,aaion, and
that was enough for me. So long as we are 60
verned by interest, mutual wants, or by common
sense, SO long shall we continue united. We are
placed in such a situation that we ought to love
each other, and we always should, did not ou'
mad passions sometimes run array scifh US
One part Of the nation delights in using the sea
another in agriculture; we supply each other
wants ve ought neuer to dream Of separation I
DANIEL M. HENRY, Esq. has been nominated al
the Whig candidate for Congress from the sixth
Congressional district Of Maryland. The district
is Wing, and his election we regard as certain,
The Cambridge Chronicle says that he will prove
worthy Of the high trust and confidence reposed in
him by the nominating Convention. tit8 Ggf