The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1851-07-11
From the National InteIligencerj
An Important Historical Disclosure,

amendment and bill.
From the National Intelligencer]
An Important Historical Disclosure.
The regular readers of this paper will doubt
less recollect that in its discussion of sthe Evil
of the Day., in the early part of the last year
whilst endeayoring to show the danger-Nhich
might be apprehended, in case of general
representation of the Southern States in the
first Nashville Convention, through some i'm
pulsive or hasty moVement--of the instant
formation of n Southern Confedaracy, we
placed before them an anonymous Letter to
US, advising us to warn the North that Con-
stitution for such a new Government, to super
sede the good old United States, had been al
ready prepared, and was only waiting for an
occasion to be presented and put in action
For reasons of our own, we placed confidence
in that statement, though anonymous.
Fortunately for the whole country, but es-
pecially for the States Of the South, the Nash
vile Convention proved to be an absolute fail
ure. Before the time proposed for sending
Delegates to it, the People of the States of
VIRGINIA and NORTH CAROLINA, who had been
counted upon as game already bagged, showed
that they were not only alive, but wide awake
to the enormty of the scheme of dsunion
into which they had like to have been entrap-
ped; and the State of Louisiana, as well as the
Western Southern States, would have nothing
TO do with the plot. So that no opportunity
was afforded for bringing forward this Consti-
tuition of the United States South, if such one
had been already prepared.
The present canvass in the State of MIssTs-
sIPPI has elected Information that the existence
in writing of such a prepared instrument of
Disunion was no false suggestion---no inge-
nious fable designed TO deceive, but an actual
fact susceptible Of proof!
From the NatcheZ Courier we learn that
Gen. FREEMAN and Senator FooTE addressed
the people of Attala county, Mississippi, on
The 28th utimo, and that, in the course Of his
remarks, Senator FooTE bore the following
testimony to the views and wishes of Mr.. CAL
HoUN in relation to the Southern Secession:
"He said that the idea of demanding amend
'ments to the Constitution, and, in case of fail
'ing to obtain them, resorting to secession, was
first broached by Mr.. CALHOUN after our Octo
'ber Convention in 1849; that MIR. Calhoun told
'him that he (Mr. CD had no expectation of
obtaining these amendments: but Mr.. G.
thought that if they should be refused, why
then the South would unite in the formation
'of Southern Confederacy; and thai Mr.. CAL
sHoUN had prepared Constitution for thiS neso
Republic which was to have been formed out
of one of the fragments Of our present Union" !"
From the Baltimore Clipperl
PoLITIcs IN CoLLEGE.--The young men in
the College of South Carolina, having recently
organized Southern Rights Association, is
sued fiery address and resolutions, and called
upon the students of other Southern Colleges
- Al ",
University have taken up the subject and re-
piled in the following resolutions, which are
worthy of Old Hickory himself, in his palmiest
days:
.sResolyed, That we deprecate the spirit in
which the association originated, and also the
uncaled-for interference of School boys in po-
litical affairs. which they should ever entrust to
the care and supervision of their seniors and
superiors.
aResolved, That the address published and
distributed by the members of the association
is fraught with spirit of treason, i1tsurrection
and ciUa scar, wholly abhorrent to every true
friend of civil liberty; and that the principles
therein advocated can in no wise rebound to
the interests and welfare of the South
s.Resolved, That believing, as we do, the ul-
innate object of the association is the dissolu-
ton of the Union, we dsclain all connexion
or communication herewith
sResoved, That though the South has not
obtained all that could have been desired, in
the adjustment Of the slavery question, the
difficulty has, nevertheless, been settled in
manner entirely honorable to, and without sac
rifce on the part Of the South.
b eResolyed, That we remain immoveable In
our attachment to the Union, prompted, not BY
the rebellious principle which they advocate,
s'Liberty first, and Union dfterDdrds,n but the
noble and glorious sentiment, Liberty and I'm
ion, noao and foreuer, one and inseparable." s.9
1.-THE following is taken from the Missis.
sippian, of February :22d, 1888:
@In the course of the debate which has lately
taken place in the Virginia Legislature, Mr. 4.
j. Randolph, grandson TO Ms. Jefferson, rose
in his place and read letters from Mr.. Madison
and Mr. Riyes, that the opinion of Mr.. Jeffer-
son always had been, that secession was rev.
ointionary remedy Jefferson and Jackson
agree, and are both at issue with the nullifers,
who very presumptuousy style themselves
sJeffers0nian Republicans"
MAJOR Pork RUNNING FOR CoNGREss.--Major
VIM. H. Polk is the independent Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Columbia (Tenn.)
District He is the brother of the late Presi-
dent, and holds to the opinions expressed by
him while alive. In speech on the 27th nit.
he took high ground for the compromise and
the Union, said that if he was in Congress he
should be for standing square up to the COM
promise, and would rebuke any effort to alter