The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-12
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
Tss sstisnaI IntelIigenecr trying to kocp
kfeR.
THURSDAY. JUNE IL. 1851.


tn. sadsnaI IntelIigcneer trying to kcop
Step.
Az the circulation of the National Inteili-
psucsr," In the State of South Carolina, has de-
creased, is decreasing, and LAS it ought) has
probably dwindied down 10 the shortest span of
the few forlorn submissionists in GreenvilIe
and Charleston, we republish, and commend
to the attention of the press and people, the fol-
lowing tissue of misrepresentation and perver-
sions of facts which constitute its leading edi-
torial of Tuesday last
Falsus in uno, )dlsus in omnibus, is trite say
ing; he who is false in one instance, will be false
in all, if it is to his interest," and never was the
truth of the maxim more completely indicated
than in this editorial of the Intelligencer, the
whole wool and web of which is made up Of
false suggestions and impressions of important
truths. 1t is consistent throughout, commence
ing with the following outrageous false sugges-
ton "The object Of The convention If delegates
from "SoAhern Rights Associations" lately held
in Charleston, IL must be borne in mind, i0os 10
force an earlier issue than that already authorized
by the Legislative act Of the STATE, between the
Disunionists Supposed 10 be in majority in
South Cardinal and the sovereignty Of the
United Stales"
Now in the service of its "Souereign" 1.-THE
United States" .the Inelhgencer stickles at
nothing, and presumes so far on popular
ignorance of the movements in South Car
olina, as unblushingly to make an assertion
which the call for that convention, it's whole
proceedings and final action, as we'll as the
speeches Of its members, all stamp with false.
hood.
Such ~as moi SHE Object Of the Convention of
Delegates" No such intention was ever enter
tanned or expressed, either in the call, or in the
subsequent action, but in express terms disa
vowed and disclaimed by all the parties inter
ested, and the deductions drawn from that pre-
mise are equally imaginative and devoid ofsub-
stantial support. IT, as has been charged upon
"the ngitators,' our young men see visions, it is
more susceptible of positive proof that sour
old men dream dreams" for this antiquated ex-
organ of dsbanded PAT displays an igno-
rance Of Southern movements, which it is Chart
able to attribute to an excess of imagination,
rather than disregard for truth. This whole
editorial of the Inteiligencer is composed "ot
the stuff that dreams are made Of" Its state
ments are so utterly unsupported on any foun-
dation of real occurrences, 80 irreconcilable to
the recorded facts long ago circulated through
all the more modern papers even of this metrop-
oils, that it is sufficient for us, in reproducing
it, to put in a General Demurrer to its Bill Of
Exceptions to the course of the Convention
and it's equally groundless assertions and deduc
tons on the movements which it introduces
thus "OWosition 10 ".State Secession by per
sons disconnected with The Union"
The fact ia, the IntelHgencer belongs to tn,
old regime of the slow COACH" and never ha
been able to keep up with the progress" of thi.
railroad and telegraphc generation.
Six miles an hour-lying by all night, and
snoring soundly-is the top-speed of its travel
Faster movement bewilde-s it and deranges its
perez ptons. Men no more look into it now
for nc,cs, than they would into an old curiosity
shop" for model of the last Invention. 1t is
an /" old curiosity shop" of old federal notions
exploded long ago by the common sense of the
whole communicated doubtless has not YET
awakened to knowledge of the fact that its
ruling 4" sovereign" now is not ANDREW JACK.
SON, and the controversy about notification.
The Intell;gencer is emphatically behind III.
times, and its most attached friends among the
elderly ladies, whose past "reminiscences attacl
them to it. must admit the fact, while patiently
swallowing its morning twattle, with an accom-
panying cup of weak tea to give it relish
What deliberate attempt, therefore, to impose
upon public credulity-what a melancholy as.
sumption of vigor and vivacity, its pretence to
keep step thus with
THE MARCH OF EVENTS IN South CAROLINA
The object Of the convention of delegates
from Southe n Rights Ass ci atoms" lately hello
in Charleston, it must be borne in mind wa.
10 force an earlier issue than that alread,
authorized BY the legislative act of the State
between the Disunonsts (supposed to be in
maj ,rity in South Carolins) and the soveregnt,
of the United States. Delegates had indeed
been before chosen, by such authority as The
State legislature could exercise, to convention
Of the Southern States, with view to forming
Southern confederation; but it had been al
ready ascertained that the proposed Southern
convention would be failure, because no other
Southern State, however disposed, was ready
for so desperate resort. The purpose of those
who procured the assembly Of this Estates
rights" convention, therefore, was, by effecting,
possible, separate secession" of the State
of South Carolina, to bring her at least into
copflict with the General government, with the
hope besides, of coercing other States finally to
unite with South Carolina in the revolution by
which this Union WAS to be broken to pieces
The machinery of the State rights conven-
ton worked according TO the design and the
wishes of it's projectors. The delegates, being
chosen by associations whose leading principle