Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-02
roR THE NATIONAL ISTELLIeEScER.

ron THE NATIONAL ISTELLIeEScER.
GISrLEsEs In your paper Of the 18th instant you state
that several gentlemen Of South Carolina and among them you
include myse bad written strong letters against the policy
Of separate State action your observations had here
cluded would have had nothing object to them but you
proceed to say; They (these genlemen regard with
drawal from the Union semnenty dangerous to Southern
institutions and destructive Of the commercial prosperity of
the State"
This latter clause entirely misrepresens my opinions
The eminent danger Southern institutions" which we
feel in Carolina sppehended by mo- well by large
majority, flow from the withdrawal but from the con-
nuance Of Union which has been perverted from its orgi
nal Objects and is used, with all its power, ruin
Southern institutions and Southern prosperity It is
the withdrawal from this Union that appehend eminent
dangers the South, but in the withdrawal Of South Caro-
lima from the other Southern States. 1t Is the Of
whdawadom this Union, but the Of it, proposed
by Of my fslow-cizsns that strongly oppose. If the
other Southern States were ready for the Saw
found In South Carona who would be willing
to separate bonds which connect them with Government
which has ceased consider itself the general and special
trustee Of all the States, and the suaranof all the intu
tons guaranteed each and every Of them by the Consu
tion Il ii not time for Southern men to be alarmed the
progress Of Union, whose Chief Magistrate and Prime Min
lister seek o the popularity Of section inerant abuse
again restore to unsuspectng confidence Of colo
nies" to this '' mother country"
believe, with Mr. Burke, that no act with ef.
feet who do not act concert that no in
who do not act in confidence that act with
confidence who bound together by opinions
common affections, and interests And trust that
in suitable time will be shown that the esprit of liberty"
the South will be found be united and "hgh and
haughy" ss proved to bein 10 Respectfully, yours.
ID. ]. McCORD.
Unconscious of having ourselves alluded by name
to the gentleman who is the author of this Letter.
we had to turn to our paper of the date referred to
by him, in which we find the following paragraph
being doubtless that to. which Mr.. McCoRD aludes:
"SourH CAaoIIsA.-Opposition separate secession is
said be rapidly the increase in this State j. D. WITH
ERsroos, Senator from York; c. w. DUDLEY, sena-
from Marlborough; and D. J. McCoaD. eminent law
yer Of Columbia and law of Langdon Cheves have
written strong letters against the policy Of State
ton They regard withdrawal from the Union eminent
y dangerous Southern institutions and destructive of the
commercial prosperity Of the State"
This paragraph, it is proper for us in selfjusif-
cation to state, was copied, article of news,
from Southern paper, and ought, by rights, to
have been credited accordingly. The Editors Of
this paper are wholly innocent of any intention to
misrepresent the position Of Mr.. McCoRD; but as
by accident he has been placed in wrong posi-
ton in our columns,ywe cheerfully accord 10 him
the privilege ofexplaining in his own language the
ground which he. desires to be considered as occu-
plying in The Po,i,ics Of his State.
We shall raise no general argument upon this
Letter, having already sufficiently explored the field
which it offers to US We are glad to find, how
ever, that the writer does not deny his being op-
posed to the plan of "separate secession of his
State from the Union and Notwithstanding
his present decided opposition to "ths continu-
ance" Of the onion, we do not despair Of even his
coming TO himself in the suitable time" of
which he speaks, and seeing in the same light of
absurdty and impracticability both joint and sepa-
rate secession for existing causes, of any South
ern States or State from the Union.
We have said that we will raise no argument
upon this Letter. Nor will we. But there is a
passage in it which we cannot permi, to pass un-
noticed to the ereaders Of the National Inteligencer
We refer to that which charges upon the Chief
Magistrate and the Secretary of State of the Unit
ed States I" tinerant abuse of the institutions" of
the South. ;.
In conceiving thing SO unlikely, Mr.. McCoRD
has doubtless given credit, to false representations
which have been industriousy circulated in the
South, Of what these high officers of the Govern
ment have said or done. We have seen, we pre-
sumo, every word which has been automatically re-
ported of the addresses of either of them wherever
Delivered since the termination of the late Session
-
uttered by either, that will sustain the construction
that they have abused the Institutions Of the South
The whole tenor of their discourses has been that
the Instifution-it is useless to retain the plural
term-of Slavery, in the Southern States, in the
same manner as other institutions recognised and
guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States,
must be sustained at every hazard; and that upon
tins adherence all hands, 10 the requirements of
the Constitution, must depend the duration of this
Government.
If Mr.. McCoRD, however, means no more than
that both the President and the Secretary of State
are not OF the opinion Of some Of the statesmen of
the South, that slavery is blessing to every CON-
munity to which II extends, and would be bless.
ing if it existed every where that i. does not now
exist, as well az where it does, we must saw, that,
as far as our information goes, their opinion of
slavery in the abstract does not far differ from
that of large proportion Of tho neo,Ia &c ~