Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-03

quences to the peace Of the country and the perpeuy
Of the Union. Tennessee is with you heart and SOUL
your noble efforts to preserve the pghted faith Of the
South, and bring about feeling Of confidence between
the North and the South, and attachment and devotion
to the Union from the citizens Of all sections of the Re-
public her ablest and wisest statesmen and the great
mass Of the people are most emphacay with you. The
time when Tennessee looked to see where HENRY
CLAY stood when any great crisis arose before she
mitted herself well knowing that wherever the great
promser was he would be found raising his eloquent
voice in defence of the Constitution and the Union Ten
was always with him. and he always right
time has proven We can longer look to him our
leader but we can hold the noble example he left u.s.
in which ne devoted long and illustrous life in the
vice of the country and last fell martyr the Union
We can hold this noble example Of sesacrifcing de-
voton AID disnterested patriotism follow in the path
which it 50 clearly marks out. Who can doubt where
Henry Clay would have been found on this question had
his life been extended to this time? He would have
triumphanty indicated the compromise of 1920 against
| all assaults, and administered such rebuke y
These fomeners of agitation and disubers Of the
harmony OF the country would have dared raised
their heads beneath bis scathing whitening rebuke He
rendered immortal HE by his labor in support of
the Missouri compromise 1t was one of his proudest
| achievements
This whole movement be regarded by every friend
Of the Union who calmly and deliberately considers the
matter Of unmxed .eyi fruitful of nothing but
mischief. 1t arrest the beneficial work, to
blight the fast rpeniag fruit of the greet settlement of
1880 In the name Of peaes 1t brings sword and pro-
Tossing to settle it unsetes. national sentiment
quietly and universally winning its way, and every
where securing is noiseess and happy tramphs 1t is
impossible to look upon the present altered and troubled
not snd bitterly lancet the policy which has
in short space Of tme wrought such results The
has been inflicted upon tie country and there is
no physician heal it. If the South had only, as
man, refused to touch the Missouri compromise and
spurned the attempt to abrogate how triumphant in oil
future time would the spirit and genius of the great
Element of 1850 have been and how certain the preya
lence of the great peaceful peacebearng doctrine of
non-intervention! r.t
Tennessee will heartily endorse tbs of her dis
nguished Senator JoHN BELL upon this question, and
also of her faithful and fearless Representatives in the
House. Nearly every leading and influential Wing
in the State susains them and the people every where
viii nobly sustain them.
FLORIDA, APRIL IL, 1854
Though the approval of SO humble an individual %
myself will be Of little value cannot while writing,
fran from warmly expressing my thanks the very just
JuuiciouS, anu umeiy Views you recenuy Expresses
against the disturbance repeal Of the Missouri compro
mise by the Nebraska BILL However strongly Southern
people might have objected to that restriction originally
it is difficult to understand their willingness to have it
disturbed now and thereby to open the flood Of
agitation for oil the future and to suffer the evils natu
rally arising therefrom toperceve thatif the end
aimed at attained the attempt to destroy the mpor
tant act of 1850 will in all probability follow. Most
Of the few with whom have conversed this subject
| entertain the same views with myself