Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01
WHAT GOOD is TO COME OF IT,

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against the agitations which must inevitably follow
So fir from removing the slavery question from
Con es and settling it forever" the very reverse
was predicted, and passing events furnish daily
proofs renewed agitation as bitter as any that
has eve, yet endangered the public peace. In the
Charleson I" Mercury" of the 2lst instant we find
an artile in which the present condition of things
is briefly portrayed. The Mercury says:
9Th spectacle presented by the North and the South
at hepresent moment is well calculated the
attention Of thoughtful minds. In the former find
society conyulsed all the slumberng elements of section
al bitterness roused and slavery agitation awake again,
after is brief and deusve sleep, strengthened by new
and eager for the onset Never before has the
Northern sky portended such storm Never before have
the Nrthern press approached near to unanmity in
the cse Of Abolition Never before all other is
sues far buried and the sentiment and voice of that
Who'll, section so united in war upon the South"
tSlch is the state of things the North. How is
| at the South? All is calm and easy Indifference The
thunders which rolling from the North die away be-
fore they reach latitude If heard at all are scarce
needed The contrast thus exhibited between the nc
tive and fierce energy of the assalant and the quiet
apathy of the assaled is most remarkable What arets
causes Does the South feel safe and secure? Has she
no bitter recoectons which brise up at the name Of
Abolition? Does she look for peace when the cry is
war to the knife9 Is she infatuated with her own
strength to despise the aims and power OF fanacls
We leave these questions to be answered by others"
The q Mercury then quotes the views of North
ern prints to show the growing feeling of bitterness
which has been rckindled, and the ultra measures
recommended by journals hitherto deemed calm,
conservative, and just In reference to the modes
tbo 10 6r,n Oh &c
Nebraska bill it says:
" If look to the South, viii discover great
variance of opinion the Nebraska BILL By many is
regarded ,cih indifference By openly opposed; uhe the
look upon thing Of so little practical good that
is certainly not orh The labor Of an acce struggle
tain it, This is the tone of presses in State
OUTSIDE OF IT MANY COULD ENUMERATED. The New
Orleans Bulletin, speaking of the unanimous feeling at
the North against the BILL the following language:
$50 much for the Nebraska BILL which we have oppos
ed Southern man, bound to section by every tie
of Inclination, friendship and interest because deem
ed its introduction ine1pedent mpoc, and calculated
TO do HARM although have maintained, and shall
ever maintain that the principle of non-intervenon
bodied in 1.-THE principle that the people Of the Terrific
RES when they propose TO come into the Union States
have clear right control their domestic affairs as
suits them-is right and proper"
"7zre compact sectional sentiment Gttse South acor
Of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, while at the North there
is the intense hostility to it, What is to be done
Can the South stand isessy by and the bill repeal
ed when this is made the direct issue against her. and
the bond Of union, which, secured is be used
fercely for her ruin II the matter ended nth the rpeal
cfe Nebraskc biz might be permitted. But when Abolition
ism intends to stocp to this merely because it
will unite the North against the South and secure tr
umph which it press the worst acts of aggression
upon her. how she remain Indifferent to the result
If she prizes the CITADEL she neglect the ouposts
There is no alternative for the South When the North
presents sectional issue, and tenders battle upon it, she
must meet it, abide all the consequences Of victory
easily by remorseless and eager oe That she has
not better issue is her own fault"
We have more than once referred to the little |
value set upon the Nebraska movement as section
al gain by the rejecting people of the South, who
must however, under painful necessity, take sides
with their own section. Truly does the Charleston
Mercury say that " the spectacle presented by the
North and South is well calculated to arrest the at
tention of thoughtful minds" Truly does it say
too, of the people Of the South in regard to the Ne
braska bill, that /" the mass look upon il as thing
of so little practical good that it is certainly not
worth the labor of an active struggle to maintain
it." The Mercury, by no means inconsdcratc in the
utterance of its opinions, Notwithstanding an ardor
natural to its position evidently feels that the South
in accepting the "boon rendered by fragment of
the North, has gained nothing but a crop Of trou-
bles, and that the peace of the whole Union has
been most needlessly imperilled. 1t was this APP
prehension which induced the National Inelligencer
to raise warning voice against the repeal. 1t was
this belief that induced it. at an early moment Of the
agitation, to ask its countrymen to pause ere they
broke up an old and benefcent adjustment And
now what has the South gained, and what has the
whole country not lost?
1t gives US no pleasure to record these evidences
Of sectional dscord but as faithful chroniclers we
feel bound to let our readers understand the pre-
yailing sentiment both at the North and the South
md in 50 doing to invoke the'spirt of patriotism
md Cancellation still to lend its soothing influence
n quoting the troubled waters.
FROM New Mexico we have advices q month
alter. The military operations against the Indians
we're being vigorously prosecuted Col CooI, had |