Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-25

breach OF faitb land which he pronounced imPossipe
America could furnish the occasion Of when he sad
Of such act that nothing could mark people with
urptude and debasemeDt could tend more 70 make
think themselves mean degrade to lower point
their estimation Of virtue their standard OF action
The idea of preserving the Union while any of the
ties repudiaAe the obligations of the compact II enter
ained is the sheerest foyas idle as to expect to pre-
life denying breath to the nostris Tor IN me Caion
the observance of the guarantee which lin the spirit in
which they meant you seem disposed to disregard
is the necessary condition Of our secury om Of we
should not need them The refusal to observe them Is
itself attack that security as being more insidous
90 less honorable than open war; and less to be rpe
led And though do not hesitate to avow that every
motive Of interest," and many higher considerations, con-
spre to make peace and the pepeuy Of the Union very
desirable to u.s. surely need hardly add that there are
feelings and rights rghts Of selpreservaton and feel
ngs Of serespec yet dearer than the interests even Of
union and peace And this say responding, through
every fibre Of my hi art and every faculty OF my under
standing to that noble uterance Of Mr. Webster Union
and Liberty Liberty and Union now and forever one
and inseparabe" Inseparable, indeed and wo to him
or themwo heavy as the curse o. al human kina.-o
whom shall rest the just responsibility of destroying the
one involving inevitably must happen, in common
ruin the other also. But soon might you expect the
dependence Of labor capital at the North to end and
absolute equality, social and pecunary to obtain there
between workman and employer at the dictaton Of the
South and union still prevail as TO expect the depen
dence Of the black on the white at the South de-
manded by yet more impcrous consideraons-by added
and nexorable considerations connected with coorto
be seriously assaed struck at by the North without
total of the ties that now unite us as one
| people 4 w3
walls through all Southern borders Be not deceiyed
the calm that Of assured right Of unanmity Of
opinion and resove and Of conscience as people at
least towards you, void Of offence The North VIII oe
equally calm in this regard when it shall be equally
guiltess.
| ABINGDON, SEPTEMBER aS, 1854
receive very willingly the remarks you have favor
ed with the subject Of my letter of the 30th Of Au
gust 1t challenge the reflections Of thinking and
considerate of frank and loyal that it was written
4 ] expected very humby feel that it is not
sal aurio that any sudden conversion, that any i'm
portant change Of mems opinions however
however hastily formed, can be effected But If by tell
ing truths which do know to be such, to candid minds
governed but by the love of truth when they know it, but
who not favorably situated in the particular to
ascertain and estimate it, at all contribute to gain
for them fair hearing my aim will have been attained
Allowing themselves due pause to investigate and
sider do not fear but that finally all such minds, at
the North and at the South, would harmonize in sen
ment and cooperate in policy Could Northern men hut
abide with long enough to appreciate justly the cir
cumsances that surround us, there would be- am per-
suaded no essential differences opinion As general
proposition there actually exist between US and
such of your people as have among and just in
proportion to the time they pass with u.s. do day by day.
their nsapprehensions yield better knowledge and
their views conform to what they the inexorabe
law Of necessity imposes despoticay upon the people
who within its shadow. am your own obser-
to doubt about opinions that are thus SO universally
abandoned by those best situated form ones
and whose antecedents all repe the conclusions at which
they finally, however reluctantly, arrive.
The fruit Of better knowledge is beginning to ap
pear in the recognition though snted of the improved
condition of the slave here compared with that he
taken from Farther inquiry might resuin the doubt at
least whether his condition. not repning for rights he
knew such but always cared for in Sickness in
infancy and old age, might not possibly be better than
Of the white day aborer with you who often misera
bly, finds, in his acknowledged right to be free, when
disabled by age disease from the power Of enjoying
the correaye right of his fortunate neghbor claim
ed ALSO to let him suffer for raimen, food shelter
in his extremity without the breach of any recognised
i obligation. At any rate sincere phanthropist might
pause investigation before oyerturning the state
Of society for the other though he might still be clear in
the opinion that the former ought to have existed
But do not understand that you would join in any
such attempt though you seem to think yourself pre-
pared undertake it, if you did feel restrained by
its being Ito your words of your business These,
| / know matters Of opinion but am Of nothing
more sure than that by the time You had acquainted
yourself by observation, with the state of that society
you would propose to reform you would doubt greatly Of
the efficacy of your remedy, whatever it may be.
! think careful examination Of my letter will
satisfy you that have not fallen into the mistakes you
have corrected The terms South" and North are
not used to import any corporate character They
precise but used for convenience the context gov
ernng each their particular Specification Thought
too, had Disseminated sufficiently between the Aboli
ZIONIST and the Freesoiler though did not draw the
line ought rather to say, perhaps, that did
found them. The former declared enemies. For
enemy what is there but defiance, and, if he invade
you, punishment? We do not so hold the Freesoiler
cessarily either in spirit or purpose. But founding
themselves falacy raught with injustice, be-
ieve it, fear it may lead them into position Of anita
gonism towards the Southern people that scarcely
admit any other solution than dsunion or force Mr..
Webster, believe gave utterance to that faacy,
but think not mistaken in saying that he finally
dsclamed it alike by act and word and had the plea
Of knowing him well enough to know that his heart
towards the South right, and that abstract opin
ions he might entertain respecting slavery freesoil
weighed feather in the balance against the love he bore
above all things to the Union would have him the
least hesitation to lay down. if felt by the South
involving their safety compromising their honor to
render its admission, in their estimation inconsistent
with either
The position to which alude is the non admission
hereafter Of any slave State. On such proposition
argument Is useless. When those who maintain it at the
North shall have schooled their feelings and their
derstandings TO bear with patience submit to in
practice the Of tviz that State chose
constuton shall not recognise slavery shall hereafter Be ad
nitsd The Unoayou may look for acquiescence in
Territory bought by the blood the money Of the peo
pie alike Of the free and the slave States be appropr
ated exclusively by the former only when all Of JUS
tce is extinct among them, and submitted to by the lat
ter only when all Of selfrespect is extinct among
u.s. the fact Of our being numerically the weakest
stands for for submitting act that imports
offensive discrimination and involves most unrgh
Gus but not improbable injustice Suppose the claim
asserted the field the close Of the battle by the
Of the South and the North fighting side by side
against common foe could, indeed be assert