Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-24

Messrs. GALES s. SEAToN: have been taking your
paper for years. and by this time ought to be well
acquainted with its general course. scarcely omit
to read all it contains and pass editorial
must say that the more see of it the better like it
and Wings and Democrats of my acquaintance generally
speak of it heightened, fearless conservative paper
very seldom have any thing in its editorials that
did most cordially approve 1t has been of very great
service to me, and intend to take it long you and
live. -
Your paper contributed much as any thing else in
bringing about and concentrating the compromise
of 1850; which it agreed all round by every
party to be final settlement of the slavery agta
ton But the most solemn pledges repeatedly given, the
platforms of parties most auhoritatvey pronounced and
the professions of individuals matter how earnestly
declared are all cast off as unscrupuously some old
WORKOUT garment by and parties when Office
be gained by sacrificing avowed and cherished prn
cples. ...
Your course the Nebraska bill and your noble de-
fence of the pghted faith Of not only the South but the
whole Unon to the sacred compromise of 1920 have been
cordially approved by all the Wings with whom l have
conversed in this region and who have read your paper
And the Douglas agitation of that exciting question for
useless purpose time of general harmony is not only
greatly regretted By Wings but also by very many nte
gent and patriotic Democrats. 1t is regretted because it
violates the compromise of 1920; because it agitates
very dangerous and exciting question: and because, a
ter ALL it was like 5s..1...
!" The, ocean into tempest tossed, -.'. -.
To watt q feather or to drown e. y" .H .'@
What have the South gained by it? They have gained
the right Of taking slaves into territory where slavery
will CO. because it will be profitable there
They have gained the acknowledgment of an abstract
principle that will be of practical service. What have
they lost They have lost, in great measure, think,
their good treaty and law-abiding people
They viii be thought perfdious, and to act the prn
ciple
sThat they may take who have the power,
And they may keep who can"
And others will begin to act upon the principle
agitate agtate agtate until the compromises of the
fugitive slave law and perhaps the still more solemn
Congress- shall have been repealed And think they
have lost the probability of any slave States
coming into the Union They have wantonly exasperated
the North to gain only the of 80 aous pictoy :;
victory that may the Infatuated vanquished and
ruin the yictors and both parties.
Time, the great truthteer and powerful logcan, will
yet prove that your counse would have been the safest
end wisest and, whether you command success or
not, "you do more, you deserve it."
As the itching desire for Cuba which now RACES as
monomania in the minds Of many citizens Of the Uni
ted States is that grapng craving for TAX
ing and territory which will be satisfied
until it swes into the unnatural dimensions Of boated
monster and bursts into Fragments and which has de-
sroyed all former great republics 1t is the depraved
thirst of the nebrate, which the it gulps down its
capacous throat the insatiate and mperous be-
its desire for larger and stronger rotations 1t is
Ahab covetng Naboths vineyard and there will be
Jezebel in the shape of libusters, to devise way
consummate the deed; and like hers too the dogs of
despotsm may lick their blood upon the very spot of their
wckedness
thought would write the above to let you know that
your counsc and conduct not only fully sustained but
greatly admired in this section
With the highest regard your obedient servant and
friend s.@t .