Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-25
CORRESPONDENCE.

CORRESPONDENCE.
ABINGDON, Va ] AuarsT 80, 1854.
will 90 out of my way to off my humble tribute to
the general spirit of impartia evnced by you in the
conduct of your journal in to 5sf'on the
most difficult perhaps, Of all questions to Its just
bearings, even by those VIII, hsv. ne he.s Aghts and
who daily so to speak, pore anxlouss t4e living
pages which it is written, but mlsaos as sheet
book to be read orcomprehended eyen its most patent
aspects and incidents BY those who have no such oppor
tunity 1t is question whose solution easy and
sure just in the inverse ratio Of knowledge and familiarity
with its difficulties on the part Of those who secon
6dent enough to confront it question involving diff
culties greater than those very satisfactorily solved BY
the Utopias of More or Prudhomme by the Reign o.
Reason or the latest French Constitution; question
whose soution albeit like the others referred to- claimed
to stand arguments incapable of being answered
emanation indeed, Of right reason and of the re-
gion Of love- unfurls its flag amid disorder and sedon
to its pacific and benefcent career with the
brand and the TORCH to pursue it through blood and
through fire. to end with the destruction of the Union
(the bow of hope to mankind, the extinction of true
liberty the neglect overthrow of the school and the
church the lurd glare Of anarchy and dark nj ht Of
despotism
scarcely think, do injustice to G--y at least in
iikenipg mis- Philosophy Of Reform to Sir Thomas Mores
though the latter is at this day. in the world of
sense ranked with the flying philosophy of Rasseas
or to Prndhommes, who devotes his life to the building
up royal peoples palace Of socialism, to find at last
he had been but the unconscious architect Of gloomy
mausoleum of tyranny.
The phanthropc piety Of Parker is surely sncerer
very unlike that of another great founder of
relgion-the religion Of reason Robesperre,) who
day the idol Of the people and proclaimed benefactor
Of his country, the next received mixed death of
suicide and murder his hands and those of that
same people, denounced tyrant and traitor
The two hundred and seventy thousand heads demanded
by Maras in the name of humanity and liberty short
Of the hecatombs with which the merciful Phillips, under
an insane deuson yet more vicious seeking after a
bad notoriety, would bapse his order Of freedom
and fraternity Does he covet the fate Of his prototype
or envy his apotheos:s?
But Of the reformers referred may least be said
that they committed grievons blunders greater
In dealing with evils round about them which they had
the opportunity to understand and that they ready
there and then, where they did the mischief to meet
they did meet, the consequences of their acts But in
both these respects it is of them should ask pardon for
institutng the comparison.
These examples show two things, which if not yet
almost forgotten, but which may still perhaps be
worth the while to ponder little as the dreamy boat
gliding between Black Rock and Grand Isle the
smooth current of the Niagara might do well amid the
real beauties around and above him. and beafc visions
of future progress, to note for moment that small
cloud Of vapor rises but short distance in his
front, warning him of the manifest destiny that in
eviably awaits him First that the best intentions,
shaped by wisdom often but the seed of the Of
evils; and secondly, that oil reform which fails to take
into account the friction of existing interests and pas
sons, and prejudces and CUSTOMS and which discards
the maxim stma isntsn that nature and wisdom every
where proclaim in their grander processes did,
it ever must bear no fruit but disaster and end only in
failure. ~ sa s
find line following line, as it were spontaneously,
/ where designed but line two when began this
theme Somewhat more, however, would say, and it
may perhaps be notreceived by the rightminded at
distance if you shall not object to it's reaching them.
We Of the South born to the condition in which
find ourselves little responsible for its exist
for The good and evil of this condition
is We alone know it as it is admit respon
sibiliy to deal with it justly we do our duty to
Alright the lives God has given SO to both not
TO hurt others admit also to be duty. Here
duty those beyond borders begins and ends They
responsibility for Southern slavery now, whatever
may be justly theirs for ntroduein or aggraratg or
mdhag ptoft By IT, IN time past whence their mission,
then, obtrude, unnsked uninormed, advice mis-
chievous interference?
All right minded persons to this, win agree in senti
ment with the late honored Judge Hopknson Of Penn
sylvana When the summary course taken by the South
towards the travelling ncendiares who came to instruct
in duties was defended before him the ground
that these merely exerting moral suasion, 1t
is sir, said he, cas- if mpertinent intermedder
were to come to my house, protesting all eyity ana
friendship to point out to me impropreties which, IN his
opinion, was guilty Of in the mansgemeut ofmy family
and which ought to be corrected What should do with
him. sir should take him by the collar and thrust him
into the street, and this, SIR said he, "is what the
South has DONE and it has done right"
You Of the NORTH beg pardon, mean some at the
Northseem consider that the recognition in the Fede
raj Constitution of the existing fact Of slavery and agree
1nent in effect not to meddle with it. except specified
eases for protection, imposes upon them share of
responsibility and the duty of helping manage it.
This self assumed to wholly gratu
tous as the resulting interference we hold offensive and
injurious you have the right to interfere By ecompact
then interfere according the compact Perform the duties
It enjons in good fah and We content Buto derive
the right TO from the Constitution and then to
act in contraventon Of its njunctons, involves at
treschery and dupcity 8sa
The constitutional recognition Of slavery and the
you have under in regard to it. were,
You know the indispensable conditions of our framing
this alliance with you. II You repent OF this
undo ts eompac but in the name OF good faith keep it
honorsbly while it lasts treacherously evade nor
n shameessly break it. kaaA
Till unloosed you must execute this compact In that
good faith Of which your own lustrious AAEs mas nne