Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-21
WE have for some time noticed tho fol-


lowing. paragraphs going the rounds oi
our exchanges, and in order to let our
readers have some idea of the Southern
! feeling on the question of dissolution, have
determined TO spread them before our
readers, so that they may see that, howScv-
CT much the Southern members of Con-
gross may froth and foam on the subject,
for effect, there is a very different feeling
among the great mass of the Southern
people. The first extract is from the n. o.
Bee, which says:
y We need h6rtl!y say that deeply as we
! should regret the election of q Black Re-
publican President. we should be very flr
from regarding such an event as plea for
ltlissoIving the Union. While We have a
Constitution and laws, we of the South,
equally with the North, are bound to ac-
quiesce in the choice of Chief Magistrate,
legally and 5constitutionally effected. las
well might the North invoke disunion us
the sole remedy left in case Henry a. Wise,
or any other STAKEHOLDER, should be elected
President. WhomsOgTer the people may
televato 10 the highest Office in their gift,
the South should respect, until either
lthrough his own action Orthat of y hostile
Congress, some law should be passed,
iplninly and palpably at war with the guar
Iantees of the Constitution and the rights
and liberties of the slayeholding States,
The Savannah Republican thus strongly
rcbukes the call for Southern Convention:
Our noble band of sisters, all embarked
in one common bottom, need not be taught
their duty by o set of gassy. lre-eating
politicians, such us are likely to constitute
the staple of Southern Convention. Is
there the most remote probability of anoth-
er abolition raid into a Southern, State,
after the terrible lesson that las been
taught the transgrcsSOrS we think there
is not, and that the present agitation for
Southern Convention is either senEeless
cry from timid, panic-strickcn, would-be
leaders of the people, or a wcll-planned
scheme for an Interior purpose which it is
not prudent now to NYow. If the former,
we regard it rs wild, visionary and SUI
prcmcly ridiculous.
The Baltimore Patriot vouches for the
loyalty of Maryland to the Union thus:
The declarations of Mr.. Crawford, of
Georgia, yesterday, have no terrors for
Maryland. Let who may be elected Presi-
dent in 1850, according to the forms pre-
scribed by the laws of the country, she for
ono will submit to the election and stand
by tue Union, even though the Congress
sionRl delegation from Georgia, US grnvcly
announced6 by Mr. Crawford, shall seek to
prevent the Inauguration of the new PresiL
dent. Nay, even though every State in the
Union, North. South, East and West shall
repudiate the election, Maryland will insist
on obedience to the federal Cover nment
and rally TO the flag of the Union.
A correspondent of the National Iatelii-
gc"cec, himself a STAKEHOLDER, thus sums up
the profit and loss ofdisuniou:
Yet for all this l am utterly unable to
see that we of the South will at all better
ourselves by ''rcnouncing altogether our
connection with the North. Shall we be
removed hairs breadth further from the
NOrth2 Shall we cease TO hear the rawlings
of niadmen. or the delusions of fnnaticism?
Shall we, as aliens and foreigners, have u
better claim upon the conservative, element
still existing at the North than we now
have as members and brethren of the same
coniedcracy? Every one of these interro-
gutions must be answered in the negative
What, then, do we gain? Why. directly in
the teeth of the true but expressive and
comprehensive sentiment recently attribu-
ted i'll your columns TO the famous 'Tallcy-
rand, namely, " Happy is the nation
without frontiers ;" we gain an i'm
mcnse boundary, subject at all times.
and at all places to such fOravs as
old Ossnwntomic Brown has recently in
augurated at Iarper's Ferry, and with no
Pennsylvania Judge or Govarnor to hold a
merely suspected fugitive, to give sister
| commonwealth time to hunt up and send
on witnesses to identity him, as recently
was the case with the fugitive Hazlctt, ar
frosted Mt Carlisle. Is such an act as this
to weigh nothing or be accounted as no
compensation for the wild rawlings of de-
luded mon and women, led oil and en-
! courged by that most dangerous of all
men, the merely ambitious political dcmn-
! gogue? Unhappily, the South as well as
the North has its full share of this class OF
! men. But it is said wo are dishonorcd by
the cNlumny, abuse and misrepresentation
! so necessarily hc0pcd upon rs by the
North; and therefore we cannot with pro-
! per dignity and sclf-respect, longer keep
| faith or hold fellowship with it. Was
4 Henry Clay, the great head of the Whig
party, dishonored by the calumny, abuse
! and Misrepresentation so perscvcringly
and lavishly heapcd upon him? Did hc
not proudly soar above it, and pass
through the ordeal umscothcd with tho
nohleu sentiment upon his lips, Il would
rlther be right than be PresidGnt!" LIE,
tho South initiate the example of Henry
Clay, and be careful to keep herself in the
right; dcmNudnO.morc thai what is clear
". guaranteed to her by the laws and Con-
stilutiou, and submit to nothing less; she
may then proudly soar above and defy the
calumny of the North.
Aud the Richmond (yal Worning Nc,e.
tells us, in spicy language, what all this
disunion talks means. Says the Ne,rs:
Some men talk as fipppntly of dissol
wing this Union of States, as If they medi-
tated crushing an. eggshcll. No doubt
there are some wise souls; Confident in
their own conceit, who are ready to under