The national Republican., 1861-05-27
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
UPON SOUTHERN UNANIMlTY.

occupied, merely as one ot the outpoS's oi thls
capital, and with view solely to the defence
Of this capital, proceeds to say:
"If, however, the scope Of the movement
yesterday made should be wider than we have
been led to infer, and il it be the initiation Of
anything like regular campaign, directed to
the suppression of the civil revolution that has
broken out in the South, we must say, in jus.
tice to our convictions, that we cannot bring
ourselves to perceive the expediency Of any
such policy, having regard to the single end
proposed the restoration Of the Union As
the military 'subjugation Of the South is ad.
mitted on all hands to be equally impossible,
and contrary to the purposes Of the Admins.
trston which, we assured by its most &C.
credited organs, simply seeks to relieve the
| Union men of the seeded States from what
is believed by many to be the domination of
energetic minorties favoring and uphoding
the secession movement, we shall at least learn
from the reception awarded to the Federal
troops in Virginia, whether this expectation
will be realized Our own impressions Of the
| Southern character, and our convictions in re.
gard to the unhappy unanimity of the people
in most if not all OF the States that have act
ually seeded, are not of a nature to permit
the indulgence of such predictions. As we
have constantly labored to prevent this deplo-
|
among our Southern countrymen, we need not
add that we shall be greatly pleased to hnd
that we have underrated the number Of those
who, in Virginia and throughout the more
Southern States, would gladly return to their
| allegiance, if relieved from the pressure Of
rulers who have gained only temporary as
| tendency.
"We need not pause at this point to depre.
cate the shocking scenes which must attend the
civil conflict at whose brink we seem to stand"
The Inteliigencer, not unfrequently claims
peculiar knowledge of Southern character and
sentiment, the claim being based, we presume,
upon the facts that its managers are Southern
men, and that its associations and politics have
always been Southern. Whether this claim is
well, or i'll founded, it now throws the weight Of
whatever influence it has as an exponent Of
Southern views, against the Government and
country, and in favor Of the secessionists, in
all the pending issues of policy and right.
Upon that most important question of fact,
whether the traitors really represent majorities
in the revolutionized States, the Lnteuigencer
not only decides it in their favor, but goes far
ther, and afirms that there is an unhappy
unanimity" at the South in favor Of revolution,
and scouts as idle, the idea Of relieving the
Union men" from the "dominstion Of ener.
getic minorites." The Intelligeneer promul.
gates these views, generally in respect to the
South, and specially in respect to Virginia.
The Ltteliigencer, of course, holds itself open
to be corrected by the developments Of the fu.
ture, but SO far as it's judgment upon present
indications is worth anything, it gives it to the
public without hesitation, as against the whole
theory Of fact and policy, upon which the Ad.
mnstration is proceeding in its treatment of
secession.
A large degree of allowance is to be made
for the effect upon human judgment Of person.
al party, and sectional ties, but we owe it to
frankneia to say, that this and recent articles
in the hteliigsncer must tend to create belief,
that It holds relations of amity and concert with
the eonspirators, amounting very nearly to
guilty completely with them.
! Some three weeks since it published con-
| spicuonsly communication from Maryland, to
| the effect that the occupation Of Baltimore by
the uational forces was deprecated BY the Union
men of that city, and would almost certainly
result in cipH ,car in that city and State.
That perversion of the real condition of things
in Baltimore and Maryland, is now followed up
by the assertions, that the Richmond rump who
have sold out Virginia to JEFF. Davis & Co.,
are sustained by an unhappy unanimity"
among the people of Virginia, and that the
idea, that there are any considerable number
Of them who are Union men" and who desire
to be relieved from the "domination" of
John Tyler & Co., is quite chimerical.
Such assertions made by newspaper printed
in the city Of Washington, where the truth in
respect to Virginia is so easily accessible, and
where we affirm that all candid men agree that
the evidence is overwhelming that the action
Of the Richmond rump has been in palpable
defiance of the popular will in Virginia, can
only excite regret, astonishment, and indigna.
ton.
Ross WINANs.-t will be recollected that
many secession members Of the Mary land
adjournment Of the late extra session at Fred
erick, made visit to Harpers Ferry. Nobody
doubted that this was done to encourage the
Virginia insurgents posted there. We now have
the proof of it, in letter to the Charleston
Mercury, written by Judge L. W. Spratt of S.
C. We subjoin an extract.
"While there, yesterday, the place was en-.
liveped by a deputation from the Maryland
Legislature, headed by Ross Winans. 1t was
feared, at first, that they had come to enforce
the demand Of the Governor for a withdrawal
of the troops from the Maryland heights but
such WAS not their purpose. They came to place
in the hands of the commandant, Col. jackson,
a copy of the report and resolutions of the Ma,
ryaud Legislature upon the subject of calling
a Convention. This paper you have doubtless
seen. It appears that the action Of the Gene.