.The intelligence from the United States shows .that the - se- cession
ferment has not increased in the South. As was anti- cipated, the Unionists are displaying in great strength. The moderate men are confronting the immoderate men at public meetings, and the appeal to the common sense of the country was • producing a marked effect. South Carolina appears to be the only State whose object is secession ; and an ugly feeling was gaining, ground, that it would be well to "let her go and whip her back.again." The proposal of the moderate men is to
discuss grievances in a Southern Convention—this the secession- ists fear ; to ask for a repeal of the Personal liberty laws— Vermont has anticipated the appeal ; and to suggest another Missouri compromise or dividing line between the North and South. Congress is now in session, and we may soon receive Mr. Buchanan's report upon the state of the Union. We may anticipate that he, at all events, will not endorse the doctrine that any State has a right to secede.
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