The Anderson Intelligencer

North Carolina and the Constitutional Amendment.

The Legislature of North Carolina met on Tuesday last, and the message of Governor Worth was sent in and read. The Governor takes strong ground against the constitutional amendment. After alluding to the anomalous and distressing political situation of the Southern States, he says:

How long this unnatural condition of our relations is to continue, it seems, we shall be allowed to have no share in determining. No time has been set, and no conditions proposed on which it may be terminated. In the meantime, I trust, we shall meet events as they arise with a reasonable and manly fortitude, ready at all times to fulfill our duties as patriotic citizens, but under no circumstances willing to sacrifice the honor and rights of the State, as a member of the Union, not in the sense of the advocates of secession, but as taught by Iredell and Marshall, and Story and Kent and Webster, and in which moderate men everywhere, North and South, before the war, were supposed to concur. Anxious as I was to avert the late war, and have at all times been to compose our troubles on the basis of the Union, as our fathers framed it, I can perceive in this proposed amendment nothing calculated to perpetuate the Union; but its tendency seems to me better suited to perpetuate sectional alienation and estrangement, and I have therefore no hesitation in recommending that it be not ratified.