The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-14

NORTH CARoLINA. The Legislature of
this State met Oh the 2Ist ult. The Mes
sage OF Gov. Stokes was received ON the
23d. lie thus calmly aiin,les to the recent
plots among the slaves In relaton to our
internal concerns, have 20 observe tina, il
would he impossible TO conceal from the
world, AMI needless TO disguise from our
selves, the fact that a certain class IF The
population Of The State, have become more
discontented and ungovernable than here
toiore. Families Of their own complexion.
ana other incenIiaries. have fomented these
disconteEts aud have melted them, in many
INSTANCES, to enter into censpiracies dan
gefous to the peace and safety of the coun-
Try. 10 guard against these evils, which
IN ell probability will continue, the utmost
caution ANA prudence are necessary. Re
strictive laws have been enacted without
producing the desired effect; and the
crimes committed in late instruction in
an adjoining State, would seem to require
further and early attention 10 this subject.
instead Of multiplying severe and sanguin-
AIRY laws, to operate upon those who know
little, and care less about them would it
not be advisable to establish a more efficient
and accountable police; and TO arm and
equip one or more companies Of volunteers,
or detached militia, in each County to be
called out when required and to be paid
while in actual service 1t is believed that
such a force, in aid of the civil authority,
would effectually secure the peace of the
country and the public arms belonging to
the State could not be placed in safer hands.
These State troops might he enrolled for
one or more years, he held responsible for
the arms and ammunition furnished, and not
be suffered 30 abandon the service during
the term of their engagement.
OF Notification and the Tariff he says
1t is to me source CT much qualification
to have observed, and to have it in my pow
er TO state, that the excitement which seems
to pervade sister State, upon the subject
of the Tariff, has effected little change in
the opinions OF the citizens Of North Caro-
lima. With regard to the policy of that
measure, there is, so far as my information
extends, perfect union Of sentiment. All
deprecatc it as unequal i'll its operation, and
destructive of the interests of the southern
planter. The period, however, has not yet
arrived which, in the judgment Of the COM
munlty, authorizes the adoption of doctrines,
subversive in their nature, of all order, and
manifestly tending 10 weaken, if not de-
stroy our whole system of government
This State is Justly proud of having given
the first Legislative sanction to the spirit of
the Revolution. The same love of rational
liberty which prompted this high example,
induced our revolutionary statesmen to
consider attentlvcly and anxiously the form
of government proposed for their adoption.
Satisfied, after full investigation by success
sive Conventions, that no powers were del
coated but such as were essential to tho
existence and preservation of the Union, it
is no matter Of surprise, that they and their
children, should support and defend the
compact, and neither seek nor desire rem
edy beyond it.