The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-12-30

If this is hopeless, we must hopelessly turn away
and, with thousands by our sides or alone, hold
fast 10 our integrity and the Constitution" This
is plain language frank and candid reply.
THE SOUTH-SLAVERY- ADAMS
The following remarks of the Editor of the
Richmond Wing, seem to us to be the most sen.
sible and rational we have seen for many years
on the subject Of Slavery, in any journal south
Of the Potomac. The hit at the Southern braga.
docios is as fair as it is merited. 1t cannot be
denied that the idle threats, magnificent talk
and windy buster Of few men from the South
born without fear" have rendered The term,
Southern Chivalry," but mere synonyme
for gasconade:
'.Mr. Adams Vie,cs on Abolition--S ensitire
Jealousy Of The South.--The sentiments Of Mr..
Adams on the subject of Abolition, often as they
have been expressed, have never, to our mind,
been SO forcibly and fully presented to the world,
| as IN the speech which we present 10 our readers
| to-day. 1t will there be seen that Mr.. Adams is
no Abolitionist-that he has never been in any
favor with that party-and that he has been re-
garded as an Abolitionist, merely because he has
thought it his duty to defend the Right of Petit
ton, assailed, as he conceived it to be, through
the side Of that party.
The sentiments of Mr.. Adams are such as are
entertained by the large body of we'll educated
men at the South--they are such as have been
expressed by the first statesmen among us-they
precisely coincide with those of Mr.. Thomas j.
Randolph, Gov. Mcdowell, and the Editor OF
the Enqnirer-they are precisely such as were
advanced by this paper during the session Of the
Legislature of 1881, 1882, nay, we will go fur
ther-they are such as were entertained By
Thomas Jefferson in the full vigor Of his intel
lect, and propagated not only through the medium
Of letters 10 his intimate friends, but through that
of his celebrated work, :" The Notes on Virginia"
written during the progress Of the American war.
Why then should Mr. Adams be ranked among
The enemies of Southern Institutions, since his
sentiments accord so exactly with those of the
man WHO is the peculiar idol of Southern politi-
cians-who is, or is assumed to be, the very in
carnation Of their tenets!
We believe there are few men in this portion
Of the Union, who do not think in their hearts,
that it would have been better that slavery had
never been among us. Fastened upon our
aihers against their consent, by the grasping
spirit OF English speculation, it has grown to
such height, that there is no feasible plan Of
getting rid Of it, The laws Of the country recog-
nize slaves as property-the money of thou: ands
and tens of thousands is invested in them-the
interests Of widows, orphans, and every other
description of helpless persons, is involved in
them to large amount. In this condition of
affairs, it appears almost impossible TO fall upon
any plan OF eventual emancipation. To liberate
the slave population and allow them to reside
among US, is what no rational man in this COM
munity will think of for moment. 1t would
| take the navy of the world to transport them to
| Africa, or to any her coast across the water.
! To think of emancipating them now, just at this
time, and all al once, therefore, appears to us,
project Utopian in its nature, and one which no
! practical man will entertain for moment. The
slaves of the South actually at this moment are
more numerous than were the children of Israel,
when they left the flesh-pots Of Egypt, and, I'M
der the guidance of the Almighty, set out for the
Land of Promise. This Exodus would be ac-
companied with Difficult les Of which the former
affords no example.
For the extIrpation of slavery, therefore, we
must trust to time. There is no occasion, now,
to bring up the subject. "Sufiicent for the day
is the evil thereof"
In connexon with this subject, we will be ey-
cused for briefly advertng, again, to subject on
which we touched few days since the airs,
namely, which certain Southern Members of Con-
gress, think themselves entitled to assume, when-
ever the South or its institutions is even 30 much
fectly well the motives by which such persons
are governed-their eyes are generally fixed upon
their constituents, and their speeches, on such
occasions, are addressed to Buncombe 1t is to
acquire little importance at home, that they fly
out whenever the subject is mentioned. We will
not shame their manhood go much as to believe,
for moment. that any one among them, is really
alarmed when the subject is introduced If, how
ever, contrary to our present belief there be real
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assure them, to their comfort, they have no cause
for alarm. Let them look at the course of the
Senate Do they notice that agitation is Gained
entirely in that body-that the members walk the
streets in safety--and that nobody's throat has
yet been cut We would barely suggest, that
these stage tricks are getting little stale they
told well no doubt, for awhile. but the audience