The North-Carolina standard., 1845-05-21
TREASON IN THE aNEwBERNIAN"1l

TREASON In The =" "NEWBEHN1AN'I J.
The last Newbcrnian, whig print published
in Newbern, quotes acithout note er c09rmeat, the
following passages from the London Examiner:
president Polk is new broom with ven
geance. No one heard of him till he came into
the full swing of his functions, and since then ne
seems resolved that the world shall hear OF him.
Al home and abroad his determination seems to
be to sweep clean. He turns out all the old occu-
pants of Office, and sweeps by process which he
calls remuneration, region extending from the
mouth Of the Rio Bravo 10 Nootka, into the Union,
being nothing less than a new world huge as
Europe"
"When we consider that Mr.. President Polk
takes 800 900 square miles of territory, and deYotes
them to the produce and labor OF slaves, these lat
ter sentences do seem tOrc6ty and DarDarousiy
ironical. But no-Mr. Polk is simple man,
cross between the backwoCdman and the slave
driver: He calls slavery domestic institution,
rendered sacred by family ties, and ryeted In mans
respect by having been the very first object OF
American legislation. There is no resisting elo-
quence like this, and we have no doubt OF its be-
ing greeted throughout the Union by the clanking
of chains and the cracking Of whips"
Here we have the ground of whig opposition
in North Carolina to the annexation of Texas,
and the Editor of the Newbernian has not lacked
the boldness, if he has had the imprudence, to oc-
cupy that ground. This article is copied into a
pie. No comment is made upon 1.-THE Editor
says nothing against its dangerous tendencies, but
by his silence approves It, Here, then, we are told
by whig paper, published in slave-holding
region that the Chief Magistrate of the country,
Mr. Polk, is simple man, q cross betaOeen q
baeka0oOdnGn Gnd the slaue-driUer; )" and tnat
there is no doubt that "eloquence" which tends
to perpetuate slavery will be "greeted through
out the Union by the cl0mking Of chains and the
London Examiner, the particular favorite Of the
Newbernian, says still further: .-.
/ "It is evident that the Southerners will now
complete their designs that the planters capital
and intelligence will be transferred TO Texas; and
that the sidve-breeders of Mr. PoLk's ODn country
uiH pour their human herds to the raising of
cotton, sugar, tobacco, all of which we import"
What think you Of that, people of Craven ?
Are you to be told 10 your very faces, by IN Edi.
tor in your own town, not only that your Presi'
dent is "cross between backwoodman and a
Eslnvedriver," but that you are "slavebreedeEs
pouring your human herds to the raising of cot
Iton," and that you delight in the "clanking OF
chains and the cracking of Whips? What say
you, democrais2 Will one of you contribute in
any way to uphold Press which breathes forth
this rank moral treason; which, seems to prefer
British prosperity and British advancement to the
glory and welfare Of America and which actu-
ally, by its publications from London tory print,
takes sides against the South, against Texas, and
against the President and Government of your
couHtry2 49, .., "a.
This, then, is the ground of-whig opposition in
North Carolina to the annexation of Texas. We
thank them for their frankRessS We thank Mr.
Badger for his Guilford Letter. We thank the
Newbernian for its quotations from British To-
ry print. They oppose 1ezGs because annexation
eeH eztend The area Of slarery Dare they deny
this2 We shall1see ..-