The North-Carolina standard., 1847-10-06

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The Raleigh Register calls Inc reo"S
Die Iatsr Of lr, Buchanan ia relation to ~ "a p'@a.
mot Pfovlso, eelectionesring epistlen ~' -. VIII
if the South can safely .confide in mi. Sd asks
pion who has so gaIlantly bdckled on t" 'I 'Sp,
in her defence" Is ii not passing stu "e ''Np
s4e1 q course should belpGtsued bv "se 'S ts
paper 2 What are the hcts2 The fr.. SDu'N'N o.
this Confederacy-or neatly all of lhon
declared, that if any additional territory ~a''s .L
acquired as the result of the existing W. '"Ood
not be open to Southern enterprise and 3 Il Shall
labor, for that slavery shall be allowed SrOheru
upon it--in other words, the South Shall u%U!aOld
barred from an equal participation in tor,;, D De-
longing to;alI the States and the common yI&s
ty of the Union, while the North will sei1. proper
it and enjoy it, Such a scheme, if carr, s 0p0n
would disturb and destroy the grea, r,.: " out
equality between the States, which il. r" Of
foundation ofthe Constitution, and ultim,,. ' 'A'
up the Conf deracy itself Mr.. Bucbanssn 'e'S
! citizen ofa free State. His lot has been
region of the Union where these extravo.s'
mands as to the settlement of new ,o,,;,s s~%
their origin, and wherethey are supDor.d ~
of both parties; but seeing the injustice If ,t
demands, and anticipating evil, and evil oDI "O'' NV
the predominance of the Wilmot Prov;,o -. '.O'A
pie, he has come forward in the spirit of n,,';,
and with the wisdom of a great statesman .Ns
taken his stand upon the Missouri line Ho 3D..
Gates compromise-he speaks out Er Il.
Union-he. takes up weapons of defence or II,
South !; and yet, because he happens TO be D.m.
crat and confidential friend and adviser of NJ.
Polk, his letter is pronounced, BY sourHRnr
PAPER, an eleetioneering episllr," and The p,o
pie OF the South are told that they cannot s,s.
confde ",in him! We wish some of ths EH.
statesmen Of The North would follow the eumDIo
of Mr.. Buchanan and of Vice President Ddla,
Letthem do so, frankly and boldly, and we prOmyI
the Register in advance, that instead OF brandD,
them as demagogues and holding up their letters
as electioneering epis.les," we shall thank them
heartily for>such evidence OF devotion to the Union
and gather stronger and better hopes Tor the future
And now mark the gross inconsistency in which
the Register has involved itself If that paps
denounces as deceiver Democrat, who take
ground against the Wilmot Proviso, and nOb,
dares TO do right in the face of Northern influences
and in defiance of Abolition schemes, what will
say to Whig who votes for the ProvisO, anc
who uses every effort in his power 10 establish
it as the law of the Iand2 That paper is The Gu
logist and the friend of Daniel Webster and Sena.
tor Corwin, both leading Wings both spoken o.
for the Presidency, and both of whom voted for tht
WiImot Provisol And that paper also know,
that the i've Senators and twenty-six Represents
tives from the non-slaveholding States, who voted
against the WiImol Proviso, WE'RE DEMncRlrc,
and that the Wings in Congress from thehvs
States roted to man in farOr Of The PrOriS
and Gg@instethe rights Of he South COmment
upon such facts is unnecessary.
=, We again, call upon the Raleigh Register TO
'epudiate Corwin and Webster, and other WmOI
Provisosts Of its party, and to take its stand boldly
md firmly, as we have done, upon the palformOi
Southern rights. Ii is no time 10 divide when
he enemy is Numbering at the gates of the citadel