The North-Carolina standard., 1847-09-01


gesed some stray thought that will be edfyiog, II
not beneficial to our readers. 81 ! ~ " Globe.
-re Northern Qualification. -
The corruption and heartlessness Of place
hunting politician, we do honestly believe, is the
very last and EXTREMIST refinement on human
wiekedness For what but parrcide should be
named Tor its enormity in the same day with the
crime OF wiful prostitution of the honor of ones
countIry, and through this degradation, the break
ing down of that National force of character
which is tenfold surer resource to the citizen
than all the military strength or all the treasures
! ol an overhowlng exchequer which his country
might boast. Yet teverywhere-Northan and South,
East and West, Throughout this land, we see such
| hopeless contradictions in the conduct of pub
lie men-such vile tergiversatons in the wouIdbe
orac!es OF political trulh-such facile conversions
wherever mammon breaches his golden doctrines,
that we have been constrained to believe that the
only hope for this government, is for The people to
suspect and disrus this class Of men, and to throw
/ oil the strong delusions. by which their minds
have been completely subjugated to the miserable
dctatlon OF these parasitic creations of the trea-
sury ..' .'' '--..'i ''.'
1t IS vain to say that these pa pable discrcpan-
cles In the opinions and conduct of public men are
to DC extenuated if not justified, by change Of cir
cumstances In the country, and those mutations in
all things human which are to be looked for, but
which cannot be provided for by prudence or fore.
cast. 'Tis all stuff and twadde, and the circum-
stances OF our unworthy public men, and not the
circumstances, of the nation mast furnish the KEY
to all this cratic patriotism and public misconduct
We may be censured as using heated and intem.
perate language We hope we do speak strongly
and plainly, for it is the treason implied against
our best interests, by refusal the part of pub
lie men to do SO now, that just6es US and all
others who love the whole country better than
their patry little ambition, in denouncing and de-
spising this shameful paltering. To show up the
present unaithfulncss of these "men on the watch
towers" let US remember their conduct when
few years ago, the Southern States after beseech-
ing, after exhausting argument, after vindicatng
their remonstrances against the course Of the Gov
ernment on the tariff of 1928, by splendid array
of facts and deductions that have never been met
never will be eainsaid ill God confounds our
judgment that tive may believe lie"-fct them
selves say literally forced to end this ten years
agony by the last resort-what then was said ?
Why, Mr.. Webster who trimmed no doubt MANY
blue light in the last war; and during that whole
contest was found nowhere either (as Poindexter
said in the front rank or the rear rank of the de-
lenders OF the country, was willing to take his
place where blows fell heaviest and thickest, in
This crusade against his own brethren, who were
resisting TO the death oppression of his own be-
getting, far worse than that tax on Glass and
Paints and Tea, that his feow-citizens, once upon
time, so patrioticaly felt and resisted. Then it
was that these men were willing to die or al least
TO die, by thousands, in their defence of the
unhallowed bounty which they bese, the Federal
Treasury for. Then they were patriotic, loud
moulhed in their defence of the Consultation of the
Union-so much so, that it was said l00, 600 men
had come forward enrolled their Names pledged
to make the rush on South Carolina when the
word was passed around. All this too, that The
South should bear, and bear cheerfully, an AIger-
inc extorlion, by way of tribute to men already
rich enough to buy principally of such as we.
How is it now, when the North, still meditating
The same aggression and faithlessness that had
well-nigh wrecked us before finds she can't place
US in the attitude of Nulifers to help out her
schemes against US, at least quite SO soon as she
wished2 Why, with as little good faith, and we
are quite sure with little modesty as the famous
Poteniate of Tunis, we find some eight or ten of
these sovereign States laughing at constitutional
obligations, and wondering TO see US such fools as
even to suppose that they felt their binding force.
Like the notorious Marsh, they think, too, that
constitutional scruplcs never broke any mans
bones or confined any one in a mad-housc. What
now says Mr. Webster to his own States perjury
in violating the law Of 1898, respecting persons
escaping from their maslers2 What says he MOVIE
and all those who the bare mention of nullifcation
used once to throw into political spasms2 What
word Of thunder for Pennsy lvania, that has aclu-
ally taken the law of 1893 and enacted counter
and hostile law, line for line which enac,s pen
atty against any judge or magistrate that assists
in the recapture and return to his master of any
slave escaping TO her borders-exacts, we say, a
penalty Of not less than $500 and as much as
$1,000? Where now is that portentous roll of
100, 900 brave and loyal hearts once painting to be
barred against treason and rebelion2 Still-stll; !;
as still in their pusations Graded infant.
The South should know it ctis useless to tell
the North) that one half of these States are now,
this hour, guilty of open, daring rebellion against
the Consultation ; not alphabetically, not SO from
bad logic, from passion, from necessity; not so
even from interest; but from long nursed hale !;
from no cause but what God has given; because
our sun shines gloriousy on q leeming soil, on
which, like men and not like beggars, we are
willing to rely, and live if we can, and starve if
we must without ever calling on the government
for crust If it is anything but this, what is t2
We have wronged no man we told the North
Tor our f,lhers told them) before we put our hands
to ''the bond !" that we were to hold our slaves;
that they must be represented both as persons and
property in due ratio; All this was conceded, or
there never would, have been an Abolitionist 10
fght at This day. God only knows what all this
thing is to end in. We awfuly fear neither in
peace or re-assured fraternity Already has the
soil Of Pennsylvania drunk the blood of an inno-
cent master who sought his slave in her midst
The Constitution could not save this victim of
Northern perfidy and slawlessness. b We, had
thought that so armed, the citizen had a shield TO
oppose TO his enemies that like Minerals would
turn them to stone. But, Marsh laughed at it on