The North-Carolina standard., 1848-10-11
GREELEY FOR. TAYLOR.

Register of Saturday last appears to be graft
~ iDt the announcement that Horace Greeley, the
bD - If the New York Tribune, has come out for
SD The Register says: za5,soiE s-7- e., 9.5
TN,U New York Tribune has at last come ont
in hy% Ol 60 - - i1e = u0n tnan
never ai now, who is Horace Greeley! Let the fol-
+ a.r Speech of his give the answer. It was de-
%" at Clay and Fillmore Meeting, in New
N','C Cty. on the 26th of last month. We quote
, i"r leading Whig paper, the New York Express
i"r uos,cs GREELEY. of the Tribune, then took the
IA and among other things, said that he differed
snON Mr. Bolts on one or two points in reference to
win lITlmot Proviso, and that Southerner who. had
the sneak on this platform should be heard and
come men at the North could not concur in his
tnat nts they should strive to have him concur in
Senu~ Mr.. Bolts, said Mr.. Greeley, regards this
the of Free Soil essentiallya sIuggleto Po-
qussI Power. l cannot regard it. Tome its Mo-
s% nscs far transcend in importance its Political
"a ars it makes no difference to the Slave whether
T Tn reas his shackles in Virginia in California
pt % though it makes difference to the Slave, it
tss great difference to me. Slavery in Virginia
"omy concern. tits matter for which New York
o responsible for over it she has no control. But
Svry in California, or in any territory of the Uni
ISttes is your business, and mine it is the busi-
as of the North. 1t goes there by our permission.
T. must be sustained there by laws enacted in our
andD
\ /, must exist upon our responsibility. Regarding
i~ory as do cannot consent to this 1t is a mat
m of conscience with me, and trust with the North
While we leave Slavery alone in the States which
choose to tolerate it, we have right to be exempt
Gan, lis iustruslon on the territory common US all.
SbouH the South resolve to separate from US, she
iCh fairly claim portion of the common territory;
bp while we remain one people, she has no moral
dUht to demand of us the establishment in that COM
mOn territory OF laws so repugnant to our sense of
insice as those which sanction and uphold Slavery.
One other point Our friend argued that the diffu-
sion of the Slaves wide surface would tend to
weaken Slavery. cannot concur In this view. On
be contrary find Slavery strongest and most tena-
e1Gs of life in States where the slaves are thinly
scaterei-Florida, Arkansas, Texas. And in the
ONSateS where slavery has exhausted much of the
SOIL lives and Is kept vigorous to-day by the policy
Of extension. Slave Labor is not profitable to-day
in either Virginia Maryland it is kept alive by
Slave breeding and Slave selling. The corn planter
his wor-out estate does not fairly live by the la
Dor of his Slaves he behind and only makes the
ends meet by selling off this year negro, next
year two or three, and next family of them to
the fertile cane and cotton tree of the southwest.
lust long slauery shall hare fresh soils TO exhaust,
Gtw zt0rtes 10 Orerrun, just long VH be cherish
ID and 1t will die when this aiment shall
be no longer afforded. Now, while do not ask the
Federal Government do anything abolish Slave
NJ insist that it shall do nothing calculated to for
dy and prepetuate it. therefore infexibly hos
tile to any extension of slavery
Better late than ncver"-is it, Mr.. Gales You
are glad, then, to meet Mr. Greeley the Fillmore
platform, and labor with him to restrain and limit
slavery. Like your own dear Fillmore Mr.. Gree
ley youwill observe, is pleased to say that he will
leave Slavery alone in the States which choose to
torate it,; but still, like ''your own Fillmore he
is bent on Free Soil. They both occupy the same
ground; and as you are committed to Fillmore, and
supporting him for the second Office in the country,
With the knowledge that he is not sound on the Slave
y question, we do not wonder that you should pat
Greeley the head, and say to him, as he joins the
Taylor forces, '' better late than never Horace!