The North-Carolina standard., 1848-10-11
FREE soIL-THE REGISTER.

Free Soil movement in Guilford and Orange Ceun-
ties. in this State endeavors to produce the impress
sion that the Democracy Of Western North Carolina
hold Liberty or Abolition DOCTRINES and that this
movement was gotten up by the friends OF General
Cass! The Register publishes and expressly en-
dorses the following Communication:
.sMR. EpiroR: notice Free Soil meeting has
recently been held in this Orange County State Of
North Carolina. and the whole Buffalo Antl-Slavery
Platform Resolutions and all, were adopted, and a
Convention appointed to choose Van Buren, and Ad-
Electors! The Greensboro Patriot says that the
affair has been gotten up chiefly by Democrats Ihls
corresponds precisely with letter which saw few
days ago. from gentleman in the Western part OF
the State, in which it was stated that the Democra-
cy of that region fast nclinng to the Liberty OF
4botion doctrines and that in his oPinlon' 1t would
not be long before they would openly avow them!
Yes, sir that party, the organ OF which IN your CITY,
has made such prodigious fuss about w hig sympa-
thy for the North, and denounced Southern Wings
as being the Allies of the Fanatics of the Norh-are
fast verging towards Abolitionism themselves So
stated this writer, who is entitled to credit. And
this is just what we have always been told by the
Whig Papers of the South the fact VIZ that the
Democracy would Weld to these Fanatics if 1t was
necessary do in order to secure the election OF
either of their candidates to the Presidency, Cass or
Van Buren But who would have thought it, that
in the Slave-holding State of North Carolina this
doctrine would ever have found a single advocate
We suppose that by next Gubernatorial Election,
this will be another issue sprung upon the eve of Eli
ecton, for political effect! l have no comments to
make. 1 only ask the People of North Carolina to
look at the signs of the times, and 6e1OGre! The
South is about be betrayed into the hands of
the other of those Sc n orthern men with Southern
princples"-Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren. If
the South shall refuse to sustain her own son. Zacha-
ry Taylor, she will deserve the fate that awaits her
under the elevation of either of the former. Ponder
we'll on these things. ORANGE"
Now we intend to prove, to the satisfaction of eve
reasonable man who may read this article, that the
above Communication, teeming it does with the
most outrageous falsehoods, was not written in Or
ange, but was deliberately prepared, for party effect
in this City. The writer of this Communication, it
will be seen, audes the statement in the Greensbo-
rough Patriot that s' this affair the free soil move
ment] was gotten up chiefly by Democrats The
Patriot containing this statement was dated Septem-
Der the 30th and left Greensborough on the morning
of that day. the way to Hillsborough and Raleigh
On the next day, Sunday, the 1st of October, the
stage arrived at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. but half an
hour, and arrived here on Sunday night. The Reg
ister containing this Communication, and dated Octo-
Der the 18th, printed and circulated in this City
Tuesday the Sd, and before the next Western Mail
arrived. The article could not have been written in
and sent here by the stage that
brought the Patriot to that place, for the time was
too short-indeed, doubt whether a number of the
Patriot read in Hillsborough, in the time
which elapsed between the arrival and departure of
the stage The clear and inevitable inference therefore
is, that the above Communication was concocted in
this City Monday, the second day of October and
leave it to the Register to say ,rho guilty of
the gross and infamous fraud.
As to the charge that the Democrats had hand in
this movement, all have to say is, that it is nOtO
riouS that all the Free Soil in Guilford and Or
ange have heretofore acted with the Wing party; and
we defy either the Register the Patriot to point
out the first Democrat in this State who would vote
for Van Buren, aud Adams. In addition this, ttc
Hillsborough Ratoon, printed in Orange County, and
whose Editor has every opportunity for ascertanng
the facts in this matter, expressly states that this
Free Soil Meeting composed Of JThigs ahogeth-
cr.'' So much for this charge.
The Greensborough Patriot thus notices this Free
Soil movement:
The fact of an attempt at organization, in a re-
pectabe quarter, shows state of Barnburner opinion
nd feeling in ncighborhood which was not anti
ipated, and which, conceive, entities the move
nent to some remark. We apprehend no very ex- ]
ensve development of the doctrine, far as its +
peratlon upon the approaching election is concerned
Will be chiefly confined to particular ghborhoods
nd to particular circle; but it will nterfere-to \
THAT extent We unable to say-with the old par
VOTE They are not themselves so wild in their h
incies as to dream of the success of Van Buren, h
cket in North Carolina Indeed, we presume, n
nat ticket for him be formed in the State. l.
fence the seeming wantonneSs of putting to hazard
North Carolina the great principles, Cor rather the
reat principle, for regard the question of Erecu-
Ue pOCCer and ambition swallowing up in impor- il
nce all others) involved in the contest between O
aylor and CasS. In of a contest as close as 4
lat of August last, and very few hundreds of Van
uren deserters, made of fair proportion of Wings
nd Democrats in the neighborhoods where they are
kelly to arise-,oe shall be bound hand and foot and
sIS,aro IN IL n..E.L
fort, all the State, avert such CATASTROPHE
Assuming that practical sympathy should be c;
anfested with this movement, sufficient to affect h.
balance of power between the two political par
es In the State, what would be the result? We h,
rnestly desire these honest but misjudging to m
'nslder the answer to this question. They might e.
ok back and have the satisfaction to see that they IA
I'd thrown away every original Wing principle &C
ey once held dear, and Hkeaoise lost their Free Soil dt
tncple-aLoacing that Mr.. CISSs policy and uic1cs ar
e truly set forth by his Southern frtends'' to
Why this alarm the part of the Patriot. Is not
ut sufficient evidence of ITSELF that this movement nc
ls gotten up by Whigs4 He begs his honest but he
Wing brethren to ''consider" well sb
nat they doing, for that, after ALL they may not
ly deliver over the State to the Democrats but er
lose their Free Soil principIe.' We ask the people -
mark this argument and to remember this admis- be
IN of the Patriot And we'll may that sterling Wing
lrna exhibit anxiety and alarm for the Free Soil tn
invention is to be held Friday next almost with d
sound of Greensborough, and the feeling which de
produced this Convention pervades portions of yo
Whip party onv in Oranua and Guilford k,+ at