The North-Carolina standard., 1849-08-15
WHiG.pI,ATFoRM on SLAvERY. {


WHiG PLATFORM ON SLAVERY.
We commend what follows 10 the special attention
Of the Raleigh Register That paper has been labor
ing for party purposes during the last month or so,
to prove coalition between the Democrats and Free
soilers-well knowing at the same time that all Of
its own party in the tree States already either
Freesoilers on Abotionists. The Boston Atlas. the
organ of New England Whigism. says: is-s.'s3i 5i
- Our readers will bear us evidence that have
endeayored to present the slavery extension questions
fairly and ,eandidly. w have stated what every
person kno,Cs be true, that epery ig member OF
Congress from the free States would vote IN :avor OF
excluding slavery from the territories of the Union,
and ond exercise his talents and influence TO effect
such result. We kno,o Of Wing paper IN the free
States that does not Stand unconpromist'gY upon the
platform Of the aon-ertensi0n Of stasery. We knoao g
no Whig that does not. We now believe that large
proportion of the Democratic Congressmen from the
free States will take the same position There are
members from Indiana. Illinois, and Michigan, who
will GO against freedom: while. the other hand.
there Wing members from slave States, who VIII
vote for it. Mr.. Clay we believe will, so will the
two Whig Senators from Delaware, and Mr.. Houston,
the Representative Of that gallant State has always
voted for it. There doubt that General Taylor
,viH q6fr his signature bill containing the proriso
We look upon the further extension OF Slavery upon
this Continent as moral impossibility!" r. .'g
The Philadelphia News, a paper from which, as
well the Boston Atlas, the Register often quotes,
thus notices and approves the above: 1'. ~
s.Sueh is the language of the Boston Atlas ia
we-timed article upon the slavery question, and 1t
expresses the views and sentiments of the whole
party of the North-yiews never concealed and sem
tments in the support of which no consideration can
slFerve them.i The Wing party Of the North will
yield their to the extension of slavery
into new territory" s.. $50, p
Batthis is not all. In the quiet village of West
Newton." says the Boston Post, 'resides Mr.. Ho-
race Mann, successor to John Quincy Adams in Con-
gess. He received all the Whig votes, and the At
las supported him with all his might" This gen.
.eman invited to attend the Cleaveland Freesoil
Convention, but did not go. 4" Perhaps" says the
Post he did not like to leave his classic retreat for
dusty summer journey-Perhaps he thought it would
not pay well the visit to the West Point Acade
my, to which he was appointed by Gen. Taylor" At
any rate, he did not attend the Convention, but he
sent the following letter. breathing the most blasphe-
nous and internal sentiments. Will the Register
peruse II carefully, and then publish it, at the
tune informing its readers that Horace Mann is good
Taylor Wing, and the successor of John Quincy
Adams in Congress .- ...-..
= "WEsr. NEWTON, July 8, IS49.
s~GENrLEMEN-I have received your kind invitation
to be present at Cleveland the 9th inst, cee-
brate the anniversary of the great Ordnance," which
excluded slavery forever, and secured freedom for
ever, to the northwestern territory If could tell
you how deeply ] sympathize with you in this
movement. and how much my soul desires not mere
ly 10 celebrate bnt to hallow the event, you would
then believe me when say that / have had sharp
struggle not to foTego all considerations of business
and of heat for the purpose of joining IN your fes-
tival. regard the ordinance which redeemed ter
rtory Of than tlco hundred and s,afy thousand
square miles from the unspeakable sin and of
slavery and consecrated it to freedom, of the
gfandest moral events in the annals of mankind. #
tho oPdI tho 0fI IOdpn
dence ITSELF in its application to that vast and fertile
reyion would have been deprived of its power to
fer blessings and prosperity upon 1t; and 1t is fact
never to be forgotten, that the original declaration
and original ordinance were both drawn up By the
same great champion of human rights. whose hatred
OF slavery grew strong and deep: by his personal
Knowledge of its wrongs and its calamites.
Without the ordinance, the revolution itself. in its
application to that teritoey, and the treaty of l7s3
by which its ample domain was secured to the Un-
ion. would have been shorn of their glory and robbed
Of their value.
Without the ordinance, the discovery Of this wes-
tern continent, far that territory constitutes
part of it, would have given no ooccasion to remem-
ber the name of Columbus with gratitude.
Without the ordinance, it would have been better,
at the creation of the world that all that part of it
which now constitutes your five beautiful and -four
ishing States, with resduum of space large enough
for still another had been left as "a Dead Sea-, whose
bitter and poisonous waters would not have allowed
live thing swim beneath its surface nor to fly
And without the ordinance. eren the OmnipoteH sptr
IL of God, scorking |ar human prn,ress and human
blessedness svoult haoe met sVith banes and threat
eni.s4s in its operctions and influences for the redenp
Hon Of tie race. iatE- st = 1'.5.-'.Is : . 7E
AS cannot have the pleasure of being with you
allow me to submit the following sentiment: o.. 5a
The Freensen of The United States, 1rhefker at The
North or South. Deeply lamenting that there was
not an anti-Satanc 'proviso' to exclude the devil
resn the garden Of Eden, let them be admonished
I'd pass anti-savery proviso' TO exclude his most
loved institution from all the territories of the Union
. Accept, gentlemen, the assurance of my sympathy
and regard. HORACE MANN.
.Messrs ]. C. VAUGHAN, c,onn,,.al l-@ .,'''e Z
= 2 THOMAS BRowN, committee
Such is Northern Whigism, and such the Wing
platform throughout all the free States the Slave
ry question. North Carolina Whigism is in cese
alliance with these fanatics, while the time
hopes to conceal the fact by charging the Democrats
With having formed coalition of similar character
..To the law and the testimony" Let the people
examine into the facts and then determine for them
selves. se..ss =. ...--..5s.g.
LrrERARY PosrMAsTER. The editor of the Yazoo
CITY (Miss3 Wing, lately received the following
note from Pigeon Roost p, o., Miss:
ic, Pigeon Roost P. 0. 81 -g.z
<: - n: H. Prewett, sz..H
ee-a.- f.s,- -ss . the.asul city, .-tl-..,.
-. .rs- 81. ..-.. .r-- June the Is. lS49.
-. DIR. Prewett rePorte ses James H. Sellers is
runaway from here and his papers is coming and you
bad better stop sending them the yazoo city whig he
dos not take them out of the office. Pigeon Roost
Pc .----..-...
The Whig calls on the seers and soothsayers de-