The North-Carolina standard., 1849-06-27


sLAvERE-NR BENYON-zTHE REGISTER.
In common with the New EorK Express. the AL
bany Evening Journal, the New York Evening Post,
and Other Freesoil prints that might Be named the
Raleigh Register halls the recent speech of Mr.. Ben
ton with marked evidences of exutaiion and delight
Il says Mr.. Benton s has energy of purpose and
strong selfwill which called forth in proportion
to the opposition they encounter; and upon ques-
ton liIs this Mr.. Calhoun is match for him. But
what renders the contest still more unequal, Is the
fact that Mr.. Catouns course is utterly indensi5''
Now what are the factsi Mr.. Benton was instruct
ed, at the last session of the Missouri Legislature,
TO oppose himself in the Senate, by his voice and
his vote, to the Wimot Proyiso and to the assaults
now generally being made in the non-slayeholding
States on the institution of SlaveTy and instead of
receiving his instructions in good faith, as they were
rendered and obeyng them he refuses to be governed
by hemappeals to the people to have them revoked,
and denounces them the resultofthe Vaccinations
of Mr. Calhoun and his friends against him. He also
labors in his speech to demonstrate the Consultation
aty of that Proviso and leaves it to be inferred that
it will be enacted by the ensuing Congress, though
he assumes it to be unnecessary and uncalled for.
He also states that his personal sentiments " are
against SIaveryhat he is opposed its spread, and
will do nothing to give it existence in new regions
and soils. This, take it, is about the sub
stance of his remarks. so far as this subject is
cerned; but the main object of his Pronunciamento
/ is to kill off and crush John g.. Calhoun. In this
effort, which Col. Benton has steadily and most ma
lignantly kept up for the last ten years, he finds
most faithful and willing ally and coadjutor in the
4 Register paper published in slaVeholding COM
munty, and which, instead of denouncing and msrep
resenting Mr.. Calhoun, ought to defend him against
unjust aspersions, and commend him. at least, for his
consistent and disinterested devotion to Southern
rights. And now what are the facts as to Mr.. Cal
houn4 What has he said or done, that he should be
| held up by the Register as dishonest, as a Disu-
nionist, and as So recklessly" ambitious He wrote
the Southern Address, and, in common with many
Southern members of Congress, he put his name to
it. That is the of this sudden and bitter attack
upon him by the Register. And what is that Ad-
drsss Has the Register ever told his readers !?
Rdculing it and villying its author and those who
signed it, has he ever published it Never. Does
it contain any threat of dissolution, recommend a
resort to Modification or to arms! Nothing of the
sort. 1t is plain, calm, comprehensive and logical
statement of the injuries and wrongs which for years
the people of the South have endured the hands of
their Northern brethren and all it asks of the South
people of both parties is d" TO be united'' in de-
fence of their dearest rights 1t breaches mp
sade against the free States; it appeals to preudi
ces; it invokes no spirit of passion or aggression
it calls for remedy for the prevailing evil but what
the Constitution itself has provided and will sanction.
In fine, ASKS THE UNION THE South
THE SAKE OF THE UNION AND OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS;
and it contains doctrine principle, alega-
ton of fact, which the Register, the time
publishing the Address at length, 1cW dare object.
And yet its author, and those who discharged their
duty their constituents by signing it with him,
denounced as enemies to the COnfederation-as ia
tally bent dscord and the perperaon of evil and
as attempting to IS excite Dsunion and civil war;
Is this North Carolina Whigism! Is it to be the
test of patriotism here in the South, brand with
opprobious epithets every who stands forward in
defence of Slavery and to utter ,Uord Of conde-
nation those mountaineering States tohich haUe dek6
erate enacted daUs inuig saUes to escape from
their masters, and take shelter tUihin their borders
Is silence the part of Whig Journals as to these
laws to be considered as approval of them. and is
the South at the time to be sacrificed by decla
ations. uttered in advance, that she will submit! Is
ttis we ask again, North Carolina Whgism
The Register asks to publish Mr.. Benton's
Speech. If could afford the space which the
fifteen columns it makes would take up, we should
nave no neSltauon In oolng 50; out crowded as we
are with matter Of more importance to readers,
we cannot do it, though may insert some extracts
from it. We certainly have objection to its be-
ing read in North Carolina, and we have fears
that it will produce any change in the mind of any
true Democrat But with what sort of grace can
that paper make such request of us Has it pub
ished, will it publish the Southern Address!
No. We have had Wings to ask Us to republish it,
and We have heard complaints from the source
against the Register for withholding it. Did it
ever insert one of Mr.. Polk's Messages at length
Or did it lay before its readers his celebrated argu-
ment, in which he approved the Oregon bilI and
protested against the Winot PrOUtsO south of the his
souri, line, and declared that If Congress enGcked it
he aOOuId Oeto IL? No. That paper knows that if
the Wings of North Carolina could see for them
Selves in their accredited organs both sides of this
question, they would soon be one man with the
Democrats upon it; and hence-to save Mr.. Badger,
to keep the pary in all sections together and to
make fair weather for Zachary Taylor when he shall
have put his signature to the Wilmot Proviso, and
in all llprobability, to bill abolishing Slavery in
the District of Columba-it misrepresents, evades
pleads specially, and conceals. .H-Hf- C
But we told by the Register that Mr.. Benton
' is the acknowledged leader Of his party,'' and
IS wieds more influence than Cass, Buchanan, and a
Woodbury. put together What fiction! Does a
not the Editor knoso better than that Gen. Cass