The North-Carolina standard., 1849-12-26
THE WASHINGTON UNION.

1t we'll known that it has been the habit of the
Raleth Register and other Whig papers, to charge
the Washington Union with being Freesoil sheet,
and tohod up it's junior Editor, especially, man
whosesympathes and writings all on the North
ern sid. We have frequently branded this charge
as it deserved. We have shown how false it was,
and themotive for making it; and we now come for
ward with still further proof that the Washington
Union sounder upon the Slavery question than
many S.uthern Wings. That paper of the 18th in
slant deiounces the proposition to abolish Slavery in
the Distict of Columbia in the severest terms, and
adds:
"And to Z jelso, it seems that territory acquired
by the coon blood and treasure of the Union should
be equally by all its members who conribu-
ted the p1ce of its purchase acquisition. To our
mind thsproposition is manifestly just that there
appears rp room for argument to the contrary. If
the question could come before court of equity, we
do not perceive how contrary judgment could be
rendered. 1t would be but the application of the
principle (which would be applied to partnership prop
erty purhased by the common means of the partner
ship. Ii the supposed, what right would Por-
ton of the partners have to say to another portion OF
them, We will take possession of all this property,
and enor it, because we have only sheep and cows
to feed u0on it. You have cows and horses. Y on
may come with your cows, but you shall not bring
your horses" Such pretensions, set up by anybody
in the common business transactions of private life,
would be secuted as absurd as well unjust. Yet
in the matter of the territories acquired by the common
treasure and blood of the Union, seems to US that
the same principle of abstract justice applies There
fore cannot the justice of ne Pretenslon which
claims all the territory recently acquired of Mexico
for the enjoyment of the people of one portion OF the
States while the people the other portion are ex
cluded from it, except upon the terms prescribed by
the former. And this claim, IN our Judgment, IS
Just cause of complaint on the part OF the southern
members of the confederacy.
We are no alarmists, and we make no threats.
We appeal only to the intelligence, the justice, and
the patriotism of the non-saveholdlng States And
again repeat must not tins question De se"Iea oy
fair and honorable compromise? Should the peace,
nav, the existence of the Union longer be menaced
bv the agitation of this question: which hangs over
our beloved country like dark and murky cloud
betokening the approach OF the tornado and the
quake! Are the constitutional rights of the people
of the South to be longer violated Are their homes
and fresides to be threatened with desolaon by the
constant agitation of question which shoud never
arise to disturb and estrange the friendly relations OF
the people of these States We honestly believe
the time has come when all patriots should pause
and reflect and when even the excItable, the lmPu.
sive and the fanatica should cease from the use OF
aspersion and invective. Let justice be done. Let
the people of the South enjoy in peace the lnsltu-
tions and the manners and customs which they do
not regard as sinful-nay, which they cherlsh-even
if their brethren of the North do not consider those
institutions, manners, and customs exacty "Itnlh
the scope of their purer ethics"
This, be 1t remembered, is from tne organ Vi 'ne
Democratic party at Washington, speaking Tor all
portions of the Unions but what has been the course
of the Whig organs, the Intelligencer and the Re-
public They have been as silent as the grave on
this momentous question. Like Gen. Taylor they
dare not speak out though the Union be in peril and
the South threatened with accumulated aggression
and insult! Their party relations might be disturb
ed, and hence they are dumb!
And now, will the Register have the cantor to
state these facts Will it, act of sheer justice,
copy the above extracts from the Union?