The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-04
NuMBER 1765.
DIsUNIONs AND MRg C4EH)I1N. :

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The Chronicle and Sentinel and Greedy 3 Tribune,
as well the whole host Of abolition prints at the
North. have had impaired new impetus to their cry
of ssagtation' and Sc disunioh BY the proceedings
of the late convention IN South Carolina. All is
cribed to the nuli6ers and to the influence of Mr..
Calhoun whom they are pleased to regard as the en
bodiment of 6 disunon.1 They do not know, or for
get remember, that in that convention was large
number Of the members old Union party. Its ven-
erable, patriotic and accomplished President Judge
Huger, was the head and front Of that gallant band
in the days of notification. To sustain the princi-
Piles of that party he put forth all the energies Of his
powerful intellect and laid upon its altar heavier sac
rlfces than any before or since has ever done. He
severed friendships ceented by his associations Of
nearly half century, and that he mghtcrush What he
regarded dangerous political heresy, he abandoned
seat on the bench with its salary of So, 800, and
whose tenure for life take seat upon the floor
of the Legislature 1t rurnored and is probably
true that in anticipation of the threatened hostility
between the federal government and the authorities
of his native State, that Gen. Jackson had conded
to him a commission of Major General. To save tho
Union, ne was prepared if necessity impeIled to inn
bue his hands in the blood of the associates of his
life his neighbors and his kindred This is the gem
tleman now charged as being at the head of a band
of disunionists. But Judge Huger was not the only
member OF the Union party that in that conven-
tlon There were others, not9he admirers follow
ers of Mr.. Calhoun, and whose names are known to
fatne who held seats in that body. How absurd and
preposterous is to charge such these with disuniof
men who when the issue as they believed was
made. ready to sacrifice their lives to avert such
a calamity. --}.>1Hf 5H53tii +tE !..i.'-.--'.i.-
What then the reason of their convocatfong
They believe that the rights and liberties of the
South-that the integrity of the non in danger.
They believe indeed that the latter ma be preserved
by the sacrifice of the former but they span the boon
at such cost. They believe that with union among
themselves and with the whole South they can saw
to those whowouid oppress them even the troubled
waves of embittered anatcisrn, thus far shalt thou
go but no farther; and that this voice will be potential
IN securing their rights and peTpetuating our glorious
confederacy. They the friends Of the Seuth-
and such as these the only friends of the Union.
Their object the salvation of the South the ins
tegrty of the Union. j@'a
Mr. Calhoun was not member of that eonverf-
tion, but this is the platform on which he stands We
admire his talents, and honor him for his moral worth
Upon the subject of notification, put forth all our
humble energies In opposition him and that meas
ure. w hen he has acted since in accordane with
our views, we have hesiated to sound his praise
Nor have we hesltated unsparingly to condemn him
when he has differed from us. Our comments on his
memphis Internal improvement report, on his refusal
to permit his name to 60 before the national conve-
ton, and on his course in relation to the Mexican
war, amply prove that not the submss We fol-
lowers Of Mr.. Calhoun rs E77'E,7f -
But Mr.. Calhoun is denounced by the enemies of
the oouth and unhaPpIly too by within her ber
ders as the advocate of disunion. What could he
gain by such measure Standing as he does upon
the verge OF the grave, has he any ambition to rule
divided empire Would he tarhish his fame, the
richest and noblest heritage that he can leave to those
who come alter him, by such movement He has
ambition. It has been the ambition of his whole life
but 1t IS to see hisown sunny South in the enjoy
ment of the rights and equality guaranteed to her by
the national compact Hence it is, that compact pre-
served InVlolae and construed in the spirit that made
1t, constitutes the anchor of his hope for the main
tenance OF the rights of the South and for the pros-
perlty OF the Union. Mr. Calhoun, in taking the no.
sltlon that he has the Southern question is en-
Phatlcally "a Union man." 11iAedgertAe Union.