North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-14


to express his real opinions. can hope for some
thing from the generosity and candor of the one, IL
can expect nothing from the timidty of the other for
in private, IN public affairs there is counsellor
so dangerous as fear
The Honorable Senator further says in his speech
q acknowledgment more power of disposiDg of the
obligations have undertaken to discharge to that
Country and shat Government lmeanIng the General
Government and the United Siates.) and which i
hope shall endeavor to fulfil. acknowledge say,
more authority in the State of North Carolina 10
dispose of that obligation, than in the State OF Viz
ginia. or the State of New Hampshire to do it,"
This opinion involves the whole question: 1t the ma
orty of the people of North Carolina have no right
full authority through their Legislature or otherwise
to command the obedience of all her citizens. the
Honorable Senator is right, and this second resolu-
ton ought to be rejected. In my humble judgment,
Mr.. Speaker. the Honorable Senator has fallen into
an error from amisapprehensiono the doctrine OF al
legance, and the extent of his duties to the General
Government. He owes no other allegiance to the
nited States than that portion of the general alie-
glance due his native State, which she has transferr
ed to foreign Government; and, sir to and un-
dersiand the extent of the transfer the deed of assign
ment viz: the constitution of the United States is
the only evidence If the contract is violated, de-
stroyed, the parties relapse back their original po
sition, and inherent rights North Carolina adopted
the constitution of the United States in her aggregate
capacity of one community, and whatever rights she
reserved in that instrument, she reserved in the
aggregate capacity did she by so doing, rein-
quish any further her authority her citizens
Primary allegiance is due from all her citizens to her
alone that secondary allegiance which she has trans
ferred, is due the United States.
This view of the doctrine of allegiance is fully
sustained by Mr. Madison in his argument in the
of Ramsay Smith in the House of Representatives
in 1888 contested election. Mr.. Madison then said,
IS it was an established maxim that birth was critic
rion of allegiance. There distinction betlUeen
that primary allegiance that particular society
Of aUich tce members, and the secondary aLegi-
TO the sovereign established by that society.
O America
when the dissolution of their allegiance took place
by the declaration of their independence? l con-
ceive that every person who owed this primary allie
glance TO the particular community in which he was
born, retained his right of birth, as member of a
new community that he was consequently absolved
from the secondary allegiance he owed to the British
Sovereign. 1.-The were not minor, he became bound
| by his act as a member of the society who Sc
parated with him from submission to foreign
Country. When that society separated from Great
Britain he bound by that act and his allegiance
transferred to that society, to the sovereign which
that society should set ups because was through his
membership of that society of South Carolina that
he owed allegiance 10 Great Brtain.'
MIR. Speaker. should the Senate reject this second
resolution, will be virtually admitting that the State
OF North Carolina as organized political commu-
nifty, has right to command the allegiance of the
citizens of the State, and consequently cannot protect
their property against any aggression of the Federal
Government Ii such are the opinions of majority
of the people of the State it is proper that 1t should
be known, that such of her citizens desire bet
ter protection for their property may seek other COM
munities which may not have such humble notions
of their duties and responsibilities. This extreme
remedy in my judgment need never be resorted to.
If the North were satisfied we were in earnest, and
meant what this resolution says, she would not haz-
ard tho benefits she derives from the Union, for
all the negroes in Africa. This Union may last
few years longer, but unless the rights and equai-
ty of the States preserved in all their integrity.
its termination is not very remote. The people OF
the South will never consent that all powerful and
consolidated Government shall shape their destiny for
all time to come
| The fifth resolution speaks of the character and
necessities of slave properly. In addition, Mr..
Speaker, to what have already said this subject,
L would remark that expansion migration is a
necessary of slavery without it, the institution
cannot exist, but must come to end, not very re-
mote, entailing in its destruction the unavoidable
ruin of the white population. You are now launch
ling forward in the of internal improvements
you about issuing State bonds to the amount of
100000 payable in thirty years. do not aspire
to the character of prophet but if the history of the
past is any evidence of the future, will venture
prediction which some of the younger members OF
this Senate may live to verified About the time
these bonds become due, the poorest people In North
Carolina will be her largest slave holders, if this
acaiiing-in policy OF the Federal Government is
ried out in all its vgour. More than half your
nue. is derived from slave labor, and whilst you
increasing the burdens that labor, you
ing to policy which will ultimately render it value
less.
| would like to touch on, but | will conclude by
urging the Senate TO pass these similar resolutions,
and you may convince congress and your representa-
tlves that you I" know your rights and knowing dare
maintain them - that you claim and will have from
your citizens greater allegiance than they
Virginia, or New Hampshire. and that the of
Boston governed by abolitionsts is not the of
the Union. Such sentiments may elicit puff from
la Boston Journal, but will never procure Justice to
the people of North Carolina.
In our confederacy, the words of the poet en-
phatcally the words of wisdom to - thine ownsef
be true thou canst then be false any one' Let
n orth Carolina be true TO her interest, and she
cannot then be false TO the Union.
How 1T WORKS. Mr.. John Myrck, a respecta-
BILE citizen of HEREFORD County. North Carolina,
family and negroes to more Southern State for the
purpose of establishing cotton plantation. A few
days previous to the time whch he had fixed for his
departure. he appraised his slaves of his Intentions
and some half dozen of them being averse to accom-
pany their master, away. They were apprehen-
ded after being few days, and lodged in the Jail
of Isle of Wight County in this State On being
searched free papers found upon their PERSONS
pusporting to come from the Clerk Of that County,
our midst who are acting the part of abolitionists
and aiding these misguided creatures in effecting
their escape to the North.
But this is not all, in connection with this matter.
Mr.. Myrick arrived with his absconding property
which for the purpose of security, he had hand-cu
ed, Thursday evening in the cars at Portsmouth
when party of negroes discovering what was going
on assembled around the and INDUCED in the
most nlpudent language and odous epthets in ref
such manner, Mr.. Myrck struck one of the fellows
with his he face. who. return