The North-Carolina standard., 1850-02-20

he Unidn- -slavsholden and none6 soholders to bs
N preeisel1 tho esamefootn9 Of eqgst9 and right and
o be equally protsssed ~ ths hw and policy the
rovertmenk that pfoper teriorial gevernuents 9ing
,uanixed, ttasopeble periods should be aitowed e.
i6ch settlement and then lf and free opportunity Of
slectng and determining their domestic Institutions,
should allowed the people ofeach territory. This
was to be fair and equal. and i all might have been
cotent % abide. But under this name OF nonnervens
tion to be tolerated that there should be the most
e6ectual intervention against the South! that while
shareholders with their property had been kept OUT
and an adverse decision was inevitable, the people
should be invited and encouraged 70 establish an Of
ganc law Of perpetual exclusion and stamp it on vast
regions of unnhabted space, and that such process
to be repeated often az necessary tor our Perpet
ual disfanchisement Sir. it is gross outrage on
the South. The whole policy, its recommendations
and defenees, should be scorned and repudiated by
every siavehofding State.
have spoken on this subject Mr.. Speaker, strong
ly and warmly. With my feelings. could not do
less but, trust, without trace Cf personal bitter
ness towards the President. For Gen. Taylor, as l
have said, have respect and kindness. do not in
fact hold him responsible for the action and policy
developed in that message He 10, believe, an hon
est brave old soldier. His life has been passed in
the field and the camp. His training has been to
arms and command, to deliberation and investl-
CATION nthe chamber of council or the halls OF leg
isiaon. II is disparagement to his character or
intellect hold him not profound in national or con-
stitutional law. He would be more than mortal man
if he were, His Cabinet have been differently rais-
ed and exercised. They have been selected for their
maturity of wisdom and fallness of exPe.
rience such subjects. On them Gen. Taylor would
naturally neiy and by their counsels be guided in all
such matters. In Justice and in truth, his Cabinet
responsible for the unconstitutional action, the
usurpation and the nsidous tendencies OF the policy
disclosed by that message. Such responsibility be-
fore this House and the country would fix upon
suits of his policy surely not appreciated by the
President. 1 much fear me, his unsuspecting homes
ty has been practised on-his generous confidence
abused. The pretext of extending protection and
to a distant community cast mainly
on executive care has been used to induce wide de-
parture from his just line Of duty, and serious en-
croachment the coordinate departments Of this
Government His desire to give peace to an agitated
country and to alay alarming sectional anmosities,
have been made subservient to policy of insdious
Acknowledgement and exclusion Of the people OF the
States. Sir it would be hard to have
the wrong and insult of exclusion from territories
largely by its blood and treasure. inflicted on the
South by the tyranny of northern majority. But
far grevous would it be, to have the same nju-
ry insdousy perpetraed through the instrnmentaliy
Of a Southern President and STAKEHOLDER. His i'm
terests, his sentiments, the associations of his ite
forbid it. l cannot, will not believe General Taylor
would knowingly do such wrong to his section.
Thank God, We have no traitors at the South. Her
sons are true to the last moment of breath true
to her honor and her rights.
There are yet time and opportunity for reparation
and correction of the evils inflicted the South by
the action and policy of the Administration Heav-
en- grant that Gen. Tayors mind may be enlighten-
ed to their scope and effects! Humble as am, would
that could reach him in appeal as thrilling as my
feelings would dictate His native State that moth
er of heroes and statesmen, who is proud to hold him
among the first Of her living sons, with the claim Of
parentage and nurture should call him to forbear
That gallant State, which reared him in boyhood and
youth, and sent him forth in early manhood to his
career Of arms and glory. should appeal to him not
to trampe the rights Of her In the name Of
Louisiana the abode of his mature years, by all the
affections of home and hear.hstone, by all the asso
Citations and interests of neighbors and friends,
would conjure the remuneration Of policy that at
no distant day must realize to her the horrors and
destinies of St. Domingo. l would bear back his
memory to the trials and the irumphs he has shared
diers and compatrots n the conflicts which largely
won these very acquisitions, from which they and
theirs to be excluded. In the bloody trenches of
Monterey, in the midst Of the din and smoke Of battle
again and again should he the valiant soldiers of
the South rush to the lannon's mouth, and mount
- TIC iuSuiiIleut OedUIy OIedCn, "ltD tneII mangieO
hodies ping high the pedestal of his fame. And on
that memorable field of Buena Vista, at that most
critical juncture, when all seemed lost save honor,
again should his heart bound with hope he hailed
the approach Of the noble regiment Of Mississppians,
and beheld them steady, undismayed, (through the
the North, then, through mistaken order, discounted
and in rout,) with souls untouched by panic, and
nerved to do or die, march onward-right onward on
The countless foe, and with invncible Prowess snatch
from the very jaws Of death rescue and vctory.~ By
such proud memories-by the fame they have won,
and the need of gratitude and honor they conferred
would invoke him to cast now the weight of his
derserved influence and high position the side Of
The South, in the scale Of right and justice. Let
him openly rebuke the mad fanaticism and grasping
Inst of power in the North Let him, as when march
ing to the relief of his comrades at Fort Brown de-
termine, let foes come in what numbers they may, to
them, and march onward to the rescue Of
The South and her threatened institutions. He will
lind peace has its victories not less glorious than those
Of war. Let him scatter for this cloud OF anat-
cs Aboltoniss, and Free Soiers, and, far as his
action may, give defence and security to an endan.
gered country. BY such course he may achieve final
adjustment Of the sectional agitation rocking the
Union to its centre, and illustrate his administration
with glory that through the vista of time will be
surpassed only by that Of Washington.
'At this point the hammer fell. few sentences have
been added give partial completeness to the view.
BEAUFORT HARBoR Beaufort harbor is universal
ly admitted to be the best harbor on the Atlantic
coast, south of Norfolk. 1t is certainly fine site
for city, and the only reason that city has not al
ready grown up there, is that it has back country
present accessible, support it. That it is the
best Eastern terminus of the North Carolina Rail-
road, there can be no doubt; and that the road will
be extended to that harbor, if it is built
to Newbern, to our mind is a certainty. We think
however, that the citizens of Beaufort cannot fail to