Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-11-13

COMING UP TO THE MARK!

COMING UP TO THE MARK!
We aEs gatiied at the manner in which the Ra.
leigh Register leads of in it, last ISSUE sRainat the
Aboitionists and Freesoilsn. "It 10 never too hate
to do good" The Editor begins to speak out like
Z Southern man indeed. We have known, all along,
that his heart was right; but "party spirit has
hampered him, and up to recent date the commands
Of national" Whieism have compelled him to
measure and mipce his words. The last Register,
speaking Of Boston Modification, says:
Z" What Wing heart, especially, has not yearned |
towards Massachusetts, in bygone days, for her
wheming victories and undertaking reliability Alas!
sachusetts 10 now the hobed of Fanaticsm, Aboli-
tionism, and all the other vile destructive iss that
infest social and political organization. While
political connexon. with such State might be endur
ed. in view Of the benefits that such a connection
would confer on other and unofendng States, We do
social commercial intercourse, whatever, with those
who are warning against our interests and tranPing
our rights ruthlessly under foot"
Wing feelings and Democratic feelings must alike
be forgotten when this subject under consideration.
Thatman-whe,herhebe bea Democrat ora Whig-who
desires to keep up the war in Congress upon South
Law, who would agitate for the purpose Of repeal
ing that law, who is unwilling to permit the South
ern people 10 remain in ths quiet and undisturbed
possession of their slaves-thas is foe to the
Union of the Ssates and deserves the execratons of
the people now and of all posterty.
II the Register and all its Southern associates had
akena firm stand this subject twelve months ago,
and had laid down the law to the free States then
in plain language, the present crisis might have been
averted, and all portions of the Union would have
been now enjoying the fruits of harmony and peace
But one concession only begot another and our as
saants Of the free States led to believe. from
Whig denuncia,ions in the South of the Nashville
Convention, that we were divided this vital ques
ton. Hence their continued aggressions and as-
saus-hence their triumph at the last session
Of Congress, and their refusal now to obey the Fug
i've Slave Law.
We hope the Register will strengthen its language,
and that its Editor will be prepared to act in due tine
NOT with view 10 dissolve but to save the Union
So far this question is concerned-rsing as it does
above and beyond all party questions-we are Prepar-
ed to forget and bury the past, and to give him the
right hand Of fellowship as friend to the present
Union on Just principles, but as an enemy to that
Union whenever the Constitution which holds it To-
ge,her shall have been disrearded and papably vo-
lated. Events crowd upon each other and the hours
60 by winged with the DEGREES of Fate. What we
do now or omit do will tell upon succeeding ages.
Who dreamed, twelve months since, that the issue
this day would be the repeal enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law And who, judging by the
past, can tell what the issue will be twelve months
hence, if this agitation be permitted to 60 on No'o.
therefore, is the time. The ground we occupy on
this question is the true and ust grounds let main
tain it and defend it, happen what may. The South
has been on tie defensive in this mailer from the fret
and if in the end the Union must be sacrificed, the
blame and the guilt will rest forever, in characters of
Egyptian backness, upon the escucheons Of the free
States. The impartial historian will give the facts
in a few words: He will say that the American
Colonies achieved their independence together, by
common sacrifices and common sufferings that they
formed Union, under a common Constitution, each
State being equal in rights and sovereignty that,
after time, these States won Territories by The same
sword, OF bought it with the common treasure; that
the free States deprived the slave States. under the
forms Of the Constitution, of all share in these Ter
ritores and appropriated them exclusively to them
selves; that the slave States endured this in ming
led anger and Sadness because they loved the Union
and remembered aAec,ionatsly tho common sufferngs
and trials Of the war Of independence; that when
this Constitution was formed, all the States but one
held slaves; that provision was made in that insru-
ment for delivering up to their owners slaves escap-
ing from one State to another; that majority Of the
States abolished Slavery, sold off their slaves TO
their sister States, and got the money for them;
that after time, law was enacted by the Congress
designed to carry out the Constitution in relation to
escaped slaves and that the free States, under thes
circumstances, having appropriated all tho Territory
to themselves, refused to enforce this law-encoura-
ped slaves to escape from their masters-dended,
ieered and insulted the slave Ssa,es-and thus forced
them to dissolve the existing Union and take new
| stems with view to their continued Independence
and safety. Shall all this be writtens The answer
is with the people Of the free States Let them de-
eide wisely for themselves and their pos'erity.
NEW YORK ELECTION.
The only intelligence we have from the New York
.,,ion. IA gathered from the Baltimore Sun Of We'd
pesday last and the returns in that paper are conf-
..d and unsatisfactory We expect Telegraphic des-
patch, giving the latest news, and which, II It DO
| received in time, our reaoen WILL a"u """e' "s'
regular Tslegnphic head;
l. The Sun states that the Wing candidate for May
or in New York City, has been elected BY 5000
u,iori.v and the Wings Of the City have elected
| majority of tho ,Asssmblyuea, and the Dsuoens 4
maio.ity Of A,sissant Aldermen. e. b. Hart, Dem
! ocr... and Hubart Haws, George Briggs, and James
Brooks, Waies, are elected to Congress The 'ots
! e., ,6,or.roor h New York. City 10 not given.