The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-30

have hought of the blood and tears by which it was
purchased. They see the proud vessel bearing maes
cally onward and they proudly cry, in the language
:.Thou too, sail on, O ship Of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hope of future years.
Is hanging brsathless on thy fate!
a1 We know what master laid thy keel, Y
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Whe made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat
In what a forge and what a heat,
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.
They will cheer on this noble ships they will stand
by the constitution; they will adhere to this Union;
and although the northern people are opposed to the
institution of slavery the great mass OF them have no
intention or disposition to trench improperly upon
the constitutional rights of the South and this they
will prove, should the occasion arise, even though
they should sell their lives in her defence Sir if it
should come to the worst, as it never will. so firmly
are the northern people devoted to the constitution,
and armed incendarism should push her mad crusade
against the South. and she be placed in peril, am
free to declare that for one, and 80 believe would
every patriotic man Of the free States who had sword
to draw, draw it in the defence of their southern
brethren, and of the rights guaranteed to them by
common compact, and stand by them to the death.
[Applause.1 But, sir, they will only stand by her
when she is right and long she is so, no swords
will be called into requisiton, except against for
artificial, to which sectional agitation has attained,
will work its own cure. 1t will burn itself out.
Northern agitators and southern agitators will find
themselves side by side in their errand of mutual
mischief. And the great mass of the American peo-
pie will look upon this Union as it is, and upon
southern rights and northern rights they are, and
will stand by them and protect them.
These territorial questions this District OF Colum.
bia question, this question of jurisdiction in forts and
dock-yards, arsenals, and navy-yards, and so FORTH
are mostly questions temporary in their character
and the question of fugitives from service wopld be
soon settled by the good sense of the right-mnded,
were it not for the wholesale denuncations OF men
grouped together in whole communities and States,
on one hand denouncng the North, the North, the
North and on the other hand, the South, the South,
the South. This provokes the greater part Of this
struggle; and would suggest whether 1t would not
be more wise if gentlemen would exercise little for
bearance, always remembering the saying, Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone." am willing
to admit that the great mass of our southern friends
treat this question as it should be treated and am
what admit to be their right of being let alone.
am grated, too, that they in proper spirit, stand
by their institutions and defend them for it serves
to show that this confederacy is siserhood OF free
and Independent States, associated for few common
purposes, and not consolidated federal government
The North and the South stand together upon one
great constitutional platform, and neither has right
to claim superiority over the other.
The people of the South have institutions that are
sensitive, and that be endangered by agitation in
the North. repeat that am opposed to such agi-
tation; have been willing throw myself into the
breach to turn it aside; have attempted to call the
attention of the northern people-nay, might say
the whole American people-to the danger of agita-
ting this question and would say in all kindness
to my friend from Alabama, that he ives more food
in one speech for the nourishment of the free soil
and abolition movement than all the Garsons, Wen
dell Phillpses, and Abby Folsoms, and all the speech
es of all the reesoi agitators and abolition DEM
agogues, put together He does more to provoke as
saints upon the institutions of the South than all that
abolitionsm has ever been able accomplish in its
most fiendish triumphs beg of that honorable
ator when he has anything to say hereafter-unless
he is impelled by strong sense of duty--that he
will not attempt to fomen and carry this sectional
agitation. To what end and to whose good will re-
suit the dissolution of this Union-from the contem
piation of which every patriotic mind instinctvely
recoils with horror?
| sing no hosannas to Union without consti-
tuition. admit that when the life and spirit have de-
parted, the framework will be valueless, and will
tumble to decay. But the spirit has not vet departed
many assaults but is capable of receiving and sus
tanning many more. Let those who are disposed to
indulge in agitation ask for the rights guaranteed by
the constitution but when they ask for these, lei
them not ask for what the constitution does not guar
anty. Let them not provoke assaults themselves,
while decrying the assaults they invite.
The honorable senator from Alabama rePudiates
and casts off the northern democracy. They will
however, do no such thing with him. They will re.
tain him in full membership, but endeavor to teach
him some useful lessons. But, upon this subject o
reading out the entire democracy of fifteen States o
this Union, they will request my young friend from
Alabama to tarry while at Jericho, until his beard
shall have grown. Laughter.] greatly admired
parts of speech which that honorable senator dev
cred here few days ago. He therein depicted the
position Of the South in glowing and eloquentterms
and in manner which was well calculated to call
the attention of the American people to this question
And If we could keep in view the high destiny o
this nation, and the high duties of those clothed
with power-if the American people would set thei
seal upon political hobbyridng for miserable party
advantage upon questions of this impor-there woult
be no trouble; there would be none which did no
exist at the time of the original formation of th
: government. This question Of slavery was one o
difficulty then and the same spirit Of patriotism
which rose above it then, the same principles of com
promise which led to the formation of the constitu
ton must preserve it. The democracy of the Nortf
are not. and cannot be made mere sectional party
Oaz government in sense, exists in the organiza
tion of national political parties; have nothing
party in the North. you will. BY the same act make
a sectional party in the South. If you thus diyidl
the democratic party, you will also divide the whis
party; and when you divide these parties into sec
ional portions, you might just as well put an end Il
the constitution and the. Union.
have spoken only because felt assured that th
remarks of the senator had diEeet tendency Gre
ate and foster sectonalism, and to produce, what
all deprecate, division Of political parties by sec
tional line-the formation Of provisional sectional gov
ernnnents, and then dissolution of the Union Sir
this Union can never b. dissolved, representative
lin Congress will only do their duty. II they vii
abide bY the principles which their fathers taught then
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