The North-Carolina standard., 1850-06-12
RALEIGH NORTH cARoLNA WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 12 1885,

II, NUN III CAhOAlINA, w
t THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION.
The following letter, says the Mobile Register
written by gentleman well versed in public affairs
publication. 1t takes such practical view of thu
Southern Convention, however, that it has been sub
mitted to Us for the use of our readers:
tsMY DEAR SIR:- owe you both an explanation
and an apology for my delay in acknowledging you
note of the --ult. was sick when l received it
well. We are fallen on evil times, my young friend
and the wisest among us can but tremble at the as
poets of the future. Congress may perhaps patch uy
the present questions to postpone struggle
but that any thing will be done that will eectnay
secure the Southern people in the quiet enjoyment
myself with expecting. The hunt against slave.
ry, it exists with Us, is up, and like epidem
ic is raging throughout Christendom. While it lasts
the truths of history, the lessons of experience, and
the voice Of reason are all unheeded. Even the
instincts of selpreservation are smothered, and that
in our very bosoms. Who, looking upon the face oi
things among us, could have supposed that in view o
the imminent peril with which we menaced from
the north, the quiet assembling of good and patriotic
men, for the purpose of consulting on the means by
which to escape catastrophe, would be branded by
a portion of our own people disorgansing and
reasonable. / have ever believed that were the
South true to itsef-had it presented united, calm,
but resoute front this great question, the cacu-
atng spirit of the north might have been relied on
to control the outbursts of naticis, and that they
would have receded from their nquitous exactions.
But on the threshold Of this hope, what do we see
among ourselves? Leading men-men of influence
and property-slavehoders by their weak temporiz-
ing counsels, their miserable doubts, and their in
sane denuncations of good men, encouraging, if not
inviting the very fanacism that is striking at our
existence. When l see these things in our very
midst-when l see an intelligent owner of more than
hundred slaves cooy announcing that by the rules
of logical deduction applied to the Federal Cons-
tuition cannot be denied that Congress possesses the
power to restrict slavery in the territories; and that by
some other application of his logic, it is made equal
y clear that it possesses no such power and that he
is left therefore like the in the fable to starve be-
tween the two bundles of hay-when / see infuen-
tal politicians sounding the alarm shat the Southern
convention is but covert attack on the administra-
tion,-and when find popular meetings IN Virginia,
Georgia and Alabama, to say nothing OF the apathy
that prevails in other States, sustaining those views,
scarcely know what to say-what to do, or what to
think. l am oppressed with anxious forebodings.
love the Union, God knows with an undying devo-
ton, but it is the Union for which We contracted
1t is the Union of sovereign communities-a Union
of equals-a Union of equal privileges as well as
e1ua. burthens, and sooner than consent by word or
deed to abae jot or title of that position OF equa-
ty, would spurn the whole.
But what, after all, is to be done! Well, then, we
must be earnest and vgant, and industrious in dis
seminatng the truth, in encouraging the timld, and
in exposing the treacherous. We must hold public
meetings-our orators must speak-our able men must
write and all must cooperate to enlghten public opn
ion. We must send delegates to Nashville, and keep
these delegates up the mark If the number is few
much the greater honor that awaits wise, firm and
patriotic discharge Of duty Formy poor self though
may be stripped of the privileges for which my an
cestors bled-though may be incarcerated in dun
geon, while have hand to write or breath to utter
word Of remonstrance, will not cease to denounce
the wicked consprators against liberties, and to
resist their arbitrary and unprncpled exacons in any
and every .orm in which can make resistance avail
able. The real disunionsts in the South, are they
who counsel us to wait until the fatal blow shall be
struck-some overt act of Congressional enactment
committed before they will prepare for defence. 1t
seems to ne impossible that sane men can be honest
in such counsels. When the deed is done it will be
too late. The fortress is already mined, and we are
told must wait till the match is applied to the train,
and then they will unite in resisting the explosion
Fatal deusion! Woe to the southern people if they
listen to such counsels. Every impulse OF patro-
tism-every suggestion of safety-every instinct of
Observation-Disclosures US to the prevention of
such catastrophe.
am aware that we have false prophets and false
teachers among us who are crying out Peace-Peace
when there is no peace. We must eschew them
for ourselves What prospect is there that even the
bill now before the Senate, gravely denominated the
Compromise Bill, will pass into law. Is not every
northern whig in Congress, except Webster, and all
the feeso democrats, opposed to 1t! Even that blil
which comedies uS literally nothing in fact, though.
perhaps, something in form, cannot be passed into
law, unless by the aid of the strong moral influence
of the southern convention. The real opponents of
this convention few in number. They are limited
chiefly to ultra politicians and few wordy and win
dy editors who love partisanship and its rewards,
more than they love their country These rely on it
my young friend, are the real dsunionists and the
men from whose Vaccinations we have most to ap-
prehend. The honest masses, whom they declude,
are but temporarily astray."
FRED. DOUGLASS THRAsHED. The New York