Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-11-20

cultivated among the Northern people. They the
people to stand by the Union now, and to be con-
servative' in their purposes and views. Will they
do it? The recent elections, panied to say,
do not furnish any satisfactory evidence that they
will but time, which tries all things, must determine
MEssRs. vENABLE AND MILLER.
Mr.. Venable, the Representative in Congress from
the Orange District, has signalized himself by his
bold and able advocacy of Southern rights. and has
won for himself not only the confidence of his
stisuents, but reputation throughout the country of
which any man might we'll be proud. No man has
shown himsefa better friend of the Constitution and
the Union than he has, while at the time he has
been among the foremost of those gallant spirits of
the Senate and House, who have contended so
firmly, so constantly, and so eloquently, from the
rs for the interests of their section and the equal
rights Of the States. Time and again, the timid
gave back and temporizers quaied, has his clarion
voice been heard sounding above the din and tumult
of opposing factions, pleading for the Union as it
ought to be, and for the Constitution as fathers
made it; and though at one time it was considered
by even some of his best friends, that he was too
far in front and too determined in maintaining his
positions, yet time has shown that they in error
and that he was right. When, fourteen months ago,
he took the ground that the best course which could
then be adopted by the South, was to cut off all in
tercourse with the North and thus reach the feelings
of our assailants through their poceterues how was
he denounced by Whig orators and Wing presses as
'agitator "-as fomenter of discord and strife,
and as almost trator' to the Union of the States
And yet now we find these orators and presses,
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course which they SO bitterly condemned in him
This is compliment to his sagacity which is the
more valuable, because of the source from which it
comes and the in which it has been paid; and
it may be that sense Of these facts operates, in
small degree, in keeping alive among these orators
and presses those feelings of hostility towards him
which engendered at the period mentioned.
They dislike him because his sagacity battles them;
and they denounce him because they stand rebuked
before the people by his boldness, energy, and con-
stancy.
We learn that Mr.. Venable addressed portion of
his constituents at Oxford, during the late Term of
Granville County Court; and that he was replied to
by Henry w. Miller, Esq, of this City. We learn
also, from the Register, that Committee of eigh-
teen-citizens of fGranville-have asked Mr.. Miller for
copy OF his Speech, and he has promised to furnish
it. The Correspondence the subject has been
published in the Register. These gentlemen tell
Mr.. Miller that they feel deep and abiding inter-
est in the preservation of glorious Union," and
are anxious that effort shall be spared to que
the turbulent elements of political dscord and sup
press ultaism and fanacism, and to produce in the
South firm, decided, and unfinching adherence to
the Compromise Acts"; and Mr.. Miller, in his re-
L.: NJ boc chol1 SSo1-
ways feel proud to be an humble co-laborer with
them and other patriotic men, no matter 10 what
party they belong, in the cause Of our glorious Union
and it's Constitution
Mr.. Miller then, and these gentlemen who agree
with him, are the peculiar friends of the Union and
Mr. Venable is ssultra :" and "fanatical," and his
course is hostile to the Union. This is the plain
English of the whole matter. Now, we recognize
the right of no man of to set themselves up
as better friends of the Constitution than those who.
like Mr.. Venabe, have struggled to preserve it from
violation and destruction; and who, failing in this,
would turn from its wreck and from the foul traitors
who have trampled it down, to the adoption of new
plans for future security. Ulraists are men, ac-
cording to our understanding of the term, who make
| extreme demands. Has Mr.. Venabe done this
Has he, at any time, asked than the South was
entitled to- or than the Constitution gave her! Is
he to be confronted by Wing champions and de-
nounced because of his devotion to the Constitution
and the rights of his constituents!
But what time did these gentlemen and their
orator select for their gorcaon over these Com
promise Acts"! AT the very moment when the only
measure in the whole series calculated to benefit the
South, was disregarded, reved, and openly dsobey-
ed in Boston and throughout most of the New Eng
land Sates-at this moment, when citizens of slave
holding States who had gone North for the purpose
of avang themselves of the provisions OF this law,
and of thus exercising their plain Constitutional
RIGHTS are hunted like felons and driven back with
insult and injury-at this moment, do these gentle
men come forward to "produce in Southern minds
a decided adherance - to this so-called Compromise
10 assa those who thought it their duty to oppose
it-and to laud the authors of this plan of "peace "
We hear no denunciations of the fanatics-no manly
declaration that they must cease their assaults upon
u.s. and that the leading politicians of the free States
must make them do it, as the price of Continued
unions but lecture is read, in the shape of an eps-
tie to the orator. on ultraism and fanaticsm and
no one can tell, either from the language or tone OF
the epste, whether this lecture is intended for ORTIZ
ern or Southern men. 1t is proper that these gentle
men and their orator should be reminded that they
are not the only friends of the Constitution and the
Union in North Carolina and that, If they would
p,e.erve ,b, Union and seid this Conssitotioa from
papable violation, they pust cease their attacks on
such champions Of both as Nj. venabas, and ante
a. ono man, without respect to psy divisions OF dis