The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-09
RALEIGH CAROLINA MORNING.

ton. They thus render it impossible for the master
to treat his slave according to the dictates of his heart
and his feelings
Besides. do not the Abolonists perceive that the
spirit which is thus reused, must protrac to in
definite period, the emancipation of the slave! The
necessary effect of their efforts is to render desperate
those to whom the power of emancipation exclusively
belongs. believe, most conscientiousiy, in what
ever light this subject be viewed, that the best
interests of the slave require that the question should
be left, where the Constitution has left ito the
slavehoding States themselves, without foreign in
reference.
This being true statement of the case, as applied
to the States where slavery exists what is now ask
ten miles square District carved of two slave
holding States, and surrounded by them on all sides
slavery shall be abolished. What would be the ef.
fects of granting their request! You would thus
erect citadel in the very heart of these States upon
a territory which they have ceded to you for far
different purpose, from which aboitionists and ncen-
diaries could securely attack the peace and safety of
their citizens. You establish spot within the
slavehoding States, which would be city Of refuge
for runaway slaves. You create by law central
point, from which trains of gunpowder may be Sc
curey laid, tending into the surrounding States,
which may, at any moment. pruduce fearful and
destructive explosion. By passing such law, you
Introduce the enemy into the very bosom of these two
States and afford him every opportunity to produce
serviIe insurrection Is there any reasonable man
who can for one moment suppose that Virginia and
Maryland would have ceded the District of Columbia
to the United States if they had entertained the slight
est idea that Congress would ever it for any such
purpose9 They ceded it for your use for your con-
venence. and not for their own destruction. When
slaves cease to exist under the laws of Virginia and
Maryland. then, and till then ought it to be abo
ished in the District of Columbia.
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Sir, said Mr.. B., this question of domestic slavery
is the weak point in our institutions. Tariffs may be
raised almost to prohibition, and then they may be
reduced 80 as to yield adequate protection the
manufacturer: Union is sufficiently strong to en-
dure the shock Fierce political storms may rise-the
moral elements country may be convulsed by the
struggles of ambitious for the highest honors of
the Government-the sunshine does not more certain
ly succeed the Storm than that all will again be
peace Touch this question Of slavery scriously-let
1t once be made manifest to the people Of the South
that they cannot live with us, except in a state of
continual apprehension and alarm for their wives and
their children-for all that is and dear to them
upon the earth,-and the Union is from that moment
dissolved 1t does not then become question of ex-
pediency, but Of selfpreservaton. 1t is question
brought home to the resde. to the domestic circle
of every white man in the Southern States. This
day, this dark and gloomy day for the Republic, will
most devoutly trust and believe, never arrive. AL
though in Pennsylvania, all opposed to slave
ry IN the abstract, yet will violate the
| sttutonal compact which we have made with our
sister States. Their rights will be held sacred by
US. Under the constitution it is their own question
| and there let it remain