North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-11-16
TWO pIcTuREs

TWO PICTURES.
We copy the following from one of our Northern
exchanges. " Look on this picture, and then on
that" Here is the first one ss
"THE FUGITIvE SLAVE Law. At the recent cele-
oration at Ogdensburg, Of the opening Of the aaway
from the st. Lawrence to Lake ChamPlain' Bishop
Perkins gave the following toast
'fCanada Annexation When they want It.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Perkins remarks Mr.:
T. P. Chandler, the President OF the ROAD, rose and
said
Mr. President: l heartily respond to the senti-
ment with which my friend at the other END OF the
hall closed his speech, but arse to oner word or
two on the subjects to which he has alluded re-
far - ton of Canada to the United States.
Sir have heretofore thought that union of the two
coun,r;es was desirable, but think so no longer
F1oitive slave bill by our Congress. In the name
of ali that is good, in the name of God-I speak it
with reverence)-let there remain spot on this
Northern continent, where the white buzzards of the
South cannot satiate their hellsh appeti:es on
black victims. Let Their. be one locality where the
thickly woven net of viainies, the Fugitive Slave
bill, cannot be spread. Applause
The following is from the Hartford Times, DEM
ocratic paper 1t is but just to say that there are
some Wing papers in the free States which speak as
strongly as the Times for the Constitution and the
South but these papers, far as both parties ara
concerned, are L" few and far between" The Times
says:
"NoRTH AND SOUTH. Ought the North
to complain in view of these facts? Is it right for
the North to step forward and declare that this law,
based upon one of the planest provisions of the
suon, shall be repealed, and that it shall be DISC
beyed till repealed?
Let US seriously ask ourselves what the result of
such course of action will be. The South will
certainly not submit to it, They cannot honorobIy
submit TO such outrage upon their constitutional
rights. Those persons who declare that this law
shall be disobeyed, and that it shall be repealed 90
far ha hpro f0foro folo hxf ~
litionists. They STRIKE THE COMPROMISE WHICH
LED TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. This
compromise related to the right to hold slaves
as property. The North was opposed to it; the
South in favor of it, and could into the
federal compact unless this right acknowledged
Had it not been acknowledged, the republic could
not have been established. The clause demanding
that fugitives from service shall be delivered up
was inserted; and this clause of course acknowledged
the right OF the master TO hold his slave property
We may abhor slavery, but we cannot diminish it
by dissolving the Union. The wise men who foun-
ded the republic knew that slavery would be more
rigorous if the republic not formed; they knew
that there must be a compromise on this question,
and that it must be adhered TO in good faith.
The northern agitators and disunionists now say
that this great constitutional compromise shall not
be regarded, but that shaHbe repealed; and it only
remains for the North say whether it shall shall
not be adhered to in good faith. If it is, the Union
will be saved; if it is not there is end to this
pubc-for the South already feel that the hand of
power
nit part with the compromises of the constitution.
sooner-wil they part with those who
ought treat them equals, but who, as soon as
they have obtained the power, take away from them
the rights that conceded the formation of the
constitution.
We never believed that the Wilmot Proviso seri- |
ousy endangered the permanency of this Union but
we do believe that tie Union rests upon this COM
PROMISE and that if the free States in their strength
humble and disgrace the South by taking away the
right which is guaranteed to them, by repeating the |
fugitive slave bill this Union will be dissolved-thst
he chains of slavery at the South will be made sron-
ger and lasting, and that over twenty millions
IF people will be made politically wretched, COM
pared with the blessings they now enjoy. The Prin-
,ples of republicanism over the wide world are in
oved in this question, and it is more important than
III others. The question with the freeman should
re he deposites his vote Is the candidate for
gainst the UniOn?" -
We give the Editor of that paper our hand. He
an honest and brave man. But if, as Southern
men, again falter, offer to compromise, or re-
EIDE from our just position this question, Adolf
ionism will grow with ten-fold vigor, and that Edi-
or and his faithful friends will be silenced and
Fhelmed.
The first picture is that of demon. Chandler is
10 doubt of the "higher law" disciples. His
Doctrines are growing. They have swept Wiscon-
in, and Michigan, and in all probability, New York.
The evil instead of having been diminished, is in
reasing.