Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-12-04
GOV. MANLY'S MESSAGE.

Message on the Slavery question. He commends
the so-called Compromise to I" willing and hearty
support " in one breath, and in the next he talks
vaguely about " rights "-says " these will new
er be surrendered -and that We take our stand in
the ranks of Southern destiny" What else, pray,
if the worst should happen, could we do' Gould
We join {" the ranks" of Northern "destiny''! Is
that a supposahle case'
We can neither {" willingly" nor heartily sup
port this so-called Compromise. Ii is enough for
the people of this State, who have gained nothing
by it, to acquesce in 1t as the law of the land. 1t
crcumscribes Slavery abolishes the savetrade in the
District, organizes Territorial governments only on
former principles, and takes from Texas for consid-
Grafton, millions of acres of slave soil. We have
go it is true, the fngtive-slave law; but the Con-
s,itution gave that before, and have gained
nothing on this score. Gov. Manly seems to think
that the whole question has been adjusted, :" and
that now to have peace; but whence comes
this rrpose, and when Are not the elements more
fiery and ungovernable than heretofore! Has
not this boasted measure. instead of securing harmo-
ny and evivng brotherly affection, increased dissat
action in both sections and aroused still stronger
passions! And wherefore Because it was unjust
to one great section, which has assailed the
has gained every thing and lost nothing by the bar
gain is now unwilling, as part of the bargain, to
perform its plata duty under the common Constitution
Gov. Manly, it seems, coulc not allude to this
question without denouncing Southern factionists
and agitators,' and making covert attack on South
Carolina 1t IS obvious that he considers such states
men as Clingman. Shepard. and Venable. who insist
upon our rights, among these factionists y; and
he calls upon the "sons Of freedom" to combine to
cohnaerac the spirit of disunion. heretofore con-
fined 70 some particular section Of the country -
forget that all this time of the South have been
passive and the North active; and that they the
:. factionists" and "agitators' this question.
He perceives very great danger in the North ex.
cept from body Of fanatics contemplate for num-
bers and responsibility and he is greatly shocked
at the "spectaele % of :" sacred " alliance-nay,
more than that-a Constitutional national Union of
noble people in peril of being discovered and broken
uPb gangs of runaway negroes, and their crazy al
lies.' Now the Governor either knows nothing about
assaants their number in the free States or,
acts for party purposes. from the people of his State
Does he not knOv that nearly every free State has in'
structed its Representatives to vote against the furth
er extension OF Slavery! And does he not feed, as
southern man, that to crcumserbe slavery to destroy
hand in the end And does he not kno,c, also, that
many Of the free States have instructed their Repre-
sentaves to abolish the institution in the Dis
tnct! And has he,as the Governor Of a sovereign
State, yet to learn, that nearly every free State has
passed laws forbidding the use of their jas to the
masters Of fugitive slaves, and imposing heavy penal
ties on their officers if they lift finger to aid
these masters in their efforts to recover their proper
g! Does he not know that Horace Mann has tri.
amPhed over Daniel Webster in Massachusetts,, and
mat Sewardisn has swept the Empire State"! IL
so blind as not to that thus far the fugitive.
save law is imperative and dead letter! And YET
10 view OF all these facts Gov. Manly uters halleu
JAMS to the so-called Compromise and leaves the r
terence on the minds Of the people, by his language
and mode Of treating the subject. that the Union ia
10 peril only from gangs Of runaway negroes and
'"e'f crazy allies"! pretty sentinel, truly, upon
tue "achtower of the " sons Of freedom"!
ny the way. has the Governor ever heard Of eer.
'a'n actonist - and "agitator,' who. in order q
get enough votes to re-elect him to certain Office
came out in one of his campaigns and sought to array
one portion of his State against the other on this very
question: and then denied it! Gov. Manly should bt
"e last Individual 10 talk of factioniss'' and ap
iators" w ~ -- "" %
we learn that at the late Term of The Federal Cour
Ae0 In this City, the young man from Granville by thu
aa@e OF B'yge who submitted on charge of robbins
"e Mall was sentenced to ten years imprisonment
.DSn sympathy wasexpressed in this case, and tn,
Ope Is lndalsed by the young mans friends that af
-, nme he will be pardoned BY the President.
.ne case OF Thomas Harvey, Of Newbsrn, ehargst
..S with robbing the Mail, was postponed to tb.
next Tern Of the Court. -