North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-11-09
COMING UP TO THE MARK


p We are grat;fied at the manner in which the r.,
leigh Register leads off in its last issue, against the
Abolitionists and Freesoers 1t is never too Ia,o
to do good = The Editor begins to sneak out like
Southern man indeed. We have known, all alone
that his heart right; but "party spirit has
hampered him, and up recent date the command.
of :. national Whigism have compelled him to
measure and mince his words. The last Repiste,
speaking of Boston Modification, says:
'sWhat Wing heart especially, has not vearOed
towards Massachusetts, in bygone days. for her over
whelmng victories and Underwriting reliability AasI
" how have the mighty fallen''~ The State of Mas
sachusetts IS now the hobed of Fanaticism. Aboli
tlonsm, and all the other vile destructive iss that
iniest our social and political organization. While
Pohhcaf connection with sncha State might be endur-
ed, In view of the benefits that such connection
Wonia confer on other and pnofending States we do
hold thatlt Is aorong and dgrnding 10 maintain anv
social or commercial intercourse whatever with those
VINO are warning against interests and trampline
our rights ruthlessIy under foot Us
Wing feelings and Democratic feelings must alike
be forgotten when this subject under consideration
That man-whetherhe bea Democrat OF Whig-who
desires to keep up the war in Congress- upon South
ern rights, or who is opposed to the Fugitive Slave
Law who would agitate for the purpose of repeal
ing that law, or who unwilling permit the South
ern people TO remain in the quiet and undisturbed
possession of their slaves-that is foe to the
Union of the States and deserves the execratons of
the people now and of all posterty.
If the Register and all its Southern associates had
taken firm stand this subject twelve months ago.
and had laid down the law to the free States e,,
in plain language, the present crisis might have been
averted and all portions of the Union would have
been now enjoying the fruits of harmony and peace.
But one concession only begot another and our as
sailants of the free States led to believe, from
Wing denunciations in the South of the Nashville
Convention, that divided this vital ques-
ton. Hence their continued aggressons and as
Subsistence their triumph the last session
of Congress, and their refusal to obey the Fug-
tive Slave Law.
We hope the Register will strengthen its language
and that its Editor will be prepared in due time
mot with view 10 dissolve but to save the Union
So far as this questions concerned-rsing it does
above and beyond all party questionswe prepar-
ed to forget and bury the past, and give him the
right hand of fellowship as friend to the presen,
Union on just principles, but an enemy to that
Union whenever the Constitution which holds it to-
gether shall have been disregarded and papably vio-
lated. Events crowd upon each other, and the hours
go by winged with the DEGREES of Fate. What We
do now, on, to do, will tell upon succeeding ages.
this day would be the repeal or enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law And who, judging by the
past, tell what the issue will be twelve months
hence if this agitation be permitted to 60 on? NO,O,
therefore, is the time. The ground We occupy on
this question is the and just grounds let main
tain it and defend it, happen what may. The SouM
has been the defensive this mailer Jrosn TIE first;
and if in the end the Mon must be sacrificed the
| oor
Egyptian backness, upon the escucheons of the free
States. The impartial historian will give the facts
in a few words: He will say that the American
Colonies achieved their independence together by
common sacrifices and common sufferings that they
formed a Union, under a common Constitution, each
State being equal in rights and sovereignty that,
after time, these States won Territories by the same
sword, or bought it with the common treasure; that
the free States deprived the slave States, under the
forms of the Constitution, of all share in these Ter
ritores and appropriated them exclusively to them
selves; that the slave States endured this in ming
led anger and sadness, because they loved the Union
and remembered afectionatey the common sufferings
and trials of the of independence; that when
this Constitution was formed, all the States bur one
held slaves that provision made in that insiru-
ment for delivering up their slaves escap-
ing from State to another; that majority of the
States abolished Slavery, sold off their slaves to
their sister States, and got the money for them;
that, after time law enacted by the Congress
designed to carry out the Constitution in relation
escaped slaves and that the free States, under these
circumstances having appropriated all tie Territory
to themselves, refused to enforce this law-encoura-
ged slaves to escape from their masters-derided,
ieered and nsulted the slave Statesand thus forced
them to dissolve the existing Union and take new
steps with view to their continued independence
and safety. Shall all this be written ? The answer
is with the people of the free States. Let them de-
eide wisely for themselves and their posterity.
x1oDLy EernIn>r d.