The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-18

who by turns have wheedled and taunted US, who
have urged Us to be still under wrong because might
be worse, or threatened with chasetisement the
hands OF numberless regiments of vaorous volun-
when such these retire with harps unstrung
and troops disbanded, before relay, reinforcement
of southern the Representatives of shareholders
and slavehoidlng States, who teach submission to
unconstitutional Legislation, yielding aggressions
perpetrated and to wrongs of deeper and more de-
grading character in immediate prospect-southern
statesmen who recommend acquiescence in ruinous
policy, lest the South should feel the weight of the
military arm of this Government, it is natural that
all should be astonished, and especially those whose
interests they represent.
We had expected confidently to be called disunion-
lists, by those whose immediate interests or whose
we'll known fanaticism has always suggested this
mode of assault and to such assaults and their con-
of political power and of party organization; the de-
sire of receiving rewards from those who have the
numerical authority to distribute them; the fascina-
tons which cluster around great national parties and
perhaps others and by means higher motives, all
combine to induce southern man to lie as low and
stay as long as the most imperous master could de-
mand, have feelings of surprise and regret mingled
with others which decline to name.
Sir, have spoken freely and sharply, because not
only l, but southern gentlemen with whom l concur
upon the exciting questions which have occupied
attention almost exclusively, have been designated
traitors. Men in places both high and low pol.-
clans representing all the gradations in the animal
alton, from the lion to the monkey and the cat; organs of
all sorts, from the slow, stately, solemn music-mak
ing instrument, both dull and deep-oned, through all
the varieties, down the tuneess, cracked convent
ence on which melody is manufactured by the job ;
those who could make speeches, and those who, in
default of that quality, could pay those who can
write letters,-a aid in forming public sentiment to
paralize and discredit southern men, whose offence
has been taithfulness to the constituency who sent
them here. 1t is proper that such should be freely
and faithfully dealt with; for although few believe
them here, they work mischief where they are not
well known. 1t is the settled policy Of the Free
Soil and AnlSavery party, in all lis shades and
riations of opinion, to unite in dscreditng every
statesman of the South who affrms any principle of
the Constitution protecting the domestic institutions
by their allies, dupes, and dependents at the South,
who with exceeding alacrty unite to PROSTATE such
statesmen, by calling them disunonists and disor-
ganizers. 1t would amuse, SIR did it not call up
sations Of very different character, to observe their
devices coneiIiae favor at the expense of those
whose interests demand different line of action.
There is no lack of denuncation by southern men in
high places against those of their own section who
maintain the rights of their people. Such men see
treason and disunion in every southern convention,
and every resolution of the assembled people which
advises resistance to oppression; whose indignation
homes, their fresides, and their property but who
have discovered the propriety OF censurng those
whose whole history has heen of meddiing and
aggression; whose Abolition conventions and Free
Soil Tor the abduction OF
slaves, openly formed and unrebuked by law, egis-
atve resolutions of disunou purposes, and votes in
this House which have agitated this country in all its
length and breadth, destroying confidence and ali
enatng sections. Such things these not proper
subjects of anmadversion with those who foremost
in the effort to huIl down men who ask for nothing
but the guarantees of the Constitution. And, sir,
the most humiliatng conviction OF the whole is this
that these prompt assaants of all of US, who de-
termined not to yield honor or our political equal
ity compelled to acknowledge that no plan pro-
posed does justice to the South, and that we must
and ought take what is offered, because it is the
best we shall get.
have, whilst hunting with my pointer, found it
necessary to scourge him for driving the game
seasonably, or some other dsobedience OF orders.
When the chastsement was over he was so thankful
that did not kill him, that his protraced caresses
about my feet rendered it necessary thaI should kick
him away and make him hunt. There is in the ad-
vice given take this northern infcton for fear of
worse, much of the instinct of the whipped point
er, that can have no sympathy with those who give
it, those who inclined to take it. yield to no
man in my attachment to the Union the Constitn-
ton has created it. adopt the clear, patriotic and
admirably expressed resolution of the Democratic
COnVentlOn OF NOrtn CaEOiind, VINO
ted a candidate for Governor, and whose nomination
has been so sgnally endorsed by the people, With
out approving of all the resolutions, make especial
reference the third, expressive of my feelings,
and to which l cordially adhere. THAT the Union
of these States formed by foreathers, is dear
to than else beside our vital interests
and our honor; that we will cherish and stand by
it, so long it realizes in its operations the design
of those who founded it as equals but that while we
yield to none in attachment to it, we are still de.
termined, happen what may. to resist all papabe vlo-
lations of the Constitution, and all attempts to WELD
this Government by sectional majority, to the
injury and degradation Of the southern people. In
this noble declaration fully concur, and the people
of my good old State have, from Cape Hatteras to
the Pilot Mountain from the northern TO the southern
boundary, shouted one long, loud and hearty amen.
To the Constitution and the Union which its guar
antees contemplate, to the Union means for in
surng tranquility, repose, equal rights, and human
liberty, l am devoted by sacred and revolutionary
recollecons of ancestors and Kindred by every hope
which had its origin in the expectation of just and
equal administration of rights, and by the anticpa
tions of future which would be doubly glorious,
should these sacred principles prevail. But to that
Union end to enslave, plunder, degrade and
fict the tyranny of despoc majority irrespective
of the Constitution all Legislative OF palpable vo-
lations of the Constitution, and to all attempts to
WELD this government by mere sectional majority
to the degradation and injury of the South, my heart
responds that resistance is duty, come what may.
rejoice, sir, that North Carolina has made like
response at the ballot-box.
have not sir, been ignorant of the attempt to dis
parage by calling public attention to the fact, that
those falsely ycalled ultra southern men and Abolition
lists voted together in opposition to the plan of the
Committee OF Thirteen in the Senate. Much denun-
citation was uttered on that account, and poor at
tempt to make political capital by that device. 1t is
true that southern statesmen opposed the progress of
the bill of the Committee of Thirteen, and that some
northern Free-Soiers and Abolitioniss did the