The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-09

be charged twenty-five per cent. higher than the ABOVE
rates. deduction viii be made 70 those VINO
advertise by the year.
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THE VOICE OF GEORGIA.
The Joint Committee on the State of the Republic
to which was referred those portions of the Gov
ernor's Message and the several Bills and Resolu-
tions relating to the subject of slavery, introduced
into either branch of the Legislature beg leave to
REPORT:
That they have given the most deliberate and sol
emn attention to the various suggestions embraced in
propositions submitted to them, referring to the SUBJ
iect of slavery, and have with minds fully impressed
with the great significance that must be given to any
action whatever on this matter at the present hour,
arrived at the conclusion that We should, as far as the
State of Georgia is concerned, recommend such ac-
ton as shall compose the public mind, suppress any
further agitation of controversy In which tor more
than twenty years the South has been constantly
worsted, or propose some efficient and practical
measures that shall prove the sincerity OF our COM
plants, and at the same time redress wrongs 1t
is vain to deny that the injured party, have for
series of years by vacating and temporizing policy
only assured the courage of our assaants and invt-
ed by an excessive sensibiity the subject of the
ultimate consequences of decisive action further and
still more inqutous experiments upon our forbear-
ance and patience. The best defence of liberty is
the first blow stricken in its defence and tor the rst
right violated. With all the accumulated injury of
fifteen years that we have had to endure from the
anti-savery Sates and that sensiby feel to-day,
we vet do not feel more keenly, nor do we express
more forcibly our sense of this outrage than did the
Legislature of Georgia twenty-five years ago, upon
the bare proposition of the friends of colonization to
vote an appropriation for the removal of free negroes
to Liberia Yet the Joint Committee the State of
the Republic in the year 1927, declared in reference
to this subject harmless in the comparison with the
audacty of recent legislation, that they could not
help reprobating the cold blooded selshness or u-
thinking zeal which actuates many Of our fellow
other States to an interference with our local
concerns and domestic relations totally unwarranted
either by humanity constitutional right Such in
reference is becoming every day more determined
and more alarming. 1t commenced with a few un-
thinking zealots, who formed themselves into abo-
ton societies; seized upon by more cunning and
designing men for political purposes, and is support
ed by than of the States. as is evident from
the amendments to the Constitution proposed by
legislative bodies, and so frequently and indeed in
sultingly presented for our appreciation. The result
of such interference if persevered In, Is awful and In
evitable. The people of Georgia know and strongly
feel the advantages of the Federal Union: as MEM
bers of that Union, they proud of its greatness
as children born under that Union they will ever de-
fend it from foes internal external but they
cannot and will not for the Preserration Of tie
Union, permit their ghts to be assailed they will
not permit their property to be rendered worthless
they will not permit their wives and children to be
driven as wanderers into strange ands they will not
permit their country to be made waste and desolate
by those who come among US under the cloak OF
time-serving and hypocritical benevolence. How
then is the evil to be remedied! Only by hrm and
determined union of the people and the States of the
South declaring through their legislative bodies in
voice which must be heard, that they are ready and
willing to make any sacrifice rather than submit
longer to such runous and warning their
enemies that they unwittngly preparing mine
Ill. ! pnh hnIN uad
country in one common ruin" Such language as
this the patriotic guardians of our State thought the
crisis of 1927 justified. Who now with the lights
of lS49 before him, and the enormites of northern
aggression since the days of this remonstrance but
feels that either the grievances of twenty years
were vastly exaggerated, we have suffered that
quick resentment and sensibility to wrong to fall
into decay and minds to become patient and calm
under infections which would have been intolerable
to the high spirits of that day! But may be urged
in defence of the long suffering of the South, that
her attachment to this Union has been akin to sa-
cred devotedness. That from no huckstering spirit
of profit of lucreoving have we clung to it with
such tenacity, that quarter Of century OF outrage
upon rights and of paltering with our capabillty
of endurance has barely been enough to induce US to
count the value of it, With the whole South this
Union has been regarded dear to US from higher.
nobler appreciation than because it "promoted the
general welfare.'' 1t has been dear to US because
purchased with the blood of our fathers, because
transmitted to with their benedictions, and be-
cause we had hoped under its sway to see human
liberty and human progress advance to that point that
should give the name Of American freedom as guar.
antee for any future experiments in segovernment.
Though often charged with reckless and restless
spirit, which was not submissive to constitutional
restraints, the South boldly meets this charge by
asking, when did we ever cause collision between
members of this Union by any aggressive legisla.
tion-by distrustful, sef-seeking, or domineer.
ing policy! When did the South, by stretching the
powers of the Government, excite alarm jealousy
When did she insult the selfrespect of any member
OF this Confederacy by contemptuous comparisons
or by pagmatical and patronsing interference witt
the internal policy and interests of any State!
Orwhen did her pulpit lend itself to fan the fam.
OF civil discord when in borders was the tenn
pie of the living God made the theatre of display TO
the rancorous hate of brother against his brother
Let these reproaches fall where they are deserved
the South has no dread of them. From the earlies
ed yielding and conciliatory spirit. For it will b
hard, indeed, for any one to show the slightest
tuaty in the concession made on the part of the
South of all representation Of twoths Of her slave
population. Can any fair reason be urged why ths
South should not have entered into this Conederacy
claiming full representation for this species of pro
pery! 1t taxation implies correlative right of rep
resentatlon, then was the Southern STAKEHOLDER un
Justly treated, when it demanded of him that be-
fore he could enter this Union as citizen, he mus
first surrender the right of having two-fths of his
slaves represented, when that two-fths were as Ger
tainy taxed on all articles of their consumption a.
were their masters. But yet the South yielded this
point. She consented also to abolish the foreign
slave trade, by which she might have cheaply sup.
Ped herself with slave labor, and when the northern
most slave States thought fit to abolish the institu
uon IN their borders, she nterposed no obstacle o.
ve1aiious hlndrances, though it might have beer
clearly toreseen that this result would have beer