North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-11-16
MEssRs. vENABLE And MILLER. J

staents, but reputation throughout the country OF
which any man might well be proud. No man has
shown himself better friend of the Constitution and
the Union than he has. while at the time he has
been among the foremost of those gallant spirits of
the Senate and House, who have commended so
firmly, SO constantly. and so eloquently, from the
first for the interests of their section and the equal
rights OF the States. Time and again, as the tmid
gave back and temporizers quailed has his clarion
voice been heard sounding above the din and tumult
of opposing factions, pleading for the Union as It
ought to be, and for the Constitution fathers
made it and though at time il was considered
by even some of his best friends, that he was TOO
far in front and too determined in maintaining his
positions, yet time has shown that they were in
and that he was right. When, fourteen months ago,
he took the ground that the best which could
then be adopted by the South, to cut off all in
with the North and thus reach the feelings
of assaants through their pocet-nerpes, how
he denounced by Wing orators and Wing presses as
"agitator ''-as fomenter of discord and strife,
and as almost traitor to the Union of the States!
And yet now we find these orators and presses,
with few exceptions, on has ground advising the very
course which they so bitterly condemned in him
This is compliment to his sagacity which is the
more valuable, because of the from which it
comes and the manner in which it has been paid and
it may be that sense of these facts operates in no
small degree, in keeping alive among these orators
and presses those feelings Of hostility towards him
which were engendered at the period mentioned.
They dislike him because his sagacity battles them
and they denounce him because they stand rebuked
before the people by his holiness, energy, and con-
stancy.
We learn that Mr.. Venable addressed portion of
his constituents at Oxford during the late Term of
Granville County Court; and that he was replied to
by Henry w. Miller. Esq, of this City. We learn
also, from the Register, that Committee of eigh-
teen-citizens of Granvlle-have asked Mr.. Miller for
acopy OF his Speech and he has promised to furnish
it. The Correspondence the subject has been
published in the Register. These gentlemen tell
Mr. Miller that they feel deep and abiding inter-
est in the preservation of glorious Union" and
IS anxious that no effort shall be spared quell
the turbulent elements of political discord, and sup
press ultrasm and fanaticsm, and produce in the
South firm, decided, and unflinching adherence to
the Compromise Acts ~; and Mr.. Miller, in his
ply, says he is for those Acts, and that he shall sal
ways feel proud to be humble co-laborer with
them and other patriotic men, matter to what
party they belong in the of our glorious Union
and its Constitution ,.... :. -
Mr.. Miller then, and these gentlemen who agree
Mr.. Venable is ultra and fanatical," and his
course is hostile to the Union. This is the plain
English of the whole matter. Now, recognize
the right of no set of set themselves up
better friends of the Constitution than those who,
like Mr.. Venable, have struggled preserve it from
violation and destruction; and who, failing in this,
would from its wreck and from the foul traitors
who have trampied it down, to the adoption of new
plans for future security. 6 Ultraists are men, ac-
cording to understanding of the term, who make
extreme demands. Has Mr. Venable done this
Has he, at any time asked than the South was
entitled to, or than the Constitution gave her! Is
he to be confronted by Wing champions and de-
nounced because of his devotion to the Constitution
and the rights of his constituents ..,4-..-..
But what time did these gentlemen and their
orator select for their glor6cation over these Com
promise Acts -! At the very moment when the only
measure in the whole series calculated benefit the
South, was disregarded, reved, and openly dsobey-
ed In Boston and throughout most of the New Eng
land States-at this moment, when citizens of slave
holding States who had gone North for the purpose
of avaling themselves of the provisions of this law
and OF thus exercising their plain Constitutional
rights are hunted like felons and driven back with
insult and injury-at this moment, do these gentle
men come forward to "produce - in Southern minds I
uCCiucu ouuSTdtlce TINS S0-cdIled u compromise |
TO assail those who ught it their duty 10 oppose
it-and to laud the authors of this plan of peace
We hear no denunciations of the fanatics-no manly
declaration that they cease their assaults upon
US, and thatthe leading politicians of the free States
must make them do it, the price of continued
union; but lecture is read in the shape of an eps-
tie to the orator, ultrasm and fanaticism '-and
no one can tell. either from the language or tone of
the ePlste, whether this lecture is intended for North
ern or Southern men, 1t is proper that these gentle
men and their orator should be reminded that then
are not the only friends of the Constitution and the
Union in North Carolina and that if thew yvould
preserve this Union and shield this Constitution from
PaPabe violation, they cease their attacks on
such champions of both as Mr.. Venable, and mite
as one man. without respect party divisions or dis
tnchons, in arresting the tide of fanatcism which
their boosted measures of Compromise " hase not
as get checked, and which threatens unless encoun-
tered boldly and at once ovesweep and oyershsm
US ALL This is no time for disputes among ourselves
or for the achievement of oraorical riumphs by one
Southern man over another. Let as reserve our am
munition and the fire of fints for the common f
foe. Instead of disparagng Mr. Venable's efforts,
and endeavorlng to embarrass and hamper him, LET
these gentlemen, truehearted Southern patriots n
cheer him by their appreciation when he speaks, and
bid him God speed in his noble work. II he IS zeal
Gus and ardent, let them remember that is for them
he is laboring and that if in their opinion he errs