The North-Carolina standard., 1850-03-13

the u.raism of those who resisted the collection of
or the enormties of the Star Chamber.
We could find no person at this day who would de-
nounce as disorganzers those who drove off James,
snatched the ermine from Jeffries, and hailed the
Prince of Orange deliverer. No statesman, no
discreet reader of history, refer these events to
immmediate acts of oppression. Patience was ex-
hausted by long-contnued course of injustice; hope
of redress was extingushed, and the principle of
sistance called into high activity, which had before
that time been manifested only by remonsrance and
complaint. .-.. s.s-
Sir, the principle of loyalty to the government has
a powerful sway over the human heart 1t is most
important element in patriotism ITSELF and, like lia
affection, be destroyed by none but mighty
This is true, whether it be government created by
the people, like our own-whose majesty is and
felt in the laws by which they choose to bind them
seves-or whether it be government of any other
kind. Patriotism-a higher principle than the love
of locality-draws the affections of the heart
to that of which dispenses peace, justice,
security and repose; and those affections
be diverted from that direction except by gross and
outrageous wrong, insuerable and degrading injury.
1t becomes Us to inquire why this disturbing anxiety
among ourselves! What has clouded our horizon !!
What has transformed this hall, once the scene of
calm deliberaon, into the theatre of fierce debate
What disturbing element is that which mingles it.
self in every of this House, marrng its harmony
and destroying its dignity! Why has the anomaly
of disorganizaon at the present session of Con-
gress excited the apprehensions of large portion of
our countrymen, and, had almost said, the disgust
of all. Why the intense interest in the election of
an officer of this House, whose station derives most
of its consequence from the petty emoluments which
pertain to it? Surely event of recent occurrence
is the cause. Nothing which has sprung up sudden
ly in our midst could have produced such results
The prophets gourd sprang up in night, but it per-
ished soon; but these scenes of exasperaton and
strife follow each other in quick succession, each
more abiding in its effects and more menacing in its
character. Sir, is melancholy truth that there is
deep and fixed alienation among the people of this
graphical line feeling of settled hostility does ex-
st; and he is reckless Of the influence of facts who
does not perceive it.
gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Schenck] some days
since declared that when it became the settled policy
of the people of this Republic that man from the
slaveholding States would vote for one in the non-
slaveholdng States and vice rersa, this Union was
dissolved. That event would not dissolve the Union.
No. SIR the apparent would have long preceded
it. Such hostile feeling would be the consequence
of policy long anterior and that gentleman, should
he live to see such result, might perhaps find in his
own votes on the Wilmot proviso. and kindred
ures, at least one Of the principal elements in this de-
plorable state of things.
I am aware, sir, that it belongs to the policy of
those who pursue a system of wrong and oppression
to divert attention from themselves, and fix the blame
of disturbance and disorder upon the wronged and
oppressed. An old device, but one that has lost no
charms in the eyes Of the unscrupulous. 1t is still
dangerous in pervertng or in concealing the truth
To rebuke and restrain the complaints of those who
are aggrieved, is with great complacency, denoml-
mated conservatism, whilst their murmurs and remon-
strances are denounced as ultraism and mpracticab
ty. The oppressed clamorous. and attract obser-
vation; they are pundered, and they demonstrate /;
they unjustly used and they complain. The
compacent wrong-doer calls himself a conservative,
because he has no cause to be dissatisfied with the
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things, which would decrease his gains. Wrapped
in the mantle of his own good feelings, he wonders
why any of his fellow-ctizens should complain of
rights curtailed when, by that operation his are
so much increased. We know that power can pur-
chase parasites and demagogues; that the masses
complaints mere camor, and all show of resist
wicked disregard of the obligations OF society
Some twenty years since passed through the first
act in this drama Of plunder; but the deed was dis
gused protective tariff, by legislation. transfer
red, magnificent scale, the money Of the agrcul-
turasts to the Golfers of the manufacturers, and the
expenditure of much the larger portion of the revenue
at the North created constant balance of trade in
their favor against the South, thus curtailing oul
profits and preventing the growth of our commercial
cities. Menaced resistance compelled relaxation
but rapacity knows no pause, and in our days we
witness the open purpose of plundering the whole
domain for partial distribution To do this, the in
stitution of domestic slavery must be assaled and
weakened, and all the exasperatng appliances which
have been adopted to consummate it pressed with
unrelenting tenacity.
With these facts to guide we can he At no loss to
the inquiry, What are the causes of agitation
and discontent1 We find the first in the laws enac
ted by the non-saveholding States, preventing and
discouragng the recapture Of fugives-laws express
ly against the letter and the spirit of the Consttu
ton. The attempt to emancipate slaves in this DIS
rict the forts, srsenals and dockyards belonging
the United States by cesson from the States in which
they are located The purpose by the proviso to ex
clude shareholders from all the territories of the Uni
ted States by more compendious measure, the for
chile manufacture by Executive interference OF States
out of territorial domain with this exclusion in th
constitution, and their unceremonious introduction
into this Confederacy. All these measures indicate
an undisguised purpose for the total emancipation
slaves throughout the United States as we'll as th'
territories. purpose which, so far from being con
cealed, was boldly announced in the Senate during
the last Congress by the late Senator from New York
Mr.. Dix He said that the policy and the desig'
Of those who opposed the extension of slavery by tn
proviso to surround the slave States with
Gordon of free States and starve slavery out" lh
meaning of which ominous warning can only be this
to compress the white and black race within such
narrow compass that the white race must abando
their country to blacks, come under their poltica
control by the mere force of numbers. degradatlo
aggravated by the most refined cruelty. policy t
overwhelm and ruin the South, which has no parable
in its enormity but the cool malignlty with which
| is announced.
These are the causes of agitation. These cause
exist and are continually increasing in aggravatlor
Let enquire who are the agltators and distu'
bers! And here, sir, as in the whole course OF m
remarks, shall abstain from any declaration unac
companied with proof. 1 mean to be respectful, an
if compelled to speak strongly undertake to spea
no more strongly than wellascertaned facts demand
answer the question, who the agitators! by ave-
ring that the advocates of those offensive measure
are alone to be blamed for the disturbance of our