The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-18
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NUMBER 833.

interpose. Should Texas actually take possession,
no statute of Limitation will run against the United
States, and evil can ensue. The concern, and
conscientious anxeties, under which he SUFFERS are
still more matter of surprise, when we know that
many cases such described by the statutes of
1895 and 1907, do exist and of continual occur
renee, and he is not moved to action BY them. The
acts on which he relies for authority coerce Texas,
refer to such combinations in any State Territory
to resist the laws of the United States prevent their
execution, as cannot be overcome by the judicial
ority, or the powers given to the marshals by those
acts; and that then hePresdent may call on the army,
navy, and militia to enforce the laws and secure their
execution. Now, in many of the non-slavehoding
States of the Union, such combinations do exist.
The Governors and Legislatures give evidence of their
existence IN the Statute book. 1t made highly penal
tor courts, officers citizens to aid the marshal in
the capture and delivery of fugitive slaves, in open
violation of the Consttuton-the fundamental law
OF the land. Gerrt Smith, Of New York, president
of the negro-steang society, published his manifesto,
boastng OF combination to STEAL protect, and remove
the property of Shareholders Mobs interfere res
cue slaves who are taken. No prudent man is will
Ing to risk his life for the recovery of his property in
many of the States and notorious as these facts are,
widely known and loudly complained of, the President
has feIt no CONSCIENTIOUS impulses to urge him to break
up such combinations. But when the plan is to bny
slave territory to make free soil-to dismember a
southern State and despo1 her of her doman-when
the banner of abolition is to be pushed forward-he
necessity becomes pressing, and with a sword welded
by himself and ten millions of dollars raised from
the taxation OF people now pressed with public
debt, he threatens, and asks Congress bribe Tex
as. 10 come down to the Paso, and with the Pacific
occupied by California, the Gordon of free States
round the slave States will be complete. Am l. then,
in error, when say this is abolition Government!
think not, sir; for all the territorial policy looks to
the abolition of slavery. the term abolition, in
reference to ultimate consequences call every Free
Solier, every advocate of anti-slavery measures
restrictions, every who votes for the proviso or
refuses to repeal the Mexican laws, if he believes
them efficient to exclude the South, Abolitonist
pro tanf". There are various stages of the species
the caterpillar is chrysalis before he becomes bv:.
terfy; the tadpole will certainly become frog-be
may present nondescrpt appearance in his nterme
dlae state. but he will shed every appendage incon-
sistent with his ultimate condition, and come out
frog confessed. The ldestanti-slavery man would
vote or the proviso if he did think the Mexican
laws sufficient for his purpose. and all at last unite to
prevent the saveholder from equal participation in The
public domain. 10 extingush slavery, either by d.
rect abolition restricted surace-either by immedi-
ate destruction or ultimate starvation, is the avowed
object; and TO it all degrees of antisavery doctrines
assuredy lead.
Abolition and free-soilism, sir, have become very
powerful this Government. The distribution Of
hiyelght millions of dollars year, and the emolu
ments OF office, rapidly creating national polit-
clans IN the South. The sword and the ermine are
concentrated in the President-he will soon seize the
purse and dispense with the formaities of election
tor his successor He will, in short time have not-
ing to buy, because, sir, you will have nothing to
sell. National Democratic or national Wing parties
may bring about such state of things, but they
never remedy the evil. We see it already in the am
bitlon of politicians to have national reputation.
osds, sir, become things, and it is important that
we should understand the meaning which has been
attached to them by circumstances. Speeches, let
ers and editorials, lled with such these
Southern Hotspurs, nuifers, uras, disunionsts per
Sc, and traitors the hand and moderate men,
patriots and national politicians the other. In
nection with the great issues occupying the pub
lie mind, southern Hotspnr indicates that asserts
the equality OF southern members OF this Conederacy;
nuiher, one who is so simple to suppose that
papable violation of the Constitution, In any law,
ought to take away its effect; an ultra, who is
satisfied with part of the territory for the occupation
of his constituents who will acquiesce in the Mis-
souri, compromise line; disunionst per Sc, who
does not promptly yield TO any and every Of
adjustment, without reference TO the rights and the
honor of this sections and he traitor, who dares
commit the sin of violated majesty, in suPposng that
P'nnder, insult, oppression, and degradation, the
name of the Union, ought to be met and resisted,
South dare to claim all of her rights, (Which few
have the boldness to do, there is in the
abulary of reprobation which describes his offence
it is, sire deed without a name.''
vi the OneE ndnQ, moderate man sees the saliva
ton Of the country in the organization of national
parties and presidential conventions, and patriot
yields to the demands of injustice for the Unions
sake He can weep tears of bitterness over the evils
which threaten its integrity-looks with idolatrous
reverence to it the great end of liberty as the
means of securing it-bows at the altar of the Fed
eral Observation-Disclosures all who think that they
owe allegiance to the sovereign State III which they
reslde whose citizens they represent, and whose pro-
tectng shields their families and their resides-
owes higher and paramount allegiance here and no
lnat,er what comes, although the Constitution be vo
lated and his rights withheld, he will kiss the rod
which smites him, and bow to the tyranny which
treads him to the earth.
The people, sir, the great lexicographers-they
will revise this edition Of newly-defned terms, and
probable they may not fully approve it, propose
to give more detailed account OF national politicians
and the process by which they formed-those
who enjoy the glory and redolent with the odor
of national reputation. Northern men being in ma
jority, acquire it easily. They bargain for with
expecants Of patronage, and calculate with some cer
tany; hut the southern politician has difficult
task to perform. After much study, l think haye
ascerained how it can be done, and will tell you,
sr-t is interesting understand all those process
es, which such important elements in the current
of events which surround us. A southern politician,
to be national. must stand South and lean North !;
must censure any of his friends who urgent for
the rights of their constituents and apologize for an
ti-slavery allies must praise the Union steadily and
vocierousy, make its glores the staple of his speech
es end conversation, attribute all the excesses of the
Abolitionsts to the utrasm of southern men; ACQUIRE
the reputation of moderate man by never demanding
the rights of those who have intrusted them to his
care advise compromises and submission because it
is the best that be had; always be in the Of
the just demands of the South and say he is for them
but they cannot be had If southern member of Con-
gress claims bare justice for his section, rebuke him
and tell him our northern friends cannot vote for that
measure, although due to us. because it will destroy