North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-11-30
Gov MANLY,s MESSAGE.

Message on the Slavery question: He commends
the so-caed Compromise TO our willing and hearty
support" in one breath, and in the next he talks
vaguely about g righis''savs ). t,ese iii new
er be Surrendered -aad that :. we ,a a,r s,a,d !,
the ranks of Southern destiny 80 What else. pray
# the worst should happen, could we do, Gould
We join - the ranks of Northan destinv !, g. Is
thata supposahle case tod lae5sssG 80 issiali!a
We neither :. willingly nor heartily sun.
port this so-called Compromises. Ii is enough for
the people of this State, who have gained nothing
by it, to acquiesce init the law of The land Il
circumscribes Slavery. aboshes the save-ade in the
District, organizes Territorial governments only on
former principles, and takes from Texas for consd-
Grafton, millions Of of slave SOIL We have
got, it is true, the fpgiye-slave law but The Con-
stitution gave that before, and have gained
nothing on this score. Gov. Manly seems to think
that the whole question has been adjusted and
that we are now to have peace; but whence comes
this repose, and when Are not the elements more
fiery and ungovernabe than heretofore Has
not this boosted measure. instead of securing hamo-
ny and revving brothery affection, increased dssat-
Isacon In both sections and aroused still stronger
passions And wherefore Because twas unjus,
10 one great section which has never assaiIed the
rights of the other; and because the section which
gain, is now unwilling, part of the bargain to
perform its plain duty under the common Constitution.
Gov. Manly, it seems, could not aIlude to this
question without denouncing Southern :. factonists
and agators,' and making covert attack on South
Carolina. lis obvious that he considers such states
Clingman, Shepard, and venable. who insis.
upon rights among these factionsts -; and
he calls upon the "sons of freedom - to combine to
thoc Of
fined to some particular section of the country -
meaning South Carolina. The Governor appears to
forget that all this time we of the South have been
passive and the North active; aud that then are the
g factionisis - and "agators y on this question
He perceives very great danger in the North ex-
cept from ga body of fanatics contemplate for num-
beers and responsibility -; and he is greatly shocked
at the .sspectacle - of - sacred " alliance-nay
more than that-a Constitutional national Union of
noble people in peril of being discovered and broken
up by gangs of runaway negroes, and their crazy al
lies" Now the Governor either knows nothing about
assallants their Number in the free States, or,
like the National Inelligencer, he would conceal the
acs for party purposes, from the people of his State
Does he not know that nearly every free State has in
struced its Representatives to vote against the urh
er extension of Slavery! And does he not feel, as
southern man, that to circumscrbe slavery destroy
and US in the end And does he knoao, also, that
many of the free States have instructed their Repre-
sentatves abolish the institution in the Dis
trict! And has he,as the Governor of sovereign
State yet to learn. that nearly every free State has
passed laws forbidding the of their jails the
masters of fugitive slaves, and imposing heavy penal
ties their officers if they even lift finger aid
these masters in their efforts to their proper
ty! Does be not know that Horace Mann has tri-
umphed over Daniel Webster in Massachusetts, and
that Sewardism has swept the s. Empire State /? Is
he blind not to that thus far the fugitive
slave law is imperative and dead letter. And yet
in view of all these facts Gov. Manly utters halleu.
jahs to the so-caed Compromise, and leaves the in-
ference the minds of the people, by his language
and mode of treating the subject. that the Union is
in peril only from "a gangs of runaway negroes and
their crazy allies"! pretty sentinel, truly, upon
the watchtower of the I" sons Of freedom -! .
By the way. has the Governor heard Of GER
tain factionist and "agitator, who, in order
get enough votes to re-elect him to certain office,
out in of his campaigns and sought TO array
portion of his State against the other this very
question, and then denied it, Gov. Manly should be
the last individual talk of g aconiss - and agi
tators." 1855 s.-5ifE as.l -..a.E = Is
We shall alude to other points in this document
in subsequent numbers.