The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-22
From the NORTH Carolina Standard.

SEwARpIsM AND SOUTHERN RrGHTs-The
last Wilmington Aurora says: ave have rarely
been so much surprised as at receiving since the
last number from William H. Seward, of New
York, a copy of his speech on emancip patton in
the District of Columbia, of September | ill.,
1850. We have read it, and thrown it into the
fire." ."'.t
We received copy of the same speech,
glanced over it, and threw it aside. 1t goes boldly
and broadly for emancipation in the District but
in this Seward is sustained, even now, by not less
than ten Senators and fifty members of the
House. He is the strongest man this day, in
the great State of New York-stronger than
President Fillmore from the same State, as the
vote in the late Syracuse Convention proves
Abolitionism is progressive. The anti-slavery
man of yesterday is the Free-soier of to-day
and the Free-soiler of to-day is the Abolitionist
Of tomorrow.
Nothing but the union of the South can save
the Union. If we fail to unite-if we should
prefer party objects and party rewards to the
performance Of a solemn duty, and should thus
refuse to stand all upon common platform upon
this vital subject, the Union may live on, and ii
will, for few years more but there must be a
point which, when reached by our assaiants, will
force secession and rend the bonds.
Gentlemen frequently speak of "resistance"
on this subject. AS long as the Union endures
we may resist" according to Parliamentary
forms, and protest, and warn, but let dissolution
come and what power remains to be resisted q
The Federal Government! What the creature
attack the creator! If this Union should ever
be dissolved, the Southern people will Or
ganize anew politically, and remain quietly at
their homes They will not invade the North
ern people; but If invaded by them, they will
fight and triumph. Most earnestly do we trust
that this result may be avcrtcd.
We hear great deal from certain Southern
men about the danger of sectional DIVISIONS
Now who is responsible for sectional and geo.
graphical parties Not the South surely, for the
South is standing on the defensive. The North
creates these sectional disputes and divisions,
and then denounces us as the cause of them
and strange to say, there are men in the South
who join the North in these denunciations We
hear nothing from certain Southern Wing poll
ticians when the free States seek, by scctiona
array of strength, to increase our Tariff taxes, o.
to appropriate millions Of the public money fo
the benefit Of their rivers and harbors but whcr
we stand forward merely on the defensive, tc
shield IN institution of the first importance to
our people, both socially and politically we arc
met by the cry, from these same politicians, OF
danger to the Union from sectional parties and
sectional organization
We want none of Stewards speeches; but we
should like to see the man for few hours, in
some of the Southern States. We think we
could show him "higher' limb out South, than
could be found any where North. But after all
as we have heretofore said, Seward is no worse
than thousands and thousands in the free States
Unless the South shall unite, the work of abo.
lition will 60 on; and in less than ten year.
there will be millions of Seward men where
there are now only hundreds and Thousands
That is our opinion. We may be in error, but
time will determine.