Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-02-26
STAND BY YOUR COLORS!

that attempts being made to destroy old party
qanizatons and get up what is called, by way of ex-
eelIence, Union party. These attempts appear to
manifest themselves more decidedly in the free States
than in the saveholding and there is both propriety
and reason in this for Mot is the quarter in which
sound and jus: regard for the Union ought to be
and for State sovereignty prevails to the least extent
and is most needed. We hail this spirit in the free
States, and hope it may grow and spread; bet here
in North Carolina, where we ask only to be let alone
SO far as the Slavery question is concerned, and where
no hand is lifted against the continuance of the Union,
We can perceive no good reason for establishing
mongre party, for any organization of the charac-
ter alluded to- The truth is, these attempted Union
organizations are calculated by their very tendency, in
this reson to reflect upon every citizen who stands
forward with determined spirit in behalf Of South
ern rights, and to increase that very power in the
Federal Government which threatens, in the end, to
absorb every valuable attribute of State
t What have we in North Carolina done, that
should be called upon to approve the late " adjust
men" and to vote for no man for President or Vice
President, or for any other Office, who does not ap-
prove i,1 We ocquiesce in tive submit to it, and
is net that sufficient 1t is enough for us to say that
,rs will make the fugitiveslave law test of sound.
ness and is for the better portion of the Northern
people to compel their public men to this standard;
but as Southern man, and as the Editor of free
press, we would go beyond this, and distinctly de-
clare that would support man for public station,
who did not emPhaticaily condemn any and all at
tempts to give Congress jurisdiction in any shape or
of any character whatsoever the Slavery question:
That is the point after ALL which this whole ques-
ton If the people Of the free States wiH agl-
tate this subject in their primary assemblies and In
their legislative chambers let them do it, with the cer
tany that they are thereby daily weakening the bonds
that have made US one people; but at the same time
while we bear that as best may, let Us denand as
a righ and inss, upon it to the last extremity, that
Sarery shall hereafter be an unpronouncabk aOord in
the halls of Congress- We are the assailed and aggreved
section. We have not harmed the people of the free
States in either their character their persons, their
estates and we, under these circumstances
the thunderbots which these people have launched
against US still burning in mds,-to approve their
action, to aud their love of the Union, and to pro-
scribe fellow citizens by getting up these
lists in North Carolina, and there is therefore,
cessity for oganzinga Union party to put down dis
union; on the contrary in humble judgment, that
man who stands up unfinchingy for the reserved
rights Of the States, is the best Union man, while he
who is eternally cfying Union Union! is most to
be dreaded the advocate of consolidation, and
of course of policy which would inevitably tend
to the destruction of every vital principle of Unior
and of Constitutional liberty. THAT is our opinion
We state it generally, without any wish or intention
to reflect upon any one or any party.
If the Democratic party of the United States hat
remained in power, these Slavery troubles would
have been avoided, promptly net and settled Their
can no doubt that the Administration of Gen. sy
lor contributed more than all things else to infam
these troubles and put the South to the wall in tn
late exciting controversy. Always sectional, tn
Wing party in the contest which resulted in his ele
saton 10 power, pretended to be national and in OF
der to succeed in their struggle for the spos, the
managed to array, under the same banner, the BIZ
ter anti-Slavery man of New England, who contende
that Gen. Taylor thought with him on this question
and the ardent Southron, who pointed with triumph
ant satisfaction to his three hundred negroes as ev
dence Of his devotion to Southern rights. The resu
Oh all this is we'll known to the country. We do nj
propose to dwell uponi it. If Gen. Cass had been
iec'ed' we have Mr. Webster's authority for sayin
''a' Inc Missouri line would have been established
ana tha'' with other measures equally fair, woul
nave given satisfaction to the most ultra Souti
ern State.
But under any and every view of the question,
no~ presents itssE, it becomes the Democrats
% .n e'a'es rights Jeffersonian party, to IS stand
ae,1 colois There is no safety either in tho ranl
~ Tue federalists, or under new flag. Let US stan
''' we are, and 'uatch and let US ac in the faeur
Just regard for our vital interests NAV reoui