North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-06
MIR RRowNsoN ON FREEsoILGsM.

The July number OF Brownson g t2uarteLiy review
contains powerful article Freesosm. IN W hich
the progress and of that Destructive
facism, the character Of its leaders, andthe newt.
able end which IL is drivinggeneral anarchy and
and truth. In4the end Mr.. Brownsons utterly demo-
ishes the moral platform Of the Freesoiiers In their
resistance the Fugitive Slave Law and their as
saults on Southern institutions The article ID Ic
view of the Sermon of the Rev. Theodore Parker, on
the occasion the restoration of Sims to his OWNER
We quote from it few passages that are Pan,;o
from the Context, and commend them to the atlehioh
OF our readerss
Mr. Parker plainly counsels resistance to the laws
downright treason and civil war-oniy not Jus.
The hour is not yet come, and armed ress'anoe 50
be premature because just now II ls ,.ai'o,o"s re-
cessfu! The traitorous intention, Inc traltoious
solution is manifest, is avoved, is even goieu Ia,
and nothing is wanting to the overt atIemPl 70 Az
it into execution but fair prospect OF succeSs IF
what is of more serious consequence, Inc parry -
which this fierce declamer is accredited organ
now in power in this State, and has the Governor ana
the majority of the Representatives in both houses OF
Congress. 1t rules or mlsrues TIE great ee.e W
Ohio; it is numerous in Pennsylvania, almost Inc
majority in New York, triumphant in Vermont anu'
can but just not say, also in New hampshire
Its principles entertained by men who do mol pro-
fess allegiance to the party. Nearly every memoe[
of Congress from this State with the exception OF
Mr.. Appleton of this city, is in reality as nluc
Freesoiler as Horace Mann or Robert Rantoul. Mr..
Winthrop, the Wing candidate for the Senate was
not whit sounder than Mr.. Sumner, his successful
Freesoil competitor, and would have made iar more
dangerous Senator. The party has absorbed IN us
bosom all the separate fanaticsms OF the tree STATES
and all who like ourselves, have watched lis grown
from 1881, well aware that it has been steadily
advancing, that it has never lost an inch OF grouno
once gained; and that it has never for moment met
with serious check. 1t is as certain as anything
human can be- that if it is not speedily resisted and
resisted it yet has been, 1t Will In snort
time possess the power nearly all the Tree Shtes'
and consequently in the Union itself. 10 what then
we coming!
sThis statement will, no doubt, crafty and encour-
age the party but the party has already become too
strong to be pushed aside as contemplate, and we
must not deceive ourselves as TO the magnitude o the
dlnger that threatens us. Both parties, wings anu
Democrats-Whigs more especially till lately, nave
crminally tempered with it, and aided 1t TO acquire
its present formidable power power which, per-
haps, is longer comfortable. The measures NTH
eric taken against it have thus far only exasPerated
and strengthened it. The " Compromise measures
of the late Congress, which was Topped would aiiay
the excitement, and extnguish the party by dePTlVns
il of all pretence for further agitation, have had only
contrary effect. We do not agree with the so-call-
ed disunionsts of the South for are unlonlsts, but
! it must-be confessed that they have been the only
considerable party in the country that has hau any
tolerable appreciation of the Freesoil movement
They correct in their predictions that the Com
promise measures would be Intellectual, and they have
oversated the danger. We say not danger to the
institution of slavery for the question Of slavery loses
itself in much higher question: even higher and
more Important than the simple maintenance OF the
Union-in the question of the maintenance OF society
itself. The Freesoers to American society what
Red Republicans and Socialists are to European So
ciey, and their triumph is the triumph of anarchy and
despotsm.
GOOD, quiet easy men, looking over their led
gers or slipping their wine, may fater themselves
that there is serious danger, and tell Us that we
are unnecessarily alarmed; but in all human Proba-
bility. if the fugitive slave Sims had not been given
up the claim of MS owner, the American Union
had now already ceased TO exist. 1t is all very we'll
TO talk of ''Southern busterers, and the "Hospurs
of the South. but there is something more than blus-
ter just The Southern people are as virtuous
and patriotic we, and their statesmen are as en-
ghtened and sagacious ours. They see what,
with individual exceptions, we do not permit our
selves to see, that the free States are fast losing all
their respect for law and becoming unaithfu to their
solemn engagements, and blind all the claims of
religion and morality. They that the abolition OF
slavery at the bidding of our fanatics would be the
dissolution of American society ITSELF They see the
disorganizeIs steadily advancing, and that we are
taking no efficient means to repress ihem, and they
very naturally consult secession from the Union as
the only means of sef-preservation that remain to
them. They may be wrong, but We of the North
have right blame them for doing what fore
ing them to d. if they wish to retain any selnbance OF
freedom.
! Let no man deceive himself with the vain hope
that this radicaliSm now represented by the Freeso
party would stop with the mare abolition of negro
slavery. 1t is the persuasion of so many OF our cIt-
Zens that it would which renders it dangerous
The abolition of slavery by violence. against the will
! OF the masters and without compromising them for
the property compel them to surrender, would be
great evil but it is OF the lightest evils to be
expected from The progress of Freesoi fanaticism.-
We assure the public. and it is the point we wish
particularly impress upon readers that the abo
tion of negro slavery is only incident in Freeso
ism. Neither the Freesoilers nor foresee
where they would stop. Combining, they do, in
all the several classes Of fanatics in the country,
and being the party opposed to law, TO constitutions
and governments certain it is they would not stop
long there remained single safeguard for indiv-
dual freedom, a single institution capable OF i'm
posing the least restraint upon awless and despoiic
will. No doubt there honest but deceived indvl
duals in the party, who will not go all lengths with
ii; but they will be impotent to restrain it, and the
party itself, augmenting its forces as it Marches will
go whithersoever its centous and despotic principles
lead, unless speedily and effectually resisted by the
sounder part of the community by the merciful in
terpostion of Divine Providence.
''The essential principle Of the Freesoi party, that
exclusively or mainly, opposition TO slavery. Half
in all its forms, against all the principles and maxims
of the past and all the moral religious, social and Po
itical institutions of the present. party formed
against the common reason, common sense, and CON-
mon interests of mankind With the of religion
and morality their lips its leaders are almost to
man, infdeIs and basphemeIs. well as traitors and
disorganizers. They ara men for whom it is not
enough sin from appetite passion, but who must
sin from rincipe,-for whom 1t Is not enough to see
the good, approve it, and yet pursue the wrong but
Who perver conscience itself erect evil into good
and make sin pass for virtue. They aim at reversing
all the judgments of mankind, and brand the Christian
virtues vices and exalt the vices opposed to them
to the rank and dignity of Christian virtues. What