Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-10-22

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their acts, whether the Union shall continue OF be
dissolved.
Mr.. Webster made the following prediction in re-
lation to the ugitiveslave law, in Speech delivered
BY him few months ago in Syracuse, New York
'Depend upon it, the law will be executed in its
spirit and to its letter. 1t will be executed in all the
great cities-here in Syracuse, in the midst of the
next anti-slavery Convention, if the occasion shall
arise. -
Well the occasion arose-the Anti-Slavery Con-
vention was in session-the people with the
casion, and the law was not executed! The fugitive
was taken by violence from the hands of the United
States officers, and was put on his way TO Canada.
The officers were badly beaten, and Of them had
his arm broken in two places.
Syracuse is famous for its sat-wo orks and the peo-
pie of the South AMI of the United States, are now
paying, for the benefit of this Sy :acuse, pro-
tectve duty of 20 per cent cd vare every bushel
of Salt which the capitalists there make!
Who believes that those, or any of those who
participated in the Syracuse outrage, will be executed
for treason! We all know how difficult matter it
is to have person condemned for the crime Of mur-
der, especially when the prisoner happens to have
gold and friends; but in this case the offenders are
among the first people in the community, and the
sympathies of the community are all with them.
Why does not the President march troops to these
disaected towns, with instructions to enforce the
law at all hazards.
Is this " treason! 1fso, we humbly beg pardon
OF the Raleigh Register. We know that an honest
advocacy of Southern Rights and of Constitutional
Union is considered Disunionsm' and s. treason''
in certain quarters but then have endeavored to
be as mild and quiet possible in the course we
have pursued. Pardon, good Register!
President Fillmore calls upon his countrymen to
rally and maintain the adjustment measures as the
only way to preserve the integrity of the Union:
The Massachusetts whig convention endorse all
the "just and patriotic measures" of Mr. Fillmore.
But the same con vention, also, endorses the New
York platform:
Now this platform is decided in sanctioning agi-
tation bring about modification repeal of some
of these measures.
Therefore the whig convention does not consider
these measures just patriotic, and refuses rally
upon and maintain what the President regards nc
cessary to maintain the Union
Suck is the logic Of the matter. But the simple
fact is, the whig convention meant to show Janus
faces-to play doube-to be at the north antislave-
~ and at the south for the compromise. Somebody
must be cheated. Boston Post.
The Boston Post, printed in free State, exposes
the corruption and bad conduct of the New York and
Massachusetts, Wings, and shows that they still
leagued against the fugitiveslave law and the rights
of the South; the Raleigh Register, printed in a
slaveholding State, covers up this bad conduct and
these corruptions, and endeavors show that these
same Wings are good compromise - men and
friends of the Union. The Boston Post is soundel
this day on the Slavery question than the Raleigh
Register is.
The Hon. George NJ. Dallas, of Pennsylvania,
has recently written letter to gentleman in Texas
which has been published, in which he gives it as
his opinion that the " compromise measures " have
not ranquilized the country. He says: {" 1t has be-
come quite manifest that the expectation, fondy in
dulged, of tranquizing the country by the egisla.
tive measures, is deh.siue'' He adds: 1.-THE act
tracted and persevering war upon the guarantees o
the Constitution. This is the opinion of gentle
man eminent for his attainments and his virtues, and
citizen of free State. Mr.. Dallas puts the blame
where it belongs, the people Of the free States.
We sincerely trust that, in the end, the fugitive
slave law may be respected in the free States and
faithfully enforced but the probability at present is
that more persons claiming slaves will be held to bail
on charge Of kidnapping, than will be executed Of
even punished for resisting the law. If the law is
to be enforced in such manner as 10 be worth any,
thing to the STAKEHOLDER, the Chrs,iana and Syracuse
traitors must be punished. We await the result with
much anxiety.
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