North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23
How shall the Union be Preserved

and all the attendant cala1nities. just rub out OF
the policy of the federal government all traces OF
whiggery, vote all wings out of Congress, and put
the administration into the hands Of a good demo
crat and the causes that have stirred up this sec
t;ona strife will cease, and we shall hear no more
of secession or disunion.
The whole of the i'll feeling and hostility to the
federal government the part OF any OF the State
have sprung from source, sectional and Partial
legslation-the result of wing notions OF the teder
al government By q practical construction OF the
constitution Congress has been invested with pow
err to interfere with every interest, however local
and sectional Instead of spirit of jealousy and
scrupulousness in confirming the power OF Congress
to its legitimate sphere, according to the consttu
tion the ingenuity of whiggery has been always
EMPLOYED to find out how to use the power OF the
federal government to promote local or partial OBJ
iects to build ND and control the diversified bust
ness of the country or to manage the policy OF the
States. Congress has power to levy duties on I'M
ports for the purpose of collecting revenue out OF
this is inferred the power to build up manufactures
by enhancing their profits at the expense OF con-
sumers. All acts to that end are sectional and
partial and lead to agitation and threats OF dlsu-
MON. We have once witnessed the i'll consequent
ces of such laws. When the federal government
was involved in debt, the idea of creating bank
was conceived, to manage the revenue of the coun-
try. 1t grew of course into great financial agent
and aspired to control the currency, and, in fact
the government itself-was engine, Irresponsible
soulless, selfish, partial and mercenary. When the
reason thought to justify the establishment of a
national bank had ceased to exist, it had already
been devoted entirely to other purposes, and main
tanned desperate struggle for existence.
Internal improvements are highly desirable; and
it is easy to find pretext from clause of
the constitution to beset Congress for aid in the
business of making roads, canals, and improving
rivers and lakes. States surrounded by water with
the ocean on one side and lakes on the other, or
with lakes and rivers on the opposite sides, have
most claims for appropriations for rivers and har
bors other States, upon this SYSTEM must be taxed
for their benefit. The obvious effect of all leg
isaton such subjects is to create ealousies and
suspicious, and thus sow the seeds of dsaffection
The recent contest has derived all its bitterness
and dangerous character from the effort to the
power of the federal government against the insti
tuition of slavery. The majority hold the destruc-
ton of that institution as desirable, and look at
once to Congress to accomplish the end.
We need not tell our readers that, for all this
disposition to sectional legislation the whig party
are responsible. With the cant of Union upon
their lips, they still press their pestlent measures
and urge their sectional dogmas, which are the only
causes of danger to the Union. They saw once a
State the verge of secession on account of pro-
tective tariff The excitement was Quilted by ADAM
doning the doctrine still they fierce as ever
Union, they ready and eager to put it in jeop-
ardy. They know that these omnibus bills for in
ternal improvements regarded by all parties in
the extreme southern States as unconstitutional,
partial, and unjust. They know that such legisla-
ton is deemed local and oppressive will they
persist in it? Why not abandon all those courses
of legislation that we know from experience give
rise to sectional jealousy and limitations 1t is not
necessary to the prosperity of this Union to have
protective tariffs to have the paltry aid TO internal
the federal government can give, nor
is there any necessity for action the subject of
slavery, either for the interest good name of the
people of these States.
Ask the wings who pretend to great zeal for the
Union, how much they will forego for it. Will
they abandon all protective tariffs Will they
quit demagogueing about rivers and harbors
Will they abure all partial legislation, they have
always urged? Will they confne the action of the
federal government to strict construction of the
federal constitution! Will they thus show their
sincerity in their professions of zeal for the Union
This Union is now in danger on account of what
Congress has done !; not for what it has neglected
to do. 1t is the assumption of doubtful and ques-
tionable power that is fraught with danger. Had
there been protective tariffs had no power over
slavery been assumed, we should never have heard
of disunion.
Now, if you wish forever to expunge all this par
tial legislation from the statutes of the country,
vote the wings out Of power, If you wish to save
the Union from the dangers of sectional legislation
put down whiggery. If you want the States alone
in their career of prosperity unembarrassed by use
less acts of Congress, vote whiggery out of being
Wing policy, and that alone, has endangered the
Union-whig policy will destroy it.
The federal government was not made to make
roads, improve rivers or build harbors it was not
made to manufacture cotton or iron, or to raise
gar; it was not made to abolish slavery to inn
prove the morals of society; it was not made to
educate the youth of the country, either secularly
or relgiously; it was not made to extend the hand
of charity to the deaf and dumb, or blind. Many
of these objects of the highest Importance but
they don't belong to the federal government 1t
was not formed to attend to them; and it is not
adapted to such purposes. 1t must be confined to
its own sphere which will grow more and more
limited as the area of the Union extends, or these
States will not remain together. Let the States
alone and let Congress do little possible. If
that body met once in two years it would be all
the better. 1t is too much government, too much
legislation, too much exercise Of power that makes
the danger. The country does not want congress
sional action. Neither the East, West, North,
South is suffering for it. Congress can do much
harm just now, and very little good.
Louisville Democrat.
PENNSYLVANIA. Col. Bigler, the democratic can
didate for governor, has come out like man in
favor of the compromise in all its parts the
promise as it is. If the Pennsylvanians do not
give him 10000 majority over Johston, the whig
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