North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-16
SEW ARD A UNION MAN


William II. Seward has written a letter :.
Massachusetts Aboltionists, dated the 5tb of ,! e
month, in which he lakes The strongest ground .,,i
the fugitive-slave law. We shall publish this
entire in next in order that our readers NAV .o
for themselves the Seward, Van Buren,, and S.
platform, and inspect it, plank by plank. In ,ho
meantime give the following extract from the lot
ter, from which it will be seen that Seward i.
Union man :. forever and aye "a Union man. undo
all circumstances and to the last extremity He saws.
g have weighed, moreover, the argument a..
some portion of the people in of the States hs
made the perpetuity of the fugitive-slaye law cnn
dillon OF new declarations of loyalty 10 the Union
That loyalty is duty resulting from the constitute
and is equally due, whether the measures of admin
istration are satisfactory unsatisfactory. reo,
that thing should have happened to encourags
belief that loyalty could be accepted on copdions
and especially on the condition OF forbearing to reOs
a repeaable statute. But, since it is so can dI
say that we, on whom the recent action of the c
eminent bears, as 1t seems us, unjustlv are il
the Mon for richer for poorer, for better for
whether In majority or in minority, whether in
power or Powerless, without condition, reservation
qualification, Limitation, forever and ave: thai '
are In the Union, not because we are satisfied NIL
administration, but whether satisfied OF not-not a, M
by means of compromises UNDERSTANDINGS but h.,
virtue of the constitution and that all other parti
are In the Union on the terms, for the same Ten
ure, and byvirue of the same obligation and so ,L
will ind their to be, when they offer 10 plead ~
Citations OF extra-consttutonal conditions TO ius,if
secession. " hatever is irrepealabIe in any of the
acts OF the late Congress. will be mad enonT
to attempt to repeal. Whatever is repeaabe in tbns
acts, and whatever shall be repealabe in future ac,
of Congress-whether it shall favor freedom or s.v
ryno matter under what circumstances, with what
auspices, nor with what solemnties it NAV have boa
adopted-must abide the trial of experience of roo
son, and of trnth. 1t is only in this way that Tho
constitution can be maintained, and the Union can b
saved Its security consists in the adaptation IN The
physical and moral necessities of the broad and eu
extending empire which it protects and defends and
in the facility with which, without violence or sudden
change, of administration be Corrected and
new exigences can be met, so that the State free ~
slaveholding which may any time be least favored
will be at all times saerunder this government when
worst administered, than would be under any other
however wisely administered or favorably conducted
| There it is. Seward is Union man in his wav
and for his sort of Union. Unconditional subms-
sion is his motto-and well it may be, for he has
long since said that Slavery can be surely abo
ished an the Union and by the Union, than out of it,
Extremes meet. In Stewards opinion no aggression
by the free States justify secession; and so say
thousands of Southern Wings. The latter say they
will revolutionze; but Seward tells them they are
in the Union Sc forever and ye''-that ne is in the
Union with them caring for them and their concerns
in the kindest manner-and that, being in with him,
without IS reservation, qualification, limitation
if they attempt to go out they will find themselves
mistaken. CONSOLIDATION IS ABOLITION.
Seward knows this, and hence his course
This is the man who recently responded to a toast
on behalf and in the name of President Fillmore in
New York City, and who, in the of his re-
marks. spoke of the President as an " ustrious son
of New York. -
John Van Buren, also wrote letter to these Mas
sachusetts Abolitioniss, in which he argues against
the Constiutonality of the fugitive-slave law and
demands its repeal.