North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-03-26


is no tyade-of mail steamers to place that has no
correspondence.
II IS now known that the magnificent steam line OF
Mr.. Collins, between the two greatest commercial
cities of the world, New York and Liverpool, can
not.be supported without more pay. Yet 1t Is pro-
posed 10 have four vessels, much larger, to run to
Liberia. southern FFeSs'
| CoNso1IpAr1oN Is ABOLITION. The views presen-
ted below are not indeed new-variously modified
and presented-they make their appearance IN many
of the speeches of the late Mr.. Randolph OF Virginia,
and Mr. Calhoun of s. G. The doctrine alluded to,
however is of infn Importance, and should so be
considered by those who desire the preservation OF
our government in form, other than that OF desPo-
| tism.
Abolition is the lawfully begotten offspring Of con-
solidaton. The characteristic features of the child,
more fully developed, it is true are those OF It's pa
rent. They who, by implication, enlarge the powers
of the general government, are glvlRg to J0ndhctS
the means with which accomplish all Its purposes
They are placing in its hands, the engines with which,
if not timely wresed from it this terrible demon VIII
destroy the Union and perhaps the liberty and CIVIL
cation of all the States Taught as they have been by
their federal leaders, that the government at WASH
ington is all powerful-that majority OF the people
through their representatives. eglsate to any ex-
which they may deem for the general welfare
and consequently that they themselves are RESPONSE
Bile for the existence of whatever Institution Congress
shall tolerate within the limits of the Union-what
is to prevent the aboionists from agitang for the
overthrow of Southern slavery which they Consider
both sin and a curse! They look upon 1t as SIN
in which they Implicated, and as a curse from
which they suffer. And believing that they have the
po,ver it, and that it Is their duty to eXer-
else that power, they determined to exercise II.
! WI hat effect has have physical force-the
officers of the Courts with their pistols or the soldiers
| of the Government with their muskets-on men who
thus think and thus feel! Will abuse make them
ashamed or denunciaton make them hesitate!
| Wherein then is the remedy-the only remedy
1t is in teaching the" that the general government
has limited Jurisdiction and few and well defined pow
ers. That it has no authority to iegislate against
slavery-Ihat being State institution and that con-
sequently The northern people are In no wise resPon-
sbe for it, for its evils, be they what they may.
In other words, only hope is to be found in the
extension and recognition of State Rights and strict
construction principles the principles laid down by
Jefferson and Madison in 1889, and zeaousy and
ably supported by Mr.. Calhoun for the last quarter
of ii century. And these principles must be brought
10 bear only against the abotionists, but against
all olhers-against the I" High Tariff men, the liz
ternal Improvement men, and National Bank men.
The hopes of them all are founded upon the same
principle of latitudnarian constructions and II cannot
be expected that the abolIoniss will forego their
claims to the benefit Of the application of doctrines
which are made available for the promotion of the
equally unauthorized schemes Of others. Said Mr.
Rhett:
Z" Sir, what is the foundation CT abotonisn in this
Union ! II is consolidation. l remember many Yeas
since that he who filled the seat now occupy, and
whose shoe latchet. as statesman, l am unworthy
to loose said the Senator from Massachusetts, now
no longer in this body, (Mr. Webster) in the great
debate that occurred in 1888:
- If the principles you contend for correct, you
will wake up spirit of abolition in the North you
will make your people believe they are responsible
for this ns,i.ution and the day that that principle
gets into THEN minds, and that feeling into their hearts,
this Mon will be at end. And you yourself Will
be the very feel the effects OF the doctrine you are
now maintaining, by being ostracised and scorned.'
Although that great statesman did not live to see
the fullment of his prophecy we now see 1t. Where
&c ,Lo etoto Of Massachusetts. MaSSa.
chuseus
tits we'll that he is the other end of the avenue,
for if he now stood in Massachusetts, and sought the
suages of the people to hold The seat ne then occu-
pied, he would be rejected by overwhelming ma
iority. The anticp atlons of him whose seat now
occupy realized. and consolidation here has
crowned abolition with its success w hen you show
the people of the North that this Constitution is moth
inc but hat majority of Congress thinks proper to
make it. wha. is the natural inference from such teach
| ings? Why, that whenever majority OF Congress
think proper abolish slavery ought to be abolish
ed and that if they responsible Ter The Institution
thew OUGHT to abolish it. Consolidation is abolition
ism and those that have aboitlonlsm its sue
cess in this country, the statesmen who have been
driving the of consolidation over the OF
the Constitution and the rights OF the South Sir,
you cannot consolidate this Union, In one particular,
and in others leave it unconsoidated. LII you break
down the limitations of the taxing power; IT you de-
clare that that power shall exist NOT merely as Inc
Constitution for the purpose OF revenue, but shall
exist for the purpose of pundering section for the
benefit of another if you declare your power to estab-
sh vast corporations and thus control the currency
of the country you must consolidate the Government
in other particulars. You promulge the doctrines
here which virtually make the Consultation nothing
its limitations mere breath. And now, when aboli-
ton rears it's head and consolidation in the face,
you wish to frown it down. 1t will laugh you to
1t is only carrying out the principles you taught
1.-THE life you gave it. 1t only Kidding themselves
of that responsibility you imposed upon them. and
carrying your principles to their legitimate results.
IT, in pas, days. all statesmen had stood upon the linz
nations of the Constitution if they had said the Con-
stitution gave power beyond its plain and SIM
pie grants, these people would have respected these
limitations, their minds would have turned to
the great question of Southern slavery, and they would
have enforced these obligations of the Constitution,
because it their bond, their faith, their duty.
The greatest friends of abolition in this country are
the consolidaoniss. They the fathers of it. From
their corrupt construction Of the Constitution Che hid
eous monster has arisen, now shaking this Union to
its centre, and in my opinion destined to overthrow
it." Savnnnnh Georgian
MArRIMoNY. You ought to marry.'' sNever. %
IS know good girl for you.' Let me alone. -
IS But perhaps you don't know her. She is young -
!" Then she is sly Beautiful "The more dam
gerous." :. OF good family" Then she is
proud" 50 She is tender-hearted." ' Then she is
Jealous" :. She has talents. IS To klm me-" And
one hundred thousand dollars. "-I'ltake hers s.
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