Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-04-15
A voice from North Carolina.

! The Raleigh Standard holds forth in language strong and forcible it's opinions in relation to the slavery agitation, and the course of South Caro- liRa- The following is an extract from it's edito- rial:
 The result of the late election in South Carolina shows that vast majority of her people are in ia yor of the nght of secession and also of separate State action by the convention which IS to assem- | ble within the next twelve months. We had hoped that South Carolina would acquiesce m the late so.calied adjustment; and we believe she finally will. provided the Fugitive Slave Law ix enforced. and the free States above mentioned will repeal their laws oh the subject, and the agitation of the question itself shall cease in Congress. We trust She will wait, and abide the action of her sister southern States. IL IS true that, If with he. and with her great statesman now no more, all the slave States had stood forward in time and as one man for ther nights this day of abolition aggression and fanatieSm had been; ba, still behooves her to remember that Virginia. North Carolina, Georgia, and the rest of the slave States possess interests and feelings identical with her own and that the policy which threatens her, overshadows them also with it's baleful wing. Once taken. the step which disSolves this Union can never be tra- ced. The cause for such step ought to be con elusive. Not that ''intolefabie oppression" IS to be waited for, for that IS not within the range of probabilities In government and among a people like ours; but all reasonable ground of hope for returning justice must depart, and diShonor and fuln must rise up before us as inevitable, before any State eau be justified in severing the b0lds- Ii makes no difference to people worthy of freedom, whether this dishonoF and this rum be near or distant from them; if 1t De certain, the question IS settled. Are these things then certain We think not, There is still gFoudd for nope; the free States may enforce the Fugitive Slave Law they may repeal taeIT siata,es intended t6 operate against us, and winch were enacted in open disre- gard Of the eGonstsution-they may cease as States, anfiln the common Congress, to Heddle with slavery or to agitate upon Iti But, in the language of NIT Padding, '' Time was-iIne is--but tune wiil soon be more r
 South Carolina may move of by herself, but she nevertheless knows-ns matter how serious and greynus her error ia daing--that she will have allies and helpers. The military power of this federal lT0seTnment wall, ia all probability, be welded against her Her ports will be blockaded, and her esilzens siaag aghtered--and what thenl We say this x probable-and what theni The slave Staies will syIapathize with her, and as the blood ot her sons slaokes up to Heaven cEying for ven seanee, they will Eash to her defence: and we shaii then hzSe an irregular civil war fearful and cruel am war oi which 10 man can fu5steli tfe end II dissolution Wast coule--sf the free States
 ria EaFe Il S0, let the slave States unite and go of together. In that event. is hardly probable that blood would be shed, bat the two sections heinz nearly equally balanced in Rnmbcrs and in nbysI cal strength might agree to part in peace
 But we have na wish to go into saeh d.taiis. or to contemplate such consequences; and we repeat we have only alluded to this question at all nnder stern sense of public duty.