North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-26
DANGEROUS v,pu.,

'UEROUS VIEWS
Ane ias' Naieigh Register takes the o,ou.,
oAiOn :, 'ns States affords the best pro,e" Mat
slavery, AND that an attempt by the s.n' l1'Uonh
States, in the last resort to shield and n,oo'HOdg
slave property, aoiH end in the a5ovtnn ~ We Their
in the seeding &afes''! If this be truo q, 'a'as
is settled. Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Fillmore 1 question
Buren,, Charles Sumner, William Fl. Seuos, "" 'an
large majority of the Northern people have 'n0a
taken the position that the area of Savo,r "eady
be extended-that is, no more slaveholdiDo g. not
shall be admitted into the Union. Tb. eale
made good, will inevitably circumscrbe H. On'f
ton and conhne it, as by hoops of iron. IN ito "l'
held OF operations. In less than fifteen VOC ea'
maps In ten-the free States will increase to PEI
extent, that, with the sympathies and assi.,.N an
SUCH States as Delaware, Kentucky, and Me-
they will be able to propose amendments ,on
stitution and pass them, making it Cons,u,;o.N,R
Congress to exercise jurisdiction and CONT "f
Slavery in the States; or, if this result sbonIS %
reached In this time, agitation against Slavery ,;v
grow with the increase of the free States W"
mnary step to Its ultimate destruction BY the Fsd.s
government. Wesay this must be the end of tbinas
unless the slaoehoding STATES should present .as,
front against these aggressions and this agitoGo, u
they yield their rights, and give back steD br
as the Raleigh Register proposes they shall d. wy
doom will be sealed. "sR
These views of the Register would he d,D,..
at any time to the institution CT Slavery, but tbsr0
especially so at time like this. They eau -
North, If You aoiH harrass us-if Won mill ,o.s
Slavery to its present limits-if you ,UiH mt n.
der the ban, and leave hope in future ve,,. IT,
emancipation at an immense cost, or abolition audi
surrection and serVile war-if you aciH convs,tb..
fair fields of ours into black empire and forco
PosterIty from them to distant lands-if Won ,riuI
what the Constitution forbids you from DOING ,nI
take from US the sacred rights which that ir.,,,
ment guarantees to us-if you ,UM treat US as von.
interiors in the Confederacy-if you ,uiN do tbs.,
things, and more, if you wish, YOU MUST DO IT ".
have no hope for ourselves or for the institution If
Slavery but in the very power which may be welded
for the destruction of both This, we reDeat ,.
substance the language Of the Raleigh Register bu
if we have done that paper injustice we will cbae,
fully set it right.
Wings of North Carolina, is this your doc,rine1
If so, you might as well make up your minds to lose
your slaves, for lose them you will, sooner o., ,o
if such views prevail.
The true ground, in our humble Judgment, is this.
Let stand by the Constitution as it is, asking f,
no amendments to it and submitting to none. Letw
demand, an indispensable condition of our contiu
uance in the Union, that Congress and the President
shall faithfully execute the fugitiveslave law and
that Congress shall abstain. scrupulousy and forever
from discussing the question of Slavery, or from ex
ercsing or claiming jurisdiction over it. Let Slave
spread ITSELF if il can, without the aid or the oppo
siton of the Federal Government; and let new States
be admitted, iftheir Constitutions be republican, with
reference to this institution. In other words let
require that the free States shall perform their duty
nnder the Constitution, and let Slavery Alone This
IS all we ask. More we could not require, in justice
% other portions of the Confederacy; less
axe, without proving ourselves unworthy of the
privileges and blessings of free government.
William Fl. Seward says he has Slavery just where
lie wants it-that the perpetuation of the Union is
essential TO its ultimate extinction-hat the moral
opinion of the Northern people, acting on the nsl
ution in the Southern States, will melt it away
ICEBERG dissoves before the sun and the Raleigh
Register holds to the opinion, and argues to establish
that there is safety for the institution out The
resent Confederacy of States! Seward regards the
Union as an engine of ruin to one-half the States,
nd he is steadily marching forward 10 the consum.
nation of his purposes; the Raleigh Register can
ee remedy for the Suites by virtue of any rights
r action of their own, and power in the States
protect themselves or their property organized
olitical communities; but that paper yields every
lPost of State rights, prostrates itself before the car
Consolidation, which is, in the end, Abolition, and
gs the free States for protection and mercy!
We have wish to discuss the question of Sla'
nd hav
I'd only as matter of duty. But duty we intend
perform, if we know how, under all circumstances,
matter who may be affected by it in the public eS-
nation. We believe in the Constitution, in State
lights, and in African Slavery and intend to stand
them so long as the blood shall circulate in these
,ins.
CRYING EVIL.
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