The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-10-02
STAND YOUR GROUND.

of men subserve his own wise and gracious pur-
poses
STAND YOUR GROUND.
A citizen of Guilford county, N. c., in a letter
to the True Wesleyan, dated Aug. Goth, writes:
"You may discontinue my paper for the
present. as | am inclined to 60 Westward,
where | can enjoy religious liberty, and have
my family in a free country Mobocracy has
the ascendency here, and there is no law.
Brother Wilson had an appointment on Lib
erty Hill, on Sabbath, cath inst. The mob
came armed, according to mob law, and COM.
menced operations on the Westinghouse. They
knocked all the weather boarding off destroy
ing doors windows, pulpit and benches; and /
have no idea that if the mob was to kill Yves
leyan, or one of their friends, that they would
be hung.
"There is more moving this fall to the far
West than was ever known in one year. Peo-
pie do not like to be made slaves. and they are
determined to 90 where it is no crime to plead
the cause of the poor and oppressed. They
have become alarmed at seeing the laws of God
trampled under foot with impunity, and that
too, by legislators sworn officers of the peace,
and professors of religion And even ministers
$50 called are justifyng mobocracy. They
think that such course of conduct will lead 70
a dissolution of the Union, and then every man
will have to fight in defence of Slavery, or be
killed This is an awful state OF things and If
the people were destitute of the Bible, and the
various means of information which they pos
sess, there might be some hope of reform. But
there is but little hope under existing circum-
Stances
We hope the writer will reconsider his pur-
pose In his section of North Carolina there
are very many Anti-Slavery men, and the ma
jority of the People have no interest in what is
called slave property. Let them stand their
ground, and maintain the right of free discus
sion How is the despotism of Slavery to be
put down, if those opposed to it abandon their
rights, and flee their country? Let them do as
the indomitable Clay does in Kentucky, and
they will make themselves respected
A DANGEROUS ELEMENT IN SOUTH
ERN SOCIETY.
The fact can be no longer disguised, that
there is considerable danger to the institution
of Slavery, from what may be called party in
our Hllust IHcTc 10 u OCi eon Sa""' ~ 'i'O
South rotten upon this vital question, For the
last fifteen years it has been gaining, because
Southern shareholders have not placed the stamp
of reprobation upon it. Corrupt and infamous
politicians have courted this class for ambitious
purposes, until it now begins to show itself in
all its strength Ten years SINCE Cassius M
Clay began to tamper with this class, and the
consequence has been, that formidable party
has grown up in Kentucky against the institu-
ton of Slavery. 1t will soon be the case in all
| grsruIates It's readers S rnH ricr%l.. Eza- con,
soon have an enemy ut home to contend with.
! How significant We must meet this party at
| the North, and in The South from this time,
with the most obstinate resistance. We cannot
! IN safety, trust Southern men, who are willing
to conceda, IN the slightest degree, to its de-
mands Every concession makes it stronger and
more important We must strangle it in its
infancy, or the day Will soon be ON us when it
will prove too strong for us.
Southerner, Rome, Ga)
This dangerous element is the class of non
shareholders in the South many of whom are
laboring men or small farmers, and unfriendly
to Slavery. This is the class to which Cassius
NJ Clay is appealing. In conversation few
days since with native of North Carolina, and
an old citizen there he said that, in his county
FIVE to one of the people were opposed to Sla-
very but the minority ruled, because it had the
capital, and controlled the press.
The policy of the Southerner has already be-
gun to be carried into effect. Read the account
from the american Telegraph of the lynching
of citizen of Virginia simply on account of
hostility to Slavery, and also another paragraph,
in to-day's Era concerning mob violence in
Guilford county, and the self-expatriation of
some Of its citizens. The question arises-will
the white laboring men and poorer classes of
the South submit to be made slaves Of or to be
driven out as exiles by the despotism of Capt.
tai! The menacing article from the South.
erner shows that they will have to decide this
question soon. Capital is powerful-bm so as
the Ballot Boz. let them remember the four
thousand Kentucky voters who lately rallied
under the standard of Cassius Nj. Clay; and
indeed, this example, if we may Judge from
the following item in the Southern Press is
already working:
tor of the Cecil Democrat dated Chestertown,
Md, Sept. 22d, says;
"The Free-Soilers meet here tomorrow for
the purpose of nominating ticket, rs they say.
! do not know their strength, but it is said they
can muster from fifty to seventy votes in the
county"
ROBERT McCLELLAND of Monroe, Mich, has
been nominated for the Office of Governor of
Michigan, by the Democratic State Convention,
which lately met At Detroit This was a tri-
umph over A. W bsell, who is thought to be
the special fiand il Gen Cass. Mr. McLel-
land, while ID csnspes, was an able supporter
of the Wilmot Proviso.s
NEW YORK DAILY TIMES.
This new paper b out, the third number
having reached u.s. MIR Raymond is well
known over the country as writer of force,
and possessing a deal Of manliness Of feeling.
Everybody expects his paper 10 be intellectu-