North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-01
rcorrssDondcnce of the Fayetteville carOlnian J.

.rnearance of the first number OF Inc e e ,,;c r..
er ever published in North Caroiind1; ~" TIC &C.
are inoe1teu ~ Sonr;e,oTs of the Journal establish
Snnt I, is very creditabie affair." anu -
he successful. Now that there Is e"i'y nl".t
tween Wilmington and Faye..ttSnei v SmU town &c
uey MI, - mice. six dollars per annum, wouiu oe
WnT ~ retnrn for the daily and accurate reports
Of ,be Markets, etc., which are contained Il" '''''
paper. - 1o,roa1 of the 10th,
IT, dow following the great speech OF DUNCAN n
WcRAE ESQ, qualified endorsement OF the SEM
ments of that able and patriotic gentleman' upon "
subject of secession, because am OF Tue
%t tbere s a wide difference between them. snail
w., therefore undertake to determine how this agree
nent has happened, because am fursuaded that ooo
- II NAV seem, the concord is the result oil nsuh-
Jorsondinq We are ali in a measure secesslonists'
tha, is TO say we all believe in the existence OF tne
;Gbt of selfdefence, paramount 10 all PosiuVe
forms of government, and wholly inaenable ana IN
desfructbIe under any circumstances.
No man deny that the national and the Sta'e
Governments are alike intended as barriers against
GRANNY and serve to check mutual encroachment
mon the rights Of the people; that when every other
means have utterly failed, it is the right and duty oil
the latter particularly to protect the public liberty oy
such measures secession among them) as the =" ext
1ency NAV suggest and prudence justify;" but as L
Understand the matter, there is disagreement be-
tween the Journal and Mr.. McRae concerning the
nature of this right, and the sources whence 1t IS
derive
consequence to proper understanding of our const-
tuonal rights and obligations.
did not have the pleasure of hearing the opening
of Mr. McRae's argument, but learn that upon this
question he dscaimed party utilization, and addressed
himself TO the large and respectable audience who
were assembled to hear him southern man, upon
matters of great interest to the whole southern peo-
ple entered the building at the moment when, at
Ter having passed in review the operation of the Land,
Revenue and Navigation laws of the Union upon the
various sections of the country-how their effect had
been always beneficial to the northern and destructive
TO the southern nterestS-he had arrived at the con-
sderation of the late Ad ustment Measures, and was
examining in detail its various provslonS-the adj
mission of California, whose mongrel population
Chinese, Otahetans, Timbuctoons, English, Dutch,
Yankees and Irish, adventures of all coors and al
most all nations except the southern slaVeholder.
without princip pie or sympathy in common-had by
the hocus pocus of Gen. Tayors cabinet been trans
formed into State, and in that capacity, egslated to
exclude southern property, before they had ascer-
tanned even the bounds of their dominion, or made
the usual assignment TO the United States Of the pub
lie domain and accompanied that act was by 9TH
er irregularities-the admission of New Mexico and
Utah, both and all of them territories acquired by
expenditure of Southern blood and treasure amount
inc to at least half the cost,-with principle
equally unjust TO the South engrafted, according to
Mr. Webster, upon their organic law it, as conten-
ded by the North, the laws Of Mexico not abo-
ished by the conquest then he insisted that provision
should have been made for the right to introduce
slavery there II deemed advisable or advantageous
The abolition of the slave trade in the District of Col
umba he characterized fatal blow to the entire
institution, and violation of the plighted faith OF
the nalion if not palpabe breach of the Constitu-
tional compact. Nor was the fugitive-save law
compensation for the extraordinary concessions upon
part, and exactions upon theirs. The principle
which that law announces, and was intended to en-
force, is already recognized, and is much better lam
guage in the Constitution. We gained right that
we enjoyed before, and which legislative enactments
but served to degrade from its fundamental and
ganc character, in exchange for nestimabe prIvile
ges which had been acquired by the best blood of the
South. The Compromise. so called, was already
nulIIty, for he denied that the fugtive-slave law.
which alone prevented it from appearing to he
rende carried into effect in the spirit with which
1t was intended and expected to operate but this
not TO be anticipated when reflect that this part of
the compromise. although unquestionablY demanded
by every consideration of public policy and honor,
and the most sacred constitutional obligations, did
receive the support Of northern men as should have
been extended to it. Were they acting in good faith?
No fugitive, he
commended, could be recovered even now. except at
much personal risk and at expense exceeding his
value But the public sentiment the north is uni
Versay opposed to the execution of the law and af
Ter the cases of the two Crafts, Shadrach (the box
man, and Sims, (who had to be stolen away at the
dead hour of the night, although the marshal had the
enre naval and military force of the U. S. assist
him) shows that it is sheer folly expect justice
or honesty from that quarter He contrasted the con-
quot OF the Executve-and he said it was for no par
uzan purpose-at Boston and in the case of Gen.
huffman. The marshal who had utterly neglected
as Duty and at moment of intense expectation and
interest," suffered the Crafts to escape from his hands,
ana after being repeatedly warned, took no precau-
uOh 10 overcome the violence of furious mob, was
Tet continued in Office, while the Governor of SOW
eieigh southern State, merely suspected of viola
uoh OF an almost obsolete law, and il appeared I'M
justly accused too, harrassed with criminal pro-
secGton and compelled to resign his office and at
'ia uai hundreds of miles from his residence at the
WY Oh New Orleans. Such, continued the sneaker
- inc past; what reason have to expect more in
uugence and favor in the future! The time had ac-
udiiy arrived when the northern free-soiI faction
camping under foot the rights and franchises of the
Ou'eth States had acquired that preponderance and
ehuency In the national councils that without any
pleasure '"N' -"''' "e"' a.
IN the second branch of the subject the sneaker
5 GS1h9a me momentous question: What is the rem
IVY r or himself he found no difficulty and what
L. nis"t De The consequence to him Individually
untrnly he might be representative declared
ba nc was Tor Secession. He was disunionist-
LJN!uea 70 no man in attachment TO the Union
ba i us laws were properly Administrations was
M 'U! OF Separat tie State action, and he counseled
ieuIate cooperation with other States for the
TuaP'Se OF Withdrawing from the Union-aIl he asked
a0 mat The South should unite in demanding the
h s rh OF the right to secede. 1t might one day
Luseul and he was understood TO claim il as an
nJ attribute OF the State separate and indie
he lem sovereignty. 1t was right reserved to her
in e Urtns and nature of the federal compact and
bpt 10y controlled or qualified by that instrument
NJ. necessarily incident to and inseparable from
nenJ' construction of it treaty between Inde-
ev; soVerelgnties for special purposes In the
anv 'e OF THIS right she could at any time and for
U;oo lawfully arrest and defeat the laws of the
"aIIa m ne aVowed that with Judge CASTOR, his
ol;n sauce was due first to the State of North Car
wn dnG then TO the United States so far as her laws
neverbeosS And here your correspondent, who
all, a.: