North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-17

The OPINIONS OF GEN. WALLACE. We give be.
low, taken from the Pendeton Messenger, (says the
Charleston Mercury extract of letter from Gen.
Wallace, member of Congress from this State to
friend, the subject of the be pursued by
South Carolina in the present crisis. The times re-
quire plain words, and trust that all of our Repre-
sentatives in the National and State Legislature may
make their views public. The people entitled to
know them. The Messenger remarks that the letter
" speaks for itself, and needs no comment
In your letter of the 3lst ult., you ask my views
on our Federal relations.
In reply have 10 say, that my opinions have un-
derwent no change from the beginning of the conro
versy until now. We are doomed if we remain in
the Union, and for going of, by the shortest
road.
The highest aim, and the highest remedy, is
Southern Conederacy. If we cannot get this coop
Grafton, am for acting decsslety Without ii and be-
lieying dissolution of this Union inevitable, am
in favor of entering into energetic system
Of preparation, with the view to put the State in
position and maintain her Independence and
to take her rank among the nations of the earth, as
separate and Independent State. State is respected
in proportion its ability defend its rights
with the sword.
The money appropriated at the last session of the
Legislature would enable US, properly expended to
bring twenty thousand men into the field, for we had
thousand muskets and eighty pieces of cannon
before. Every dollar of this money should be spent
in the purchase of arms, and the Gov rnor ought 10
be able to report to the next session Of the Legsla-
ture-' We haze taOenty thousand 1nuskets and small
arms hundred and tsoenty pieces Of cannon and
bring toenty thousand men into The field al
moments aoarning.' This would look business like
warlike if you will, and il would tell upon the public
mind in the State and abroad for it would look like
we are in earnest 1t would ie too, upon the Cabi-
net in Washington. You will perceive, therefore,
that do not approve the building of an .4rmOry
This is TOO slow, and we have not the money to-
spare. This step should have been reserved for
more advanced stage of our progress
What We want is to be prepared at once, so
that we could say to the Convention when it meets
lcar Of your aetiOn prepared 10 meet
at Ii the people will not act thus, my word for it.
they will never secede. If we gain confidence-E
We command the respect ofthe United States aad Of
foreign nations, must show them that zoe can and
1viW n1aintian independence. 1t is idle to close
the eyes the fact, that without military power we
cannot maintain independence. If we would pre-
serve peace-if we would avoid bIoodshed, we must
show that be assaulted with impuntyy
and that having the sword we know how to WELD it."
We ought to choose agents now, not for whatthey
know, not because they solve problem in Eucd,
but or what they able to perform, in giving en-
pare her for separate and indepe ndent existence
My motto is then-prepdre, prepare, and then ae
with company If you get H. if not then act t0'-
out az, for know terrible doom than thaL
which awaits us in the Union, and to go out OF IT.
cannot make condition any worse, and IL may De
6eHer.''