North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-27
WORDS OF TRUTH AND w1sDoM

dressed to his former constituents by the Hon. Jane
A. Seldom, of the Richmond District. Va, in which
he declines being candidate for reelection:
"The seeds of incaIcuable future evils were sowI
IN the mis-called compromise measures of the las
Congress, and must, surely than in the cas-
OF the ordinance of 'S7, and the Missouri Compro
mise, now almost universally at the South conceded
to have been the fruitful source of present dan
gers, rpen to pernicous harvest of mischief. The
partial reaction, which has taken place at the North
in resistance to Abolition Fanaticism, though claimed
for this compromise. is really due only to the
strong manifestations of discomfort at the South nd
determination there to endure further aggression
and conclusively indicates how much more full, by
concert of action and union of sentiment the part
of our people and their representatives at earlier
period, wrongs might have been averted and our
rights vlndIcated To render this reaction effective
for any future good, it is indispensable that its
should be actively continued and increased. Cease
less vigilance in discovering and promptitude and
unanImlty in asserting rights and constitu-
tional guarantees, alone give chance of perpet-
uatIng the Union fathers made il. and of main
tanning our institutions and our property in security
and peace. The indications of the future, notwith-
standing the seeming lull which has naturally fol-
lowed the late extreme excitement full of mont
ton and danger The free-soil organization, lately
in effective ascendancy throughout the whole North,
has been by the attainment of its leading end, par
TALLY dsbanded, but its constituent forces have been
by kindred affinities attracted to and being
merged in the avowed abolition party. That party
this day exats its crest higher, and is bold, de-
numerous dt previous PeElOu OF
history. With its ulterior designs concur many
malign influences, not the least of which may be
found in the cant and Pesudo philanthropy of the
day, which it is the fashion to dignity with the name
and honor with the importance of the moral senti-
ment of the world. This party, from sagacious
foresight of the only instrumentalites through which
it can hope for the ultimate accomplishment of IFS
fell Designs allies itself with the most bigoted
adherens of ancient Federalism and seeking pros
tate the securest buwarks of our rights, the State
soveregntes, strives 10 consolidate and nationalize
great Central Government. With insidious cunning
it invokes the name of Union, and DANGEROUSLY ap-
peas the fears of the tmid and the hopes of the
brave, to the sacred associations of the past and the
proud antcipaons the future, in order to malIgn
the motives and destroy the usefulness of the truest
friends both of the Union and South because the most
vigilan guardians of the constitution and the sternest
opponents of the unholy designs of these ,oo!Oes in
sleeps clokhing No inconsiderable portion of the
Southern people themselves have been weak and
blind enough to be deluded by these devices, and
loudly swell the chorus of paans TO their oppressors,
foboquy and reproach to their real defenders Mean
time, in greater or less degree. have been brought
under abolition influences the press-the schoolhouse,
the pulpit of the North-and through their agencies
the people and institutions of the South syste-
matically derided and maligned, and the principle
nculcated that by the strong hand of the Federal
Government, is all organized action, even OF the
State Sovereignties for their protection and Defense
to be crushed and eXtnguished. These tendencies,
unchecked, can have but result, and that at no
distant day. Upon the subVered foundations OF our
worst form of despotism: great consolidated gov
eminent, without Limitation of powers, administered
at the will and according to the caprice interest of
mere numerical majority. That majority must be at
the North, and if already, the sentiments and SYM
pahes of its masses strongly arrayed against
our property and Institutions what of peace and
curity be hoped for in The future, from its thick
enng numbers, its swelling tide of fanaticsm, preju
dice and cupdty Under its administration of I'M
limited power, of the South would speedily have
no alternative but AFFECT submission ruin and DESC
lalion, forcble disruption and civil war, with no
right acknowl lodged US, but that of the worm " TO
turn when trod upon"
Fellow-citizens, l have no expectation of ever
again participating in the public councils. l have
no motives, as God knows have no wish, to alarm
your fears or dsaPpoint your hopes. My all, my
property, my family, my life itself identified with
your security and prosperity. These considerations
would surely suffice to guarantee my dsinterestedness
and sincerity but, in addition, am bound by the
lively gratitude feel for your past favors, and by
the strongest sense of duty, in my brief words of
parting, to deal with the utmost candor and frank
ness. do, then, as the result of my best observa
tons and most deliberate reflections, solemny and
earnestly you, that the future is still lowering
with impending dangers to your property and inst-
tutions and that the best, if not the only means, of
both perpetuating the constitutional Union of our
forefathers and of handing down to children and
their posterty the rich heritage and unnulnbered
blessings enjoy, is for people to be vigil
liant, determined and united in repeling the first APP
proach of wrong, in maintaining to the utmost all the
guaranteed rights Of our secton-and above ALL in
upo.adins, in their full plentude, the sovereignes
of the States, and their sacred obligation of nterpo
siton for the defense or protection of their citizens
against federal enroachment Be liberal and true to
representatives who prompt to assert and vindi
your rights, and steadfas to the friends of your
section and its institutions everywhere. The dread
of the popular majority at the North and the appli
ances of The Federal Government, but too potent
at BEST to frighten seduce the public men of the
country from their fidelity to the South and it's
Let not be superadded to dismay dshearen them,
nistrus of your confidence apprehensions of yosr
deserton and rebuke. But not deluded by clamorous
professions of ultra devotion to the Union by the
ougbears of dissolution and civil war, with which |
hey would alright your imaginations. Judge the
aith of these excessive patriots by their works-he
rec by its fruits. Will they not be found in regard
10 the Constitution they profess much to revere,
atitudina ans by confesson-prompt ever to enlarge
is provisions, and Indifferent to its violation? In
reference to the institutions of your State and Sec
ion, are they not generally luxewarm, the last to
EEL for your rights your wrongs and the first to
,roffer surrender, barter in some juggling compro
Mise your constitutional equality and guaranteed pri
1ileges "When men gather grapes of thorns, or
igs of thistles,'' you may be safe in committing to
such national patriots your honor and your interests "
Photographed for the Washington Union.
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