North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-06
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Senator Butler, in his letter ihe Grsenville meet
ing where he was invited to address the people on
the dangers Of separate State secessions prays that
wha teVer place South Carolina may occupy in the
unknown and eventual future, it will be such tina,
wisdom may. in her Judgment, approvefhe dictates
OF honor" he reads instructive lecture 20 the
Rlett school as follows: :
IS This is a confedeFacv of eoual sovereion States
or 1t has become consolidated Union, indissouble,
except by the viii of interested majority. Should
the government, practically assume the latter
degraded subordinaton. Should it maintain the for
mer character, the parties the compact have their
destiny in their own hands, the unqualified right of
secesslon-a right that never should be exercised
cePt upon very grave occasions, and grounds and
reasons that would find their justification before the
tribunal of just history. This, in my opinion is
right that should never be exercised a0ithout consult
the neighbours, whose interests are to be affected BIZ
ats consequences. Where common rights are concern
ed, justice requires that the common redress
should be looked to. The Southern States are no
longer blind to the dangers that beset them. They
becoming reused, and agitation cannot be hushed
The danger TO the Southern cause, heretofore, has
been want of union ong representatives and pub
lie men of the South. With such union they could
by saying they could have Obtained all that they had
a right to claim-a security of their constitutional
rights. These divisions in the representa- tives in
Congress will cease because the Deopk of the South
ern States will not support those who to,
their real interests. When that change shall take
place, and when Southern politicians shall be select
ed, opponents of the popular will, the South will
have potential attitude itself Justice in any way
that it may determine on.
1.-The opinion which have expressed, and which
shall repeat, to the separate secession of South
Carolina, still entertain Assurances of cooperation
may be made to her; but until she has such assu-
RANGES, it is unwise in South Carolina advertise
her purpose of what she will or will not do. Let
what may be said of the State, South Carolina has
been vigilant and rebukng sentinel. know of
State that would sooner make the sacrifice of Cur
titus. But, in the name of common sense, let it not
be useless sacrifice without fairly looking the
sequences of exclusively separate State secession
PERVERTED JUDGMENT. In letter we received
few days ago, from friend and correspondent, he re-
marks, IS am almost bitterly opposed to South
Carolina ultraism notification, and threats of
sion, as am to Seward, Van Buren,, Fred. Douglas,
and their bgoted villainous and Internal followers
There is redeemng word in the remarks above,
which so forciby show the influences of perverted
Judgment, VIE: almost. But this is not sufficient.
Almost means that he is not quite bitterly opposed
to South Carolina uitraism, to the extreme aboli-
ton disunionsts What-fee almost as bitter against
the wronged and nsulted because they yield to pas
sionate resentment, against the aggressors the
hors of this wrong and the of the excitement
The position of the is very unlike the other
The northern fanatics perpetrae wrong and robbery,
unnecessarily. without cause and without provocation
South Carolina repes the aggression, with heated
zeal, and, perhaps imprudent measures. But remem-
Der that she is right in principle and contends only
for justice-whe the other party wrong in prin-
ciple, rather principles at all, and contend for
the right to rob, and cheat and insult, without the
least provocation-not for what South Carolina hes
done, but for what she is and since the for
nation of the Union-a slave State. H--.
How strangely has the judgment of men become
perverted in this case how unustly they perseyere
in a wrong classification of the parties. We have
case in mind that strikes affording paral-
lei. Agentlemen is met and robbed on the highway
of course the assault was unprovoked. Now what
is the Judgment of those to whom the matter is re-
lated Says one. despise the gentlemen almost
as much as / do the robbers, because he got into
passion about it," Would not this be case of per-
verted judgments! But in this way he zeaots of
South Carolina compared with northern robbers and
revolutonists. A righteous judgment would declare
the justly ST bject to unqualified condemnation
while the other might, at least. be excused.
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