North Carolina standard., 1851-02-22
STAND BY YOUR coLoRs!

w .too,ra in various portions OF the counlry'
we oOSe hoino made to destroy old party or
''''. and oet up what is called, by way of ex-
Union marty. These attempts appear to
,homselves more decidedly in the free States
,he slaveholding and there is both Proprety
'la" in this for that is the quarter in which
.nd ms. regard for the nion as it ought to be
and for State sovereignty, prevails to the least extent
-J e ooost needed We hail this spirit in the free
C,otos and hope it may grow and spread; bet here
. Nor,b Carolina, where we ask only to be let alone
o far as the Slavery question is concerned, and Where
m hand is lifted against the continuance of the Unon'
we can perceive no good reason for establishing
mouqrel party, for any organization OF the cnaac
tor alluded to. The truth is, these attempted Union
organizations calculated by their very tenoency In
this region, reflect upon every citizen VINO STANDS
forward with determined spirit IN behalf OF South
eru rights, and to increase that very power In the
Federal Government which threatens, IN the end, to
absorb every valuable attribute of State sovereignty.
What have we in North Carolina done, that we
should be called upon to approve the late ADJUST
nent." and to for no man for President or Vice
PRESIDENT or for any other office, who does not aP-
n,ove it! We Gcquiesce in tive submit to it, and
Is not that sufficient 1t is enough for US to say that
are will make the fugitive-slave law test of sound
ness and is for the better portion of the Northern
reople to compeL their public men to this standard
but as Southern man, and as the Editor OF free
nress, we would 90 beyond this, and distinctly de-
clare that we would support no man for public station,
ubo did not emphacay condemn any and all at-
tempts to give Congress jurisdiction in any shape or
fanv character whatsoever over the Slavery question
That is the point after ALL which this whole ques-
linn turus If the people of the free States UU agi-
tate this subject in their primary assemblies and in
their legislative chambers let them do it, with the
tanty that they are thereby daily weakening the bonds
tba, have made US one people, but at the same time
while we bear that as best may let US demand as
n rigM and insist upon to the last extremity, that
Surerv aVhereaffer be unpronouncG6Ie aDord in
the halls of Congress We are the assailed and aggrieved
section We have not harmed the people of the free
States in either their character their persons, or their
estates ;and are we, under these crcumstances-with
the thunderbolts which these people have launched
against US still burning in midst-to approve their
action to Iaud their love of the Union, and to pro-
scribe our own fellow citizens by getting up these
called Union associations There no disunion-
lists in North Carolina and there is, therefore, no
cessy for organizing Union party to put down dis
union; the contrary, in humble judgment, that
who stands up most unfnchingIy for the reserved
rights of the States, is the best Union man, while he
who is eernay ctying Union! Union! is most to
be dreaded the advocate of consolidation, and
of of policy which would inevitably tend
to the destruction Of every vital principle Of Union
and of Constitutional liberty. That is opinion.
We state it generally, without any wish or intention
to reflect upon any or any party.
If the Democratic party of the United States had
remained in power, these Slavery troubles would
have been avoided, promptly met and settled There
can be no doubt that the Administration of Gen. Tay
lor contributed more than all things else to infame
these troubles, and put the South to the wall in the
late exciting controversy. Always sectional, the
Whig party in the contest which resulted in his ele
walton to power pretended to be national and in
der to succeed in their struggle for the sPoils they
managed to array, under the banner the Bit
Ter an-Savery man of New England, who contended
that Gen. Taylor thought with him this question,
and the ardent Southron, who pointed with triumph
ant satisfaction to his three hundred negroes evil
dence OF his devotion to Southern rights. The result
OF all this Is well known to the country. We do not
propose TO dwell upon it. If Gen. Cass had been E.
lected, we have Mr. Webster's authority for saying
that the Missouri line would have been established
and that, with oiher measures equally fair, would
have given satisfaction to the most ultra South
ern State.
But under any and every view of the question, as
At nO1o presents iLse it becomes the Democrats-the
old States rights Jefersonian party, to stand by
their coors" There is safety either in the ranks
oi the Federallsts, or under flag. Let US stand
where we are and catch and let US act in the future
as Just regard for our vital interests may reqnire
us to act. No one can tell what another year will
bring FORTH If the crisis be difficult let our prudence
rise with the occasion and amid all difficulties
whether they present themselves in the shape of
linton organizations, disunion organizations, or en-
tanglng alliances with the FederaIiss-et US remem-
Der that our principles secondary in importance
Ong TO our vital interests ard honor as citizens of
saVehoiding State; and that, after ALL the Constitution
Is the sufest and safest guide in times of national ex
'cllement and OF peril to the Union of the States,
AN OUTRAGE IN COURT