North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-11
SOUTH cARoL1NA-THE REGIsTER,

has endorsed Mr.. Gather for Congress as an abb
: and earnest lover of the Union and a true Wbig"-
: and he has taken this offensive position towards
sovereign slaveholding State, in the most positiv
manner. He proposes, if elected to yote men an.
money to President Fillmore with sOhich TO make ,p1
on South Carolina and the Register, by approving
: his opposition to Mr.. Clingman, and by dis,inc
endorsement of his Whigism, places itseOn the sam.
2 platform.
We should deplore separate State action by thai
State; and We repeat what we have frequently said
that IN our judgment she ought not to break away
from her sister slaveholdng States and 60 forward
in advance alike of their wishes and their action. But
whatever she may do, we hold that this Union cannot
be held together by force; and the day force is at
tempted will mark the beginning of of which
no man can foretell the consequences the end.
Why, upon this point Daniel Webster is with us, as
bitter as is his opposition to The existence and the
extension of Slavery. In his Buffalo Speech which,
by the way, the Raleigh Register has not laid before
its readers, he says:
| Gentlemen, there is but one question in this
country now or If there be others, tue others are but
secondary, subordinate that thew are all absorb
ed In that great and leading quest ion and that is
neither more nor less than this can preserve the
Union OF the StateS-n0t by cOerciOn-n0k bu military
Poacer-not by angry controversies-but of
this generatIon-you and |, your friends and nay
friends-can preserve the Union of the United
States by sucha administration of the powers Of the
constitution shall give and satisfaction
all who live under 1t, and draw together, not by
military power but by the silken cords of mural,
fraterna, patriotic affection That is the question,
and no other.''
That is the question !" we now considering,
! and nohly does Mr.. Webster answer it; but Col.
Gather and the Editor of the Raleigh Register, na-
tire born citizens Of slauehOding Slate, would
fOrce home of nd boft hoir
esh," while Mr.. Webster himself, he great living
advocate of consolidation, would restore concord, if
possible, by concatory language, and would regard
the sword the last thing to be thought of in this
unhappy controversy. Hear Mr.. Webster again in
the same Speech. He says:
81 cannot express the horror feel at the shedding
OF blood In controversy between of these States
and the government of the United States, because
see in it, in the sight of Heaven, disruption of all
those ties that make great and happy people,
Mr.. Webster cannot think of such an alternative
without " horror - but Col. Gather, as we under
stand from the Mountain Banner, cuoy proposes TO
shed this blood if necessary, and will to do
it, if elected to Congress. and Mr. Fillmore should
require such at his hands! And the Raleigh
Register the organ of the Wing leaders of this State,
endorses COL Gather as true Wing and is anx-
lous for his success and that. too, gentleman
who has acted with the Wing party, and ,Uhose only
fault, in the estimation of the Register. his strong
decotion 10 Southern rights After this, let that paper
prae more of its Southern feelings talk of what
would do in the last resort. Holding these opn-
ions, and taking it Dies this view of this vital
question, that paper would submit in the last resort,
world without end ; and those who sympathize with |
it, agree with it, endorse its course, would do
the
Having alluded briefly to the marked difference on
this subject between Southern Wings 1--WE trust in
God such Wings rarely TO be found y and a
Northern Wing, Mr. Webster, propose now to
show that the Raleigh Register is in the habit of treat
ing South Carolina with more malignity and violence
than even the newspapers, with the exception of the
Abolition ogans,) of the free States. That paper of
the 9th May, 1851, dsgraces its columns by the use
of the following language:
1.-The mad career which South Carolina has marked
out for herself may attract those who love anarchy
who would prefer boodshed to peace-but the sober,
discreet, religious tax paying. country defending and
Government supporting portion Of the people will re- .
main true to their allegiance the Institutions of
their fathers, and when the hour of danger comes S
they will bear aloft the flag of the UNrcN Sare
from South Carolina arrogance, nanify and tyranny
This day. if her leading politicians had the power,
they would WELD over the Southern States iron
more CALLING than euer the Gear IF Russia aoieLed ouer
his distant provinces! If this Union be dissolved
which God forbid we want old North Carolina to be II
OF QeSpOtlSm OF south carolina. 1t
but the tn united. her bigoed and self concei-
ted political leaders would insist upon seeding unless
they were permitted to rule they rule their II
5 slaves ~
And now, having read that, let select some ex- :.
tracts from journals printed in free States The New
ork Journal of Commerce says: o.
ITO the complaints, the remonstrancss. the frater-
nal invitations Of the South renew the amity of
other meso the stern rebukes and patriotic resolves
Of the same people, adurng their brethren of the =
North to desist from their dangerous Vaccinations 81
The agitators turn year. Or if they condescepd
reply it is to insult them with the declaration that In
here is no danger-that the Union is indissoluble :,
And this is The sting, hidden in the sophism that "
The dissolution of the Union is an impossbility''
It implies insufferable indgnity and provocation 10
high minded people. Why do the agitators profess IN
o believe dissolution impossible Because thew VI
rust to the fears of the South. They cherish the
ond deusion that cowardce and fear have taken no
heir abode in the land of Washington and Marion :.
md Jackson. We can conceive of no other ground A
IN which TO predicate the impossibility of dissolution
han this-whch is beneath contempt
Speaking of South Carolina, the Providence (R Ia
y Herald, Democratic paper, says: az
This is singular position for State to assume 40
relation to its coequas of the Union. But we can tn
lot join with the Tribune and other papers in treat
NC the matter with levy and ridicue and This is no
rtheren Of the Union They feel themselves to be r.
eeply wronged, and, if under mistake as to the in
ury. not the less convinced of injury or of the OF
uty resist They possess no small measure of IL
Intelligence, united to the hgh-strung feeling
nd 6erv temper which ,var,,a,I h.