North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-30
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

We clip the following patriotic appeal from the
great speech of the Hon. Pierre Soule, Senator from
Louisiana, delivered his fellow-citzens in the city
of New Orleans in November last:
And now come to the important question What
is the remedy for these wrongs and grievances Shall
we quietly submit, shall we sever connection
with the North will answer frankly. This Union
was founded on the equality OF the soverelgns CON-
posing it this is its essential equality without such
equality it is not worth preserving with t-as long
as our rights respected, long it continues to
be the union established by the Fathers of the Repub
c am for standing by it the last drop of my blood
But the time should when our rights are out
raged when our dignity is derided. honor tram
Piled on, and these Southern States become mere
league OF submissive colonies and dependent, Oh !!
then, how great soever the sacrifce-though in do
ing So tear asunder my heart-strings let the Union
go! let It go! lcame here from a country where the
hand of oppression pressed down the minds and bod
les OF men, came here of my choice. This
glorious land became the country of my adoption.
entered it under the Constitution which l swore TO
obey, and owe allegiance only to the Union which
derives lis existence from that Constitution. have
heard as the nobest of all the lessons of republican
DUTY, that to deserve the name and character of free
men, we must be ready to maintain our rights man
fully. and at all sacrifices.
But oh the violence of the denouncers of those
who stand by the rights of the South-where will il
END, when II seeks to trampe such men Quitman
and Davis In the dust! These men who have illus
'ialu your national character by glorious exhibitions
courage, heroism and patrotism, who led the youth
OF your country to victory the fields of Monterey
buena Vista, Cherubusco and Chepultepec-,hese
are denounced as traitors by the very men who du-
ring the war Invited the Mexicans to tUeic3me them
l'A 0oody hands and hOspitabe grares-the latter
the Patrlots-the former traitors. All between such
traitors and such patriots shall never hesitate.
am with the traitors
This cry Of Union-of the National Union party ,
is cunnIngy-devsed meta net thrown over us by
ouT Pcliucal adversaries, catch and hold US. 1t
VIII only catch those who to be caught. On
tS question there can be but parties, Northern
anu southern party. What is the Union this new
party wants They seem to lose sight of the Con-
s'Ituon altogether it is dead letter to them the
WORD IS not to be found in their vocabulary. Union
Ehion! Is their only word. Disunion dsunion
uei[ only curse! L will answer them {: if they mean
ohloh under the Constitution, we are all for it {;
" ''ey mean unIon out of the Constitution, |, for
me am against it. Who are disunionists! Are
ose uiSunlonlsts who for the Constitution and
Tue e4uat rights of the States !-whu observe the no.
P,nclPie OF asking nOing but tvhat is right and
"TT% ag 10 nothing that is ,orong?
tney speak OF traitors ! There have been two
tIbo NaocS VINO are immortalized in our history
taI, 'n immortality of glory, the other an immo
10y Vi ln'amy. The one was George Washington
out great hrst leader, who rather than bend his neck
~ .e yoke OF despoiism, rather than submit to on
ihe degradation, dishonor, became traitor 10
h~Sn government and a benafactor to the whole
- az mere was no submission in that glo.
inao uSor' His fame will grow brighter with the
ni Vi m1he' and unborn generations will hymn his
mb ! ne olher great traitor was Benedict Arnold
a'. r''syeo The cause of liberty bartered his char
nI;L .o hitny lucre. Thus is the same name an
0RS inherent characters and actions.