North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-03-05
STUBBORN FACTS,

question in any shape, and We do so now only for the
purpose of keeping readers advised Of passing
events. We wish could say that we bellows the
country is safe. We cannot say 1t, because we can
neither feel nor believe it. Stubborn facts stare us
in the face spreading through the heast ana
rendering such feeling and such heller lhPoss'oie.
We have chronicled from time to time, every evidence
we could gather of returning sense o justice on the
mart of our Northern brethren and we shall continue
TO do So But must also give the facts on the
other side that readers may Judge for themselves
and prepare their minds, best they may, for the
revelations Of the future.
! New York. Ohio, aud Massachusetts have yet
! failed TO elect Senators Congress. In the former
State Mr. Fish is the Wing candidate, AMI Mr.. Dix
the Democratic candidate. MIR. Fish is disciple OF
Seward, and nominated by the Weed Clique;
and Mr.. Dix is Freesoiler of the John Van Buren,
stripe The noble-hearted Dickinson was set aside,
and this brought forward in his place. Mr.. Fish
has been kept of election thus far, by the firm
ness of one Wing Ssnator-Mr. Beekman but his
nomination. and the vote he has been receiving, fur
nish the strongest evidence that he is the choice of
large majority of the Wings of that State. Seward
already speaks for the Empire State in the Senate
Dickinson has been prescribed and trampled down !;
and the question now is, whether the same State
shall send ally of Seward TO the common Senate,
to second his efforts and to aid him in his the
Constitution and the rights of the South!
In Ohio, Gov. w God, who elected by the De-
moe ats has avowed himself as opposed to the fugi-
ve-save law, and is in favor it's essential modi-
fcation repeal. An enemy of this law-Mr. Chase
already represents that State in the Senate and
few days since man of the same stamp came with
in few votes of being chosen as his colleague.
In Massachusetts,, the main body of the Democrat
c party struck bargain months since it'll the
Abolitionsis and Freesoers, and the result of
this arrangement Mr. Rantoul has been elected TO the
Senate, in Mr.. WnthroP's place, and has taken his
seat. The only men Of prominence in the Democrat
c party, that know OF, who denounced this
rangement and who still stand against it, COL
Greene Of the Boston Post, Caleb Gushing, and
b. F. HalIet. There are doubtless, however, thou
sands of the rank and file who sympathize with
these gentlemen and who will sustain them. Mr..
Winthrop. it is true whit better this ques-
ton than MIR. Rantoul but MIR. Sumner, whose cleo
tion is pending for six years, is Aboli,ionist
Of the most detesable and infamous order. He it
was who recently made Speech in Fanueill Hall,
in which he compared the fugitive-slave law TO the
stamp act and declared that every dictate of hu,nan-
~, of religion and of duty Coz, cried out against
! its enforcement in Massachusetts. He counseed
resistance TO it, and it this Speech which, more
than any thing else, contributed get up the late
Boston mob AT the last dates he lacked only three
votes Of being elected. In addition this, by the
law of Massachusetts her prisons forbidden be
used to fugitive slaves, and any officer of hers
who lays hands upon fugitive with view to cap
ture him, is liable to fine and Imprisonment. The
Legislature of that State is in session in Boston,
and yet man repeal this law. A negro
mob rushes into a Court OF Justice, rescues fu-
gitive slave in open day, and puts him his way to
Canada. while thousands of white men stand idly by
witnessing the outrage; and we have just seen il
stated, in our latest Northern exchanges, that the
United States District Attorney and Deputy Marsha
have been arrested under writs issued by State al
thority. and held 10 bail in &c., 900 damages, upon
charge of false Imprisonment in arresting this very
fugitive!
Other free Staes, besides Massachusetts, hav.
laws upon their statute-books, multiplying counter
acting the fugitive-slave law; and there, fear
these laws will stand. We, least, have right t
expect that these States, if they will not legslae il
our favor, will refrain from passing laws intended T.
embarrass the Southern in pursuit of his proper
ty, and laws in direct conflict with the Constitute,
Of the country. But no-they turn deaf ear to GU
Inconsistencies and instead of aiding us, brother
ought, they legsIate both against and against tn
Constitution, which ought 10 cover all and maxi
us people!
Does this look like carrying out the Sc compromise"
The South acquiesces, but what the free State
doing.
The Hon. James K. Paulding, of the wses
and purest of this country. concl ndes of hi
recent communicative he Southern Press with th
solemn and emphatic warning:
81 have lived almost fourscore years have pass
ed through every grade of life, from that of poo
hoy selfeducated and selfdependent, to station
ont the sacrifice of my principles my ndepen
dpnce.
During the whole Of this long pilgrimage, hav
been from habit and inclination with books
and have thus added to the experience of long if
the lessons Of the past and from this experience, ant
those lessons l am inevitably brought to the convc
lion that the people of the South have nothn.
TO depend for their future safety but united action
I in sef-defence. By this they will preserve them
selves and the Union. All other hopes are idle; al
other expeents but daggers turned against their ow
bosoms. They must assert their rights, ant
protect themselves for they have other protectors
The brand of fanatcism is applied the homes o
the people, and must be quenched never
Time Was-time is-but time will soon be no more
The result of the late elections in South Carolin
shows that vast majority of her people in favo
Of the right OF secession, and also of separate Stat
action by the Convention which is to assemble with
e in the next twelve months. We had hoped tina
South Carolina would acquiesce in the late so-calle
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