North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-15
ABOLITION RAWLINGS.

Greedy, of the New York Tribune, bowls like
ba1ed wild beast over the result of the late election
in New York. He is evidently enraged because the
Wing party there were not allowed as " free discus.
sion - heretofore the subject of Slavery; and
his conclusion is, that il this discussion is to be
tirey discontinued the Wing party of the free States
will be disbanded and broken up. He concludes one
of his articles in relation the election follows
For OUT own part, living within the very shadow
of the temple wherein the god Cotton is worshiPed,
defy the priests who oficate at the altar TO do
their worst. We tell them from the depths OF our
souls we hate and abhor Human Slavery, and every
institution, law usage whereby the poor and feeble
are racked and dashed TO make them minister to inc
pomp and luxury of the wealthy and powerful we
tell them that we feel that the soil we tread is desc
Grated, the air we breathe polluted, by the lnhunan
slave-hunts which an ilI-consdered compact, made
when our fathers were themselves virtually saYenoF
ders, compels Us not to oppose by any other ihah
moral resistance. We tell them that we Will mol DS
instrumental in forcing back into bondage those VINO
have escaped iherefrOm; but while we would olS
suade ali from violent resistance To- any legal mandate
we will ourselves cheerfully 60 to prison or 0ea @
penalty which cur refusal may invoke, ra'heI Ina%
aid to conssn an innocent fellow-belng 10 PelPeia
bondage. We tell them that very large ProPoiNU"
of our fellowcitizens share our convictions ana emu
late determination; and that the time IS mol us
tant when no man (and much less woman eau "
hunted like beast of prey through the Free oSe.
when known to be guilty OF no crime DuI nS S,,
ing liberty. Gentlemen of the Union and oa'oy
Committee if you mean to silence all uelaS.o
verse to Slavery and Slavehodng In the riee
your task has hardly yet begun!
Bah The IS ilI-considered compact when wi
fathers made This is the language of either knS''
or a fool /; but Greedy is not a fool. de mas a'
~ travelled Europe, where he saw, win MS =,
eyes, the abiect condition of the white man. OO"'O
he is and broken beneath the iron weight OF '''
privileged orders, and immense national Deus 49,
Greedy knO,Us. or he may know, if he WILL "Ni 18th
African slave is in better condition this OSJ
physically and spiritually, than millions Oh u" -
of the laboring population Of EuFoPei az.
goes to Europe, writes book of travels anu ILL.,
here to SANDER his own country-to revue "'' /.
institniions-to cast down her character 50 IA'
can, in the eyes of the nations-to utter SUM-
mentations over the African slaVe--and 70 olA'r1
SO far as he is able to do 90, the fame OF thoso Nv
trioqs men who framed and adopted the Fe0efA' e
stitution! For our part, we honor those n'n "a
both parties in the free States, who have un''ID
against such fanatics and demagogues as 0'V IT,.
Seward, and Weed. We pray for their Snc'e' ;..D.
current of the battle for the Union, and Tor INC 'r
preciable blessings won for US by "aSn"s Gas.
his associates, is now running through the 'le'
and all eyes here will look to see when nag 81 If
out fiom the contest with victory on us 'O'U
the friends of the 'scompromise" triumph ID ma
ter, all will yet be well; but if Gree5 ano .,o.
and Weed, and those who sustain them IN ."0n as.
SADIE against the Constitution should Obtain ~ and
cendency; we may nay at once despair Of harmony
e he continuance Of the Union Of these S'a'e''