North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-20
WHICH IS THE UNION PARTY

WHICH is THE UNION PARTY
We do not know when we have read sounder OF
better article than the following, from late num-
Der of the Richmond Enquirer. We commend it to
the particular attention of readers;
Which is the USioN Purity? This is an important
question at this time 1t ought 10 oe thoroughly als-
used. 1t ought to rightly understood IN Virginia
and in the Union It cannot be answered by referring
to Understanding professions of affection for the Union
in this quarter, or to violent dehdnclauohs Oh inc C
in that ouarter Wm H. Seward is not to be set down
supporter of the Union because of his insulting dec
Iaration that not be dissolved and shall not be
Mr. Calhoun to be pronounced TO have been an en-
ev of the Union because he declared that In certain
CONTINGENCIES it be dissolved Nor can the ques-
ton be determined merely by deciding who chershes the
strongest attachment for the Union Before great caus-
es of alienation arose, all alike attached to it
were not merely actuaed by deep sentiment of aec
ton for Union but regarded its dissolution with fear
and horror. And if those of alienation
removed the heart of the people North and South would
again alike overflow with affection for the Union What
are the of the existing hostility the Union
Who aid and abet the operations of those causes; lend
them which they would otherwise possess and
give them impetus and an effect which they would
not otherwise attain These the tests of 10y
atty to the Union, and the only tests.
Every knows that the causes of all the luminosity
which exists against the Union the violent and insult
ting manifestations which have been made the North
of hostility to the institution of slavery But for the
spirit of condemn alton and insult towards the South on
account OF that institution, which has been "
many ways and for long time at the North every
knows that the voice of secession would never nave
been heard amongst From the day OF the heToiu-
ton to the present time there has not lived South OF the
Potomac single citizen who has advocated Disunlon
upon any other than this Northern hostility to
sayery If that agitation this day discon-
tinued and the North should subscribe to the principle
of nonnervention and relihquish the practice (hey
might retain the right of discussing slavery, in modes
and upon occasions insulting the South the next day
would witness the entire cessation of Southern appeals
secession and the universal return Of that devotion to
the Union and national institutions which charac-
erised the Southern people in the early history of the
confederacy. The of all sectional animestics
is the fanatca and violent hostility of large portion of
the Northern people to Southern slavery. is the insul-
ting doings and sayings of those people, and the
they attempt make of the national government to
ecute schemes which enrages the South and threat
pecpitate South Carolina into the folly and mad
of separate secession That which supplies fuel to
this fanaticism which furnishes it subject brood up
and object to labor for-whch is honestly
tanned by the sincere aboonist and dishonesty incu
Gated by the nsnccre-s the idea that they part of
the political community with the saveholdng peo
pie, therefore responsible for the imaginary sins of
slavery and bound exert their whole political powers
for its extinction Abolition is the of all the dis
traction of the nation and this idea the
clifton agitation. The question therefore is, which of
the two national parties, by their theories and principles
of government strengthen and encourage this idea
The system of politics advocated by the Wing party
teaches that the people OF the United States
ton, under a common, supreme and sovereign govern
meht; that they one single community, established
absolutely for Pceuity that the States but provn
bunals that allegiance the concdcracy absolute and
cannot be absolved by of usurpation the part
of the federal governments that if allegiance is all due
to the State Government but 1 aSi alegia nee sub
ordinate and yielding all times and in all contingent
ces, to the higher allegiance due the general govern
ment; that State may not under any circumstances
IN the face OF usuraon by that sovernmen-foa any
cause, however just or mPerative-separac from the
conederacy; that the attempt do in all
dictionary and wrongful, and resisted with all
the powers of the general government These political
ho I,Io
community with the institution which he abhors that he
IS responsible in the eye of and of God
lstence and that he Is bound, ciSen every
exeron to overthrow it. These same political theories
point him to the general government supreme and all
powerful as the competent agent his purposes which
may nghtfuly all its ordinary powers to effect the
overthrow OF this institution and may Also without the
possibility ofLegnaie resistance by an authority hiob
er IN his than the Constitution extraordinary
powers for the purpose They teach him that he
mas part to perform concerning slavery and they point
MIN 10 me sword by which may be DESTROYED. They
bring slavery constantly home to him-make it pcrpe
uay running sore In his sde and render him the ready
ana willing tool OF the demagogues who make
OF MIN. however the party which advocates these doc
trInes may oppose their consequences and de-
ny the differences of the aboionst they flow inev-
taply from the theories which he is taught and supply
all the incentives to his fanatcsm. Establish the right
OF peaceful secession, YESTERDAYS Whip andcy-
cry body knows that South Carolina secedcs
Establish Mr. Webscrs doctrine that secession is not
nSntiul remedy, but revolutionary measure, which
must IN all be resisted to the utmost nv the pcn
e[a government and what do you not make of abolition
"ha powers do you not confer upon the general gov
ernment and whtre must be the inevitable and speedy
refuge OF the ,chO South from the assaults of abolition
nut secession! The original the disunon sem
umen Is at the North the danger the Union is there
anu we must look there for the consequences of politi-
cal theories. " F
The politics advocated y tho republican party are en-
rey different from the other system They teach that
inc people oil the Union several and distinct commu
eS' Nlhg respectively under complete sovereign gov
eIments coequa and mutually independent but confed-
oi"'cu ny virtue OF written compact under delegated
government OF limited expressly prescribed and accurate
oenned powers, having the attributes general
y ony ana not OF sovereignty. They teach the ahoi-
ohist OF massachusetts, that slavery belongs to differ
ent community and different policy from his own that
no Is no more anscrabe for the institution than he is
answerable for the Cannbalism of the Pacific Islands
that although he responsible there is no possible
mode ny which he reach the institution that the
reuera Government has power over it, that if that
government should be used to assa the institution the
alemPt would dissolve the Enon and thus would not
iai to accomplish the slaves liberty but seriously endan
ger his own. ~
nose are the systems of politics respectively advoca
teo ny the hg and Democratic parties and the uues
49, "hich oil them conduces surely and effcctu
any 10 promote tic perPetuity of the Union. Those
VINO deciam against the one as encouraging secess;o
forget that the other encourages obo0, If the right
" peaceful secession be established all the conservative
influences OF our institutions, and all the Union sent-
vi 'e country Is at once arrayed against abolition
the SOBER intelligence, the patriotic Ia-loving law abb
Jung sentiment OF the people, North and South is all
Drought 10 the support of the Constitution It is true
that concedng the right ofsecesson Yields to South Car
ga literal right but il does not dvest her, nevertheless
Oh the moral niquV which