North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-09
Mr.. M1LLER.s GRAFTON.

without respect to party 1t is the day which all
may approach the altar of their country with hearts
grateful for the past and proud of the present and
with earnest hopes for continuance of common lib
critics and common blessings. As our forefathers,
with mind and with heart, fought for these
liberties before parties organized and them
for all interests and all classes they fondly hoped
to be enjoyed by all the latest generations ought
we in celebrations of their triumphs and in pay
ing our devotons to their virtues, be that
do SO in the spirit which animated them, and in
manner which shall perpetuate the great truth, from
age TO age, that this inheritance is the pro-
Perty of ALL If party spirit is be stilled, this
is the day, of all Others when quiet should be forced
upon it. When speak of Washington, and of
La Fayette, and of Marion, and of De kab, let that
spirit be dismissed from our presence, not
cursed but as improper thing it will return 10 u.s.
in its place, full soon, to divide us, ought TO
be divided, and as in the nature Of things must
be, upon questions connected with the administration
of public affairs. And it is thus only that can
be divided, so long the teachings of
immortal Party spirit, in its time and
i'll its place, is both proper and necessary but out of
time and out of place, all feel it to be In
dependence Day, it is productive of public bene
fit, but is calculated to of united
tional rejoicing into occasion of contention and
angry strife.
We exulted with the Orator, in the outset of his
Grafton, over the trumphs of the Revolution, and we
participated with him in all his expressions of graft
tude for the liberties established for by the heroes
and sages of that day. We were with Kim in his
delineations of the difficulties and struggles which
preceded and attended the adoption of the present
Constitution; and joined him in all the admiration
he expressed for that instrument the sublimest and
mo mic If KIM WI M
from mortal hands. We united with him also in his
description fhe value and the blessings of the Union.
and responded most heartily to his wishes. so
strongly expressed, for its continuance but when he
began his attack upon State sovereignty, and when
he manifested, as we'll by his manner as by his Ian
guage, his cow lotion that unlimited submission TO
the Federal Government is duty, and that this Union
can be maintained by force we felt, as large portion
of his hearers must have felt, that he not only
readng the forbidden grounds Of partyism, but that
he announcing the very sentiments and the very
views of government which must, above all Others
if carried into practice and generally acted upon, end
in the disruption of the Union and in civil wal.
Mr.. Miller doubt intended to deliver Union
Speech, but he failed in his Intention Indeed, with
his notions of government and the views he takes OF
political system, such effort his part is i'm
possible. So far as the portion noticing
against Stale sovereignty-he made no alusion TO
Southern rights-he held up the Union every thing
and the States as hardly any ,hing-he echoed the
watchword of Seward, Of New York, Of Johnston, of
Pennsy vania, and of other fanatics of the free Staes
Union at oHhazards under oil circumstances and 10 The
last extremity. He could safety to the South
States the institution Of Slavery out of the
Union-the very government which has already set
limits to the spread of Slavery he represented as its
surest otection and its best friend If he referred
to the Constitution once, he spoke of the Union in
This sense dozen times; and if he expressed the
opinion in any portion of his Grafton that the South
people have rights, which in any contingency they
ought to defend, did not hear it. He may have
spoken Of the privilege of rebellion belonging to the
States when oppression shall have become too heavy
be borne; but if he did, have distinct recol
lection of it. Perhaps he did, it may be that he
merely left this RICH in the people Of North Carolina to
become rebels, be inferred from the of his
gument; but the Grafton, we presume, will be pub
lshed, and then all doubts as to its language
and tone will be removed. And now, what was this
but Disunion speech1 The Union has been put in
peril by the action of the majority of the people of the
free States. They the aggressors and Disunion
ists-if the Union should be dissolved the fault will
be theirs. Every one feels, every one sees every one
confesses this fact Under these circumstances We |
say TO these people, you have wronged US much al |
ready and we fear additional and heavier wrongs at
your hands. We have common Constitution, it is
true, which you threaten TO violate, and have
institution which you anxious to destroy but then
we have Union, and if you ,riHd these things, we
shall regret it, but at the time will submit
What language is this to address to assailants
and to the enemies of Constitutional Freedom What
must be it's effect What its tendency but lull
the South into false security, and to inuite the Uery
Gggressions sOe seeking TO prerent? If bring
heads the block will the execuoner strike
If tell assailans powerless and their
mercy, will they not take US at word If We
sink ourselves beneath the free States, forget
equality with them, and beg them in the of tine
Union to spare US, will they despise u.s. and des
pisng US, crush us2 Away with such sentiments
They the doctrines, and nothing but the doctrines
of non-resisance and passive obedience and if fol-
lowed up they will most sssuredy bring upon all
the very calamites of dissolution which many of
US fear, and which all good nen, every where, are
striving TO avert. Such sentiments-such Disuni3n
sentiments unwelcome at any time to North Car
ona ears, but they especially on Independence
Day.
We repeat the Fourth of July is the Peoples Day,
and should be permitted to desecrate it with
partizan harangues and go uniebuked. On such
day the Orator who is selected to sneak for a coun.