North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-15
THE HILLsBoRouaH RECORDER.

The Editors of the Hilsborough Recorder, in their
Issue of the 9th instant, have done this Journal infns
tice. They charge MS with having been Is long en-
gagged in fostering spirit of disunion and intimate
that have only recently taken the ground that SCI
cession is .abstrsct right, not 70 be exercfs-
ed This is the substance of the Recorders article.
Now, We assert, without fear of contradiction from
any quarter, that We have been and are now firm
and as steadfast friend to the Union of the States
as any man in North Carolina and we defy the Ed-
tors Of the Recorder to put their fingers upon any
thing we have said written, at any time, which
looked to dissolution of the Union except in the last
resort, and as the only protecting the vital
ferests and The honor Of State. We are the friend
of Constitutional Union, and for the Const-
tuition as it is, in all its parts; but not, and if
kind Providence should continue TO faculty
Of reason, shall be, the advocate of unlim-
tied submission to the Federal Government.
The honor of North Carolina is dearer to us than
that of Maine, or of any other State; and it is our
paramount duty to North Carolina, in the last resort
to stand by her vital interests involved in the ns,i-
tuition of Slavery. We accepted the Compromise, -
to use the language Of the Recorder, from the rst
as the price of the Union, and have acquesced in
it from the first, for the sake of the Union; but no
human power shall compel US to say that we believe
it to be just and fair in all its parts. But we take it
as it is and demand that the free States shall do
the same. Are they doing it! VIH they do it !
The events of a few months will give the answer.
We now call upon the Recorder either to prove,
from the record, its charge and intmatlon above al
luded to in default thereof, to admit that it has
done US injustice. We appeal to the recofd-our
files are open to the Editors.
We might refer the Editors of the Recorder to their
own course, and show the evils which such course
is calculated to bring upon the South and ultimately
upon the Union; but have desire to repeat our
views upon this subject at this time. II is sufficient
for US to say, at present, that only hope now,
heretofore, for the preservation of the Union, is
strict construction of the Constitution and in union
of feeling and purpose among Southern men. Abo-
itionism lives by concessions, and grows upon them
We cannot conciliate it. We must meet it as we
would deadly enemy. 1t must be not only sienc-
ed but crushed by the union Of the South and by the
aid of good men North. If we of the South yield
to it, and recede before its demands who will defend
us! Who will save the Unioni Who will protect the
Constitution from violation! Who will see to it that
the fugve-slave law is enforced and not repealed
Will the free States free States, do these things
Never! Give US, then, the Constitution in its purity,
and Southern men, and all may yet be WELL
No free people ever yet lost their property liberties
without deserving, to great extent, to lose them !;
and it, in the end the Constitution should be tramped
down and the Union dissolved, the impartial histo-
rian will record the fact that the calamity was owing
first to the bad designs and criminal acts of people
in the free States, and secondly, 10 the apathy Of the
slaveholding States and to the neglect of duty BY
Southern men.