Southern standard., 1851-07-05

the .'trust" that the people of the South will in
due tinle abolish this 'eva.' We regard this letter
as most significant and extraordinary. This cant
about the evils of slavery has at length reached
executive chair of the United States, and this let
ter ofcomplments to notorious abolition City has
been made the medium for conveying it to the
whole country. We say cant--aye, hypocrisy
harisoSm that spirit which is pure itself that it
can perceive all kind of sins and moral blemishes
in Others and which thanks God that it is mot as
other men are''-that spirit now speaks from the
seat of Washington
Mr.. Fillmore is the choice ofthe Raleigh Regis
ter for the next Presidency of the United States.
Will that paper tell its readers and tell us what
right Mr. Fillmore has, as President of the Uni
ted States, to express the opinion that Slavery is
an 'evil?' Is he not, in SO doing, throwing the
moral power of his high position against it, and
giving aid and encouragement to those fanatics
who brand slavery as sin and a crime
/
At the present time it may not be inappropriate
to publish the following extract from the annual
message of that firm and distinguished southern
patriot, GEORGE NJ. TRoUP. The boldness of his
predictions the earnestness of his appeals and the
severity of his denunciations alarmed, at the ume
the whole country By some, he was considered
mad man. and by others hot-headed -enthusi
asst. We now see that there was much method in
his madness. The predictions of 1895, reai-
ties in 1851. The south failed to take the advice
of Troup She "temporized" with 'hte tanat-
ies." She failed to resist the first movement Of
Congress or the abolition question, and ''nH wos
lost" We now 'stand stripped and desolate, un-
der tersid sun and upon generous soil, neck
cry to ourselves. What is still our duty We
must defend the rights and the equally of the
states We must protect own peculiar insti-
tutions-we must uphold our system of slavery.
sIt may be our physical weakness-H IS oar NOR
al strength. When the arguments exhausted. -
we have nothing to do, But TO STAND BY OUR
ARMS HANCOCK.
| Extract from Gov. TRoUP's message of 1925
s'Soon, very soon, the United States govern.
ment, discarding the mask, will openly lend itself
to combination of FANATICS for the destruction
of everything that IS uoluobte an the southern
try. ONE MOVE OF THE CONGRESS UNREsIsTED BY
you, AND ALL is LOST. TEMPoRrzE NO LONGER
Make known yoar resolution, that this subject shall
not be touched by them but at their peril. But
for its sacred guarantee by the constitution, we
never would have become parties, to that instru-
ment. At this moment you would not make your
selves parties to any constitution without it. O
course you will not be party to al from tie mo-
naent tie general government shall make that move
ment. Ii this matter be an evil, ii is our own
Ii it be sin, we can implore the forgiveness of it
To remove it, we ask not either their sympathy OF
assistance. It may be our physical Weakness
IS oar moral strength. If like the Greeks and Ro-
mans, the moment cease to be masters we are
slaUes--we thenceforth minister, like the modern
Italians, to the luxury and pleasures of our mas
tiers. Poets, painters, musicians, and sculptorS
we may be--ihe moral qualities however, which
would make US the fair partakers of the grandeur
Of greut empire acoutd be gone. We would stand
striped and desoiate under fervid sun and upor
a generous soil, mockery to ourselves, and the
very contrast of what, with a little frmness and
foresight, we might have been. entreot goa
therefore, most earnestly, now that IS not ootate t.
step forth, and haping exhausted the argument, Tc
lsTAND By YOUR ARMS II Tribune.