North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-07

| SourHERN AND NORTHERN" UNIoN'' MEN. In the
letter Of Dr. Robert Collins to the managers Of the
Macon 22nd of February celebration find the two
following paragraphs: - a
81 am in every sense southern man--alI pos
sess is here-y greatest interests is in the protec
ton of Southern property, and all my efforts shall be
devoted to that end and in my solemn judgement,
the best way to do so, Is to swear allegiance to the
Constitution and the Union of the country. To sup
port for office whose fidelity to the Union is be-
yond suspicion. To give the right hand of fellow
ship to all meet on the platform of the Union party.
And to object to no man on account of the section
from which he comes, or the name which he bears,
be il Democrat or Wing.
And although l would not follow the example of
the great Carthagenian General, by swearing my
children to eternal war upon the opponents OF the
Government yet so important, and sacred do con-
slider the of the Union. that should it ever be
my fortune to present at the altar of any Church
for it's Christian rites, should desire the font to be
filled with the mixed waters from the four quarters OF
the Republic, that he might be baptized truly, in the
elements of the Union, that in all after life, the as
ISOLATION most deeply impressed upon his mind,
should be, the Union of his country with the wor-
ship Of God"
The reader who peruses the foregoing. will say.
that in love to the Union it is impossible to find the
Doctors match. So we thought when we first read
these indications OF his devotion. Now, however,
we are in doubt. The Union loving Georgian has
rival in New York, between whose ardor and his
own, unable to decide. That rival is Will
liam H. Seward. Between the two it is really hard
to determine, whose love is deepest and most won
deruI. Our readers shall Judge for themselves and
award the palm. Says Seward, Che is writing upon
the Fugitive Slave Bill to convention of its oppo-
nents held in BOSTON,:
- / have weighed, moreover, the arguments that
portion of the people in of the States have
made the perpetuity of the Fugitive Slave Law
condition of new declarations of loyalty to the Union.
That loyalty is duty resulting from the Constu-
ton and is equally due, whether the of ad-
ministraon satisfactory or unsatisfactory. re-
greet that anything should have happened to encourage
belief that loyalty could be accepted on conditions,
and especially thecondilion of forbearng to repeal
a repealabe statute. But since it is so, can only
say that we. whom the recent action of the Gov
eminent bears as 1t seems TO unjusy, are In
the Union for richer, for poorer for BETTER for worse
whether in a majority, or in a minority, whether In
power powerless, without condition, reservation
qualification or Limitation, for and aye!!!"
We rather think DR.. Collins must yield to Mr..
Seward The latter every body knows isa New York
Senator, the former is highly commended in certain
qua rters for the Office OF Governor.
AS corollary these expressions OF ardent attach
ment to the Union and others of the kind which we
constantly meet in Southern presses, we give with
out note comment, but with fears and feelings
which inexpessible, the following remarks OF the
New York Tribune. God grant that the future may
not prove them to be true:
Had the free States been manly enough, true enough
to the Wmot Proviso all present or future
Territories of the Union, should have had just
about the same ddoes cut up by The Chivary that
We have witnessed, and with more damage to the
Union. Whenever secession shall be seriously threat
ened because of Northern resistance TO slavery extern
sion shall that the Shareholders are not all
the people of the Southern States, majority OF
them, though they seem not to realize 1t. In
slavebreeding Maryl land and Virginia, two-thirds OF
the legal would to-day prefer the Union with
out slavery, 10 slavery without the Union. And this
sentiment is just ripeRng in all the Southern States,
with three four exceptions.