Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-07-30
DANGEROUS VIEWS.

DANGEROUS VIEWS.
The last Raleigh Register takes the ground that
the Union Of the States affords the best protection
Slavery, and that an attempt by the slaveholding
States. in the last resort to shield and their
slave property, will end tie " abolition of Slavery
in the seeding aes! If this be true, the question
is settled. MI. Webster, MI. Fillmore, John Van
Buren,. Charles Sumner, William H. Seward, and a
large majority of the Northern people have already
taken the position that the of Slavery shall not
be extended-that is, no more slaveholdng States
shall be admitted into the Union. This position, if
made good, will inevitably crcumscribe the ins,i,u.
ton and con6ne it, by hoops of iron to its present
field of operations. In less than fifteen years-per-
haps in ten-the free States will increase to such
extent, that with the sympathes and assistance of
such States as Delaware, Kentucky, and Maryland,
they will be able to propose amendments TO the Con-
stuon and pass them, making it Constitutional fol
Congress to exercise jurisdiction and control over
Slavery in the States; or if this result should not be
reached in this time, agitation against Slavery will
grow with the increase of the free States, pre-.
liminary step 10 its ultimate destruction by the Federal
Government. Wesay this must be the end of things,
unless the slauehoding States should present united
front against these aggressons and this agitation. II
they yield their rights, and give back step by step
the Raleigh Register proposes they shall do, their
doom will be sealed.
These views of the Register would be dangerous
at any time the institution Ct Slavery but they
especially so at time like this. They say to the
North, if you ,oiH harrass us-if you sOiH confne
Slavery its present lmits-if you will put US un-
der the ban and leave hope in future years but
emancipation at immense cost, abolition amid in
surrecton and servile war-if you ,viH convert these
fair fields of into black empire, and force our
posterty from them to distant lands-if you ,riH do
what the Constitution forbds you from doing, and
take from us the sacred rights which that instru-
ment guarantees to us-if you wM treat US as your
interiors in the Confedeacy-if you ,rM do these
things, and more, ii you wish YOU MUST DO 1T ; we
have no hope for ourselves for the institution of
Slavery but in the very power which may be welded
for the destruction of both! This, repeat, Is in
substance the language of the Raleigh Register but
if have done that paper injustice we will cheer
fully set it right.
Wings of North Carolina, is this your doctrine !?
If so, you might we'll make up Your minds to lose
your slaves, for lose them you will, sooner or later,
if such views prevail.
rThe true ground, in our humble judgment, is this {:
Let US stand by the Constitution it is asking for
nd amendments to it and submitting to none. Let US
demand, as an indispensable condition of our contin-
in the Union, that Congress and the President
shall faithfully execute the fugtive-slave law; and
that Congress shall abstain. scrupulousy and forever,
from discussing the question of Slavery, or from ex-
ercsing or claiming jurisdiction over it, Let Slave
ry spread ITSELF if can, without the aid the oPpo-
stion of the Federal Government and let new States
be admitted f,heir Constitutions be republican, with
out reference to this institution. In other words, let
US require that the free States shall perform their duty
under the Constitution, and let Slavery alone This
is all we ask More we could not require, in justice
to- other portions Of the Confederacy less cannot
take, without proving ourselves unworthy of the
privileges and blessings of free government.
William H. Seward says he has Slavery just where
he wants it-that the perpetuation of the Union is
essential to its ultimate extinction-that the moral
opinion of the Northern people, acting the nsti-
tuition in the Southern States, will melt it away an
iceberg dissolves before the sun; and the Raleigh
Register holds to the opinion and argues to establish
it, that there is safety for the institution out of the
present Confederacy of States! Seward regards the
Union as an engine of ruin to one-half the States,
and he is steadily marching forward 10 the consun-
nation of his purposes; the Raleigh Register can
no remedy for the States by virtue of any rights
or action of their own, and no power in the States
to protect themselves their property organized
political communities; but that paper yields every
outpost of State rights, prostates itself before the
Of Consolidation which is, in the end, Abolition, and
5egs the free States for protection and mercy!
We have no wish to discuss the question Of Sa-
very, and we have written this article with reluctance
and only as matter of duty. But duty we intend
to perform, if we know how, under all circumstances
no matter who may be affected by it in the public es-
timation. We believe in the Constitution, in State
Rights and in African Slavery, and intend to stand
by them long the blood shall circulate in these
veins.