Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-08
STRONG VIEWS FROM A NEUTRAL

last number of the New York "Herald of the
Union" The Union is edited by G. EDWARDS
LESTER, and was established with the sole view of
supporting the " compromise" measures
The SoUTH-HER Policy AND DESTINY. The
strength of the South now lies almost entirely in two
things-cotton and sugar. Consequently whenever
revulson takes place in the markets and cotton and
sugar not active in demand, the South is instantly
more or less Frustrated. This will always be the
so long as the successful production of the South
merely results In the acquisition of more negroes and
more land, to produce more cotton and more sugar.
Northern men spread their over the whole world
and from every Legitimate of business bring
wealth into their Golfers. If of the institutions
In the North sinks, the remaining institutions 90 on
and sustain the country in the crisis. AS iustra-
ton OF the utter plessness of the South and the
robustness OF her present course, the extraordinary
cold OF last winter froze the Mississippi river
low as memphis, and had not benign Providence re-
stored the usual warmth of the season. the Southern
States depending upon the West would have been alb
soluteIy In want of the necessaries of life Let the
South build railroads, encourage her own manufac-
| lures, do all she can to draw mechanics within her
borders and let the Southern States the capital
whlcn is now giving premium to Virginia, Mary
land' Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri TO turn free
states, by purchasing all their negroes let this
capital thus directed be turned to mixing crops
and encouraging the mechanic arts. -.
Southern papers and Southern men know that the
Herald the Union has not only dared say, but tina
has said, for her, ali that any of her papers, or
her own men have said, when they were talking Sc
riously and manfully. We have taken the course we
have because we profess to be Invested of local pre-
JUDGES But IN casting about to discover the
for all the mlsapprehension that exsls-and msap-
Prehension alone has been the cause of all the evil
we confess to have discovered but one prominent
remedy for these recurring apprehensons The great
battle fought in the National Congress in 1850,
and the Compromise measures elaborated from
the hery furnace Of political agitation. That result
however, never would have been brought about had
not the most ilIustrious Of the past-Ievoutionary
statesman this country has had, risen in the Senate,
white with age and venerable for their learning and
patriotism, to lay their mighty hands upon the trem
bling helm of the ship of State it was driving upon
the rocks. Clay and Calhoun dead. Webster
has probably retired from the Senate forever. Ben
tons stentorlan voice is longer heard in the
turmoil he raised hmself-and if the waves should
once more dash as wildly around the foundations of
our Republican temple, who would expect again to
hear that chorus of mighty voices saying Peace, be
still ?''
But does the South expect that the North that her
friends at the North, that the cam the resolute the
National men of the North, going every season to
our future Congresses TO trampe their constituencies
under their feet w ebster did, and saw the heavy
doors of Faneuil Hall slammed in his face for his re-
ward and more, to his name deliberately
cised in the National Convention of the Wing party
By Just Southern ro:es enough TO nominate the Uery
Ag0memnOn Of This Gccurscd abolition agitation Does
the South expect that all the great national ofhe
North are going to live hundred years longer, and
every year go up Washington to pass another, and
a more stringent Fugitive Slave law?
The remedy for the South, and the only remedy,
is in her hands, She always with good grace,
even with the hope of bring down Jupiter
from Olympus, without she puts her own shoulder to
the wheel. Let her continue TO educate her children
at the North, and sooner later they will go back
abolitionists Let her rich men continue spend
their summers at the North, and their fortunes the
North and build up for years to come, they have
past, the watering places, the paata hotels
and even the Grace churches In Broadway; let the
South abandon all species of business and all prof.
table trades and callings, except the single of
planting. to Northern adventures, who handle all
their money and decide the drift of their capital
let the Southern merchants pay from ten TO twenty
per cent. than is necessary, in the shape of
missions and brokerage to the Northern merchants,
rather than send their money direct Lyons Birm
ingham, thus making her absolutely dependent every
hour In the day, for every luxury that from the
old countres-let the South raise their bonds in Wall
street, to get money to build Southern railroads.&c.
all this continue for fifty years come, it has for
fifty years past and the South itself will be aboli
tionzed, and there will be remedy for it. There
is evil here which be cured by legs-
lation.
AS well might the friends of the victims of this
last holocaust have offered TO the demon of flood
and fire the Hudson call upon the Legislature of
New York to them their friends that were
burned drowned. The evil lies back of legisla-
tioI-a hundred fugitive-slave laws could offer no
remedy. Moreover, this cry of wolf has been rung
out little too loud. The North sprang generously
and fraternally to the in 1850; but the i'm
preston has been quite too common that for all that
there wolf there. By and by, however, the |
as
The rejection Of Webster and Fillmore, at Baltimore, !
the first ominous sign-the election of Scott
would render all subsequent signs unnecessary.
The South seems to TO be deliberately cutting |
its own throat. When Southern man gets three, /
Ave, eight hundred dollars Or for that matter,
thousand, instead of making it the nucleus for the
formation Of a railroad nufacturing. banking
company, or improving or embeshing his home, he |
gives it to a niger trader to go to Missouri. Ken
lucky, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and help those
States to get rid Of slavery, by laying upon the buy
ers still more hopeless incubus-thus offering
bride to the progress of abolitonism in the more
Northern slave States, and thus bringing upon them
inevitably the inal hour.
TO refer again to the Baltimore Wing Convention.
In the nomination of Gen. Scott, have living
illustration of the truth of what say, and also of
the almost electric speed with which the ruin of the
South seems to be approaching. In that convention
where was the DETECTION :? The South could have
nominated Fillmore Webster, and yet they nomi-
mated Gen. Scott 1t was, however, only after fifty
two ballots that the game was successful. Where
did these last nine votes for which the Northern alb
otoniss had been five days sturdiy fighting in
dog-day weather come from Not from Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Florida, or South Carolina; for those States were
bound up in the veal or woe of that institution. But
the auriHaries of the Northern nbohhoniss from
V1rginia, Maryland, kentucky, Tennessee and MssOu
ri-he very States that had pOckeied tUo hundred mil
lions of dollars from the ertreme South in payment for
their negroes, and then put the money into railways,
5anks phunkrOads colleges manufactures schools, tel
sgraphs, and all tie machinery IF electric progress