Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-06

county, but Inc 1orlorn nope OF factIous agitation
must have some hook to hang upon. The Compro-
mise measures have been selected as the most eoibIe
subjects tor that purpose.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land
1t is the great bond of union, by virtue of which,
these States are one free and happy people, TO it we
all owe allegiance Its provisions we are bound BY
an oath TO obey and it is the high duty of every man
10 obey them without an oath. The makers of the
tuguve-slave law meant to frame act which should
fairly give effect to that clause of the Constitution
not one containing provisions which they knew could
not be enforced, and which would render the law and
the Cons titution nulty 1t is one of the Compro.
mise measures, without all of which none could have
been adopted. In 10 of its provisions is it more
stringent than the fugtive-slave law of 1892 which
was introduced by Northern man, passed without
opposition In Congress, approved by Washington
and has continued till the present time for it is not
now repealed. That law had no trial by jury, and
no provisions respecting the writ of habeas corpus
"a right which neither law wihholds.) different from
the present statute. Under this law of 1892 most of
the present generation of men have been born and
lived. No excitement has been raised about it. Many
fngive-saves have been returned their masters bv
virtue of its authority. No assumed phiIanthropist
to my knowledge, has ever warned OF its enormity
OF mathematical those who concerned in its en-
actment. That law imposed certain duties in the ex.
tradition of slaves upon officers holding their COM
missions under Stale Governments. The Supreme
Court OF the United States, some years ago, upon
case raised, decided that this feature of the law could
not be constutionay enforced that it was optional
with State officers whether they would act in such
cases not. The Legislatures of many of the ORTIZ
ern States thereupon refused the of their ails
and forbade State officers under heavy penalties from
acting in the delivering up of slaves. Hence arose
the necessity for the act of 1850, which imposed
these duties upon the officers of the United States,
instead OF the States. This is the main and essen
tial difference between The two enactments.
The country is sick of this causeless and DANCE
rous strife of sections 1t has declared that it is salts
fed with these measures of Adjustment and that they
Shall stand. The leaders of abolitionism know well
that attempts to disturb them will be of avail.
Nearly three months OF tn present session has elasped
while no movement for that purpose has been made.
That reckless spirit of disorganzation which, in its
blind fury, like Sampson of old, would pull down
the temple of constitutional liberties, crushing all
in its ruins, has been rebuked 1t be seen wheth-
it is to be resuscitated in New Hampshire-o rule
the councils and utter the voice of the Gibraltar of
the Democracy of the North.
1t is time that this accursed agitation should cease
Futile for good it has been potent for evil and that
continually 1t has been fruitful Of strife, heartburn
ings, and peril but it has liberated no slave. 1t
has made his yoke heavier, and his chain tighter 1t
has brother against brother, State against State
and section against section. At the North it has
sown animosity towards the South the South it
has stirred up enmltes against the North 1t has
ranged those whom God and nature designed fol
friends whose interests promoted their inter-
course is lncreased-thelr relations Intimate,
their interchange of products and friendly Offices
frequent. BY interfering where il has right, and
attempting to dragoon and coerce where it should
seek to conciliate and PERSUADE il mas exasperated
the master, while it has discontinued without benefit
ing the slave. 1t has induced the necessity for more
rigorous laws and stricer discipline. 1t has welded
the Southern mind 10 a system it might otherw Use
have been disposed in time to abandon, and rolled
back the car OF eInanci patton for half century.
Why should an eternal warfare be kept up between
the great sections of the confe6eracy Their do
nestle institutions which pertain each
tat ALI 9TH Stata haS rIuh
to interfere. Their interests inimical, as is
often falsely asserted but identical and mutually de-
pendent on each other. They brethren of the
lineage, land, and language. They have ore common
origin, and must have common destiny. Side by
side they fought the battles of the Revolution. To-
gether they beat back the proud tide of British inva
sion in the second war of Independence. They Joined
to add new lustre the nations annals in the late
war With Mexico. Together they have grown up to
greatness and empire. They bound to each other
by the glorious recoections Of the past they
share In the common destiny of the untried future
Their fate depends external human power, but
on themselves alone. Invasion by all the Powers of
Europe combined cannot crush them. But insane
divisions ending in discord and civil war, may shat
ter them TO fragments, and send down the story OF
our Confederaey, like that of the Republics of olden
tlme-a beacon-light and warning to all coming
ages. UNITED THEY STAND, AND DIVIDED THEY
FALL.
The agriculture Of the South and the manufactures
and shipping of the North, the natural allies and
sectional enthusiasts abolish free commerce between
the Northern and Southern States close the markets
of the South to Northern manufactures divert South
staples from their present channels, be carried
in foreign bottoms to foreign markets, and grass
would grow in the streets of poPulous cities;
blight and destruction would fall where is wide
spread and daily increasing prosperity.
The pernicous effect of this inermeddling spirit
upon the commercial and mercantile interests of the
North, has already been sensibly felt. II has been
but forestae Of the ruin which would follow, should
free scope be given to such fIenzied Vaccinations.
May God avert these and all other evils om be-
loved country 20
We offer no apology for the space occupied by
these extracts. They contain sentiments worthy of
the national Democracy, and such take pleas
in laying before our readers. We proud to
claim the Democrats of New Hampshire as associ-
ates and brethren in the same cause and trust
that victory will their efforts the ballot-box.
THE MAILS.
Extract of letter from Macon, Mississippi, dated