Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-13
NORTHERN FANATICIsM.

I
Fayetteville Observer an article containing facts and
sentiments which, if we had uttered one year since,
would have brought down opon US the charge of
being disunonist and traitor. The article is as
follows:
"One of the editors of the Fayetteville Observer
is on a Northern tour, and has been carrying on a
regular correspondence with his paper. He has had
pretty good opportunity to gather the sentim
of the people of the North upon the sectional issues
that are now agitating the northern mind We are
10th to believe that fanatism will to the extremes
pointed out, but we cannot shut our eyes to the
fact that the whole North is in state of excitement
unparalleled in the history of the country. The
South is cool and prepared for any emergency that
may arise. 1t will not act rashly and unadvisedly,
but it will do promptly and fearlessly what due
regard for its rights and interests may require. We
opposed to all rash and extreme measures but
in common with the order loving and Union loving
men Of the South, resolved to do what
can to maintain the honor and the rights of our
section.
We did hope that the time would come when
agitation would cease but from indications too plain
that the day is not yet come when shall see har-
mony and quiet restored We take the following
from the editorial correspondence of the Observer
There are plain indications that at every succeed
ing session of Congress the country will be agitated
from thecentre its exremtes with the attempt to
undo the legislation of the last session. 1t will not
succeed at the next session 1t may not succeed
during the next Congress- for the Senate may prove
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through the North the emigrants to Kansas,
and Nebraska, has meaning. The professions and
bands ofmusc which escort these emigrants through
the Northern cities are intended to get up excite
ment by which those Territories may be rapidly
populated from the free States that they may speedl
ly into the Union free States; and then will
there be power in the Senate, as there is already IN
the other House of Congress- to crush the South on
all sectional legislation. In the time no bill.
pass to admit another Slave State into the
Union, even if we had the materials out of which
to from one.
The Nebraska act is an abstraction. 1t can have
practical effect in favor of slavery. And yet the
North is willing to risk disunion for its repeal SO
be it. The South is prepared for the issue. Even
those who thought its conception unwise, and the
result of ambition and demagogism, can listen to
no idea of peace enforced by such sentmnts as now
pervade the Northern mind developed in the above
nsolent article and rather likely to increase IN bit
terness if possible, than to be modified by time
These Editors, it seems just opening their
eyes to the wickedness of the mplacable spirit Of
fanaticism. They are just beginning to perceive the
evils of which they have been so often warned by
the Democratic press, and which, if they and the
South had met in time, and in the proper way,
might have been averted and the Union perpetuated
for ages to come. The Star says "the South is
cool and prepared for any emergency that may
arise We fear not. The South is divided, and a
slavsh subserviency by Southern Wings to North
ern Wings the of this division. Even
we find Southern Wing presses endeavoring to
prove that the Wing party of the free States is as
sound on the slavery question the Democratic
party in the same region and that mendacious and
INSCRIPTIONS concern, the Fayetteville Observer, in
the extract above given, goes out of its way to ca
umniate Judge Douglas, ofthe boldest and abest
advocates of the rights of the South to be found
anywhere. North Carolina is divided, far as the
Wings are concerned; for Messrs Badger and Kerr
voted for and Messrs. Rogers and Puryear against
the Nebraska bill. Whggery, repeat, is the cause
of the divided front exhibited by the South, por
tons of the South on this vital queston-W higge
ry the prolific of all the ills which the peo
pie of this State have been doomed to endure.
These professions of the Star and Observer sound
very well, but doubt them until they shall
have been fully tested. We cannot forget that it
has heretofore been the business and the pride of
such papers to hunt down every man in their own
party who dared to speak out for Southern rights;
and to brand as traitors and disunionists all Demo
Gratis who appeared to entertain more sympathy for
South Carolina than for Massachusetts,. Neither |
can forget that these professions come from Ed
itors who in supporting Gen. Dockery, endorsed his
threat of fire and sword, in certain contingency,
against sister Southern State.