Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-11-01
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,,IrrCH. SATURDAY, OCT. %. 1854.

[T rEISIs on THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
r. Petersburg Intelligencer, whose course as
,7th:rn Whig journal on the slavery question, we
|, had cause to admire, contains the following re-
;5ns on the subject:
The communication over the signature of "Brum,"
lrofbpr column, is upon subject Of so much in
/ that we cannot refuse it an admission. The
[r moreover, makes special appeal to us for
Eriinion in the matter, and as we have no con-
rsDt we will cheerfully but briefly respond.
Fiink that Constitutional Union party, rom
Il che true and loyal friends of the Republic,
| and North, could it be organized in the proper
and upon sound and honest principles would,
|- existing circumstances, be vastly effica-
in arrestng the career of the pie-bald as
i9ns which, under the new name of FUSION
3 are blending themselves together for the pur-
! Il harrasSing and destroying the country.
t9nists, Free SoierS Free Democrats, anti
akkates, Maine Lawites, and dozen other fam
and uuprincipled sects, are coalescing for a
crusade against the South. Northern Wings
ymthern Democrats have proved alike perfidi-
md inimica 10 our Constitutional rights and to
1Gse of popular sovereignty. That there is
ran hand Of patriots left in each Of the two old
s at the North we admit, but they arc 50 heav-
Numbered by the common adversary that
ftsId little chance of maintaining their ground
IS hey can be assisted by the united South. We
ir this Union if it can be effected upon
troad platform of country, as distinguished
party. We would save the worlds last
nof freedom from the blight and desolation
1.-the Powers Of Darkness, led on by the incar-
kLGciiers of the North, are striving to infict.
b: changed aspect and condition of things, as
E11y visible in the result Of the late elections,
are incentives enough to stir up the faithful
1.-THE honest of the Wing and the Democratic par
F0Hnge themselves together in solid column for
Aelce OF our institutions. We could consume
more space in the exposition of our views on
FEad but as we expect to have frequent occa-
SO discuss the proposition of our correspondent
1aS content ourself with speaking thus for only
~ we pass 1t IN the mean time to the consid-
-f the Southern Democratic press, for it is
' N n.y. which 1t has is deep,an interest as as We
Snat Hhas t9say in response we should like
''0neur with the lntelligencer in the opinion
4s abolition cause is gaining strength, and as
Importance of a firm front on the part of all
%-sn North and South, in the hope of checking
-"nu ol thereby maintaining the rights of the
sr "~"s states and preserving the Union; but
=" WIN that paper in the inference it would
'~'' 'he Northern Democrats are as unsound
-Hsnaoe on this question as the Northern
'"'hern Democrats, it is well known, in
Will primary meetings and Conventions in
,AP'eS''y approved the fugitiye-slave law, for
,s~ H,y-seVen of their representatives in the
ss,.I " Vi congress voted and they are still
N, sE 'nas law, as well as by the Nebraska
d g" g. Sllch forty-four oftheir representatives
"a. s'D's 'l the Northern Democrats, it is true,
Ss S'sa' pressure occasioned by the "fusion"
s,a W.. '".ellsencer refers, have given way
a.,ss a'"s'a' rule, in their primary meetings and
a3s.s ,.' ''s'd late, they have spoken out bold
t,5,s,s 's'y ior the equality of the States and
;fa, ' ~ y VI 'ne'r slaveholding brethren. Why
tSs7 ,n, ps~0eFatic party, so triumphant in
as, I:' a0F'nwestern States in 1852, is now
ao,;.,'. Dn not mainly owing to the fact that
:~,,d v" .. IS IN favor of the Nebraska prin-
Ga,.... " Tue TACT that Democratic candidates
sss ,s,,. 1.aAed themselves for it? Some of the
n =, "l' principle, it is true, have been cleo
tsss s' ., general thing, they have gone down
s,,,r. "'Hi OF fusion "a "fusion" the re-
syab:. '.'S'h' 'anti-Nebraskaism, ne-lawism,
sh,srf'S SSin' and ofdisappointed ofice-seekers'
aeo ~, "ssncer :, proposes union between South.
shts ~. o''hern Wings, as well as Northern
sDp,sn, "'S to be regretted that the Whig par.
sss.. - 'ucn course as to dissolve and de-
&sa NJ: natlonal party. We do not see how
taa b,..S SS can longer cooperate with their
sEbis Can the Intelligencer point to
'hss n's VI prominence in the free States, OF
saioa., n,Ss IN that region, which is true to the
10 e,s rights of the south2 Can it show
d not .o 0' opposed to the Nebraska bill? Or
adi sdve.slsa aSsSce reluctantly in the passage Of
>erbns 'e ;, laws Or who is not in favor Of
SdAe fol1a. slavery? What does that paper
Nasde,sa 0"ing letter, from Jacob Collamer,
s,birb ~, Conservative Wing, and who oc,
~ Mr. ram r,SIe under the late Wing admins.
10 rerms 'ia"er. has just been elected a Sen.
SsR: cboor "OcroBER Z, 1864.
iy put On paper my brief,