The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1854-11-04
1VOLUME XV-NO. 8l7.

her to live az it were upon the fruits Of our
labor! Yes, gentlemen, not only do we furnish
the exports and give the North the exclusive
right to transport them, but when these exports
return to this country in the shape Of goods,
wares, and merchandise, we adjust our tariff of
duties III such a manner to protect those
branches of industry which are in measure
peculiar to the North. The South has, indeed,
clamored against the injustice Of these tariff
Duties but she has never asked from the gov
ernment any Legislative protection to any inter-
est peculiar to her own section. l mention
these facts, which arc familiar to oil, to show
that in the first place, it has never been our
policy to sectionalZe the legislation of Congress;
and in tie second place, to show with what
fidelity the Southern people have always acted
in maiEt aining the nnfsOaai sentiment which per-
vades the Fedes.sa -Coastitntio4 If the North
possesses Constitutional authority to exclude
us from the Territories with our slave property,
and We have acted in such manner as to give
them no excuse for their present hostile attitude.
agree with YOU, that if we intend to defend
ourselves against agressons which they threaten,
and for which they seem to be uniting, the South
should also be unit.
You have been pleased to speak in terms Of
commentator Of my course ''as steadfast and
consistent in support of Southern rights" Next
to the approval of my own conscience, ! desire
no higher qualification than the appreciation Of
my fellow citizens. Upon the passage of the
particular bill organizing the two new territories
the South almost unit, and in repelllng
agressions when ever attempted, ] trust there
will not be dissenting voice. l have no
sympathy for that dastardly sentiment which
apologies for Northern action under the hypo-
critical guise of having disturbed "a compromise
of long standing" 1t was no compromise, aud
never considered 10y the North, and violated.
by them when ever an opportunity presented
itself. \ compromises sacred compromised
What reckless effrontery in this pretenson
Who made it sacred? The ink with which the
Missouri restriction written not dry
before we find majority of Northern members
in Congress voting against its observance, and
no subsequent occasion has been allowed
to pass, but with vandaI like spirit they have
striven for its destruction.
The States Of Arkansas and Michigan ap-
piled for admission into the Union about the
same time; the latter lying north of this pre-
tended compromise line, the former south of it;
they each possessed the usual requisites for ad-
mission, but how differently were their applica-
tons treated. Michigan was admitted without
the least struggle. Not SO Arkansas: Heavy
and grievous were the tbroes she had to pass
through before the portals of the confederacy
were thrown open to her. Then was heard the
first growl of this fend, Aboiitonsrn, and from
that day i. has been gathering strength, until
States. This discrimination in favor of Michi-
gan and against Arkansas, certainly proves
that then, little of that "high reverence" was
felt for the Missouri compromise, the assumed
violation of which is made to lash the
public mind into fury. The compromise is.
nothing more nor less than a compact, and
when the compact is disregarded, is broken by
one party, it fails to have an obligatory force
upon the other, and for that reason (if rea-
son was wanted) the South would be released
| from its observance. But in truth, the North
has often, scandalously broken, trampled
| upon, or in their chaste phraseo!ogy, spit upon,
| this their row sacred compromise" that when
during the contest of 1850 a proposition was
made in Congress to rc-enact, to revivify this
compact by extending the line of 56 deg. 80
min. in the asaal form to the Pacific ocean, the
North unit, if mistake not, in voting
against it. This recent apotheosis of the Mis-
souri, compromise, is used by the Abolitonists
of the North as humbug to impose upon those
among them who may yet retain some love for
| the Union; while it is now used hy their coad-
tutors of the South to frighten 1.-The timid from
their propriety." 1t is all CANNON. The com
promise measures of 1850 were intended by its
friends, in the language of Mr. Fillmore, "to be
hnaf adjustment of the slavery qsestion." In
what let me ask, did this adjustment consist, if
1t was not in the recognition of the principle
that people inhabiting territory when form
| ing state government, should be invested with
full control OF their domestic institutions without
any responsibility to the Federal government
| IT was this principle that popuiarizcd both
OF the territorial bills Of that session The
vote in favor of the Utah bill was almost una nj
nous. The bill for New Mexico would have
been equally favored if it had been free from
other serious objections which it would he out
! OF place for me to enumerate here. VIII it be
pretended that this great principle of popular
severe eignty, that this truly American principle,
was recognized only for the convenience Of the
moment? Certainly not. Common re-
pudiates the idea of final adjustment of q
momentors question on any such restricted
bass.-Ths principle is an existing, living
principle, aud acknowledges permanent au-
thorty bat the Constitution of the United
States; and the real question is should not the
bill organizing the territories of Kansas and
| Nebraska have been made to conform to this
Should not the law of the Missouri compro-
mise be so far repealed it was found to he in
consistent with the compromise measures oilS5O.
This is the gist of the agitation at the North,
and let the design of the agitation he covered
or velcd their wit or ingenuity may suggest,
yet it must be apparent to all who give the
subject the least examination that it is against
: the compromise Of 1850. 1t is against that
final adjustment" that they are now warning.
NV mind is now definitely fixed upon this point,
and it only remains in doubt upon another and
Interior question which overridcs in importance
all other matters. 1t is this, when the strug-
ole shall come to issue, will we OF tue South
be nnited? As far as North Carolina is con-
cerned. feel proud in believing that she, from
the uountsins to the seacoast will faithfully,
nroudly, energet;cally, re-echo the patriotic
sentiment Of your letter, that on this occasion
the South should be q unit"-And with your