Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-10

claim him. And yet gentlemen, though thus tortl-
fled by laws organic and legislative State ana REQ
eral, might well have thousand dollars noat-
ing on chip i'm the Ohio river, as to own slave
worth that sum on the Virginia shores OF that rlver
What then? The laws do not reign! The very
free soil which Virginia first consecrated on the con-
tnent is made the underground for the railroads Oh
her runawayS
Gentlemen Mr.. Webster asked group OF
Southern members of Congress- of whom was one
with an effect can never forget: Shall your chill
dren be aliens to my children-shali my en'Hren oe
aliens to your children? ?" And now whilst Fusion
lists are ding -dongng about aliens ana foreign
influence ask, in the language OF Scripture Wh no
is our brother ?" Shall Ohio be alien and enemy to
Virginia ?-shall Virginia be alien ana enemy TO
Ohio? Should Ohio be thus land of refuge from
her mother State?-Was it for this that the north
west was coded ?-that Ohio was made perpetually
free by Virginia? Bitter, bitter reflections for
done for liberty and union! l looked up and down
the OHIO and Kanawha river valleys, and saw the
richest soil and mnerals-the most beautiful LANDS
| have ever known Gods to shine upon, or
heavens dews to water; lands more valuable for
slave labor than any others to be found in our limits
And yet no slave can safely be carried there to Ia
Dor. And what the State of Ohio is to the frontier
tier of counties those rivers, they soon must be-
come to the counties behind them i'll the interior OF
Virginia, because tic, no interest," no association
of slavery exist there. Thus, like the cancer,
Free Soil and Fusion" eating into our very
yitals. Thus are we constructed in our rights OF
this example, you wonder that the State OF Mis-
souri, should be deeply excited and interested by the
attempt of associated wealth and intluenceperhaps
foreign influence in part-to construct her border IN
like manner by a Gordon of Fusion and Free So?"
Tell me- gentlemen would any foreign power be al
lowed to insult and endangcr the whole nation as
the slave-holdng States and their citizens are out
ragged in every offensive form by the Fusionsts of
the North? Tell me not they are weak and harm
less when they send so many Senators and Rep
resentativeS to Compensation they can form the
most formidable political parties-so long as they
can seize and hold such States the venerable mo-
Their State of Hancock and deSecrate Fancuil Hall
so long as they can carry Ohio-so long they can
distract and divide and dwarf in the Union the very
Empire State of New York! What, then, is to be
done? The "envy, hatred, malice and all unchar-
itabeness " which this engenders cannot continue
to smoder much longer without bursting out into
general and devouring flame. The Kansas Nebras-
ka bill repealed the odious mark whence malice and
mischief hurled incendary torches the border
line. 1t removed heart burning statute of section
asm and attempted to restore peace under the seSs
of the Constitution. But the cry is now: Repeal
of the Kansas-Nebraska bill and restoration of the
Missouri COMPROMISED" This raises the issue:
Shall the Constitution reign it did reign from
the year 1899 to the years lSl9-'2O?" With head
and heart, might and soul, unite with you for the
reign of the Constitution over all compromises! No
higher, no lower law than the Constitution!
Are the Fusionsts, indeed, fatally bent on disso-
luton of the Union, civil, sectional war? tell
you solemnly, gentlemen, that depends upon the
strength, nerve virtue and wisdom of the sound,
conscientious, conservative patriots i'll the North
If you can come to the aid of the Constitution, at
this crisis big with the fate OF the Union it may be
saved God Almighty grant it. The Union, say
to you, | have said the South, as l have said
first and said last and delight to repeat-the Union
is of the most precious rights of the States. 1
never meant thereby to express the sentiment i'm
piled by the platform of the PandemOnums at Phil
adelphia-that, per Sc, it is the most precious of
rights, and must be preserved at every sacrifice !
the Union is the sacred palladium of our highest
and hottest rights. 1t is if you please of itself
liberty, it is not equality it is sovereignty, it is
not independcnee-t is not, especially, the end of
our government; but it is the means by which all
the ends we ought to aim at are secured, and it is
the means which Washington relied on as indspen-
sable to existence as people. 1t is the " E
Plurbus Unum ~ by which is made thirty -one
in strength, by which Erginias sovereignty is for
titled thirty-fold. Measured by what it is capable
OF attaining, by what it binds and holds fast, by
what it has done and may do yet for this people and
all men, it is inestimabe. 1t achieved the American
Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, settlement of the public lands the land
system, the peace policy, the second for free
trade and sailors rights, the principles of neutral
rights the long line of measures for development and
progress of the human Species the acquisitions from
Mexico, and is the bulwark of freedom and the hope
of the oppressed throughout the world. 1t does
consist III the contederacy joining of States.
1t consists in the Constitution, in the love and aec-
country. If these links be broken it is dissolved
If broken and it binds at ALL it will bind as a chain |
and it will gall as chan and it will cease to bind
when letters find foes who will not be bound by |
them. for had rather see the continent shaken
by earthquakes than the Union of these States
dissolved, but it is simply the means OF innumerabe |
and inestimable ends Of good; and if it ceases to |
subserve them, to secure liberty equality, sovereign
ty, independence, peace, power, and pre-cmnence |
among the nations of the EARTH let it meet its fate
Why make sacrifice to save it? We will not !
count its cost-no material interest could |
weigh it down in the scales; but it is with the po-
tlcal union OF the States it is with the matrimo-
NAL union Of persons; the oath of the altar love-
truth, censtancy, fidelity require Observation-Disclosures
to the last eXtremity-to bear and forbear-to make
any and every honorable sacrifce-to count mere
interest nothing; but if honor be touched, then, on
the instant, to dissolve the bands which bind to in
fanny, though it break the bands which bind to life!
And, ask, will not the slave States be dshonored
f they allow themselves to be provincalized by be-
ing excluded from equality in the Union? The Fu-
sionists intend that they shall be so dishonorcd-
Their intent shall never be executed! We will
cling to the Constitution and when that is assailed
we will defend it with all the means which God and
nature have put into our hands; and when these fail
he eagle the f1ag will be but emblems of past Re-
public, destroyed by weakness and wickedness
unparalleled in the folly and crime of mankind!-
We demand nothing else but good faith in keeping
he covenants of the Constitution. We demand not
hat any other people should be Shareholders. We
will certainly not force slave upon their service
But we do demand to be let alone ito be left un-
disturbed in our rights, and unmolested to enjoy the
property protected by our laws If we are not al
nUaHf IN hn and