Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-04
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the event of Fremonts election, and the consequent
dissolution of the Union. All the Northern Demo-
cratic journals that We see, or from which We see
extracts in other papers, distinctly declare that the
Southern people will not and ought not to submit to
the rule and to the measures of the black Republic
cans.
The Troy IN. W Budget says:
The disunion of these States is the platform up
on which John c. Fremont has taken his stand. He
can no more move off nor come down than the ALE
ghanies can move off or come down. He is fastened
there like an island filled with disease, in the midst
OF the boiling waves of fanaticism. What bad
eminence is his! Look where he stands. He fears
he and his echoes and organs-to look upon the
past. The sacred memories of the revolution ring
like curses in his cars-he will not face them. The
names of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe Madison,
Rutledge, Pnckney, Ferguson jackson come to him
as if he had been guilty of attempt to murder
them-as. indeed, he is guilty of trying to murder
Their reputation. He looks to the future only. He
looks forward to divided brotherhood of States to
scattered family of freemen to deted national
hearthstone to a broken covenant to q mutilated
constitution; to dissolved Union and, finally,
once again, to employ the words of Choate, " to an
uncomsecrated aad revolutionary banner from ohich
fifteen stars haze been erased or haze tallenr Dis
UNION HAS NO PAsT!"
We copy the following eloquent and impressive
article from the Providence (R ~ Post
"THE UNION STRAINING HER FAsTENINGs!"-
Such is the language of the old line Wings of Balti
moro, in address to the people: "The Union is
straning her fastenings, and calls upon all patriotic
citizens to come to her rescue"
Truer words, it is our honest belief, were never
spoken. The Union Is straining her fastenngs-
The storm of fanaticism, wildly raging in six
teen States threatens to part her fastenngs and
ny her down.
n,,, boor in
not alarmist. We have never threatened fire and
sword, nor needed threats of civil war or disunon
from others. We have had faith in the Union-ln
its stability-and almost in its eternity. We be-
lieve, now, that it is destined to stand.
But do not believe that it could long survive
the triumph of bitter sectionaism in the election of
John Z. Fremont. We do not believe that any fam
lily be protably kept together after the members
of have illustrated their hatred of each other by
open acts Of hostility.
The question of the continuance of the Union is
reduced to this simple question: Whether the
black Republican party, in its avowed hostility to
the South, actually represents the North or ma
jority of the people OF the North? This question
will be decided in November.
If it is decided in the affirmative, then shall
say unhesitatngly that the great blow of d!Sunion
has been struck. The South will not wait to be
"suIjuglted' 1t will never trust itself to the
der mcrcies of party whose very existence rests
Upon hatred of its people and hostility to its nSttu
tons.
Men of Rhode Island, you may as we'll look this
fact squarely in the facet No Etieem Suites IF this
Unton-no thern, southern, eastern, or WESTERN
acW submit to be gouerned by sixteen other
Stntes hosc triumph has been secured BY npeais 10
p,ejuices against their Institutions and by procla-
nations Of hostility to their citizens!
Should John c. Fremont take the presidential
chair to-day the representative of the party which
placed him in nomination, and which supports him
by appeals to sectional feelings and prejudceS, he
would have to sit there without sing cabinet ott
Ger from any southern State No man in tie South,
souA particle Of reputation, scouM dare to accept,
or could cant to accept, a" app0intment as one Of
lis adrisers!
Could President thus circumsanced administer
the government thirty days? Could he command
the respect of the army navy thirty hours !?
Would Congress assemble to legisate for the
country? With thirty senators and ninety repre-
sentatives voluntarily absent what would its legs-
laton be worth? With cabinet and all the i'm -.
portant officers of the government appointed from
the North, how long, think you, could that govern
ment be sustained?
1t is folly to talk at such time as this of the inn
portance of the Union to the South. So far as
maintaining slavery is concerned, the South gains
nothing by the Union, if except the occasional
return of a fugitive. Slavery would stand on firm
er basis with the Union dissolved than it does to-
day 1t would only have to expariate its thousands
of free negroes, and send them North in single
avalanche to place itself beyond the reach of inter-
nal disaster. This done, the West, following its
rivers would become its ally and in less than three
years, Ne~ England wouM stand alone-6ankrupt
and detenceless.
We are told sometimes that it is not the purpose
of Mr.. Fremont and his friends to .attack the insti-
tutions of the South through the machinery of the
government. This assurance sincere or not is
worth nothing. The South knows WHAT THE PARTY
Is, and WHO ITS LEADERS ARE, and WHAT IS THE FOOD
1T LIVES UPON. And it will never wait-mark our
o0rds 1T WILL NEVER WAIT to test the truth Of
this declaration. 1t has too much at stake.
We shall not stop here to remark upon the vast
importance and value of the Union to Rhode Island.
1t seems to us that a haf-bnd fanatic must per-
ceive it. As manufacturing and commercial State,
what could we do alone? What could we do, even
in conederacy of all the free States? What could
we do without the South? To say nothing of poll.
tcal and national weakness, what should we be as a
commercial and manufacturing people thus cut off
from our best market?
We caution our people again not to be deceived
by the syren song of such would have us believe
that the Union cannot be dissolved. The necessity
of separation is being forced upon us by the action
of the black-republican abolition party. All the
South asks to know is whether that party correctly
represents the North If does then it asserts and
believe that the breach has become fixed fact.
To cry peace at such time is a crime OF which we
will not be guilty The UNION IS STREAMING HER
FAsTENINGs, AND CALLS UPON ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZENS
TO COME TO HER RESCUE!
PAcIFIcArIoN KANsAs.-rHE LATEST News
The following from the ST. Louis Republican of the
22d instant will be read with qualification:
"FRoM KANsAs.-The steamer David Tatum ar
rived yesterday afternoon from St. Joseph. She
left that port on Wednesday last At Kansas she
took on board about $50 citizens of Missouri, who,
in obedience to the proclamation of Gov. Geary,
had given up their military organization and returned
to MISSOURI. They were principalIy from the coun-