Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-06

xhensyer majority 81 &c people Of the northern
States become prepere iudorse the doctrine which
has been xyowed By the Senator from New YORK,
this Unfoh cannot Inst AN hour longer. relieving
this solemniy, Is / az, + think l do ne m9re than
discharge duty which Iowe to our mae7us 8. ne
North, frankly to say to them, that, if they adopt
this doctrine and pursue this policy, dissolution
of the Union must and will ensue.
WELD to no man in my devotion to Union, ac'
cording to the Constitution but when the Constitu
ton of the United States is to be trampled unoer
foot and become dead letter, no longer to be pre-
served, this Union cannot last; and desire to say
to the Senators representing the North, you WISH
to preserve this Union meet us in the spirit IN WHICH
our revolutionary ancestors met IN common cause
in defense of liberty meet us in the spirit IN whcn
the trainers of the Constitution met ana framed
Constitution dscarding all local questions placing
themselves upon a common ground, to perpetuate
the principles of freedom among white men, ana 10
establish Government of freedom and prosperity
which has had no parallel on the face OF the earth.
I invoke northern Senators, and the people OF the
North, to 20 home and take care of their own race
If YOU have blacks, as there are in all of the free
States, extend to them your charity and phanthro-
Nv but let us alone and let c0lored population
alone, for they we'll fed and well clothed
they are to injury, if they retard our prosper
ity, SHALL in good time, discover IT. and you can
not drive into the emancipation OF our slaves un-
til we choose to accomplish it by our own free will
You make great mistake, for, as you increase the
violence Of agitation on this subject so IN proper
ton you retard emancipation. You cannot driVe
freemen into your notions We do not 60 among
you to interfere with the rights of your property:
we do not 60 among you to lecture you IN regard to
your duty at home we do not 60 among you to ex-
cite portion of your population to rebellion and
instruction we simply ask you to let us alone as
we let you alone. But this doctrine that you will not
give equal opportunity to people from all parts OF
1I,:o anHfO q
constitution according to their own will because you
desire to force us to do thing which the Consttu-
ton of the United States forbids you to do, will not
be tolerated.
Mr. President, rose merely for the purpose of
warning our friends at the North that if they desire
the perpetuation of this Union, and the maintenance
of free institutions they should be careful not to
adopt and to carry into execution the views enter
tanned by the Senator from New York, the Senator
from Massachusetts,, and those who cooperate with
them for certainly as anything can possibly be,
if that state of things to be forced upon the South
this Union cannot last, and the proudest Govern
ment and the happiest people upon the face OF the
earth may find themselves in anarchy and confusion,
and the rest hopes of those who are the advocates
of free government throughout the earth must be
blasted and destroyed forever. am no alarmist.-
l have not risen for the purpose Of threatening
dissolution of the Union. l trust this Union may
last as long as time endures; but l know that if
these sentiments which have been avowed and which
gentlemen threaten they will carry out are persisted
it, this Government cannot last. Believing so, MIR.
President, have felt it to be my duty to say so.
Mr.. WILSON. l want to put q question to the
honorable Senator from North Carolina, before he
takes his seat. l want to know precisely what he
means. Does he mean to say, that If the people OF
the United States the free people of the United States,
elect majority of the House Of Representatives,
and secure, in few years, majority of the Senate,
and elect President of the United States, to
place the executive and legislative branches of the
Government in the hands of men who believe that
the Constitution of the United States gives the Ma
tional Government power to govern the Territories
of the United States to prohibit the existence
of slavery in them and that power shall be exercis
ed the southern saveholding States will 60 out Of
this Union?
Mr. REID. will answer the Senator from Mas
sachusetts, and will answer him in this way. 1
think that no candid and impartial man can have
witnessed this discussion and the turn it has taken
without being convinced that that Senator bases his
action here solely upon the ground that Kansas shall
never be admitted as slaveholdng State of this
Union, under any circumstances. Now, desire to
know if the Senator WILL under any circumstances,
vote for the admission of Kansas into this Union
with constitution tolerating slavery2
Mr.. WILSON 1 will not.
Mr.. REID. Then, sir, what does the Senator do?
Does he not violate every principle Of the Constitu-
ton of the United States? Does he not violate
ry principle of free government? And will he ask
US 10 Oe OOunQ Dy Inc constitution Wnen ne repuQl.
ates and spurns it from him? /, sir, in my public
position as representative in the whole course Of
my life have never made q distinction between
free and slave State when the people fairly formed
their constitution and asked for admission into the
Union, because, in doing, should have regarded
that had violated the Constitution of the United
States, and was unworthy of being member of this
Government I do not desire to remain in this
Union and take advantage of all can get under the
Constitution and yet disavow that Constitution dis
regard it, and set it naught whenever it is against
That is not the spirit in which the Constitution
formed Here you have two Territories, Kansas and
Nebraska. Into of those Territories the people
have gone and settled. There southern men have
made no contests whatever They have not shown
factous disposition create discord and to bring
about anarchy, revolution, bloodshed, and every
thing else which is inconsistent with order and good
government; but in Territory adjoining of the
slave States of this Union, where it was natural to
suppose that slave-owners would settle, there is
ry disposition shown to throw obstacles in the way
to revolution and anarchy, to divide the peo
pie of that Territory, and to prevent them from
forming government to suit themselves Gentle
men may talk they choose, but is evident that
it is not the Kansas and Nebraska bill, it is not
the Missourians VOTE but it is the result and
conclusion at which the people of that Territory
have arrived that these gentlemen base their action
If Massachusetts, and Missouri had carried their
millions of men and imported them there with
Sharpe's rifles and had shot down hundred thou
sand persons, yet if that government had been
formed prohibiting slavery, the Senator from Massa
chusetts and the Senator from New York would
have been found in favor of it. Their objection