Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-01
THE FUTURE.


eial feeling of apprehension that the pendng elec-
ton will result in the triumph Of the North over
the South in an issue essentially sectional. We do
not indulge in this apprehension. If it be realised,
We not dread the result. 1t is however, the part of
wisdom to look forward TO such contingency, and
to "set-our house in order" in anticipation of it's
consequences. .-., .~ to-
We take it for granted that an administration
which should come into power OH the basis of black
Republican principles, would be purely sectional
and that while it owed its existence to Free State
votes it would be Freesoil in all its details and per-
sonnet. No Southern man, having the least respect
for himself could hold Office under it, and all the
places of Federal trust and cmolument would have
to be filled by Northern men, chosen from the mas
ter section of the Union. Thus Boston would prob
ably supply Mobile and New Orleans with Collec-
tors; Postmasters and U. S. Marshals, and Yankee
officials would occupy all the federal positions in the
South The treasury, the archives of the govern
mcnt its foreign relations the post office, the army
and the navy would all be in the hands of the Abo-
lition North, and the slave States would have no
voice or power in the Confcderacy. Could the
South long live under such state OF vassalage =
If it were craven enough to make the experiment,
would even this humiliation be an end OF the exac-
tons and expressions OF fanatical Central Govern
ment animated by morbid hatred towards us and
our institutions? History and human nature tells
us "nO"
!. The madness that has produced this state of
things would never be satated except with the. an
Inhalation of the object and victim Gifts passion, nor
stop until the white race was crushed and Southern
plantations should be converted into sites OF San
Domingo desolation and Jamaica negro barbarsm.
Shall we wait Tor this to happen? Will any South
ern so debase himself so disgrace the mother
that bore him and the soil that has nurtured him,
as to hold to his heart lingering feeling, or ut
ter from his lips one lingering lisp of Union super
stition, should Fremont be the President! Shall we
wait in the hope that mercy for us may yet thaw
the cold and iron purpose of a bigotry that has
shown no shadow Of turning? Shall we trust the
lamb to the jaws of the wolf and pray God that he
may not dcvour him? Shall we venture our safety
to the tiger with the lap of blood upon his tongue
If we are such fools and cowards the North has
Judged us rightly--we untitled for freedom, and
Yankee masters will DC our righteous doom. I'VE
are not, what shall we do? 1t is our duty to dis
cuss and determine this question. We owe this to
ourselves and we owe it to our countrymen OF the
north tell them before the fratcida deed is done
For ourselves and for our friends can speak. We
shall regard the election of Fremont by the nom
slaveholdiag States disruption OF the bonds OF
the Union, to be followed by immediate Southern
action for the formation of a new government The
Yankee Prctors and Questors sent out to hlfSouth-
ern Offices should not be allowed to exercise their
functions, and Southern members of Congress, in
stead of going their seats at Washington, should
repair to their respective State Capitals to take
counsel with their State Executives and Legislatures
of the sovereign States and the rights of the
eisn people. Luckily, the Government at the mo.
ment of dissolution will be in friendly hands, and
four months will intervene before the traitors and
fanatics get possession of the Capital.
The South will get more justice in the breaking
up and general distribution of assets than it has
done in the existence and the administration of the
Government The bigos tell us we "cannot be
kicked out of the Union" and if We try to 80 out,
matter under what proeocation, they will whip
back again. If they in earnest, we must be
prepared for that too, and burnish arms to sus
tain in the field the resolves shall form in coun
Gil. Our Northern countrymen may regard this as
gasconade and menace; and we may not be able to
persuade them that it is anything else. Perhaps
they will not believe when we tell them that we
have heard no man (and we have questioned many)
hesitate doubt to the effect and result of FIRE.
mont's electon-not who does not fully coincide
with us in opinion and purpose. The triumph of
Fremont will be the last pound on the back South
ern forbearance. The goaded OK will turn upon his
oppressor. Are the intelligent and spirited freemen
of the fifteen slave States less courageous that the
brutes? Iobile Register.