Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-29


1850 has not been acqaiesced ID Is il 20 wrong,
if the acts Of 1860 did not repeal it, and the Kansas
Nebraska should not hare repealed it as Is contend.
ed, that Black Republicanism is not now willing to
apply its letter and spirit to the Kansas territory
which is south of SO deg. 80 min. |? If the Com
promise of 80 81 ought to be restored as they con-
tend and slavery ought not to be allowed go north
OF 81 deg 80 mit., in the Louisiana purchase, is it
no wrong to shoot shareholders with Sharpe's rifles
in Kansas south Of SO deg. 80 mini Is it no
wrong to incorporate Emigrant Aid Societies to mob
US OFT from common territory? Is it no wrong by
pulpit press, preacher, teacher schools and every
combination of influence, to array every social feel
ing IN community having no tie or association with
slavery, against it everywhere, however existing?--
Is it no wrong to deny either social or political
equality? Is it no wrong to nufy the laws and
decisions of the Supreme Court in respect to fupi-
tive slaves not by the higher law of mob or pop
u'ar sentiment, but by State statutes framed to
counterfeit the federal laws? Is it no wrong to pro-
hibit and prevent the holding of slave property on
the entire frontier of the slave States within their
limits against their LAVISH Is it no wrong that con-
tinual incessant agitation, in Congress and in the
country is dangerously inAaming the public mind,
so tina: nothing but bitterness and strife is engen-
dered by every political question and canvass? Is
it no wrong that our churches already split d.
vided and separated, and fearfuly corrupted too by
this merely carna and worldly strife? Is no wrong
that cannot travel in peace and without danger of
try? lsit wrong that family ties disturbed and
business relations threatened? Is it no wrong that
conflict of State laws is already begun? Is it no
wrong which, if perpetrated by foreign power
would cause declaration ofwar? Would it be no
wrong to elect sectional President on the one idea
of anti-s,avery? Would such an election be no
wrong when its very issues of abolition or exclusion
of slavery could not be discussed even by speaking
writing, in several of the States of the Union,
without violating their criminal code? Would it
be no wrong under such state of things to add to
the Black Republican House of Representatives in
Congress the whole power of the Federal Executive,
army and navy included? But why enumerate
more much more infinitely more than this, whilst
but yesterday appropriations to carry the gov
eminent were refused whilst the blood of civil war
was flowing in a Territory, and whilst mob,
black mob had seized, successfully SEIZED the reins
of State Government and had imprisoned su-
preme Judge for executing the laws! TO every
pregnant interrogatory these Southern aiders and
abettors of Black Republicansm in the North would
say, as the Raleigh Register says: "N1y!'" Nay"
4 Nag" The North may combine, the North may
nullify the North may form associations incorporate
rank treason by statute, and even men may 60
North to Conventions from North Carolina and Vir.
ginia, to betray their own hearths and homes by
first contrvng and then abolishing 18th sections Of
platforms; but at time like this, when "by feud
andaction al! the land is torn,"-when the nations
genius acts against ITSELF" when shook from its
central poise reels all foreign foes TO-
mcnt strifes, and, when our confederate foes,
Wanting, rejoice in divisions and list your
agents to your own destruction, if the South asks
Of the South in startled concern, "what shall VIC do
to be saved?" and to save-to save ourselves and
our country too with all its teening blessings its
union, its peace, it prosperity, its social safety-f
brother but simply halls brother, TO cry, not for
blood, not to meet in churches to subscribe for
arms, but to exhort another to patience to for
bcarance, to anything but ahject submission and
dishonor,-you hear traitor exclam treason! -
"treason pa knave cry out, ''Stop theft" Will the
people of North Carolina condemn me for daring the
first time in my life to go to her sacred sovereign
borders? If Virginia and South Carolina have
brooded treason or breathcd wrath, North Carolina
has been the very matron Of peace in the family of
States-ever conservative, ever calm, ever serene
and dignited in her composure, and it was to Ra-
leigh, not to Richmond or to Charleston that South
Carolina's and Virginia's Governors chose to 60.
They went not to Fair, but they fairly went and
were fairly received and entertained. They went
in open day, bore no dark lantern, and were not
driven away. Quietly, privately in the sense and
sanctty of private life, not secretly, hey were hos
pitably honored as guests-aye, more-as men who
loved and honoIcd North Carolina, as men who
would do or die for her vital interests aud vital
honor. Is he her friend who Kisses after retiring
guests like these? Is he fit for her people to trust,
or for her private gentlemen to treat with their hos
pitaty? By this very want of comfy and courte-
sy, and this gracelcss invasion of privacy, does he
not prove himself most anxious himself to betray
the weaker to the stronger, the wronged to the
wrong. doer? Rest assured that if the people of
North Carolina understand the true issues, the Sc
cret springs Of events now developing, they will not
say "Ndy" to consultations for their peace and
safety. The least thing involved is slavery. That
is but the bone of contention. Fanatics deluded.
the North attempted to be united by that! Once
united, once consolidated by sectional bigotry and
hate against the South the political Pharisees, the
phlanthropists who now pretend to be su-
perserviceable in the work of abolition, will first
compress slavery into cotton and sugar limits, and
then they will turn upon the fanatics the earnest,
honest FOOLS and laugh at their absurdity, and if
need be, will turn to and import slaves from Africa
for the plantations as soon as they have
made the plantations tributary to factories, and
their factors and agents Political domination Is
sohat is aimed at! State Rights and strict construc
ton properly belonging only to the agricultural
people and to the slave-labor States Slavery
dwarfed in the Union, Federalism, Blue Federalism
of the Essex Junto stripe will rear again its horrd
'front.' and you will again have Banks and Tariffs
and Internal Improvements by the Federal Govern
ment, all that Jefferson and Macon North Carolina
and Virginia, ever contended against. Already has
the Black-fag the Pacific Railroad inscribed on it.
already has the political revolution overwhelmed
the last Democratic vetoes of Harbor bils!! Shade
of Macon look down upon that blessed soil of your
native State, upon which you impressed your pure
and simple faith, and "guard the passing hour"
Unite the patriot parties, and the patriot States in
consultation, how they may preserve, not destroy,
the Constitution and the Union Of our country
Guardian spirits are lowering over us! From
amidst the gloom l see the day-star rise. The
North is not given over to our common ruin-the
saving Democracy is there-the wisdom and the
virtue of that sole faith which has survived the test
and scrutiny of time, which Macon commended to
North Carolina, and with which he more than any
other man, imbued her people, will yet, with tie
blessing Of God, continue to eaven the "whole