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

resneets wb.tsoey i. But that equality a.
exist if other States did accede or scons ~
Union, with Or without slavery a their
Kansas cannot do so.Sf Is l.s W
i There is anothersr NOT hcrseotoR snyernd
y hich seems to render it long 10
naintan slavery in Kansas. In AT the slave states
there il large majority Of voters who are nom
SHAREHOLDERS Tut they are devoted to the institutions
of the. South-4they would defend them with their
lyes-alid on this question tho South are a united
people, This class, composed of many small Arm'
trs, of merchants, professional men, mechanics,
ovcrseers Ind other industrial classes, constitute
mainly the patrol Of the South, and cheertally unite
in carrying out those laws essentially to preserve
the institution. Against a powerful minority and
constant agitation, slavery could not long exist IN
any State 1t is well known fact that this result
would have followed soon, in several OF the slave
States, but for the unsnimity speedily produced
there by the abolition agitators and Intermediates
Of the North. Now Kansas is much divided on the
question Of slavery there there is powerful MI
nority there, if not "a ajority. party not neu'
trial. but bitterly opposed to the institution; and for
this in addition to the reasons before given, 40
not believe Kansas will become slave State NOR
is it important if the North will adopt the principles
Of the Kanses billEabsolute non''nterventlon anu
non.interfercnce any where by the federal govern
ment with the question of slavery. The North are
in constantly augmenting majority in Congress
and the Electoral Colleges, and can carry out all
proper measures with an onward career OF power
and prosperity if they will only adhere to the prln
ciples of Justice and of the Constitution.
The Republican party does not adopt the res
toration of the Missouri Compromise, but distinctly
repudiates that measure and declares there shall oe
no slave Territory, and no more slave slave states
any where under any circumstances admitted IN
to the Union, however clear or unanimous may oe
the will of the people of such State or Territory, or
how Southern the location. The very question:
hen which this party rests is sectional its can
didates are sectional and anticipating no electoral
vote from the South it LOOKS for success exclusive
ly to the North. Nay more; it assumes the exclu,
sive right of the North to decide this question, ana
| rejecting all division ef the common Territory oy
any line, it claims the whole for the North,-dls-
cards the vote of the people of the people OF the
Territory, either before in becoming State, ana
rejects also the arbitramcnt Of the Supreme Court
of the United States"
Mr.. Walker then goes to show the danger OF the
black Republican doctrine, discardng the peaceful
arbitrament of the Supreme Court, and insisting on
all the common territories for the North; and ne
then draws the following picture of the manner and
the means by which the Southern people arc as
sailed:
"But If such tribunal, 1.-THE Supreme Court
cannot be trusted, in executing the functions as
signed oit by the Constitution, because it numbers
from the South majority of one, performing its
high duties after full argument upon both sides,
deep investigation and research calm and deliberate,
uninfuenced so far as humanity can be, by passion
or prejudice enlightened and incorruptble, far sur
passing any other judicial tribunal upon earth for
its talents wisdom, and legal knowledge; familiar
with the Constitution, accustomed for many years
to close examination of all its provisions and to hear
them constantly discussed, on both Sides by the
great and distinguished jurists of our country; if
such tribunal cannot be trusted because it holds,
accidentally, at this time, majority of ono from the
South, can such question be more wisely referred
to the popular suffrage where the North has ma
jority Of f.yfour in the House of Representatives
and six in the Electoral College, and that ma.
jority constantly and rapidly augmenting. Will
this controversy be more wisely decided by the peo
pie of the North, single geographical section, in
famed by sectional passion and prejudice, impelled
by newspaper editors and busting orators and po-
litical priests, with without knowledge, with or
without patriotism, with without sincere relig ion
with without fanaticsm, with without mature
investigation, with without selfish aspirations p
Day by day, from the press, the hastings, the ok
store, the pulpit the lecture room, the school house,
the theater, the library the authors closet the pain
tvr's brush, and the power of song the North now
is and long has been, trained and educated to hate
the South, to despse their institutions, to trample
upon their rights, to lacerate their feelings, to cal
umniate their character. to forget all their noble
deeds in war and in peace, and all their generous
qualities and high intellectual endowments, and to
dwell only upon their faults which are the lot of our
!. common humanity"
The conclusion of this eloquent and powerful let
ter is as follows:
"But this so called Republican platform is not
only revolutionary and agrarian. but by forming
sectional and geographical party, arrayng the North
against the South and assang the bulwarks Of the
Constitution, it exposes the Union to imminent peril.
1t is the Constitution that makes the Union and the
subverson of the Constitution is the overthrow of
the Union. 1t is revolution, because it changes in
fact our form of government. The parchment upon
which the Constitution is written may still remain,
the empty forms may still be administered but
these will soon follow, until not fragment remains
of the Government formed by the patriots and sages
of the Revolution. If there those who believe
that the Union long be preserved when the Con-
stituton shall have been subverted and the supreme
judicial tribunal Of the Union expunged or obter-
ated, their delusive hopes, their dreams of domina
! ton and power, will soon vanish We have now
not only sectional and geographical party based
upon sectional issue and realizing all the fears Of
tho illustfious Washington but we have party ad-
vocating doctrines agrarian and revolutionary SUBJ
jectng all property to division confiscation and
expunging the supreme judicial tribunal indulge
in no menaces against the Union; l. make no pre-
dictions on a subject of such fearful import. But
this can say, that the South will not and ought not
submit to degradation; they will not be despoiled by
the North of all rights in the territory they
will not surrender their constitutional guarantees
they love the Union, but it is the union Of the Con-
stitution the union of equals with equals and not
of sovereign States of the North with subject States
say rather, conquered provinces-of the South
Rather than subait y this, they will adopt the last
alternative, Separation, and will then exciaim
! "Thy spirit INDEPENDENcE let me share,
| Lord of the Lion heart and Eagle eye,
! Thy steps I'll follow with my bosom bare,
Though rolling clouds should lower along the sky.
Whether residing North or South, whether ir
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