Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-12

army and navy, and to carry on their government;
while England and other foreign States would at
once compete with them. and obtain the advantage
over them in our markets, in the sale of nearly
all manufactured articles. Superadd to this, the
conflict constantly going in free society between
capital and labor and the tendency to agrarianism,
and we can form some idea of the evils that would
aflict the Northern people in the event Of dssolu-
ton. g ~.
Nor could they look with hope to the great North
west, or Mississippi valley. Nature has bound that
valley to the Southern States. 1t embraces eight
ten of the most fourishing States of the Union,
whose productions find an outlet under Southern
sun, through the Gulf of Mexico. Their immense
supplies of breadstufs their COAL their cotton their
lead, and hemp, would no longer seek Northern
markets, but would be poured, with a constantly
increasing tide, along our Railroads and down the
Mississippi, enriching they flowed, and adding in
calcubly to our commerce, and to our means OF inn
provement and defence. Besides, the great line of
intercourse the continent between the Allan
tic and the Pacific, marked out by nature and des
tined to be occupied, runs through the slavehoding
States. The harbor of Beaufort, in this State, is
nearly on line with San Francisco, China, and ia
pan; and through this channel the commerce Of the
East which has enriched all Eations that have here
tofore possessed it, may yet find its way.
The solid men of the North, fellow-citzens, are
we'll informed of these things, and they properly
innate them. The people of the North-not the
miserable fanatics not the vile demagogues, not the
whited sepulchres not the long faced canting Phar.
secs, who groan over slavery according to rule and
who while they arming and melting adventures
and madmen to murder their countrymen in Kan
sas, nevertheless thank God they are not others;
not the of degenerates and hypocrtes, who dis
turb, and rritate and alct society where they ex-
list, but who cannot control it not these, but the
people of the North know, as we know, that their
safety and safety, their progress and our prog.
ress, their happiness and our happiness, are bound
up together, by nature, by ancient association, by
all-pervading and allcontrolling interest, and by
every consideration which should have weight with
the judgment or Judgment in the heart. Dissolve
the Union Wherefore? in Gods name, wherefore
Has it dispensed among u.s. in all these States, any
thing but blessings? Does any one mere, or in New
England really feel the operations of this Consttu-
ton but in the benefits it confers? Do we OF the
South complain that of the thirty forty millions
of taxes which wepay by way of imposts, three
fourths of them are expended in the free States =
No. fellow citizens. We submit to this, and to 9TH
or inequalities, with cheerfulness for We know that
what we lose in one respect, we gai.. in another.
Who can estimate, in dollars and cents, the worth
of this Constitution the value of the united Amer
lean name? Can the North do it? Let her attempt
it, and she will start back in dismay from the gulf
that yawns before her. Can the South? In defence
OF her honor and of her Constitutional rights she
will not calculate, but she will dare and do, if the
hour should come which may Providence evermore
forbid! II this Union should ever he destroyed, it
will be done by palpabe violation disregard
by all the departments Of the government, OF the
Constitution, which is the bond of the Union. That
of itself, would be dissolution. The South would
deplore and would feel the catastrophe but man
could say that her folly or her madness did it. If
not entirely blameless in all this sectional STRIFE yet
no part of the responsibility for the Crime Of Dis
union could be placed upon her.
What wall would go up, from all this world;
what agony, what prayers, what horrors, what bit
ter and burning tears, if some messenger, commits
stoned by Divine authority, should proclaim that the
Sun-now fastening as of old to his setting in the
western sky-wOuid rise more; and that thence
forth there would be left to only the pale light
of the moon and stars! Such and great, fellow
citizens would be the darkness in the political and
moral world and such and small would be the
light, which would follow the dashing out or the OBJ
scuraton of this Constitution, which is the Sun of
our system and the centre of all our hopes.
But the South will neither go off, nor bow down,
surrender her rights. She will stand on, and
stand BY the Constitution and all its. principles,
whether the Union shall survive or perish. But
have confidence that it will perish. 1t is not all
gloom in the Northern sky. The Constitution still
ilumines the heavens that look down on Bunker
Hill and Concord and there hosts of true men
there who yet walk in its light. They look back
with us to the time when the States stood shoulder
to shoulder in a common struggle for independence;
they estimate as we do, the blessings of the pres
ent they unite with in the prayer that this in
dependence and these blessings may be immortal:
and they know, do, that the deed of fidelity
to all their Constitutional obligations must keep step
with the prayer and they soiW be faithful,
are 70 the Union. They say, to the incendaries
and traitors in their midst and to those among them
who dare to threaten that in a certain event they
will coerce US, that the contest for the preservation
of the Union must commence there and that these
incendiares and traitors must walk their dead
bodies before they reach the bosoms of their
Southern brethren. 1 have seen it proclaimed in
their public journals, that the monument which
crowns that memorable hill near Boston, aoas found
ed Union and that long as it shall stand and
they have arms for the contest, they will use them
against those there if necessary, who are engaged
in unjust aggressions upon us. Nobly spoken -
worthy, great-hearted, highsouled descendants of H.
lustrious sres! The blood of Warren-ike that of
sacrificing AbePs" cries, "even from the tongueess
caverns of the earth, and the true men there an.
swer that their blood shall sink into the same sacred
Soil that received his, before the liberties of States
and people, which he died to establish shall be struck
down and destroyed. With Us they exclaim-
Though many and bright are the stars that appear
In the flag by our country unttIrled;
And the stripes that swelling in majesty there,
Like rainbow adjoining the world:
Their lights are unsullied as those in the sky
By deed that our fathers have done;
And they are leagued in as true and as holy tie,
In their motto of Many in One"
From the hour when our fathers fearlessly flung
That banner of starlight abroad
Ever true to themselves, to that motto they chung,
AS they cluny to the promise of God.
By the bayonet traced at the midnight of war;
On the fields where our glory won;
Oh perish the hand or the heart that would mar
Our motto of " Many in One"
From where our "reen Mountain tops blend with the sky
And the giant St Lawrence is rolled,
To the waves where the bamy Hesperides lie
Like the dream of some prophet of old
They conquered.and dying, bequeathed to care,
Not this boundless dominion alone
But that banner whose loneliness hallows the air.
And their motto of " Many in One"
Then up with our fag-let it stream on the air.
Though our fathers are cold in their graves;
They had hands that could strike they had souls that could