Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-30

A GLEAM OF LIGHT+-Wa nave often argued tnAs-
there was something sinister in the course OF MT.
Fillmore. and the great body Of his supporters,
North and South, who SO fercely denopnce the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise as . monstrous
wrong We thought that it was natural and ne
cessary consequence that they should be in favor OF
redressing that wrong" by restoring the Missouri
Compromise. Time has proved that we are not
mistaken The Baltimore Patriot, leading and in
fuential Fillmore organ, has thrown off the mask
and boldly advocates the restoration Of the Mss-
souri, Oompromise. We do not think it necessary
to 20 over the otrepeated and conclusive arguments
in refutation of the sophisms of the Baltimore "a
triot and it's unjust fling at the South. Suffice it
that we call the attention of Southern men to the
startling fact that leading Fillmore paper at the
South, doubtless rejecting the sentiments of its
partv has raised the banner of a "restoration OF
the Missouri Compromise" and that this issue IS
openly avowed between the Fillmore party and the
Democracy. What true Southern man can hesitate
in taking his course after reading the following pro.
gramme recommended by the Baltimore Patriot,
prominent Fillmore organ in Maryland?
"The Kansas. Nebraska bill was the head and
front of all subsequent offending and to those who
originated it. and those through whom it became
law of the land are the sanguinary excuses which
now prevail the borders of Missouri to be justly
ascribed There is but one efectual mode Of giving
peace to the country and that is easy of accomplish
ment if all who believe as we do would openly de-
clare themselves and act at once upon their convc-
tions. The Missouri line must be restored. Every
thoughtful Southern man must see that, however
unconstitutional in its essence the adoption OF this
line originally was, 1t the ougrowth of noble
spirit of mutual cancellation, and became quasi
constitutional by the consent of parties, and by the
respect in which its provisions were held for more
that thirty years.
We say to the South that, in sustaining the Kan
sas Nebraska BILL you building up an aggressive
power at the North, which can only end in disso-
luton of the Federal bond. You are doing more
than ths-you are alternating from your cause your
truest and most influential friends-who reason
cal,nly upon existing differences, and men will not
suffer themselves to be turned from the path OF duty
either by the pseudo philanthropy of the ultra-Re
publicans or the equivoca patriotism OF the ultra
Democrats. In sustaining abstract principle,
which, however just in ITSELF can never prove OF any
earthly SERVICE the South is sacrificing its vital in
terests. BY reopening the flood gates OF discussion
to the anti-savery faction at the North, 1T has re-
newed, with additional viruence, the exciting scenes
of 1920, and paved the way for the imposition of
restrictions far dangerous to its security, and
fatal to it's progressive increase in wealth and popu
lation. No one believes that slavery can ever be
permanently established in any portion of the ter
ritory of the Northwest 1t is plant Of pure tro-
pical origin, and can only prosper in climate
adapted to its growth The experience of the North
ern and Middle States ought to satisfy any reflect
ing mind that there natural metes and bounds
beyond which slavery cannot be extended, no mat
ter what care is employed to introduce the system,
what provisions made for its sustenation. Its
limits are as strongly Marked and as accurately de-
fined, as those Of the sugar cane and the cotton
plant, and are co-extensive with them. Natural
laws significantly indicated the line of $50 80 to be
the true boundary between the slave and free States
long before the States themselves solen,nly consent
ed to respect that landmark and it is in direct vio
ation Of those laws that the recent attempt has been
made to force slavery into the Northwestern terri
tories"