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

CsIifasnS snd At6tfslia Sxd vast portion of the
colpmerce Of Ast1 psssing throisgh this channel g
The Aklxilslc incsliik hsfs ~ Ifsvcl and trsffic
ElEopssand 600 due lnx ia together with ar
own ~ th4 nearest S6 9apesg safest aud qulclnst
routc q thas Pacific sss ~ -.
/ see Ahe command OF universal commerce pass
ing from Europe to America, and feel that ultimate
ly tho nation that commands the commerce OF the
world must command the institutions OF the worio
and introduce them finally into general adopuon,
not by the sword or conquest, but by the moral
force of our successful example, striking down the
thrones of despots and erecting upon Their runs tbe
gloipus fabric of the peoples will see, too, what
in this probable crisis Of my countrys destiny ltls
my duty again to repeat from my Texas letter that
when CONGRESS- and the North shall have wholly
ceased to interfere with the question of slavery the
African race, gradually disappearing from our Dor
ders passing in part out of our limits to Mexico ana
Central and Spanish America, and IN part returning
to the shores of their ancestors there, it is h0peo'
to carry Christianity, civilization and freedom
throughout the benighted region OF the sons OIL
Ham, Indeed, it is most remarkable fact, that
while in their native Africa the race has made no
progress, while in the mock Republic OF Hayt or
brutal despotism of Sououque in Jamaica and the
British West India Islands, the emancipated slaves
have refrigerated to barbarisin, while even in our
own North the free black is generally found in
the tails or poor.houses, hospitals, the asylumS
Of the deaf and dumb the blind or insane or in pes
tcnt alleys cellars amid scenes OF restitution
and infamy. Yet in Africa alone colony Of eman-
cipated slaves, born and raised in the much abused
South, and trained and manumitted by Southern
masters We find the only hope Of the African race,
and the only success they have ever achieved out OF
bondage
When any one ventures to admonish the people
of the danger of sectional geographical parties,
he is now denounced as traitor or dsunionist.
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Franklin,
Hamilton, Jackson, Clay and Webster, all warned
the people of the danger to the Union Of sectional
and geographical parties. But we, who repeat
these warnings are the true friends of the Union
and those who disregard these admonitions, and
form sectional and geographical parties arc the en-
cmes Of the Constitution and the Union.
Popular revolutions always sudden. The
dark cloud is seen in the horizon; we hear the NUT
tcrng thunder, nearer and nearer louder, still! loud
er it rolls above us-then comes the lightning flash,
the crash of the Union, and all is over. We will all
then stand amid the ruins OF the irrevocable past.
We will stand at the dread Judgment scat of our
country and of the world the books will be opened
and despots pronounce our sentence, the doom OF
our rade; as they believe, sefgovernment is
bloody and~delusve phantom. No, better had we
the Garth from its orbit and scatter it in burn
ing fragments through universal space than meet
the curses of our country and mankind, and the
horrors Of that living death which would follow the
dissolution Of the American Union If the surren.
der of my poor life, the remnant of my waning days
could save my country, gladly, most gladly would
make the sacritice-the sacrifice? Oh no, the duty,
the glory of such an achievement If my voice
could reach even the Black Republican" party, l
would say, reasscmble your convention, rcnomnate
your candidates if you please, elect them if you can,
take all the spoils, but tear down your disunion
African platform, you ndorse it at the polls and
give the country some other platform which will not
impcri the Union
No man values more than myself the countless
blessings and benefits of the Union. But Just in
proportion as are its great advantages will be the
unspeakablc disasters which would follow from its
overthrow. l have never believed in peaceable
dissolution of the Union. If the disaster comes it
will be attended by civil war, and the sword must
be the umpire. How can it be peaceful? Who is
to arbitrate between the North and the South
Who is to have the army, tho navy, the national
banner, the public treasure or revenue the Capitol
Of the Union, the Government archives and how
arc we to divide the public lands and common ter
rtory? What compact or treaty of peace between
the contending parties can take the place of the
Constitution, and how or by whom are the new
governments to be formed and pacified No, my
countrym men, if in the madness of sectional passions
and geographical prejudice, you overthrow the Con-
stitution framed by Washington and and the sages
of the Revolution, you can never provide adequate
substitutes. Those who have achieved our coun-
try's ruin can never regather the scattered frag-
ments of the Constitution, and rebuild the sacred
editicc. No. it will be war, civil war, of all others
the most sanguinary and ferocious. The line which
separates the North from the South will be known
in all history the line of blood 1t will be marked
on either side by frowning fortresses by opposing
batteries, by cleaning sabrcs by br,stling bayonets
by the tramp of contending armies, by towns and
cities sacked and pillaged by dwellings, given to the
flames, and fields laid waste and desoate. No NOR
tai hand lift the veil which conceals the I'M
s,eakabe disasters of such conflict. No prophet
vision penetrate the dark abyss of such catas-
trophe 1t will be second fall of mankind, and
while We shall be performing here the bloody
drama of nations suicide, from the thrones of
Europe will arise the exulting shouts of despots and
upon their gloomy banners shall be inscribed, as
they believe never to be effaced, their motto,
"Man is incapable of selfgovenment."
Nor let it be supposed by the North that superior
numbers will give them the victory over the South,
or exempt them from the calamities of such con-
hict. The financial and industrial ruin of the North
would be great and overwhelming. The annual
products of the South have now reached at least
thirteen hundred millions Of dollars, and a much
larger portion of this is surplus for export than in
the North. Thus the total exports abroad of the
whole country of our own products and manufac-
lures Excluding specie) for the year ending 3Q,h
June, 1856, 1892 75l 900, of which there were
from the North $67, 626, 900, and from the South
$l25 124 900, cotton alone being $sS, 143 900, thus
showing the exports of the South nearly double that
of the North. But in the table of these Northern
exports is $685., 900 Of cotton piece goods. Now
these made out of 400, 900 bales of Southern
cotton, costing lat $50 ba'e) $780, oO furnished
by the South to the North to be deducted from the
Northern and added to the Southern export making
difference this article alone in favor of the South
OF 81 100000.
In the same manner in the table of Northern ex.
ports are found spirits of molasses 81 ,44s OOO man
ufactured tobacco 1856 OOO spirits of turpentine
$l,137 900, and vast number of other articles,
which the raw materials are chiefly from the South