Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-07-22

That the policy of the Administration in relation
to Kansas is endorsed by every Abolitionst and
Freesoiler in the Union, cannot be denied.
Register.
The Register is utterly mistaken. Mr. Buchanan
is denounced by few utras in the South, and most
bitterly revled by the abotionists of the North,
for his course in relation to Kansas The abolition
lists in Kansas-the framers for example, of the To.
peka Constitution, still threaten that in certain
event they will maintain their Constitution and pro.
ceed with their revolutionary government; and Mr..
Buchanan has announced to them, through Gov.
Walker, that if they dare attempt this, he will Wis.
it them with fire and sword. Now, the abolition
lists of the North general thing, insist that .he
Topeka Constitution is the only valid act that has or
can be performed IN Kansas. Mr.. Buchanan de-
clares that to cling to and to endeavor carry out
that Constitution, is to commit treason and vet we
are told that Mr.. Buchanan's policy in relation to
Kansas is endorsed by every abolitionst and free
soiler in the Union" Why, the simple statement
carries lis own refutaton with it.
But what right has the Editor of the Register to
be concerned about Kansas, seeing that if he had
had his way, the Missouri restriction would have re-
NAMED unrepealed and not the first slave could have
set foot in the Territory? True the Editor was for
the repeal, and rejoced it as an act of signal
justice to the South and restoration the Consti.
tuition but he has lights SINCE and he noao
declares he regrets its repeal! In his issue of the
l1th instant he says
'But, we shall be told that we approved the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, and assuredly we
did, but we do not hesitate to say, and cur Demo.
mocratic friends may make the most of the decara-
ton, that while believed and do believe that the
original enactment of the Missouri Compromise was
! wrong to the South, and that its repeal was no
cause OF offence to any portion of the Union, we
would have voted against the repeal if we could have
foreseen the results which have ensued from it. We
trusted the Democracy, like simpeton, and, along
with many others, were trapped"
We record this with regret One more gallant
champion has been-not lost to the South, We trust;
but he has dropped his lance and lowered his plume
in the very midst of the battle. The South had ev-
every thing to gain and nothing to lose by the
peal Without it, slavery would have had no chance
whatever in Kansas; with it. it has gone there, and
may be permanently established. But if it should
not be established in Kansas the South, we repeat
can lose nothing by the repeal for the plain
that the abolitionsts of the North have never re-
spected the line referred to- but have resorted time
and again to the "Wimot Proviso" to prohibit sla-
very south of it.
We have nothing to do with the motives Of our
contemporary in turning this sudden somerset; but
it deserves to be mentioned that Col. Puryear the
K N candidate in the 9th District who voted against
the repeal of this odous restriction, is just in
close quarters and the Editor of the Register could
not 60 to his relief without ignoring and taking back
his former defberately expressed opinions on this
question. In doing so, however, he has not only
deserted Mr.. Badger and nineteen-twentieths of his
| political friends who were in Congress from the
but he has positively taken ground against them,
and is holding them responsible, with the admins
tration of Mr. Buchanan for the present troubles in
Kansas He has just dumped out of the frying
| pan into the fire. We know his anti-Nebraska
| friends tried' him some for his former gallant
advocacy of Southern rights, but he bore it for a
time like man yet as soon as COL Puryear began
to roast him, he made the jump. Now let him
scorch We can do nothing for him and all we car
! say for him is, that the "abolitionists and freeso
| ers" to whom he has referred as endorsing the ad
minstration, regret quite deeply as he does the
repeal of the Missouri restriction.
Our cotemporary says he " trusted the Dcmocra
cy like smpleton" and has been "trapped." l
| he trusted them without investigation, and agains
his better judgment, he deserved to be strapped
but what if he trusted them after full hear
| ing and of his own accord-has he not " trapped
| himself? Let him answer at his leisure; and le
him, if he can, meet the facts have presented II
| this article.