Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-01-03
He NORTH CAROLINA sTANpARD,

I There snap Judgment WAS taken against the In
atitut0n ct time when the expense Of transporting
slave waa SO to preclude the possibility OF
introducing iaboriHg en, much less families through
which alone the institution could be planted. And
besides, California cannot be said to have been free
to select its institutions for, as Congress then
constituted, it well known that its admission in
to the Union would be opposed, retarded, and pro-
badly altogether defeated that ground, if its
stituton did not prohibit slavery And there is rea
son to believe that the anxiety of the people for i'm
mediate admission into the Union, anu the we'll
known sentiments then prevailing in Congress- con-
strained them to forego the advantage Of institu
ton which would do so much to develop her min
erai and agricultural resources.
Nor is this striking fact confined to the Territories
of the American Union. Every people settling
new country have borne the same testimony to the
advantage and necessity of having labor that be
commanded. The Spaniards who took possession
OF Mexico, the West Indies, and other portions of
ing under the cross for banner and fighting in
virtue of a bull of the Pope professedly for the
propagation of Christianity. reduced the feeble
natives to slavery, and compelled them to work rs
slaves Our own venerated ancestors, who took pos
session of this portion of the continent found it
cupied by more formidable and warlike race than
the feeble aborignes of the tropics; but with
knowledge of the hardy and enterprisng character
OF the first emigrants from England cannot doubt
that they would very have harnessed the Pequod
and the Narraganset but for the timely arrival Of
Dutch ship with cargo of African negroes
On such slight circumstances do the fate of ma
tons and the destiny of races depend. The enslaved
African has been civilized and gone on increasing
and multiplying beyond all precedent; whilst the
Indian, rejoicing in his freedom, has receded before
civilization, prey to suffering, to want, and 10 bar
barisn melting away on the frontiers and carrying
nothing but his boosted freedom across the broad
praires of the West to the base Of that great noun
tain range in whose icy gorges he must perish.
When starvation and death are upon him, and his
last freedom shrek" is heard in the mountains, if
the poor riendless savage could look upon the we'll
fed, comfortable, and happy African on a southern
plantation, who can doubt that he would bewail the
chance that left him frey, and made the African a
slave? The introduction of that cargo Of Africans
closed up the only avenue throug which the Indian
could have been conducted to civilization, placed
under protection. and preserved from determination.
1t is curious fact aso that as the priest had been
the foremost in enslaving the Indians in Mexico,
doubtless means of converting them to Chris
tahity-and in every allotment took to himself the
largest share-so the New England Puritan was the
foremost to enter into the African slave trade, and
secure the profit Of reducing men to slavery.
In looking the face of the globe, l find that
wherever there sa country fit for the of civilized
men, but which civilized men have not yet occupied,
there Providence has placed savage and debased
race, having the ability but not the inclination to
labor. When civilized man comes into it | find un-
slave the inferior The necessity of his position
eompels him to it; and he may be only availing
himself of wise economy of Providence, which
placed the inferior race where it would be needed.
find that in all our Territories, where the policy of
the Government and the sentiments Of our people
forbid any attempt to ensave the Indian, the carly
settlers in every instance manifested the greatest
anxiety to avail themselves of African slavery. l
infer from this that slavery is suitable to their cOnd
ton, and that they realize that it is So and will con-
tnue to introduce in the future, they have done
in the past, if permitted to exercise free choice
and have no fear that, under any construction
which the Supreme Court may place on the Kansas
and Nebraska act, the citizens of the saveholding
States will suffer any injustice at the hands Of those
whom gentlemen are pleased to call squatters
There many in the ranks Of the Democratic
party who differ from me on this point-some hop.
ing and some tearing that the people will exclude
slavery if they have the power. We honestly differ
in opinion matter of opinion; and hope no
gentleman will say we cons;rue the act differently,
because We differ in opinion as to the choice the peo
pie will probably make.
Mr. Speaker, | advocated the Kansas and Ne
braska bill at the time il was enacted. ! have ad-
vocated it throughout the long and trying ordeal
through which it has passed ] stand upon the bill
it is in all its features will make new issue
on it. foI q new issue involves renewed agitation,
and surrender Of the great points already gained.
Give faithful execution OF that law and my con-
StltuentS Will Oc SatiSueu IL SQuatleT sovereignty
in it, it gets there, and can only get there by being
in accordance with the Constitution of the United
States and whatever is in that instrument is right.
The honorable gentleman from Ohio Mr.. Ncholsl
said much about Buchanan Breckenridge, and free
Kansas" Sir am for free Kansas; am for Kan
sas-free to select her own institutions, and work
out her destiny free from the control of infuen-
foreign and alien to her interests; free from the
whitening invasion of fanaticsm free, as Kentucky
is free, and North Carolina is free.
The gentleman from Ohio and his associates are
not for free Kansas. They would enslave Kansas,
for the hope of changing the social status of an in
ferior race They would enslave the white man of
kansas-deprive him of his political Freedom, that
the negro may free.
Sir, am for free white men, and free States ever
where. The gentleman from Ohio and his associates
are for free negroes. am for free Kansas and was
for Buchanan and Breckenridge, because believed
them to be for free Kansas.
GEN. CAss.-Colonel Forney, in his able and very