Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-08

"a fIesssE.f so ~ rs *. y -
j. greatly increased. For my Town part believing,
indeed Enowing as do the great dependence OF the
North upon the South less for its supplies Of cotton
than asa market for numerous manufactures of MT
nor articles Of wood, such as carriages furniture,
clocks buckets &c. &C.; of iron, as spades, nails,
pioughs and theimmense amount of agricultural i'm
plements-which now support so many small villa
ces of wool cloths, carpets ready made othing,
&C. of tin, for which New England is SO famous;
of leather to extent and variety which almost ex-
ceels belief; of machinery of every kind, to say mo-
thing of the onions, hay, &c, which we find less ad.
vantageous to make than our cottons, sugars and
cereals. All of these manufactures could readily
supply ourselves, were our labor directed. In
deed, there is no doubt but in short time after
separation, We should have thousands of their best
and most enterprsing mechanics and artisans among
us, they will longer find scope for their skill
at home when this trade, profitable, shall be
cut off New England, since the Infamous Recip-
rocity treaty with Canada, Cutting oil our supply
ing them with brcadsus) takes from only some six
or seven hundred thousand bales of cotton, and even
this would soon be made up by the increased con-
sumption by the rest of the world, consequent upon
opening our ports to free trade. In fact. the con-
sumption of cotton has already overtakcn produc-
ton, with the enormous crop of 1865, which
will probably be little exceeded if at ALL for several
years to come.
Again, the abrogaon of present navigation
laws, would be very heavy blow to tho shipping
probably the most onerous tax we pay our North
ern brethren for their friendly q ad,-Qn what y
and alliance.
| One point more, and I am done; for really had
| no idea of writing such an cpistlc when began
The republican party make great and If persevered
| in, fatal mistake, in surprising and treating the
| question between as merely pcliticdt one. That
this is So no one who has passed much time ut the
North can doubt and it fills the mind Of the South
phi!anthropist, who knows it to be far more
than that with the saddest feelings to see it. 1hey
think it point of no consequence beyond its pottti
cal result; a measure in which part or the other
| is to succeed and then it is all over! Their DIS
lance from us and ignorance of the peculiar situa
ton Of our people, almost exclusively agricultural
residing in sparscly settled country, families OF
wives and children living surrounded by ignorant
and crcdulouS negroes, who if left alone and unse-
| duced by designing men, are contentcd and happy
to follow their duties and occupations throughout
their lives to their final rest, and satisfied to meet
from God the reward of the made of the talent
given Them but easily mis!cd and when excited by
liquor (Which is always the first thing they aim at
when in insurrcctiOn) and out OF the bounds OF 2u
thorv, p .rpetratc the most horrid atrocities upon
unutfcnling romen and children, such as would re.
volt the minds of even the most rab:d aboltioniSt
Witness the account of every scrvilc instruction on
record This position Of the Southern people is not
and cannot be realized by those who have never been
SO placed! Nothing can so rouse the mind OF man
| to Madness a the conviction that his wife and flm
lily likely to be suffice to the horrors of an
other Southampton instruction, and this, too, cX
cited by those who should be his friends and broth
! crs To deny that the abulitioniSts have not pro-
duced these nsurrcconary moysmentS and arc not
continually trying TODD 50. and that the 'republican
party are allied with the Garrison, Wright, Fred
! Douglas and Sumner Abo!itioniSis and did not as
Siduou>ly court their co operation during the late
canvass, virtually saying to thc,n 'j"n us now and
! by 1860 will join you lis to deny what has
! h,Gnrn Ourpy owes md Of =
t selves the witnesses. To deny that the late
| Presidential canvass. carried it was by the re-
pul,icans and their allies. proclaming open hostility
/ and cnui;ty to the master, dcnoun ing Southern
| siave-owners in the most opprobious terms, and
threatening ihcr in the language of your Honorable
| Senators, that "slavcry and will he abolished,
and you and can do it, not lcgi.imately cal
culated to excite negroes when it is known that
their speeches and publications were sent by thou.
sands among us, under every poss bic form OF con.
cca.mcnt-that many OF our negroes can rcad-and
never till this year have determined TO prevent it
! in the Of my own-that we have many ennis
sares among US who dclude the poor negroes with
the most Elusive hopes and unfounded statements of
soldiers from the North, with big cannon marching
down to help them" a., &c.-to deny this is to de-
ny what every Southern man knows only too scns-
bly,, and which, even while write, finds only too
| melancholy a confirmation in wide spread consp-
racv at the West, with its horrd results, and which
was openly declared by of the editors Of a New
York paper ("ho happened 10 DC presently ana other
impartial evidence, to have been the effect Of the late
! Presidential canvass,
When you reflect the exciting effect Of this
state Of things upon the Sou'herner and when you
recoec the stubborn character Of the Puritan mind
and that this has in the present generation been lit
orally nur>cd and educated in abu;ionism. that alb
o!itionsm has been the great theme Of their news.
papers and lectures, the literary portion OF their al
MANAGES, the foundation Of their school books, and
the illustrations of their annua!s-I doubt not you
will come to the same sad conclusion with myself,
that this g!orons Union, the hope of liberty through.
out the world, the great labor and result of the com
bincd wisdom and patriotism Of the wisest and most
patriotic body the world saw, is ere long to be
shattered to pieces. because a set of stubborn men
insist on forcing an abstimct ion-that slavery is a
great civil and moral evil upon another part Of
our common country, against their wishes and in
te,ests. Yours, &c,
, H. X. 3.
\ New SwINpLE-TuE LADY AND TIE LUNATIC
e., of tho INtlpOru1rnce