Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-12

The DEArH.SrRUGGLE OF ANTI SLAvERY.-The
Montgomery (Aiabuma} Advertiser does not concur,
but would be quite rejoiced to so, with the Union in
the opinion we expressed a few days ago, that anti
slavery in this country, and indeed throughout the
world is just now undergoing severe turn Of par
alysis. We are convinced if our esteemed friend
of the Advertiser will lend us ear, We can con-
vince him that the Union is right and that he may
join with in congratulations to the country on the
speedy humiliation of American antslavery.
We have taken the ground that political opposi-
ton to slavery is monstrous folly that slavery is,
in fact inaccessible to the action Of federal politics
We insist in other words, that, should the leg
isative power of the government fall into the hands
of the aboitoniss, it would be wholly unavailable
as means of Gripping extingushing slavery as
that institution exists in the United States Con-
gress might enact fifty statutes against it, abolish
the slave trade between the States declare the Ter
rtories free, and intcrdct the creation OF slavery
therein, 60 so far to forbid the recovery
of fugitive slaves, and still the institution of slavery
would not, in practical! sense, be affected. The
slave States would still insist upon and maintain the
right of transmit or inter.commerce with each 9TH
err. The people of the Territories would, at their
option establish slavery, in spite of federal prohibi.
tons and denunciatons. Those States in the North
which are more attached to the Union than to mere
frutless schemes of demogogues would still surren-
der ugi,ives from labor 1t is thus seen that poit-
ical anti-savery, while it has the power to infame
section against section to threaten and denounce is
utterly harmless as a means Of positive aggression
against the institutions of the South We utterly
deny for instance, that legal prohibition the or
dinance of 1857, the Missouri compromise OF 1920,
or the Wi'not proviso, exercised the least in
fuence the subject of slavery within the coun-
tries which those enactments were intended to gov
ern in that particular That they have exercised a
powerful influence upon the public mind of the
try; that they have been adroitly and wickediy
used by demagogues as a means of creating gen.
eral impression that the North and South were ar
rayed against each other upon question involving
the vital interests of the latter, do not doubt
Congress has no authority over slavery; and we
maintain that it is strictly matter Of private indus
governed by the laws of profit and loss, as every
other branch of labor is. 1t is not within the pow
er Of any man point to single act of the federal
legislature which can be said to have exerted d.
influence the institution of slavery. These
facts have at length made an impression upon the
anti-slavery as MEANS but they have shown clear
ly that it is monstrous folly. Our government
was wisely constituted to exclude the subject
from Congress 1t has been thrust into Congress by
demagogues and disunionists. /: never was rightly
the subject Of discussion there much less Of egis.
4latve action. All measures of compromise in re-
gard TO the matter we look upon as Unauthorized
concessions to theorists and public enemies. Our
great safety is to be found in aking th6 dections
of selfgosernment as the chart of our federal &C
ton. No party can live in opposition to this just
srple and rs antisavery means assault upon the in
stitution by any and and all means, we inter that
experience is killing las il surely Say what We
will Kansas is destined tobe the grave Of atpton-
isIIls No party can survive the f0ea
by the republicans IN thai Territory RasAington
Th largest regular ANN syeF aeen
now the under orders Of Colin Campbsl aonsis.
ting az 8 force Of go. 600 ia -