Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-05-01

worse tyranny tnan tnat OF any autOctaI II VIII
exact support without yielding protection. 1t will
extort tribute not for her advantage but for North
ern ACKNOWLEDGMENT not for her defence but for her
despoiation; not to maintain her independence but
to effect her subjugat;on 1t will require of the
South payment OF taxes and performance of militia
~ duty to acquire territory, and yet deny her any
share of it, or admission into tin virtue OF the
power claimed and the duty felt to prohibit therein
those twin relics Of barbarism, -polygamy and
slavery" It will tax and our slaves to support
armies and navies and yet refuse to exact or de-
mand indemnity slave property stolen or snatched
from us by foreign foes-upon the ground tina: such
property is not recognised by Christian nations. 1t
will tax and our slaves to support judiciary that
will always decide for the freedom of the fugitive
slave and againes sIavery-upon the ground that the
constitution does not recognise or protect slave prop
erty-in order to achieve that reform the Senator
from New York (Mr. Seward) so fondly anticipates
and so confidently predicts. 1t will tax us and our
slaves to support post offices and carry mails to dis
semnate incendiary documents among our slaves
and incite them instruction, and assassina
tion-in order to prevent any abridsment of the
freedom of the press 1t will tax us and our slaves
to support soldiers to forts, enas and navy
yards, and to keep Federal constabulary in our
towns. to vndcate freedom of speech, Of the right
to tell slaves that they oppressed and should
slay their oppressors 1t will tax and our slaves
to build forts, arsenals, navy yards, custom and
court houses, which shall serve as sanctuaries for
fugitive slaves. 1t wtax and our slaves to keepits
anissaries the highways that lead the born
dares Of the s'avehodng States to prevent the car
rying of slaves from one State to notwithstanding
its right to do under the power granted Congress
to regulate commerce 1t would effect the drstruc-
ton of the institution of slavery by these indirect
means and within the letter of the constitution,
though in utter violation of its spirit and meaning
It would render that property not only insecure and
valuless, but a curse and torment the Southern
people. In fact, it would subvert our State govern.
m.nts and our social organism without, perhaps,
ever passing any act of Congress directly abolshing
slavery in the States. Suffer that party to take in.
to its control the legislative executive and judicial
powers Of this government-e extending its Briarean
arms around and over the entire Southern States
and would stealthily and gradually achieve their
ruin and desolation. 1t would dist from the frnit
of Southern friends the fatal poison would admin.
lister to their owners.
: None can doubt the justice of these charges who
believe you Northern Republicans are sincere in the
faith you profess, would redeem the pledges you
have given. That you would break through all con-
sttntoaa restraint and to the urthest extreme to
despoi and sutngate in order CRAFTY fanaticism
avarice and ambition. have full assurance in the
sad experience of Kansas, and in the admonitnry
lessons Of the last Congress- If these prophetic
warnings are net unnotced unheeded bv the
South she will be forearmcd for those struggles for
dominion which we are assured bv the Senator from
will continue in the Territories and in the savehold
ing States. until the foot of slave does not press
the soil Of the United States.
With the control Of but one House of Congress,
and opposed by the other and by the executive and
judiciary, you tried. with sublime audacitv, to seize
the rens Of government and absorb the powers Of
all its departments in order to expcl slavery from
Kansas and annihiIate Southern power in that Ter
ritory. To achieve that purpose. you endeavor to
arrest the wheels Of government and to revolution
ize it. to nnify all laws and snhvert all authority in
Kansas and to subject its people to all the horrors
Of anarchy and fratricida war Great, indeed,
would be the humiliation and degradation Of sub
mission to your demand nv snrrendering to you the
exclusive occupancy Of all the Territories of the
United States. But that would not purchase onr
peace or satisfy your demands And IL the South
decide to yield this demand. in the vain hope of an
nglorious peace. let her check her pride and make
up her mind with becoming meekness and humility
to live while she is let live. in state Of suhjuga-
tion and snbserviency to the North impetrating
mercy of her masters instead of exactng Justice of
her equals.
do not donbt that yon think she will yield all
you demand. do not doubt YOU believe You can
exto.t from her fears of your power all that Won
cannot seduce from her love If the Union I he.
lieve you expect to excite discord among her own
sons and to against the shareholders all who
are not shareholders. by persuadng these that they
are oppressed and wronged. But the example Of
Kansas, where there cannot have been more than
two hundred shareholders ont Of six thousand pro.
slavery voters. should have Taught you that the sons
Of the South know and feel that thew have a conn.,
mon interest in preserving the institution Of slavery
that thev must keep the negro in his normal condi.
tion Of slavery or destroy him. surrender to him
their country. do not fear that Won can delrde
and begni'e them to their own splf.destruction OF
the desolation Of their country. I know Won count
largely the defectiors and assertions Of South
ern leaders. and confess with shame and regret
that you have bnt too good reason for your cacnla
tons in the notifying examples we have furnished
Of those WIN have betrayed their trnst and broken
their allegiance to the South not perhaps because
thev loved her less. lint the Union more and them
selves most. know it is idle to try to dsenchant
your minds Of impressions which Won are fond tt
retain and wish to he trne but which 7 think dis
honor the South. wrong the North. and NAV dissolve
| the Union. Yet. at the hazard of vour ridcnle,
must tell you that Alabama in common with all he
Southern sisters but two has by the universal voic
Of her people, as expressed nv party conventions
nv popular assemblies. and by her late and forme
Legislatures resolved" that she will and ought I.
resist las last resort, to disruption Of every
tie which bi Ids her to the Union. any action Of Ton
npon the subject Of slavery in the District
Columbia. in places subject to the jurisdiction
Congress. Incompatible with the safety, the domes
tic tranquility. the rights and honor Of the slave
holding States; refusal to admit as Stat
any Territory hereafter applying, because of the ex
istence OF slavery therein; or any act prohibiting
the introduction Of slavery into the Territorie
- or any act repeating or material
modifying the law now in force for the recovery
fugitive Saves
It fhla he mere bravadn. she shsres the f0llv an,
/ the shame in common with twelve Of her Snnther,
sisters While have INDUCED. and shall indniee
in NO mensce er promise ar prophecy OF her cnnrae
Of her ALT dearadation, BY disregardine her plesge
i and enbniftnr TO yOir eovernncnf I win uct :;