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

Vim s. sor6t iEfo6a5 ana posrea &; ifsli4 Is poftass
1.-The MSss And, IL q Iied Will 5hB people Of
the sonth longer blinded 70 8nnenss The
incslcslsb terest have the gyeat future
that Is looming up before them they eontip- /
Sue 70 look with careless upon the SWELL
ing Of that great tide in the Of this nation,
which If taken 81 the food will lead equally 10
fortune Ito Their improy ement as peopie Ito The
bnilding UP of their strcngr the FIXING upon 4
fimer basis their power 8? If not. let them infnse
life and activity into their own indastry en-.
couragement to their own commerce and nayiga-
tion-bud up their own ports, and do their own
trading with the great commercial powers of the
earth. (Cheers.) III j, n; s.. I'D
dence, continued Mr. NJ. that orr fathers pledged to
each other their lives and fortunes The latter can
not be preserved where the former has been destroy
ed. Venice, Greece Florence the free States of
modern Europe-lost their political freedom when
their commercial independence was broken down.
The nation, said an able statesman, IS that thinks
only of prescribing and never of acquiring is over
taken with ruin for If It does not advance it must
retrograde and finally perish"
This is not the era my countrymen. continued the
speaker, for empty speculations. The sway of po-
litica schoolmen has passed, never to return 40
ton is the watch word of nations. Adcanee is the
battle cry of those who lead the vanguard of ma
tional Improvement To stand still, is to be run
over. To hesitate to falter. is TO be driven back.
ward by the rushing waves that are sweeping onward
Wllu TeSstIeSS power. (CneerS.)
| Men of the South you must rely on your own
| energies-the development of your own resources,
the concentration of your own strength-the rally
| ing of your own sen.reliant power-the union of
your own stout hearts, to achieve high destiny and
secure an Independent, defiant position in the great
conflict of contending nations. cloud cheers y
| "Peace hath her victories less renowned than
war;" and m the struggle for that victory, if you
| hope to secure, in the end the post of honor and
safety, you must dare and hold fast in the
thickest Of the fight the post of difficulty and dam
ger (Cheers.)
! To secure our prosperity and safety as a people
he continued, zoe must guard the future. We can
longer shut eyes to the fact-a fact standing
out boldly and prominently before us-that there
are elements of mischief at work in our country,
which if not met resisted repealed must end in ruin,
in the overthrow OF our republican insttntons-in
the destruction of Constitutional Union. On
one hand are arrayed all the madness and power of
| an Infatuated fanatcism; on the other stands the
spirit of determined resistance to it's purposes of
aggression, injustice and wrong. Up to this period,
remonstrance has been of no avail-argument has
been exhausted in INSTRUMENTATION has but invited
fresh hostility. Every appeal for quet, peace, from
those whose rights have been assailed has been an
| swered only by renewed rancor, by repeated ag-
gression. We have pointed to the common strug-
giles Of patriotic ancestry-to the battle fields on
which they poured out their best blood like water,
defence of their liberties and the achievement of
their independence; We have appealed to the solemn
| pledges made by the great dead whose lives were
offered up on the altar of their common country
but it has all been in vain. Deaf to reason and re-
! monstrance, with spirit steeed to every generous
| and patriotic impulse-to every demand for JUSTICE
TO every feeling of kindred and atfection-to every
dictate Of magnanimity, that Moloch of anarchy and
destruction, like its prototype Of DID, has had but
one response, and that response has been-"My SEN
tence is for open, ceaseless sonr." (Cheers)
Disguise it as you may, my countrymen, that de-
claration of hostility must be met and my solemn
conviction is that 10 meet it successfuly-to check
its spirit of mschief-to repe its reckless assaults
to insure protection against its nearious purposes
and blasting effects-there must be union amongst
| the people Of the South. cloud cheers.) Before
Co., excaImeo MT. Miller, believe there is safety
! in no other course-(tremendous cheering)-a guar
antee for rights, social peace. our national
prosperity-in no other policy. None can destroy
Scotland save Scotand's self"-excaimed the daunt-
less Bellhaven. Yes, the emphatic teachings of his
tory-the warnings that come to us from every
struggle in past times between wrong and violence,
the hand and right and justice the other, will
fall like empty SOUNDS upon our ears, if We neglect
to use the means that God has given for advance
ment, protection, defence
North Carolina, am proud to say, he continued,
has always been loyal to the Federal Constitution
always devoted to the Union which that Constitution
established, and which it's just and firm adminisra-
of danger to it. she has sprung with aacrity to its
defence. loud cheers) She has expected, de-
sired, demanded nothing but recognition and pro.
lection Of all the rights guaranteed by that great
charter Without such protection it is folly, it is
| rank Madness to expect that there will be fostered
amongst her people genuine, an ardent devotion to
the union of the States. Il would be, under such
circumstances the aduation of slaves, not the vene
ration of freemen. (Cheers} She affixed her seal
to the great deed of Union political equaL
loud cheers0 So long as she can thus continue
SO long as the covenants of that deed unbroken
by others-there is sacrifice she will not make
there is difficulty she will not encounter-there
| is no danger she will not face-no enemy she will
not grappe for its defence and preservation. (Con-
tinued cheering) Forbearance, she has always dis
played-self denial she ever is ready to exercise to
wrong, even, she may for time have submitted,
| under the belief that returning sense OF justice
| would at last prevail; but to humiliation and dis
grace-to degradation and dishonor, she cannot she
dare not, God forbid she ever should, submit Gre
mendous cheering) Reverence for the memory Of
her mighty dead-the proud membranes Of the
past-the high hopes and aspirations of the future
all forbid discard, repel, scorn it. Continued
cheering) t,fst
Would that the spirit of mutual confidence. Of pa
trioc devotion to the rights and harmony of al,
tons, which actuated fathers, could again re-
turnl In the darkest period of our Revolutionary
struggle, patriotic and gallant son OF New England
| declared For my own part, am fully con-
WINGED of the justice Of the cause in which we are
contending, and that Providence. in its own good
tlme Will succeed ana OlcSS IL tnat were 1 TO see
t,oeloe Of the United States by cruel in
vaders should still believe the thirteenth Mould
not only ITSELF but also soork out the deticer-
ance Of The Others" cloud cheers.) Noble conf
dence! Patriotic devotion! 1t was this spirit, said
Mr.. Miller, that sustained and led on the immortal
Washington and his compatrots through privation,
through suffering through disaster. through dangers
the most appalling. It is this spirit, and this only
can save our Constitution and Union from the fate
with which they are threatened by the blind and
reckless fury of sectional fanatcisn, and preserve