Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-14

with the expression used by Mr.. Clay: eve pre-
fer the liberty of own country to that of every
other country, and the happiness of our own race
to that of every other race"
COL James Page, who was received with three
cheers and tiger" said
"His object in coming was to identify himself
with those opposed to the black flag Of abotonism.
(Cheers) He was prepared to do everything to |
sustain the stars and stripes and to oppose all who
would dare to oppose it. (Cheers) The enemy of
civil and religious liberty in the guse of abolition
ism has been talking abroad in the country. He
and they were there to express their opposition to
any such sedtion, let it from the platform, the
pulpit or the legislative halls. (Cheers.) He had
no sympathy for John Brown or his traitors
(Cheers.) He would hang them as high as Haman
(Cheers.) The only mistake Virginia had made was
in not shooting the traitors the spot. Long and
loud cheering :ntermingled with cries of That's
SOY They held meetings, delivered speeches, made
prayers, and passed around around the plate. The
plate did not get as much their protested phian-
thropy would lead us to think. In one meeting of
1000 persons, forty dollars had been raised in an
other the sum of four dollars was raised. laugh
ter groans, and cheering) Col. Page said that,
military man as he was, he was ready at any time
to give his life to his country in any civil strife with
| abotionism. (Cheers) In any such contest it
Wouiu ue lie lOT lie (CHeeIS
We are not sanguine we once were as to the
| perpetuaton of the Union but confess tina:
| such sentiments these, coming as they do from
such quarter, calculated to inspire us with re-
| newed hope. They sound like the voice of friend
| from strange land. Is Pennsylvania true? We
know Philadelphia is, for she has just told us so in
the strongest and warmest terms but will the State
ratify the action of the City? Will the resolve 60
out from Pennsylvania, "we will fight the battles
of the Sonth here at home front to front with the
black Republicans and abolitionists? Depend upon
it. the battle is to be fought in the non-slavehodng
States fought not only in 1860, but in 1864 and in
1S6S-fought until that sectional party called black
Republican is defeated, humbled, exterminated-
We of the South, like the Apostles of old, I" are all
of one accord, in one place" We cannot, with all
our Electoral votes, prevent this sectional party
from grasping the Presidency; and the moment the
grasp of that party is the seat which Washing
ton and jackson once filled, that moment the Re-
public perishes! We are powerless to avert the
evil. The true men North must do it. They have
the power; let them exert it. Let them exert it.
not only next year, but year after year, until the
danger is over Let New York, and Boston, and
Cincinnati, and Detroit and Albany, and Hartford
and Columbus-let the Cities the towns, and the
rural districts of the nonslaveholding States follow
the example nobly set them by Philadelphia
Nou is the tinae!-three months hence may be too
late! The Southern masses-we speak what we
know-are gravely thinking of and preparing for
disnnion. North Carolina one of the most moder-
ate of the Southern States has made common cause,
RI bnr St.tn with Thn
of her Council, whose resolves we published in our
last is the voice Of the State. When North Caro-
lima mores she aeW more .fnnliy In the language
of her State Council, 1--WE are still devoted to the
Union, and would behold Its dissolution with pro-
found regret; yet if cannot hold our slave prop
erty, and at the same time enjoy repose and tran
guilty in the Union, We will be constrained, in JUS
tce to ourselves and to our posterty to establish
now forms and provide guards for our security
and well being; relying for success in so doing on
the righteousness of our cause, and on the support
of that Providence who sgnally guided and sue
cored our ancestors in times of danger" We repeat
it the Northern people must act Indifference and
lehargy must give place to anxious concern, and
tostrenuousand long continued efforts to destroy, and
utterly destroy the tell spirit of abolitionsm If the
Northern people would save the Union, they must
wrestle with its enemies in their midst and prevail
over them. Will they do it? If they will do as
Philadelphia has done, and then vote as they talk
they will-but not otherwise. For veal or for woe
j the result is with them. Twenty years ago We
should have had no fears for the result; but alas
the new generations have departed from the faith
their fathers and because of this look to the flu
ture with an unsteady hope. "Let the South bt
quiet; see Of the North wiH fight her 6attes' W.
are quiet We are very quiet. We are quiet be
f cause our minds made up Fight on, friends
and may victory for the Constitution and the Unior
crown your efforts. We are with you in heart ant
we thank you for your generous sympathy. If thu
Union perish in the conflict you will at least hav'
done your duty but if it shall live on, the glory
having infused new life into it will be yours
Yours will be the glory, and ours the reoicngs will
YOU and with others, that the noblest vessel tina
f ever f1Oated on the Historic of the world
: is still out upon her path, saunch and sound bear
ing her precious freight clear of the breakers which
!, y now threaten her with ruin.