Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-21
Vol. XIV. No. 81.
Union Meetings at the North.

"Felow-citizens trust | need not say in this
presence that am no advocate for oppression in any
of its forms. am friend to freedom. as are you
ALL would restrict slavery to its narrowest legal
lied limits, cheers and applause, and do whatever
was in my power to remove it from the whole land,
whenever and as soon as in the goodness and mercy
Of God it could be done with wisdom and safety.
Loud and continued cheering and applause We
all lovers of liberty. There is not single pro-
slavery man, in the opprobous sense Of that term,
in all this vast assembly; no, not one" Applause
The resolutions adopted by this meeting, the
speeches of Messrs. Everett and Gushing, and the
letter which read from Ex- President Pierce,
all that could have been expected, under the Cir
| cumstances, by any Southern man; and we dc not
allude to the sentiments with which Gov. Lincoln
closed his address, for the purpose of censurng that
venerable patriot. We allude to them to show the
feelings of even that Union meeting over which he
presided, and whose sentiments he no doubt uttered
in the above extract. To restrict slavery to its
narrowest legalzed limits is, in the end to destroy
both master and slave. The people of the South
will never submit to such policy.
1t is true We have no right to expect, and we do
not expect Northern men to be pro-slavery men,
But we do not understand liberty" as Gov. Lin
| u.
the principles of liberty" for the white race, and
in those of servtude for the black. 1t is not enough
merely to let us alone in the States. We thank no
Northern man for keeping his hands off our proper
ty, or his knife from throats We claim that
we have right to extend slavery as climate and
| soil may suit it, and as Our condition and wants
may call for its extension. Even the moderate,
conservative people of Massachusetts would deny
us this right Gov. Lincoln says "we are all lovers
of liberty" and we would "rcstrict slavery to its
narrowest legalzel limits" This is the feeling of
the minority, while the majority would agitate for
the extinction of the institution in the States them
selves.
The Union is not saved yet!
We cannot better conclude this article than by
the following extract from some remarks delivered
in the House of Representatives on Saturday last by
Mr.. Curry, of Alabama, who, Judging him by his
speech ON the OCCASION is one Of the first men in
House. Speaking of the Union meetings in the
North, Mr.. Curry said:
81 had sir referred to these Union meetings that
have been held in the North as evidence of re-
turning sense of public justice in the North. Now,
Mr. Clerk, while these may be demonstrations Of a
more or less gratifying character, yet these public
declarations commit to nothing They are not the
true index of public opinion. The test of public
opinion is through the ballot.box. There is where
| look to ascert lin the political sentiment of the
North, and find, deciding by that test that New
England stands here to-day in one solid phalanx ar
raved against what | conceive to he the conStitu-
tional rights of the South-that New York stands
here with but five of six representatives who are
disposed to befriend us and rights. The same
is true, to greater less extent, in regard to
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and other States of the
Cnion The same is true in regard to their State
organizations. The elections are the evidence O
popular hostility. and choose to lo"k to them
ther than to exceptional results and individual eX
prcssions. We also hear patriotic defamation and
eloquent vindcaton of the Union on this floor
, Sir, they the singing of Circe 1.-The voice o.
the charmer charming never wisely" lulling the
Souths suspicion asleep. and deceiving the NORTH
in regard to the supendousness of the crisis that is
ON us.
If you are in earnest in these declarations. i
,, these public meetings anything. show us thu
fruit of your work give something practical
,, substantial, and tangible. Will you 20 home ane
repeal your personal liberty bills, your habeas
pus acts, your mahdamus acts? VIII you execute
: the fugitive slave law? Will you open your Stat
prisons for the sae-keepng of those who arrest
o el in compliance with the constitution? viii yo,
refuse contributions of money to circulate incendia
Z, ry pamphlets at the South? Will You turn out o
this Hall and the other end of the Capitol the mel
e who come here to insult and stgmatlze us, and VIII
o omit no possible occasion Of keeping up sectiona
= hostility and infringing on our rights and on tn
, the guarantees of the constitution? Will you g
a home and say as Charles James Fox, on memora
: hle occasion, Il stand up for the constitution no
for the people; if the people attempt to invade tn
!, constitution, they are enemies to the natIon?'-
y These will be some indications of public opinion
d and some test of returning of public justice
- "REvEREND" DANIEL WoRTn-Our correspond
9 cnt, Mr. Ingold, writing his own proper name
has given full account in today's Standard of thi
o Reverend" gentleman and his operations. Helpe
in his book, page l37 thus refers to the Reverend
i Daniel Worth:
"If however, the reader would be pleased to hea
from the churches to which we chiefly alude-and
by the by, he might hear from them with muc
profit to himsef-we respectfully refer him to Henr
q Ward Beecher George B. Cheever, Jos. P. ThomF
J. son, Theodore Parker, f. II. Chaplin. and H. W
v Bellows, of the North. and to M. D. Conway, Joh
!. G. Fec, James S. Davis, DANIEL WORTH, an
. W. f. Lincoln. of the South. All these reveren
gentlemen, ministers of different denominations
feel it their duty to preach against slavery, and
their honor be 1t said they do preach against it wit
;, undated zeal and success"
We learn from friend that Worth is disposng
y copies of Helpers work. A young man who wa
found in possession of copy, stated that he bough
> it from Rev. Daniel Worth, at preaching, on Tues
4 day night the 9Th Worth has been holding fort
4 within few days past in Chatham. He symps
s thizes with and eulogzes John Brown.
y, Why is not this man arrested? If the law wi
not take hold of him, let the strong arm of an ou
= ragged people be stretched forth to arrest him in hi
4 incendiary work.
f. OAK CRY SAvING's BANK.-The corporators {
l. this proposed institution will hold meeting at Nj
n Busbees Office, the oath, to organize. We trus
!, this institution will be put in operation as soon
e practicable 1t cannot fail to be highly benefici'