Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-21

Threats of our aoires and children to the knife Of the
assassin. In plain language, / mettn that, II any
party at any time, in a slareh0lding State nttses
ITSELF either directly or remotely either temporary
lv or torerer aoith the abolition party-trom that
moment its principles aoiU be excused justified.
and at lust openly defended This is inevitable, and
any man of common sense can see it at glance
It would be needless for me to speak of what
would be the consequences Of an open advocacy oil
abolition in this State. There are many who be-
leve that portion of State is already not en-
tirey free from its influence, and that if the black
banner was at this moment unfurled hundreds would
enlist themselves under it. l confess am not one
of those who believe this; but this I know-that
no State in this Union stands in critical and dam
gerous position as the State of Maryland does in
reference to this question; has any State in the
Union suffered as much as Maryland from its agi-
tation. And when l can forget or forgive, much
less excuse and defend by alliance with aboiltonist
all the wrongs and injuries they have done u.s. and
the vile abuse and SANDER they have heaped upon
us, must forget the robbery of our property they
have committed, and erase from my memory the
sad dramas in which the blood of Maryanders has
been ruthlessly she'd and in which the murdered
Kennedy and Gorsuch arise like Banquo's ghost,
not indeed to terrfy but to steel my heart in indy
ing cnterna hostility.
And this is the party, it is now seriously propos-
ed that the American shall ally itself with Heaven
forbil it! If twenty years ago any man in this
State had mad such proposition would not have
answered for his personal safety. Nor do believe
now that proposition will be responded to by the
people of Maryland cannot. will not, believe
that faithless to the traditions of their fathers for
getul of the wrongs they have suffered, regardless
of the awful consequences Of toleratmg anything
like abolition sentiments among us, they will enter
into this unnatural and unhoy alliance.
Let others do they will-for myself wash
Il, &c Ill nf nlo
ments." reject Ispurn, the odious and disgrace
full b,rgain. support party that does not stand
by the equal rights of all the States guaranteed
by the constitution, recognizing the Supreme Court
Of the United States the eXpounder of the con-
sitution and its decisions upon all questions sub
mittcd to them, as final and conclusive will sup
port no party that does no: stand by the "Dred
Scott" decision nor will support any party that
allies itself aoith another party uhich repudiates
that decision.
Equally unwilling am l to yield to the sugges
tons of those who in favor Of custing the cote
Of Maryland for a third candidate for the Presi-
dency-for it is by no means improbable that upon
the vote of Maryland may depend whether the cleo
ton shall 90 to the House of Representatives, and
it is equally probable that the republican party may
have a majority in that House. What fearful re-
sponsibity would rest upon the people of this State
if by their action Abolitonist should be chosen
President of the United Statcs For myself will
do nothing that is calculated in the reotcst degree
to bring about such resultant when reflect upon
the consequences of such choice. tremble for the
fate of the politician who deliberately lends his aid to
. its accomplishment He will have committed a sin
scarcely less in enormty than that which brought
upon its perperator the quick destructive vengeance
of Iieaven-the touching with unholy hands, the
Ark of God. For no man in his senses can believe
that this Union would survive such shock. 1t
would be at once signal for its dissolution.
Entertaining these opinions, I am forced into the
ranks Of the Democratic party, in spite of the pre-
JUDGES engendcred by twenty years of active oppo
stion, because behold in that party the only bull
wark of Southern rights the only political organza-
ton capable of stemmins the tide of Northern "a
nat;cism. and Of supporting, in their integrity the
Constitution and the Union
Very truly,
Your friend
A. r. SELLERS.
To GEN. Thomas F. BOWIE,
Upper Marlborough,
Maryland.