Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-10-05
SOUTHERN TERRITORIAL SUCCESS ITS R-
" REPRESSIBLE POWER

REPRESSIBLE POWER. s H.. Il
The Edgefeld Aduertiser, in an admirable article,
thus touches the success of the South in terri
torial acquisition and its power for expansion against
all efforts to "girdle it The Guardian, in reply
to the Aduertiser had used the following language
"Many and many an act Of this kind has been
overlooked, borne with aud submitted to, yet now,
when the Gordon of free-soilism and abolition is
threatened to be firmly and finally drawn around
the institution, are to wait for the consummaton
Of the act! What future act Of oppression would
the Adueriser counsel to wait for if not for this
1t is all the bitterest enemies of the institution can
do short of the abolition of slavery in the States.
1t is all the darkest shade of Black Repub!icanism
demands at this time, as they well know it would
be the sure precursor OF the complete accomplish
ment of their nefarious purpose"
To which the Adrertiser thus replies:
"Truly, gloomy picture! Our contemporary
states the case though he saw it through smoked
glass; There, too is that old scarecrow, "a Gordon
of free-soilism all ending, usual in the com
plete accomplishment of their nefrious purposes
The sum total of the Guardian's meaning seems to
be this: That is the Democratic party shall think
it best at Charleston not to interfere with the ad
mirable platform established at Cincinnati, then
cometh the beginning of the end; that soon there
after will be accomplished that celebrated Gordon al
ready mentioned; and that the result must inevia-
bly, be the total subverson of our institutions and
the destruction of the South We prefer to answer
all this by requesting every reader (who is at all Gu
rious about the matte to take his map Of the Unit
ed States and Territories and follow our finger for
a moment. You begin up there about the parallel
| of 80 deg on the Atlantic coast follow now the
northern boundary of Maryland and Virginia to the
Ohio river; then take the river down to the Ken
lucky line; keep on down the Ohio until you reach
| the Mississippi; run up the Mississippi; 60 all
around the big State of Missouri until you come to
the big State of Arkansas; follow down the Arkan-
sas boundary until you reach the mammoth State
| of Texas; mark its extent as you run around its
heightened lines; 60 on till you reach the great Gulf
of Mexico keep along the coast of that gulf; pass
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia
at last come to little South Carolina-littc but
| big hearted the boldest of them; continue up
the coast, pass North Carolina, and come again to
the Old Dominion. There you have it all-the
slaveholding portion of the American Confedera-
cy-a larger scope of territory this day than that
embraced by the free States after all the noise and
trouble about the matter; and not only larger
but by great odds more fertile. Now as to the
| Territories lately received and yet to be received
into the family of States. There are none Of then
adapted to slave labor unless it be the Indian Terri
tory and New Mexico. These will become slav,
States if they are suited to the institution, and
the South will occupy them. If not they will b.
free States.
occupies an immense and fertile area. 1t has, il
point of fact occupied thus far all country tina
is adapted by climate and soil to its peculiarities
except, perhaps, California It is likely to do SC
too, hereafter. Where then, is the sense or wis
dom of proclaiming that we are doomed to die GU
for want Of room? In the name of all the gods a
once, do We want more room than we now have
Look at it. See those fifteen magnificent States
Consider separately their wealth and resources
| p,t oil fharo hot so
Talk of your c6r,lon to bind such country an
such people! 1t is absolute folly Tell us ths
we to be crushed off of the map and extingusf
cd among the nations by people from the land
wooden nutmegs Repeat not the absurdty W
are invincbe in position, in institutions in terrt
ry, and in the powerful tie of united interes
; Our people know it and feel it. Draw your corlo
line ever so continuously, and what does it amour
to? No more than if you would shut out the bu
falo and the elk from the craggy and inhospitab
wilds of the Rocky Mountains, and still leave the
their expanse of prairie and plain through which
roam and feast in freedom. But suppose, in cours
of time, we should chance to want more territor
are we to look for it in the present limits of ii
Union? If the North should become generous ar
invite us to go in and occupy Nebraska, Orego
Utah, Washington and Dakotah, who supposes tn
we would do it? No, if slave labor shall ever wal
more territory, it lies to the Southwest of u.s. ar
perhaps another very inviting strip just below tt
cape of Florida. When this necessity shall arts
it will be time enough to talk about these. "
need them not now, and may never need them.
the meantime, let nervous fellow citizens wi
, think the South is done for and must soon begin
e expire, look again. and look cxulting.' Let the
get down. from their high horse of sentiment al
! take plain common sense view of the whole fiel
4 We think they would thus discover that their fea
are groundless, and that their arguments for dis
v Mon proceed upon premises which exist for Il
most part in the imagination only.
4 with our individual patriotism, which t
\ Guardian seeks to mpugn, this discussion h
nothing to dc. That virtue, if we possess it, is n
y to be taken from us by any mans ipse DIRT Al
so long as conscious of this truth, the Qua
n dian ruf1es not our feelings for moment by
n insnuations"
It MARRIED.,