Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-01-11

litical creed, and say what in this new exigency'
they do believe?
He is at the time member of the Senate Of the
United States He is member of the government
of the United States. lie has sworn 10 support Tue
Constitution of the United States. lie knows OF a
conspiracv headed and inspired by men as bad as
they are bold to overthrow that Constitution. lie
gives information of the conspiracy to no one. lie
does not breathe intimation of 1t to senator Ma
son, or Senator Hunter, his fellow senators from
Virginia with whom he was III daily, hourly inter-
course He does not take any steps by which the
insane men--if insane they were-could be placed
beyond danger to others He did. however, in the
Autumn of the same year, foreshadow the thought
which was then lmpelling and did im2el, John
Brown to his acts of INVASION treason md MURDER
and when those crimes were committed the Senator
was in Egypt
Now, Southern people have critically observed all
these facts, and carefully pOndered them. Their
Representatives i'll Congress have seen how that the
Anti-Savery party has crept up from small begin
nings to dictate the policy of the North. And when
they review these things; when they see Republi-
cans applauding Stewards speech; when they re-
fleet, more than ALL that he is their foremost man.
their first candidate for the Presidency, is it TO be
wondered at that they begin to utter words of warn
ing to the North to pause in its mad career unless
given over to settled purpose to disObcy the plain
requirements of the Constitution. General Davis
in his Mississippi speech, struck key note which
it, the publication and circulation of Helpers book
and the great fact that no leading Republican dares
to rebuke the ideas of Seward an their application
have nude to echo from plantation to plantation
throughout the entire Southern country. 1t is idle
TO utter words in condemnation of Southern men,
berS of Congress- in entire fOrgetfuncsS of the fact
that it may be they do but represent their cOnstu
entS. If any body is to be arraigned for cOndcmna
tiOn let il be the principal and not the agent, who
does the masters will! The danger, the peril of
this crisis is that thu pepte of the South are now
aroused, and in earnest Politicians cannot con-
troll the surging waves They are impotcnt like the
bubbles which rise and disappear on the Atlantic.
We do not approve every thing which every Dem
ocrat in the South may say, any more than we sane
ton every political act of every individual Demo-
crat in the North. We deplorc violent harangueS
at any time. We do not admit, not by any means,
the truth of what Mr.. McRar, of Mississippi, is
quoted to have said in the House in relation to the
Union meeting at Fanueil Hall. We cannot but re-
buke that gentleman for what he spoke of our great
statesman, General Gushing. We protest against
what he said of Mr.. Everett who presented with
such unequalled force the magnitude of the crime
John Brown committed and who treated with great
manlinesS and courage, many critical poin'S in the
present aspect OF the slavery question. We are
sure that upon reflection, Mr.. McRae will Withdraw
these offensive remarks, well those in relation
to Ex-Governor Lincoln.
If they do not HAZE TIE SOUTH then let them say
so.
To sum up all, we say that the Republican party
of the North is in the wrong and being thus wrong,
its members where dominant have put Northern
States in an attitude of menace to the Constitution
ant hostility to the South, which cannot bc defend
cd. Thus it happens that Massachusetts stands to-
day, i'll relation 10 the great issue which fixes the
thoughts of patriotic men, conspicuous wrong
docr. The fact is undeniablc, and we cannot avoid
it by dcnunciation of the cXtravagant speech of
Southern men. We neither can temporizc with the
cXigrncy now upon us. Like the parliament of
George the Third in respect To treatment of the col
onieS, New England is the aggrcS$Or and not the
aggrieved Our Statutc-booi is lamning proofaganst
Massachusetts. WHAT shall be done: Can any
thing be done? Either Massachusetts, intends to
keep the bond or she does not intend to keep it. II
the latter, is it not manly to say So and tell the
South 1t is not worth while longer to bear with us?
If the former, then let us cease looking for faults in
or neighbOrS, but turn our eyes inward. Instead
of criticiSing Mr.. McRae or Mr.. Singleton, Mr..
lvcrSOn, let characterize they deserve, men in
own Legislature. Let to-day set OIL foot
movement, care not under what name under
what auspices which shall cXpcl from power the
gang of vena and ianatiCa politicians who now sit
upon the fair bosom of Massachusetts,. Let us elect
a Legislature which will purge the Satuc-book of
treason to the spirit of the Constitution which Re-
publicaniSm has put there. Repeal the statute
which provides that no person holding office under
the laws of this State, shall, under penalty of
fine or Imprisonment, issue any warrant, or take
conizance of any under the Fugitive Slave
Act which provides that State jaS shall not be
used for detention of persons claimed fugItvcS;
which imposes penalty Sheriff for arrcSting or
aiding to arrest fugitiveS from labor: which pro
vidcS that the militia shall not aid in the rendition
of such fugitive; which provides that no Commits
siOner Of the Circuit Court SHALL if he be Justice
Of the Peace, issue any process, civil or criminal,
under the laws of Massachusetts! When we have
done that, then can we begin to comment upon the
acts of other men in other States -BDytoH Pest