Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-01-28

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system of society shall be destroyed peaceably or b
"Ciolence" He is benevolent enough to say, thai
if we will submit, the work shall be done for nc
quietly and peaceaby. By his efforts and those of
Others the bulk of the old Wing party was abolition.
| lied, and its members with the aid of accessiono
from the Democratic ranks and Abolition societies
have constituted that political organization which
to-day threatens the existence of the Republic. #
claims for itself the name of Republican party and
by its opponents is designated as the Black Rennb
can party The latter designation is proper to dis.
tinguiSh it from the old Republican party, whose
Image and superscripton" it seeks to counterfeit:
and also because its efforts entirely directed to
advance the black or negro race.
What are the principles of this party as indicated
by its declations and its acts? 1t has but sin.
gle principle and that is hostility to negro slavery
in the United States Some of its members have
called it party for human freedom; but this is
mistake for though these are in state of slavery in
different parts of the world of all races vet It
has manifested no sympathy for any but the negro.
and even to negro slavery it seems Indifferent out
side of the United States. maintain it has no prin
cple whatever but hostility to negro slavery in the
United States \ man might be for or against the
tariff the bank the land distribution or internal
improvements; he might be a Protestant, Cath
olic Christian, infidel; but if he was only &C
tuated by an intense feeling of hostility to negro
slavery, or, that is interviewer with the social
system of the South, if it were only known that he
was anxious that the Federal Government should
exercise all its powers for the destruction of the
southern States, that man would have been accept
| ed as good member of the Black Republican party
But while all the members of the party are actua-
ted by this principle feeling, they differ as to the
particular steps or measures to be taken. The most
moderate Of them say they are merely opposed to
the extension of slavery and therefore they are for
prohibiting it in the Territories, and opposed to the
admission of any other slaveholding States. The
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since that this was his position, that he was for
combining slavery to its present limits, that in
time it mil ht to be profitable and in that way
| be extingushed As this position is taken by many
men who claim to be moderate and conservative in
! their veiws, let examine it for few moments
They say that if slavery be confined to its present
limits, the slaves will increase in numbers to that
| extent that slave labor will in time be abundant
| that the supply will exceed the demand; and that
the owners will, from choice set them free rather
than be at the expense of maintaining them for their
labor. Let it be assumed for illustration that it
costs ten cents to feed and clothe slave: then if
owing to the great number of slaves who carried
into the Territory their labor would be worth less
than ten cents per day, undoubtedly it would be
advantage for the owners to liberate them. But
remember that when the labor of negro should be
worth only ten cents, that Of the white would
likewise come down TO this price The result there
fore, is that population is to be crowded in the South
to that extent that every labOrer is to be reduced
to the starving point, it in Ireland during
the times of the famine. Now, would ask the Sen
ator from Vermont this question in all candor: if
system was proposed to be instituted by which his
constituents were to be reduced to the starving
point, and thus crushed, would he counsel them to
await such result: would he not advise them to
STAND FROM UNDER before they were destroyed? As
there already four million slaves in the South;
when their numbers are increased many times no one
will pretend that they ever would be removed The
plaE is to keep the negroes and such whites as
compelled to stay among them down az the starving
point for all time. And this is the policy of the
most moderate and conservative of the Black Re-
publican party.
There are others of them who say, that in addi-
ton to this the fugitive slave law must be repealed
slavery abolished in the District of Columbia the
forts and arsenas, and wherever the United States
has exclusive Jurisdiction. Others of them contend
! likewise that the slave trade between the States
must be abolished and also the cOastwse trade be-
tween the States. Other classes insist too that
slavery should be attacked in the States themselves.
The largest number of the party however stand on
the same ground of the Senator from New York,
Mr.. Seward. He says that slavery has no "con-
stitutional guarantee" which may not be released
and ought not to be relinquished; that "circum-
stances determine possibilities" that they must
stand ready "to do everything when and on every
occasion that :" and that whenever the pub
lie mind shall will the abolition of slavery the way
will be open for it, that at can be and must be
abolished, and you and can and must do it." More
recently he said:
1.-The interest of the white race demands the ul-
innate emancipation Of all men. Whether that con-
summation shall be allowed to take effect, with
needfu and wise precautions against sudden change
and disaster Or be hurried by violence is all that
remains for you to decide"
lie also declares that he will 90 with them who
can show him the fastest road to effect the Object
Such is the governing principle and spirit of the
party to use all the power they have or by any
possibility acquire, for the abolition of slavery.
When We look to the acts of this party, in what
attitude is it presented? 1t has made the whole
newspaper press subject to its control intensely hos
tic to the Southern section of the Union. Such is
the power of the public press that it was able to
keep England and France for centuries in state of
hatred and war with each other. Only few weeks
since, to prevent collision between the two coun-
tries, the Emperor of France publicly checked the
press of his own country and yet the fiercest ar
tices in the French journals were moderate in COM
parison with the general tone of the antislavery
press towards the South
This party, too, sends up representatives to the
two Houses of Congress from time to time who
neglectlng all the public business of the country
devote themselves to preparing and reciting denun-
ciatory harrangues against the Southern States
Some years ago, an intelligent foreigner, who hap
pened to hear Of these TRADES in this body ex-
pressed his establishment at the quiet manner in
which it was listened to by Southern Senator'S He
declared that if when European Congress had met
for business purposes, similar course had been
TAKEN the Congress would at once have been broken
up. In our State Legislatures, such things if they
occur, are soon stopped by personal collisions. In
Congress- out of Difference to sectional feelings there
is no attempt to check such men as choose to en-
bark in the trade of heaping all manner of obloquy
on our constituents
This anti-savery party has torn to pieces most of
the great Christian associations of the country; in
spite OF all the resistance which the esprit du corps
and Christian charity prevailing among them could
present. 1t has stricken down every public man in
the North within its reach, who has shown viii
lngness to administer the Constitution fairly in re-
lation to slavery.
Whenever 1t has obtained the control of the Leg