Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-18
Extracts from MIR. Flora,s Letter.

mona enquirer on the state of the country, from
which we make the following extracts. These ex-
tracts contain views we'll worthy the consideration
Of the people Of this State as well as of Virginia:
1.-The South should remember that in dissolving
the Union she annihilates mighty army of true,
unselish and devoted friends at the North, who
battle forever for the constitutional rights of the
slave States Without this great and efficient aid,
the power of abolition fanaticism would be I'M
broken and ENTHUSIASTICALLY indeed "surround
the South with a wall of fire." 1t would do more
New England would consort with Old England in
devIsing means BY which the cruel and inhuman
philanthropy practised in the West India Islands
should be repeated here. That religious zeal which
turned away from all rational hope of progress in
Christian faith half million of Africans to the saw
agesm OF fetish worship, and converted the fairest
islands OF the sea into a desert and waste that
English justice which Sc zed upon thousand mil
lions OF her subjects property, and Wanted herself
before the world for having paid one-tenth of its
value-would find surely and speedily ample room,
in conjunction with New England abolitionsm for
the practice of her pharisaical virtues amidst the
fields OF Virginia and Louisiana If the hate of
New England abOlitionsts to the South is sleepless
and magnant-if they hope by fraud and indirec-
ton by agitation and theft to harass the South and
10 impair the security and value Of her slave pro-
perty-all combined would in my belief, he justice,
honesty and fair dealing compared with the mex
ora6le hate and majestic fanaticiSm of England d.
rected against the slavery of dismembered Union
and feared and hated-commercial rival.
Twenty five years more Of union and harmony
will concentrate the controlling commercial power
Of the world in the waters of New York. Then the
decline of England becomes as certain as was that
OF Alexandria and Venice, and for the same cause.
Instead of the first she becomes third rate Euro
pean power. But let disunion take pace-let civil
war and dlscord distract this country and England
well knows that the ships of the North must rot at
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tories must cease forever. Then, indeed, would
England feel again that she mistress of the
without a rival, secure in commerce that power
could ever shake
II is a fatal error to suppose that the interest of
England could prompt her to foster the planting
interests Of the SOuth-From the Prince consort
who sat silently by and witnessed the deliberate
insult of an American Minister by British peer
before the congregated intelligence of all Chrsten
dom, simply because slavery existed in the United
States, down to the wreched cockney himself forty
times the slave to suffering and circumstances beyond
what any negro is to aw-there is not an English
who does not in his heart abhor slavery, if be
does not also abhor the country where it exists
England will have margin enough to supply her
wants for cotton, even with large diminutiOn OF
present production, if the demand Of the North
for it is cut off it would be by disunion and civil
But England, safe in her commercial ascend
ancy, does not always follow that line of policy
WHICH OlHeGS inlSuI conducive 10 neT
She sacrifices much and largely to crafty hatred,
to vindicatc blunder or cater to a sentiment
Without caring much about the opinions of others,
she values very highly her own, and with laudable
desire to appear righteous in her own eyes. perpe
trates any act of cruelty oppression, under the
pious pretence of evangeiizing and civilizing the
heather, reforming the heresies of the Christian
She ravages China because they unwillingly bruta-
lie their nation by eating opium. She desoateS
India because that benighted people are averse to
rendering up their independence and their rupees
exchange for Bibles and crushing military despot-
ISM But it is not the Mongol of Tartar race alone
that experience the tender mercies of England in
enforcing the blessings Of liberty and the saving
grace of the Thirtynne Articles 1t is in vain that
Ireland points to the ustrous pages of history
English hiStory-enacted by her sons 1t is in
vain that the most renowned periods of her Sena-
torial fame have drawn their peculiar lustrc from
the genius of Ireland that the topmoSt rounds of
her military celebrity have been reached under the
leadership of the race; neither Of these con-
sideraonS all combined, have been able to save
that unfortunate nation from perpetual inpale-
ment compared with which the worst forms of
African slavery are mercy and blessing. a few
years ago, only few years ago, England, with her
mighty resources, with that empire upon which the
in his daily course it is boasted, never ceases
to shine, stood calm spectator from her own hap
py shores and looked with Christian complacency
across the Irish Channel at the torture of their
people wrthing in the agony of starvation; mil
lion of whom, it is computed died from famine and
its accompanying diseases During this period,
English philanthropy found emissaries and means
enough to despatch to America for the purpose of
stirring up the spirit of abotionism to overthrow
the Union, and inctc the negro to instruction
The shreks Of furnishing multitudes of her own
subjects have never pierced the heart Of England
like the fancied wrongs Of the African race in the
cotton fields of the South, though it may be truly
that slave has died of starvation
our continent
The South can never count upon the friendship OF
England or upon her liberation of evils not her
own. Once within the reach Of her power she will
fix upon forever the very badge of inferiOrity
which ready to destroy the Union to
escape; and will foster our products so far and so
far only, may be absolutely necessary to supply
her wants. England would insist upon making
good her record upon the slavery question To
sacrifice the interests of class, to starve 20
death few hundred thousand of her subjects IN the
laudable task would constitute very small obstacle
to her policy.
But with all these consequences attending the
measure Of disunion and multitudinous others,
which readily to every mind no option is left
now but either to choose to encounter them or to
secure those guarantees which must stop at once
and forever the aggressons and agitation to which
the North has been so long addicted on the subject
of slavery. With proper guarantees Of this sort,
1ohlch c0utG De queen Oy amendments 10 he c0hStCu-
ton, ace may go in a happy and cordial Union,
made so from a mutually Of pecuniary interests,
and consciousness which union will give US of pow
er to maintain all our rights and command the res
pect of the world.
am of opinion that the Legislature of Virginia
should Immediately call convention of the people
of the State, with view of referring all these mo-
mentous questions to the abtrament of a convention
of all the States such is provided for in the fed
| eral and that the meantime Nlr-
ginia should use all her influence to calm the
perated feelings of the country, and to prevent, il
possible, hostile collision in any quarter, or from
any cause"
~ We are not disposed to engage in a contro-