Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-03-28
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Ia, lie Editor az the STANDARD: s,ei
] Sin: In oncsof your recent issues you call upon
the citizens ofour State to give you their views on
the present aspect ofaars in the nation, and Of the
course for the South to pursue that you may be sup
ported in case Of approval in laying before your
readers the sentiments you have heretofore express
cd This call / deem it highly proper to be made,
not only by yourself (your very responsible situa,
tim as Editor of a paper, which is the principal
source Of information on public matters to SO large
portion Of our people, makes II important yoai
should be we'll informed but also the Executive and
other officers should in SO momentous time as the
present, when complete change in the relations OF
ou, country is imminent know well what support
they can rely on in case urgent necessity demands
unusual and decided action by our State. as.
He who now denies that there is danger to the
State'-that dissolution Of the Confedciacy cstab-
lished bv our fathers is threatening and mminently
So Is blind towhat is passing around him, is regard
less of the continuous progress and increasing az
gressons ofthe abotionsts and their atllators the
black Republicans, and closes his reason to the
teaching Of hisorythat of the Puritans in partic-
ular-who have always been exhibited as fanatics
and despotically aggressive from the times of John
Knox and Oliver Cromwell to those Of Gerritt Smith
and Wendall Phillips 100
In this state oftroubc and danger, it is eminently
proper for us to consider what we, the citizens OF
the State shall do, first for our self preservation,
next, Cor the preservation of law and good order
among ourselves, and f consistent with these) our
present Union
to the true situation of the South and of the negro
character will deny, that to preserve our property,
even more our very lives and the lives ana honor OF
our wives and families, the four millions OF negroes
among u.s. must be kept in their present state OF SUBJ
lection. That this will soon become Impossible, I'M
der the continuous, perseverlng and energetic az
gressions of the North, is obvious to ALL who have
like myself have watched the progress Of events for
the last twenty-five years.
What in 1880 and '35 was the Remuneration of
Arthur Tappan and his satellites in 1859 becomes
the raid of John Brown, encouraged and supported
by thousands of men, public and private, and aided
By money enough to arm and equip thousands of
insurrectionary negroes! What, at the former PC
Rod were the muttered vaporings of few fanatics
and the revngs of few obscure prints, is now dis
seminatcd broadcast through the land by the press,
by the pulpit-pro pudor and by orators and lee
turers and is forced upon as, BY vile, false and
ncentiary documents. IAN irrepressible conflict" is
loudly proclaimed by the great leader of the North,
who declares that "thcy can and will !" extcrminae
slavery from the land they Twill follow it in Eir
ginia. in the Carolinas, aye even into Texas" And
to effect this, calls to his aid "hisher Law" than
the Constitution he has solemnly snorn to support
land this IS the man that the North expects quietly
and submissively to be installed in authority
us, and in whose hands the whole power of the FIX
ecutve, the army, navy and treasury, is to be pac
cd Verify, we shall deserve all that has been
threatened against us, if We do.)
Again: what but q few years back was an at
tempt at various conciliations is at this moment
attempt at of the grosscst and most gratuitous
insults ever put by one nation upon another! The
John Brown raid was BAD enough, but the encour-
agemcnt of efforts to produce instruction and trea-
son among us, ten times more numerous and hum
drcd times more horrible, is far beyond the John
Brown raid in atrocity; what then can we think of
those who have been banded together for months
with unanimity unparalleled in our political history
for the purpose Of electing the governing officer
over Southern men that man whose homes and
households and whose property he had been en-
couraging others to destroy! The animus which
governed sixty-eight Representatives of the North
to encourage the attempts recommended in Helpers
book to create insurrcction and treason among us,
and the unanimous support of these men by the
black Republican party must be looked on by cam
did minds out-weighing far all the good effect of
all the Union meetings a. the North, unaccOmpaniei
as they have been by any rebukc to these men, New
Jersey alone standing out in view as having done
Such being the state Of things in our country, it
is time to ponder them well; it is time to look out
for our sclfpreservation. Now the question comes
up, shall we be any better off in a Southern Con-
federacy than in one with such discordan elements
in it as the present one with the North. and espc-
cally with that puritan people of New England?
am not so presumptuous, Mr.. Editor, as to sup
pose that lift the veil of the future, and dis
close what will and what will not DC the state of
things in so deplorablc event as the breaking up
of this great confcderacy. | content myself with
laying before my fellow-citizens of thc State the
selves to my mind, in a long and anxious examina-
ton of the subject propose to offer these consd-
erations very conciscy in the following order: 1st,
the relations that would exist to the civilized world
in case Of the formation of Southern Confederacy
by the fifteen slave States; next to the North, OF
to Northern Confederacy and. lastly, those that
wonld exist among the States and people Of the
Southern Confederacy themselves.
Promising that no statesman, or even reader o.
modern History, will deny that the material inter
exits of nations is the guide of their policy in this
the 10Th century. that Cabinets are governed ir
treaties, alliances reciprocities &C., by the expected
advantages 10 their nations let note how ace shall
stand towards the rest of the world in this regard
A Southern Confedcracy would present to Europe
nation that produces all those great staples, Cot
ton, Sugar, Tobacco. Naval Stores &c, &C., which
are not only in great demand, but Of absolute nc
cessty to the maintenance Of millions of her inhab
lCaHtS cltIcr IF COnSu!iipIlOn UanuaCtTc, OF TcEe
nue. The destruction or even the material dimnu0t
of these products of the South would be attended b.
total change in the Of trade, manufacture ant
commerce Of the civilized world. Its destruction
would be followed Immediately by bankruptcies an
ruin of thousands in England, Franco and Gcrma
ny, such as were not witnessed oven during tn
/ wars of Napoleon. 1t would throw out Of employ
ment and upon the public for support, the NIL
! ions-fve in Great Britain alone who now sur
port themselves by the manufacture, &C., Of our prn
ducts alone. This is no exaggcration. Lord Stanly
the son of the present Premier Of England, an
himself one of the first statesmen Of his country
declared in speech to his constituents, only 70,
years since on occasion Of the difficulties betwee
the United States and Great Britain, that "a wa
with the United States was next to an impossible
ty;" that the mutual interest Of the two couptrie
were too closely connected that the deprivation
the supplies Of Cotton, would, in six months, prt
duce almost universal bankruptcy, and In twelv
months an instruction. Of the working classes
Nnw i,,rf ono rnHacfion haro Ia n III olv that Ia,