Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-01
Paying the Way for Disuniop.


ing attack on the Union of the States We publish
it not to approve it in any sense, but to show the
nature of the feeling in SouthC against the
Union. We deny that the present Union is not the
Union according to the Constitution. The States
are now absolutely equal, notwithstanding all the
talk we hear of late about the equality of the
States" The Constitution still erists and binds the
Union together. And the Mercury, with those for
whom it speaks will be apt to find in certain con-
| tingency that there is g0Uernment Of the United
| States as there was in Gen. Jackson's day -
| TIE UNIoN-The Union of the Constitution we
| presume nearly all men in the South, desire to be
perpetuated. 1t is the bond of our fathers and as
| their children, will maintain it But do the
dangers and agitations which now shake the United
States, arise from the Union of the Constitution p
If does then the work of fathers is most in.
adequate to our times. We maintain, that these
| dangers and agtatons are the result not of the
Constitution they transmitted us but of its
throw. The Union it established, does not exist
USurpatIon and encrOachment have drawn into the
vortex of Federal power interests which were
never intended, by the Constitution, to be embraced
in its operations. The General Government under
the sectional predominance and policy of the North,
has become omnpotent in the laying and apprOpra-
| ton of the taxes and now stretches its authority
over slavery in the South. The Constitution, under
SIcn uSurpaLlOnS OF power, virtually aOOllSUeu-
and the Union it established, is virtually dissolved
Hence the dissatisfaction in the South and the
! fct between the North and the South which must
end, either in the Union of the Constitution being
restored or in the South being destroyed by the
sectional despotsm of the North under the auspices
of another Union, established by power on the one
side and subsection the other. Nor is the test of
the true condition of the South, very far off: The
| elections next fall, must settle the question of
| Northern predomnance-of complete sectional
despotiSm over The South or of yet another chance
for Southern deliverancc As things now are, the
probability is that the Black Republicans will sweep
| the North, and command the Electoral College in
| the Presidential election. Now in such a condition
of things is it truthfuls it polite in the South TO
| deal in professions of devotion to the Union? Will
they prepare the people of the South to resist the
! sectional despotism of the Black Republican party
| With full knowledge, of the fatal effects to the
South Of the possession and control of the Federal
Government by the Black Republicans and Adolf
tionsts of the North, do not such professions in
evitably tend to a submission to their rule Ought
not the people Of the South, rather to be aroused
! to full sense of the perils which hang them,
and be prepared to meet them and TO control their
own destinies? What is now the Union?
| l. 1t is Union with the Northern States.
2. 1t is a Union with the Northern States, who
have nullifed the Constitution in the Fugitive
| Slave Laws.
3. 1t is Union with the Northern States, who,
for twenty years, have kept up in Congress an agi
| tation against Southern slavery.
4. 1t is a Union with the Northern States, who
have determined to exclude the Southern people
from settling with their slaves any of the Terri
| tory Of the United States.
| 6. 1t is Union with the Northern States, who
have organized their sectional power, to rule and
govern the Southern States, their interest ambi
| ton fanaticism shall require.
Z. 1t is a Union with the Northern States who
| haro the ITnIOn of the and
have substituted in its stead, Union having their
despotic power the sole criterion of It's terms and
| limitations
| s. It is Union with the Northern States in
| which party predominates whose vital principle
! is hostility to African slavery in the South and
whose policy it is to extnguish it
| .. 1t is Union with Tariff plundererS, who, by
the Tariff Laws of the Federal Government, appro-
pirate the property Of the Southern people to their
use, ard make them their tributaries.
| 10. 1t is Union with Treasury plundcrers, who,
by unconstitutional appropriations drain the Treas
ury of the United States for Their sectional enrich
ment and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
H. Briefly, it is Union on the part of the South
with her bitterest revilers, haters, oppressors and
| enemies.
| Now, that any man in the South, who realizes
the truth of the above positions, can lore or rere
renee the Union, as 40 erists-is utter impossible
| ty. Lying lips may utter prase-and cowardly
! heart may refrain its murmurs but the meaneSt
| political slave must hate despotism which scourges
and threatens to destroy him. Love and hate not
! under our control. God has constituted the hu
! nan heart that can love only SchGt is tOrety-
| and we must hate what Is morally irrORg and de-
testd6le. We do not wish to judge others harshly
but it does appear to us, that one in the South
can lore or reference the Union it crisis but
who is at heart Abolitionist. Many may tolerate
| it. under the hope of reforming it Many may
member and love it as it was in past days of useful
ness and glory, when it was the Union of the Con-
! sttution. But HOW-as it is Uith0ut the Con-
sttution-uM its furious sectionalism, and its anti
slavery fanaticism and policy at the North-the only
feelings in the South which it can nationally inspire
are those of dstrust fear and contempt hate. If
you have still hopes of reforming it and of again
reinstating the Union of the Consttution-say SO !;
but TO accomplish your object, you must condemn
| the Union as it u.s. If it is worthy of your devo-
| tIon-why reform it? What are all your opposi-
ton and complaints, but hypocritica rawlings, for
| factious ends?