Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-03-24


About the only thing the opponents of the Union
movement find to harp upon, is the fact that The
sneakers and resolutions at the public meetings do
not in terms denounce the men at the South who
have threatened to secede from the Union Accord
nrv the public ear is almost deafened with the din
of the sectional newspapers repeating with all the
changes of which the subject will admit, the ques-
ton "Why do you not denounce the Southern dis
nnionists?" Scarcely Republican paper do we
take up that is not vocal with this theme, and some
Of them nave dwelt upon it until it has been worn
thrcadbare, stale even, cannot doubt to their
own readers.
Let us look little at this matter. The people of
the Southern States are living in the employment
tbe possession, if our abolition friends like the
phrase beter-of the institution of slavery. 1t is
a State domestic institution subject to State laws
and to domestic regulations only, and in manner
a matter with which We have any right to interfere
The Northern States once, like their Southern
brethren, Slaveholding but by interest or moral
conviction or both, but probably quite much the
former as the latter, they have disposed of their
slaves and become free States. Having done this
thew turn around before the generation which once
held slaves has fairly passed away and abuse the
South for keeping slaves for profting by Slavelabor
for .trafficking in the bodies and souls of men,"
forgetting that the money received for slaves sold to
the South still enrcheS our citizens, that the slave
trade which the laws of the United States denOunce
as piracy, even now cnle1y carried on Dy North
ern men in Northern vessels and the profits return
ed to Northern cities where the outfits are obtain
cd: and finally that our Northern merchants, manu-
fcturcrS and consumers, are really benefited by
the slave grown cotton rice and sugar of the South
as are the planters of whom they purchase it, and
that the fiercest abolitonist will puff chew his
slave-grown tobacco with much zest ard guSto as
though it was the production of free labor.
Notwithstanding all this participation in the pro-
of clo pdiDu
scarcely clear of the evil if evil it be- and notwith
standing above all, that we have business to in
terfere BY word or deed, with slaveholdng else
where more than we have to interfere with the
Business of the social and domestic affairs of our
neighborS a portion of the Northern people have
undertaken to denounce slavery and Shareholders to
call them manStealerS oppreSsors and wrongdOorS
and to insist upon a change in their domestic
rangementS to meet the views of people in other
communities, having no political or moral light to
dictate to them respecting this any other local in
stitution. Having rounGly abused them for minding
their own business and refusing to take advice,
and by way of convincing them of our sincerity
and earnestness encouraged the stealing of the ne
grOeS and running them off to Canada or harboring
them among ourselves until the Southern people
become indignant at the outrage and threaten if we
do not let them alone to separate from us, that
thev may live in peace and quiet, now. e., the
ABOLITION and Republican press and people of the
NOrth-turn round and charge upon them the evils
which threaten the Union and tell them that if they
will only keep quiet while we stir up insurrection
at the South and steal off their negroes, the
Union will be no danger. We are not for disunion,
not we, by any means, but the shareholders, who
refuse to submit to our denunciations, our annoy
and thefts they the ones who are periling
the safety of the country, and leading it to ruin
The Union meetings therefore fail to discharge
their duty, because they do not denounce Southern
men for standing upon their rights, and demanding
to be let alone in the enjoyment o. their property
and their legal privileges This is as if a man
should annoy and maltreat his next door neighbor,
BY hard words and abusive language, adding to
these the offering his goods and sending them be-
yOnd reach of recovery until in sheer desperation
he is forced to declare that he will leave the neigh
bOrhood, to rid himself of the nuisance; and when
the offending party is demonstrated with, cooy says
my neighbOr is the only one who threatens TO
break up the community, go and talk to him have
no idea of leaving"
Precisely this is the conduct of these people who
want to demonstrate with the dIsuniOnsts at the
South. They abuse these men, steal their ne
groes scatter firebrands among them, and then say
cOmplacently, "go and talk to the South. We
are not going out of the Union. ~ Y. Journal
Of Commerce.