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

of the globe, we should-if not long since-soon
find it impossible to retain property, and these
Southern States would present the picture of an
other St Domingo Jamaica. 'Tis true that en-
lightened statesmen of the day begin to discover
that the interests of large Eumber of people re-
quire that they be supplied with Cotton, Sugar &C.
b &c. and that nowhere can these be had on SO favor
able terms as from US. This has given US our pre-
sent position, which is of great power and inHu
ence; but who tell how long we shall retain
this? Who can tell what changes in the economy
and trade of mankind few short years NAV not
produce? 1t has required but fifty years to make
the Cotton crop the most important exchange cron
in the world and its control the object of mighty
nations to struggle for! v hat may not the next
fifty years produce
With the less of this power and influence what
would be situation in such Union as the pre-
sent? With overwhelming numerical majority
at the North, and four-ffths of this majority COM
posed of such materials the present black Repub
lican party, what safety would there be for usp
When you reflect that even now. with all our ad
vantagcs, this people, so dependent upon US and this
very slave labor for all their prosperity almost for
the bread they eat and the clothes they wear woud
destroy this labor and create a serve war to carry
out their abstract creedl When further the fact
known that this INSCRIPTIONS party which has al
ready repudiatcd the Constitution in so many States
which has produced a 4" HeisS :" Legislature in Mass
and an anti-Supreme Court Judge in Wisconsin
| reckless band Of fanatics, (who are by no means
among the low, but who count their Phillipss, Quin
! cys, Emmersons and Sillimans men of fortune and
postion.) it cannot be doubted by him who Judges
of the future by the past" who reasons from the
lights of History and experience that the rights and
privileges of the South would be totally dsrcgarted
soon after changes in the affairs of the world had
| lost to it the prestige and power it now enjoys
Considerations like these qohich might be Greqtly
increased, but that they do not properly belong to
| the immediate question before us, have presented
| themselves to most rejecting minds at the South
and serve strongly to unite by the closest bonds
so that in case of the formation of Southern Con-
federacy, should again witness the same self sac
ri6ce, forbearance, and Of justice which in
huenced and governed the action OF our foreatbers
of the revolution, while there would be still less of
the discordant elements of varied nationality to
adjust in the new government
| | might extend the consideration of this part of
the question much further but as it is well known
to most of us, and as there is no one point which is
likely, in a remote degree, to raise any antag-
onsm between different States of the South as their
interests the same their occupations alike and
their general characteristics homogeneous than
that of any civilized nation of so large population
| | do not deem it necessary further to refute the
ISLANDERS that some lave uttered viz: that in of
the attempt at the formation of new Confederacy
the South would be betrayed by the ambition of a
| few aspiring member sons-into anarchy and
| confusion. But earnestly entreat from my fellow
citizens solemn consideration of the great question
| now before The future of this great country
| depends upon decision that may very shortly be
| upon us, whether are will Let all private
and party considerations be laid aside this matter
is of far more Importance, and should oveTrue them
| all.
Before quitting the subject let me endeavor to put
the true state of things at the North in parcu-
lar, before my fellow citizens 1t is that the poti-
cal leaders longer leading the people in abO-
| litonism and aggression, but it is the people who
are urging their Representatives, they them
selves being constantly excited by the harangueS,
&C., of the fanatical orators writer's and lecturers
such as Phillips, Cheeyer Curtis, etc. 1t is this
which makes the matter so dangerous and almost
hopeless of happy termination.
The conviction of this truly unfortunate state of
things was forced on me during a recent stay of
several weeks in New England, shortly before and
after the time when John Brown was hung; and
no man of common sense who would use his eyes
and ears and was a witness Of what occurred there
could be made to believe that the great mass Of the
| people did not more or less Sympathize with John
Brown, and not few, even of those high in posi-
ton, to the extent of his canonization; and this
notwithstanding all the efforts of all the conserva
tism of the country to spread the true character of
the man before the public! Yes, the leaders have
raised the storm, and instead of being able to direct
| IT. themselves obliged to follow its every i'm
| pulse. The shrewdest of them begin to realize that
they have gone too far for their own purposes and
would fain moderate their language and aggressOnS
Seward would give his ears to recall his Roches
ter speech, but it is too late. And such is the
Puritan character, such is its stubborn fanatcism
when aroused that if the present leaders are not
sufficiently bold they will be turned out and others
more extreme in their principles put in it will again
be the Long OF Rump parliament replacing the
short parliament in the days of Charles the First
! OF England.
Truly does "history repeat ITSELF" and it behooVeS
u.s. if we would not witness a repetition of that pOr
ton of it which describes the unbridled license of
triumphant fanatcism, toS be more watchful than
were the Royaliss of the times of the English revo
luton. Of one thing, at least, we may be sure, IA
naticsm is never conciliated by concession, and no
concession can be greater or exhibit more weakness
than to admit the right of any OF its leaders to he
installed into the Executive power To place
in the hands of a man who has openly and boldly
proclaimed to the Northern people, slavery can be
limited = it can and must be abolished
and you and 1 must do it." (see Stewards Ohio
speech,) the power of the army and navy and of
the treasury, would be folly that would deserve
and doubtless bring the heaviest punishment Our
only excuse for permitting the Inauguration of such
man. could be, that we believed he was lying to
deceive his Northern allies and for benefit for
it is too late to alledge some of his friends
do, that he did not mean what he said! He has re-
peated the substance of the principle too often since
and in too many places and at long intervals for that
excuse to hold 1t is either his intention to limit
and abolish slavery 1T is in his PO,cer to
do So or he lies, and certainly is not to be trusted
by the South
In the gloom of mind which the consideration OF
the state of the country inevitably brings, there
CLEAN which comes to cheer us with the hope OF
better things there is still point in the dark view
that the mind of the Southern patriot rests on with
satisfaction and trust which under the Providence OF
God will yet burn and glow till it has dispersed the
lurd clouds that fill the heavens with theirrght'
full forms and sink his soul solemn sadnessCr there
can be no sadder page in the history of man, than
to see people run mad by rioting in their own
prosperity, destroying with their hands the