Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-01-11

litical creed, and say what in this new exigency,
they do believe?
He is at the time member of the Senate of the
United States He is a member of the government
of the United States. He has sworn to support the
Constitution of the United States. He knows Of
conspiracy, headed and inspired by men as bad as
they are bold, to overthrow that Constitution. He
gives information of the conspiracy to no one. lie
does not breathe intimaton OF it to Senator Ma
son, or Senator Hunter his fellow Senators from
Virginia with whom he was IN daily, hourly inter-
course. lie does not take any steps by which the
insane men--if insane they were-could be placed
beyond danger to Others He did, however, in the
Autumn of the same year, foreshadow the thought
which was then impelling and did im2el John
Brown to his acts of INVASION treason and murder;
and when those crimes were committed the Senator
was in Egypt!
Now, Southern people have critically observed all
these facts, and carefully pondered them. Their
Representatives in Congress have seen how that the
Anti-Slavery party has crept up from small begin
nings to dictate the policy of the North. And when
they review these things; when they see Republic
cans applauding Stewards speech; when they re-
fleet more than ALL that he is their foremost man,
their first candidate for the Presidency, is it to be
wondered at that they begin to utter words of warm
ing to the North, to pause in its mad career unless
given to settled purpose to dsobey the plain
requirements of the Constitution. General Davis,
in his Mississippi speech. struck a key note, which
the John Brown INVASION the relation of Seward to
it, the publication and circulation of Helpers book,
and the great fact that no leading Republican dares
to rebuke the ideas of Seward and their application,
have mlde to echo from plantation to plantation
throughout the entire Southern country. 1t is idle
to utter words in condemnation of Southern men,
bers of Congress- in entire forgetfulness of the fact
that it may be they do but represent their constitu
ents lfany body is to be arraigned for condemna-
ton, let it be the principal and not the AGENT who
does the masters will The danger, the peril of
this crisis, is that the people of the South are now
aroused and are in earnest. Politicians cannot con-
troll the surging waves They are impotent like the
bubbles which rise and disappear on the Atlantic.
We do not approve every thing which every Dem
ocrat in the South may say any more than we sane
ton every political act of every individual Demo-
crat in the North. We deplore violent harangues
at any time We do not admit not by any means,
the truth of what Mr. Mciae, of Mississippi, is
quoted to have said in the House in relation to the
Union meeting at Fanueil Hail. We cannot but re-
Duke that gentleman for what he spoke of our great
statesman, General Gushing. We protest against
what he said of Mr.. Everett, who presented with
such unequallcd force the magnitude of the crime
John Brown committed and who treated, with great
manlness and courage, many critical points in the
present aspect OF the slavery question. We are
sure that upon reflection, Mr.. McRae will withdraw
these offensive remarks, well those in relation
to Ex-Governor Lincoln.
If they do not HATE THE SOUTH, then let them say
So
To sum up all, we say that the Republican party
OF the North is i'll the wrong, and being thus wrong
its members where dominant have put Northern
States in an attitude of menace to the Constitution
ant: hostility to the South which cannot be defend
ed. Thus it happens that Massachusetts, stands to-
Hav in relation tn he ivSua which fiyac tha
thoughts of patriotic men, conspicuous wrong
doer. The fact is undeniable, and we cannot avoid
it by denunciation Of the extravagant speech of
Southern men, We neither can tempOrize with the
ex!gency now upon lis. Like the parliament of
George the Third in respect to treatment of the col
onieS, New England is the aggresSor and not the
aggrieved. Our satutc-book is lamnng proofagainst
Massachusetts. What shall be done? Can any
thing be done? Either Massachusetts, intends to
keep the bond she does not intend to keep it. If
the latter, is it not manly to say so, and tell the
South it is not worth while longer to bear with
If the former then let looking for faults in
our neg hbOrS but turn our eyes inward! Instead
of critcising MIR. McRae or Mr.. Singleton, or Mr..
IverSon let us characterize as they deserve men in
our own Legislature! Let us to-day set on foot a
movement, care not under what name nor under
what auspices which shall expel from power the
gang of venal and tanatcal politicians who now sit
upon the fair bosom of Massachusetts,! Let elect
a Legislature which will purge the statute-book of
treason tothe spirit of the Constitution which Re-
publicaniSm has put there! Repeal the statute
which provides that no person holding Office, under
the laws of this State, shall, under penalty of a
fine or imprisonment, issue any warrant, or take
conizance of any cause under the Fugitive Slave
Act which provides that State jas shall not be
used for detention of persons claimed fugltves
which imposes penalty on Sheriff for arresting or
az %,c f,,,.s LII, oh
vides that the militia shall not aid in the rendition
of such fugitive which provides that no Commits
soner of the Circuit Court shall! if he be Justice
of the Peace, issue any process, civil or criminal,
under the laws of Massachusetts! When we have
done that, then can we begin to comment upon the
acts of other men in other States !--Boston Post.