Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-24

1t will be seen from the above that the northern
States nearly all in position Of practical d's
union that is they have refused to sustain the Con-
stituton which their fathers adopted. In June,
Va, remarked:
II do not hesitate to say and repeat. that if the
northern States refuse wilfhlly and deliberately to
carry into effect that part of the Constitution which
respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, the South
would no longer be bound to observe the compact.
A bargain broken OH one side is a bargain broken
on all sides"
Now, according to Daniel Webster, and he is
generally regarded good authority at the North,
the South to-day justified in presumlng that
this confederation of States framed for mutual pro-
lection and benefit is at an end We suppose there
are some who yelp loud for g the Union that
they would ask the South to be quiet and submissive,
even under John Brown forays and Texas blirnings.
No calamity with such people, not even universal
black and white anal gamaton, is half so much to
be deplored the breaking up of a government
which has outved its uses and if any person be
bold enough to ask that this government shall he
restored its original functions, that it shall restore
runaway negroes and protect southern citizens,
equally with northern citizens, why forthwith, from
1.-THE sauater organs and from the Belle journals,
he is denounced as "a disunionist," and " fire
eater" The truth is the only way to preserve the
Union, and the only way it ought to be preserved,
is for the North to simply try how it will seem to
be honest. Let perform our agreements. The
work of preserving the Union is to be done here -
The North is overlooking with disunionists, for
every man is disunionist who refuses to abide by
the obligations of the Constitution to return fugitive
Slaves or who denies southern men equal pro-
lection in the common Territories, which the Su-
preme Court says they are entitled to. Those who
abide by the Constitution "UnoniStS," and
hence the entire South, SO far as We know, are
"Unonists," at least the majority, while at the
North, in the present state of public opionion it is
probable that the majority are "disunonists." For
Meeting at the North. simple resolution, taken
word for word from the decision of the United States
Supreme Court and it would be hootcd down-Bell-
ites Douglasites and Lincolnites all assisting in
the clanor. 1t gives us no pleasure to state these
facts, but they are facts nevertheless that some
time or other unless altered, will bring on terrible
collision between the North and the South Our
people ought to look them in the face for the Union
cannot forever be saved under an unmeaning form
of words which deceive the people and blind them
to the real questions in issue The good physician
is the bold one who, despite PAIN and writing,
probes the sore to its scat So in the present juno
ture he is the true friend of the Union who bravely
calls the public attention to the old landmarks OF
the Constitution, and shows that the only safety is
to cling to that instrument, not as falsely inter.
preted by Black Republicans, or loosely construed
by the followers Of Douglas and Bell but as boldly
presented by the friends of Breckenridge and Lane.
They are the only candidates now standing squarey
on the Constitution and hence the only ones to
whom every Union man can safely look for the pre-
servation Of all that every patriot holds dear.-N.
Y. Day Book.