Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-17

lightened and patriotic as the people OF tue Ch's
States argument will soon make them sensible OF their
errors, and when convinced, they will De ready 70
repair them. If they have no higher or better mo-
tives to govern them they will at least perceive that
their own interest requires them to be just to others
Is they hope to receive justice at their hands
It is true that cases may be imagined disclosing
such settled purpose of usurpation ana OPPRESSION
on the part of the government as would justify an
appeal to arms These, however, are extreme cases.
which we have no reason to apprehend in govern
ment where the power is in the hands Of patriotic
people; and no citizen who loves his country would
in any case whatever, resort to forcble resistance
unless he clearly saw that the time had come eohe
a freeman should prefer death to submission; for if
such struggle is once begun, and the citizens OF
one section Of the country arrayed in arms against
those of another in doubtful conflict let the battle
result as it may, there will be an end of the Union,
and with it an end Of the hopes Of freedom.
ANDREW JACKSON.
have been asked, when would consent to give
up this Union? I answer, never! never! never
and warn you, my countrymen, now if as things
seem to tend, this country should be divided into
Union and Disunionist party, here now, no matter
who compose that party, declare myself member
of the Union party. Whether it be q, Wing or
Democrat that belongs to the party Of the Union,
there subscribe my name-there l unite my heart
and hand with that party. HENRY CLAY.
It is better to die while the honor of the country
is untarnished an6 the flag of the Union still flying
over our heads. than to live to behold that honor
gone forever, and that flag PROSTATE in the dust.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Thus far, under the blessing of Providence, amid
the terrible events that and have crushed the
rights of man elsewhere-amid angry storms and
the widest pillows of party rage-upborDe on the
food our heavenprotected ark of freedom still floats
on-and amid the tempests, at their darkest hour,
there has still continued to stream from it steady
light, to cheer and gladden. and encourage And
when that most terrific of tempests shall come
(Which may God in his mercy avert)-when domes-
tic fanaticism or party madness shall rage-when
the voice of patriotism shall for moment be hushed
amid the hoarse Glamour of dscordant factions
when the food o. fraterna strife and sectional hos
tilty shall for a moment deluge the land-stiH may
we not cling to the hope of the Father of his coun
try. that when it shall please Heaven to stay the
Storm our ark may also find its sacred resting
and that may be our glorious Union Of the States'
JAMES C. DoBBN.
CALCULATE THE VALUE OF THIS UNION! Who can
do it? What mind can fully comprehend the in
quiry? What intellect can grasp the theme? Who
can estimate the good which it has already accom-
plished? Who can forsee-who foretel the evils
that will follow its dissolution? Stretching from
the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific; throwing
its mighty arms from the frozen regions of the north
to the sunny chimes of the south with soil as rich
and varied as the sun in his course ever shines up
on; with population of thirty millions Of souls,
prosperous, happy, enterprising, sending up their
songs Of praise to the Almighty Disposer of events
for the great blessings they enjoy; with commerce
whitening every sea- and carrying the fruits of CIV
ilizaton into every land; with government which,
for guards to human freedom, surpasses all that
ever entered into the Imagination Of Plato or Har-
rngton, thus standing out before the nQrld GREAT,
FREE. UNITED NATION, bright and shining light to
the down-trodden terror to tyrants and Cypress
rs:-If this light be extinguished; if this planet
shoot mady from its sphere and dart into the black
abyss of anarchy and civil bloodshed where, where
again will man look for hope? What other star Of
freedom will pierce the darkness?
CALCULATE THE VALUE OF THIS UxIoN-rnE WORTH
OF OUR GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION? Sixty odd years
have elapsed since North Carolina came into this
Union-snce she put her seal to that constitution.
Two years she reflected before the step was taken.
She reflected long and WE'LL She signed the great in
denture. She affixed to it the signet of her sover
eighty 1t uas her own voluntary act Up to this
hour she has performed faithfully and with true and
patriotic heart all its obligations. She expects still
ture repudate her seal. She desires to be true to
her plighted faith to her sisters. She demands of
them to be true to their duty-to their pledges-to
their obligations. II they thus true, she will
stand with them upon the battlements of this Union
and though they may rock and totter beneath the
attacks Of enemies, she ,cjU necer leap conardly
from them, but clinging the frmer to her high po-
sition hand in hand with those sisters she will bid
defiance to the assaults Of fanatcism from Within
and tyranny from without
dangers threaten, if perils come. may she cling
to that constitution-the bark which carried our
fathers through the perilous waves of anarchy-and
herself to it; and, if destined at last to go down,
pray God that she may 60 down with bold and
true heart untainted with treachery and Nth gar,
znents unsullied by treason!
HENRY W. MILLER.
For nearly six thousand years the world was with
out pure patriot for nearly six thousand years
our race had been making progress before it produ-
ced soldier without ambition, statesman without
guile, ruler who preferred to live under equal laws
rather than to be the law himself
He had been looked for: through the long years
of injustice and msrule, of fraud and force his
pected coming shed hope in the hearts of men,
And often it seemed that be had come; but they
who ran to meet him and laid offerings at his feet
were smote with iron rods and delivered to bondage.
Still this hope gathered strength, and the race ad-
vanced in the attributes of him who came to redeem
it from its fallen estate.
"The Lord planted garden eastward in Eden, "
and there he put man, formed in his own image, the
possessor of life and happiness But he was tempt
ed and fell, and his estate forfeited; and with a
curse upon his head, he was driven from paradise.
Westward his face was set; and westward his chill
dren were still driven leaving their parental estate,
the happy mansion Of their father, behind.
Westward, still westward they continued to 60
but though they were ever leaving their ancestral
abode still farther in the rear they were all the time
coming nearer to the condition which man there
enjoyed Their exile was designed to chasten soft.
en-, and purify their corrupted natures; and at each
remove, instead of dragging heavier chain, their
yoke became easier and their burdens lighter. Still
onward they went in their pilgrimage, forbid to look
backward turn back the avengcr pursuing at their
heels; but they carried covenant with them and
they often stopped to read and scan and stud " its
promises.
Thus they fled until they reached the shores Of