Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-05
Civil War will be Abolition !

Ii the difficulties between the North and South |
should not be settled during the next six months
war will be the result There will be three four
Confederacies. 1t will be impossible for the North
western and Gulf States to avoid war,-the naviga-
ton OF the Mississippi will lead to it California and
oregon will set up for themselves. The isthmus
route to California may be disputed and INSTRUCTED
Some of the Northern States will seek an alliance
with the Canadas and this will lead to intervention
oy Great Britain. England, France and Spain will
become interested and entanged in American affairs.
The flags of the new Confederacies will be insuted
on the high Seas and privateers will prey on their
commerce. War, or impending war, or the state of
alarm in which the country now is, will arrest in
dustry, check commerce, and impair confidence be-
tween man and man. If war once breaks out it will
rage in the interior, our seacoasts, on the high
and on frontiers One section will let loose
the Indians on another section. Twenty millions OF
Northern people will at one become our enemies
They will war upon US along line Of three thou
sand miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One
section will call in foreign troops against another
section. One Confederacy will humble itself before
the powers of Europe to get better commercial terms
than the other Confederacies. Meanwhile will
rage. Negro property will cease to be valuable, be-
cause the products of slave labor, and of all other
labor, will be in great degree cut off from the mar
kets of the world. The negroes will know, too that
the war is waged on their account They will be-
come restless and turbulent Heavy taxes will re-
suit from these wars These taxes must be paid
mainly out of slave labor Strong governments will
be established and will bear heavily on the masses.
The masses will at length rise up and destroy every
thing in their way State bonds will be repudated
Banks will break. Widows and orphans will be re-
duced to beggary. The sword will wave every
where paramount to all law. The whole world out
side the savehoding States, with slight exceptions
is opposed to slavery; and the whole world, with
slave labor thus rendered insecure and comparative
" vaIueless will take sides with the North against
US. The end will be-Abolition! There are other
considerations touching slavery which we shall not
refer to here,-every intelligent mind will at once
understand US, and will weigh those considerations
for itself
1t is criminal to say there is mo hope for the
Union" If five hundred of the public men of the
two sections could be transported confined in dun
geons for six months, the Union would be restored
and reconstructed during that period, and it would
be more glorious and prosperous than the now
| threatened with destruction. The dsunionist per
Sc is either mad man or a bad man. He who pre-
fers disunion to Union, and who labors to provoke
and aggravate the two sections against each other
is enemy to his race. He who is for discord in
stead of concord for instead of peace for disu
MON for disuniOn's sake, is guilty of crime more
stupendous than any which has been committed
| since Cain slew his brother