Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-09

have joined the Frees0 party, and they have Joint
ed the American party, and they finally have joined
the Republican party And they have betrayed
them all.
We believe that nou their power is at an end, be4
their disguise Of philanthropy is thrown of,
and their purposes are at last known and we do
earnestly appeal to all patriots and all honest men
at the North, to pledge themselves to an unending
hostility to the principles and plans of the aboli-
tionists, for the following reasons
Because they undermine religion, and openly deny
the authority of the Holy Word of God, which is
the rule and guide of our faith.
Because they proclaim that our cherished Consti-
tuition is only an agreement with death and a
compact with hell"
Because they avow that for sixteen years they
have plotted the destruction of the Union, and de.
sire now to complete their work.
Because they publicly boast that they have al
ways had secret societies organized TO resist the laws
which the people have made, and all are bound to
obey.
Because the blood of the murdered Batchelder,
brutality murdered in the Court House of Boston by
mob of aboltonists, teaches us the object of these
secret societies, and shows what abolitionsts mean
by benevolence and love of man.
Because the bells of the New England churches
which the abolitoniss tolled the day of the just
execution of John Brown, proclaimed their hatred
of the Union, and their sympathy with the wicked
raid and with his murder of peaceable citizens Of
Virginia.
Because their pretended love for slaves thousand
miles away, is but hypocrisy. If they loved man.
kind and would prevent sin, and suffering, and
wrong, they could find here at home objects more
than sufficient for the exercise of all their assumed
virtues. But their philanthropy is deception
their affected sympathy is sel6Shness- and their
fegned love for the slaves cloak for their insdous
designs
For these and for many other reasons we appeal
TO all good citizens at the neutrality-suspicious. and
Democrats, Union men and Americans-to see to it,
that henceforth the pest of abolition SHALL under
disguise, be tolerated in their counsels.
But to the Republicans We appeal most earnestly
to avow their open hostility, because the abotonsts
have for their own purposes, deceived the South,
and taught them to believe that all Republicans
abOlitiOnSts
Let this be war not of force, but of opinion;
contest Of reason against fanaticSm of patriotism
against treason and, before many years, the name
of abolitioniSt will be remembered only with
tempt, and its dishonest efforts to obtain power a
subject Of dersiOn.
In the hearts of the people Of Massachusetts, there
is not nor ever has been, any feeling Of hatred for
the South. Our brethren do not understand how q
few active and INSCRIPTIONS men appear to have
much influence. The truth is, that the working
little for the strife of political parties and
the intrigues Of oflice-seekers. We regard them
with the contempt they deserve. We are weary Of
this question OF Slavery; it is matter which does
not concern US, and we wish only to attend to our
business and leave the South attend to their own
affairs without any interference from the North.
Only in the hour of danger do we step toward to
demand and enforce our political rights. And now
that obliged to come forward for the sake of
our country, we learn with profound astonishment
from the confession of the great party leaders that
the question which divides and dStracts the country
as to whether slaves shall or shall not be admitted
in the Territories is quarrel about abstract
IL,
have been domiciled in the Territories in New
Mexico. Well may the people say that they must
come forward to protect themselves from the poll
ticians.
But tie workingmen of the United States have
other duties than to put down the reasonable
designs of the abolitionIstS 1t is in power to
save the Union if we will bnt be united Let us
forget, then, forever, that we have been Wings or
Democrats, Republicans or Americans, or Union
men, and let the symbols and platforms, and pas
sions and preudiceS of party be discarded never to
he recalled.
Let us not bubble about words, or stand o5sti-
nately upon slight differences of opinion, like our
Representatives who dignity their perversc obStinacy
with the name of principle-but, disregarding all
other Objects unite earnestly, honestly and heartily
to preserve the Union
Let us form throughout the land associations of
workingmcn, whose only platform shall be, Liberty
and Union, and equal rights to all.
If our present Congress does not without delay
propose satisfactory amendments to the Constitu-
ton, we can petition our respective Legislatures,
and upon the application of the Legislatures of the
two-thirs Of the States, Congress must call Con-
ventIon for proposing amendments to the Consttu-
ton. In a Convention called by the people, the
rights OF the people will be safe.
To our brethren of the South we appeal, to dis
regard every thing but the voice of the people. The
Senator's of Massachusetts insult us, when our re-
spectlul petitions presented in Congress- and our
Legislature diSrcgards the wishes of the citizens
But the power remains in our hands, and we shall
have the privilege Of exercising it. and the peo
pie, dumb so long because accident has placed the
power of representing them in unworthy hands.
will speak for themselves-the people of the North
speaking earnestly honestly and frankly to the peo-
pie Of the South.
If our Southern brethren choose to return to the
Union will give them n sincere and hearty vel
come, and endcavor to protect them in their rights.
If they prefer to cast their lot with longer
will bid them "go in peace" and we will endeavor
to to ourselves the blessings of liberty and
independence in our own government. We wish no
Union but Union offriendship, not of force
sociates but those who with us of their own
free will.
The free people of the North will never sanction
the unjust and deusive plan of coercion nor seek in
force or civil war the remedy for the present dangers
to the Union. We will never consent to bear arms
against our country, or to become the executioners
of our friends and brethren"
Let the advances which we make frankly and bold
ly, be met with the same spirit, and the Union may
yet be saved.
To our brethren at the South we also say that we
love the Union, because in the words of ashngton
" 1t is the palladium Of our political safety and pros
perity-the main pillar in the cdlfice of our real
independence; the support of our tranquility at
home, our peace abroad of our safety, our prosper.
ity, and of that very liberty which we so highly
prize"
We have loved the Union as the costly inheritance
which noble race of patriots have handed down to
nation of freemen; sealed with the blood of the
bravest of the brave, it the bright coronal which
crowned the suffering, and sorrow, and strife, and
despair of seven weary years>of desoatng war.
Our Father in Heaven visibly protected it by his
guiding hand. In fear and in hope, in battle and