Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-27
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States would have them trust to the Union anu
to the people The North has gwen assurances on
their sympathy for them, and justice WIN De IGns
believe it. There are assurances given oil kino.
ness and patriotism that will be redeemed that
sympathy and kindness which exists in the North
will attract others to it; its Standard Oh Liberty
and Justice will be raised from one end OF tne
country to the other, and the people will croWo
around i. until States shall come and make peace
offerings to their brethren. That day will come,
and it will be happy day. believe this ana
would have the South and the Border States believe
it. Our Northern fellow citizens have entitled them
selves to confidence by their action upon these very
resolutions thousands and tens OF thousands nave
come here with petitions in their tavor States nave
petitioned for them and in all this recognize
spirit of kindness which should bind the hearts OF
Southern men. will say, l am Tor the UNION;
am not for secession. No, Sir. And as 10 my
native State will sayto her, more than TO otners'
1 desire to see you stand by the Union OF lne
country. Do not go off unless an lmperlous neces-
sty forces YOU You have given to the world long
continued evidence of your consistency, your
patriotism, and your fidelity to the Union Stana
nv II You have stood there heretofore; why not
nowP You have literally founded your state upon
a rock. Yes Sir, upon rock that State is iounoeo,
and you have engraven on rock your testimony 10
the Union The stone you sent to be portion OF
the monument to Washington bore upon its Ken
lucky marble front these words: Kentucky was
the first to enter the Union after the adoption Of the
Constitution she will be the last to leave It That
sentiment she has engraved upon marble, and it now
stands sanctifed still more by forming portion OF
the monument to George Washington. / want to
see her true to that great and noble sentiment 1t
swels the heart within me- There is nothing, 1t
seems to me, in all the hope of triumph-nothng
of the manly heartswelling character OF the feelings
which this noble and patriotic sentiment has called
forth! Let her stand there with US; and stand by
those sentiments Let her be the last to leave that
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much of triumph and so much of blessing. This
is the only Government on earth, under which man
can control his action speak his own thoughts,
and where no man is imprisoned unlawtully from
one end to the other-from San Francisco to
Portland.
What if our Treasury is empty and our money
spent and our government badly administered?
STILL with all these faults it is the best government
in the world. 1t is here only, in the arms OF this
great and mighty Empire that Liberty was pre-
sented to the world in all her might, and all her
usefulness. In the little Republics, in the Alpine
hills of Europe whose little territories are too small
to attract the ambition or cupidity of imperial
power there Liberty is kept thing to be looked
at and petted but here she stands in all her majesty
and might with her arms stretching across con-
tinent Who does not love this great country,
with its mighty benefits to every citizen! The
name of this country goes before him like host,
and is shield over him. The very name contains
a charm and spell which attaches to him in every
region of the world and its greatness and blessing
is magn6ed still more every day. | say l hope
Kentucky will stand for the Union. Try it, and
try it againl If one Congress does not judge
rightly and does not act rightly another will it is
a principle of our Government that these frequent
changes will give justice, and every State the
Union should exercise patience and forbearance.-
Let us wait; and when, If it be sad fate, rebel
lion and revolution shall have passed over the whole
land, want see old Kentucky standing up, even in
that day of misunderstanding up with undated
strength and with the Flag of our Union in her
Misunderstanding upon her unconquered fields like the
last soldier of brave and gallant band; and then,
when the Union is more, and also stand then
the image of patriotism, honor, herosm and
fidelity to the Union to the last; then, and not till
then, would have her consider what next is to be
done, for herself My principle is, take care Of the
Union. 1t is the Palladium of Government Take
care of it. and it will take care of you.
The most dangerous enemies of the maintenance
of slavery in Virginia, her own Gisunion press
and orators. If they succeed in either coaxing or
bullying the people of the State into giving up their
liberties enjoyed under the Constitution of the
United States, and in lieu thereof bending their
necks to the yoke Of the oligarchys despotsm they
surely bring the Canada line down to Pennsylvania
southern border, far future security for Vir-
GINA slave property is concerned. They induce
Virginia to relinquish the existing constitutional
guarantee for the return of fugitive slaves releasing
Pennsylvania voluntarily and wholly from its obi
cation upon her. They make almost every man in
Pennsylvania the bitter and active enemy Of slavery,
because by the secession of Virginia nomnally for
saverys benefit, they will have increased ten fold
the business difficulties and financial troubles which
Pennsylvania has already incurred through the
secession of the Gulf States.
Thus, they not ONLY render it certain that every
runaway who manages to reach Pennsylvania will
be lost to his owner past the possibility of recama
ton, but they raise up in Pennsylvania hundred
active workers in the business of negro stealing
where there is one now. The consequence cannot
fail 10 be the successful escape of fifty Virginia
runaways where one successfully escapes now. Who
falls to realize this selfevdent fact?
From the moment Virginia secedcs, this trouble
will increase at such rapid rate, that in a single
year those in Virginia who have slaves exposed to
be thus lost, will either further South with
Them abandoning their Virginia estates, or Of the
latter be worth more to them than their negroes)
they will hurry the latter into the market; selling
them South very generally for what they may be
able to get for them under the damaging effect-to
prices-of the glut thus brought about While the
seeded States will reap the advantage of getting
Virginias negroes either by emf grafton, or by
purchase at very low prices, Virginia will surely be
paralized beyond expression for the time being, by
the immense loss of productive labor she will so
suddenly sustain. Her soil, climate and other
advantages are however, too great to admit the idea
that northern and foreign labor will not rush in by
thousands to supply the vacuum. In less than
three years from the day that Virgnia's disunion
press and orators may carry the State under the
oligarchy'S despotism, the corners will have
strengthened the opposition to that government, as
that they will vote Virginia back into the Union by
majority Of two three, four to one; and will,
doubtless, 0he State then being we'll nigh entirely
clear of slaves) abolish the institution from the
| State, by change of the Constitution.
| This reasoning is so plain that any man of re-
Election will realize that far as the effect of seces-
sion upon the future of slavery in Virginia is
cerned, it is destined to be just as we describe it
| above.-Wash. Star.
DESIGNS OF THE TEXANS ON MExIco.-The follow
ing passage from Mexican letter in the New Or
| leans Crescent is significant:
| 1.-THE most serious danger at present imnendnc