Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-17

any state or states can deliberately lntehu uo uo
wrong They may, under the influence oil Temporal
nv excitement or misguided opinions, commit mis-
takes-they may be misled for time by the sue-
gestions of selfinterest; but in a community so en-
lightened and patriotic as the people OF the Unted
States will soon make them sensible OF their
errors, and when convinced, they will be ready TO
repair them. If they have no higher or better mo-
tives to govern Them they will at least perceive that
their interest requires them 10 DE just 10 OUTFITS
as they hope to receive justice at their hands.
It is true that cases may be imagined disclosing
such settled purpose of usurpatiOn and 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 patriotc
people; and no citizen who loves his country woulu,
in any case whatever resort to forcbe resistance,
unless he clearly saw that the time had come aohen
a freeman should prefer death to submission Tor II
such struggle is once begun, and the citizens oil
one section of the country arraycd 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? | answer, never! never! never!
and warn you, my countrymen, now H. as things
seem to tend this country should be divided into a
Union and Disunionist party, here now, no matter
who compose that party, declare myself member
of the Union party. Whether 1T be wing or a
Democrat that belongs to the party OF the Union,
there subscribe my name-there unite my heart
and hand with that party. HENRY CLAY.
It is better to die while the honor of the country
is untarnished and 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 crushedhe
rights of man elSewhere-amd angry storms and
the widest pillows of party rage-up6orne on the
flood our heaven-protected ark OF freedom St floats
on-and amid the tempcStS at Their darkest hour,
there has still continued to stream from 1t 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 diScordant factions
when the flood O. fraternal strife and sectional hos
tility shall for moment deluge the land-stW may
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 restngplace,
and that may be our glorious Union OF the States?
JAMES c. DoBBIN.
Calculate THE VALUE OF THIS UNION. Who can
do 1t? What mind can fully comprehend the in
ourv? What intellect can grasp the theme? Who
can estimate the good which it has already accom-
plShed? Who can forSce-who foretell 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 clinics of the south; with soil as rich
and varied as the sun in his 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
iization into every land; with government which,
for eguardS to human freedom SURPRISES all that
ever entered into the imagination Of Plato Har
rington thus standing out before the worH GREAT,
FREE UNITED NATION bright and shining light to
the downtIodden, a terror to tyrantS and Cypress
ors 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 USIOS-THE WORTH
OF OUR GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION? Sixty odd years
have elapsed since North. Carolina came into this
Union-s!nce she put her seal to that constitution
Two years she reflected before the step was taken
She reflected long and well. She signed the great in
denture. She affixed to it the signet of her sover-
eighty. 1t iras her o,rn voluntary act Up TO this
hour she has performed faithfully and with true and
patriotic heart all its obligations. She expects still
to perform them. SIZE will never deny her sigma
ture repudiate 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. If they are 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, che 1oW nerer leap cowGrdly
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.
If dangers threaten, if perils come may she cling
to that constitution-the bark which carried our
fathers through the perilous waves Of anarchy-and
however portentous the coming storm, may she lash
herself to it; and if destined at last to go down, l
pray God that she may go down with bold and
true heart untainted Nth treachery and ao gar
nents 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 misrule of fraud and force his ex-
pected coming shed hope in the hearts of men,
And often it seemed that he had come; but they
were smote with iron rods and delivered to bondage.
Still this hope gathered strength, and the race adj
vanced in the attributes of him who 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 go;
but though they were ever leaving their ancestral
abode still farther in the rear they all the time
coming nearer to the condition which man once there
enjoyed. Their exile 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 or turn back the avenger pursuing at their