Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-01-04
THE IbokrteN MovEkEN1 M he hUaP
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tIreat anxIetyis feit With regard tothe Action Of
oDngress during the present week. in relation to the
conscation of slaves and other measures that have
been brought before the Senate and the liouse-
Tbe-A6miBistrstigss I0Hexes,@@ II tiouoted-
majority in both branches of the National Legisla.
tares and eyerp attemptp pit abeitioh; 6SIsfidh EM
be saccessf2nS met, both by Votes and ~ afgdmert
A noted antislayery agltator remarked this morn
ing: "We do not expect to carry our measures,
but We shall awaken, public sentiment, and prepare
the way for a plioR ganst the iInbeeile policy
of the President and his c0unsellors," = 49, -,
AS itfsaoi the utmost moment that every one
should know exactly upon what ground the PTeslt
dent stands, you may accept the following facts as
unquestionableI and beyond the possibility of con-
l. That the President is resolntely determined to
veto any schemes Whatever involving the emahcipaF
ton of negroes, in such manner that they are
turned loose upon the Southern States equality
with the white occupiers ofthe SOIL He, on Satur-r
day evening uttered the following words - Enan-
cipation would be equivalent to a John Brown raid
on gigantic SCALE Our position issurrounded with
a sufficient number of dangers already. Abolition
would throw against us, irreyocaby, the four States
of Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland
which ii is costing the naen such efforts to regain
We have our hands full as it Isl If there is to be any
such suicidal legislation, we might as well cut loose
at once and begin taking up the arteries to prevent
IL.
these'words that fell from the Presidents lips
nearly as he could remember them, and thinks
they are exactly what he said. He spoke forcIbly
and energeticay, deprecatng, as worse than useless
from whatever point of view it might be regarded,
the fanatcal disturbances which the ultra Congress
are endeavoring to create n.
2 The most far-sighted statesmen of the Cabinet
the Senate and the House, are persuaded that the
armies of the loyal States more likely to re-
turn to their frozen homes, after experiencing the
delights Of the charming climate of the fruitful and
sunny South, than the Goths and Vandals Of centu-
ries bygone were to withdraw from the Italian par
ad:se they had occupied into the wilderness from
whence their hordes poured forth to overrun the
world. No Government Of the United States will
ever be strong enough to induce the six hundred
thousand troops about entering the rebel States to
abandon the region their shall have conquered
Therefore, emancipating negroes would not be turn
ing them loose against the present rebel population
of the South but against the Northern invaders Of
the Southern soil that are 10 be its future occupers
who will never consent to reside north of the Poto-s
mac again, and who will permit no competition, by
an inferior race, with their future labOrs % " -.
3. Abolition politicians will shortly open their
eyes to this fact, that the entire army is against
them, and they will then no more dare to continue
to urge their nearous and unpatrotc projects, than
the "On to Richmond" demagogues of five months
ago did to risk the dangers OF defending their clam
Orous outcres against the Administration, after the
disastrous defeat at Bull Run The advantage they
imagine must accrue from agitation of the slavery
question will be wholly against themselves and will
ruin them in the eyes of the nation. They have
been recently reinforced by large numbers of honest
but unthinkng, Zealots for the welfare Of the repub
lie, who have reasoned that as, through emancipa-
ton, deadly blow might be aimed rebellion, it
ought to be struck in order that traitors might suffer
This latter class, when better informed and aware
Of what has become evident to farsighted patriots
namely, that unnecessary slave arming slave eman-
cipaon, or attempts to raise negroes toa level with
the white race would cause the disarmament Of our
armies, and irrevocabe luminosity among loyal non
Shareholders of the South will throw their weight
into the scale OF the Administration and be guided
by the same and sagacious policy it incucates.
f. In view Of these circumstances President Lin
coin favors the plan of colonization. Believing in
the theory of natural fitness of races for peculiar
zones; thoroughly aware that the majority of the
inhabitants of the border States, from the earliest
days Of the of Henry Clay up to the present
hour, have been in favor of the total occupation Of
the soil of these States by whites, and the removal
of blacks disciple Of the school of jefferson and
Madison, which desired TO make of Central America
region which, inhabited by negroes, would supply
the whole world with cotton and sugar-the India
of the United States convinced that the country is
abundanuy able to pay the value of the slaves col
onized out Of the confscated property of pertina-
cious ConfederateS, Mr.. Lincoln has presented the
colonization scheme fayoraby in his message, and
1t will be sustained by him to the fullest extent of
his power.