Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-06-15
from the n. c. Standard, June llth 1901
A Constitutional Union.

"A SOuSIltutlOn6l UnlOIs
North Carolina has bsen for the space of seventy wears
member Of the federal Union She entered this great
sisierhood States after mature delberuOD She did 30
believing sa would thereby best promote her own inter.
tect herself FROM by foreign States Strong
IN her own arm and IN determined purpose
tam the right Under al circumstances she was neverths.
less not anmnt Of tue et that in union there would be
strength beyond that which any individual State could
ssess During this long period she has been faithful to
al her constitutional obligations; and the other hand
whhe her rights as savehodqg State have not always
Deem az fuy respected and maintained Is they should
have been yst deiberae wrong has been put upon her
aha none 2, ner vital interests have been sssaled
threatened Dy tne common government When her Gu
States Of the South have complained of unjust tariff ar
protested against the Entertainments of he
ing States upon their rights in the common territories
she has synpathsed with them in these compsins and
protests but when they have nui6ed the laws or taken
steps 70 dissolve their rslat9ns With .,susr .s. Cd.
consequences which would fow from Modification and dis
union SIZE has been either MULTIPLYING or disun.
ion Ssts and She is not 50 now SOME must
move great wrong must either be inflicted or
must overshadow her, befnre she will seriously pontem
plate by her own act Of the Union She feels
that while Virgnia and Tennessee and MARYLAND and
keu.uciy sale in the Union she will be safe also and
that her oor, sensitive und antarnhed as eirs hsa
been conGed to her keeping and TO that South
sssr as es sss
among The southern States relvng she does for nre
ton not s sIarshodng States south Of her than
those Of ,he north and west She not 80 much Of
"coton State" be ready just now pitch into The
vortex If disrn ION and svoution. She will not rush into
this vortex herself and she will hold Others back If she
can. ..'
During this long period If sveBy years. North Csro
lima Ess yed alnust repose The battles
rendered n.sesry by just regard for the honor of the
country, have been fought elsewhere than Der SOIL
Her people are contentsd, prosperous and happy
Her fields smile with plenty, and the hum Of industry s
Leard all her workshops Her credit in the money
market equal the bost Her Internal Improvements
are progressing. 81 pfospering they progress Her
Con,na Sc0o tstem is the best " af the Southern
States Her slave pr Spesty is 10 nenice even
uttered against her, ~ the more radical portion II
the black Republicans The natopsi Democrats of the
Don aveho!dug States defended and defending
her rights slavehodiu,y STATE both in Congress- and
before their fsow.citizsns
= ID word, no TIasnn sxissAuty Aarth Cssona shouA
Contemplate Of this time dB Siatiou Of the Da0n.
While we would surrender Ii right Of State. and
while VIC would preserve ner b, Our uatarnshed among
her sister, yet dsunion is one the last things to be
thought o Disunon would be Fl usrnal STRIFE evil and
serv;ie MURDER arson pillsye sobbesy sodss and
blood Though long and cruel ysa IT would asettie
all business, diminish the value Of all property pat thu
lives Of both aud oil ages in Fer and huaeh the
Stses Of scenes when 81 has scanned ssd
navigator sounded II would ring debt and and
oppressive BIZ followed perhGps BY the military
Of titled tyrsnts It waut wrsnch apart the tenders
~ entwined affections of millions Of hearts, makiag It
crime in the North to have been born In the South,
and crime 10 the South To have been born in tho
North It would convert the g eat body of the eosssrva
tive Of the NOsth who isrds, into eth
deadly enses Indifferent Ppectators Of our intestine