The North Carolina Standard

GEN. SAUNDERS.

The late able and manly effort, made by Gen. Saunders in the House of Representatives, against abolitionists, has received high encomiums from both parties. The Richmond Enquirer says:

"Mr. Saunders of North Carolina, is entitled to the thanks of the South, for his bold and manly rebuke upon Mr. Clingman, his own mad Whig colleague from the North State. He turns too to the patriotic members of N. Hampshire, to Bidlack of Pennsylvania, and to the great State of New York, for assistance to repel the attack on the 21st rule. Can this stirring appeal be disregarded? If the Empire State turns a deaf ear to our indignant remonstrance, we warn them: that the day of retribution must come."

The correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, (a Whig paper,) writing from Washington on the 19th instant, also says:

"The discussion of the Slavery question and the 21st Rule was continued to-day in the House by Mr. Hudson of Massachusetts, against the Rule, and Gen. Saunders of North Carolina, in favor of it. The former gentleman spoke but a short time, having nearly exhausted his hour yesterday. Gen. Saunders had an opportunity of speaking nearly an hour before the time allotted to the order of the day had expired. He made an impressive speech against the abolishment of slavery by the General Government, either in the States or the District of Columbia, and in favor of the 21st Rule. The temper in which he delivered his speech was moderate and dignified, and though it was a subject in which his feelings were evidently deeply enlisted, yet he did not indulge in heated expressions and denunciations of those whose views are different from his own upon the subject, to the extent that some of the other Southern members who preceded him, had done."