North Carolina Standard

IS SLAVERY AN EVIL?

Is Slavery an evil? Messrs. Fillmore and Stanly say it is. We deny the proposition. We hold it to be a blessing to both races; and not only this, but we maintain and can show that it is expressly sanctioned by the Almighty. All the authorities in the Bible on the subject are in favor of it, and there is not one word in that Book against it.

But let us grant, for argument's sake, that it is an evil—is this a time for Southern men to admit the fact? If an evil, will Mr. Stanly do any thing to extend it? Will he not rather, if honest in his opinion in relation to it, do what he can, as a Representative in Congress, to hem it in and thus pave the way for getting rid of it?

If an evil, what right has the President of the United States so to declare in a public letter? He says in one breath that the institution belongs to the Southern States, and that the General Government can exercise no control over it in the States; but in the next breath he interferes with this institution by branding it as an evil in the sight of Christendom!

William H. Seward occupies the very same ground.

And now is Mr. Stanly, holding as he does this opinion, a suitable Representative for the people of the Eighth District? Let them answer at the polls. We have no fears for the result. The interests of that people, as involved in this institution, are much too great to leave it at all doubtful what their decision will be. They will decide to let Mr. Stanly remain at home, to moralize as often and as long as he chooses over the "evils" of Slavery; and they will send to Congress as his successor a man who has never deceived any one on this or any other question, and in whose hands their rights and interests will be perfectly safe.