The North-Carolina standard., 1838-06-27
-rOR TUE STANDARD.

more appositely called the Federal Party in North
Carolina, are making every effort to secure ma
jority in the next Legislature the purpose OF IN
structng our Senators in Congress-. With such
instructions, l have doubt, they would couple
formal and threatening requests to our Represen-
tatives If any thing could surprise in these chang
ing and changeable times, 1t would be that these
gentlemen have at last become converts to the RE-
PUBLICAN doctrine of the right of INSTRUCTION.
doctrine which they have always repudated as her
etical and demagogical-and which the Democratic
Party have ever regarded as cardinal feature in
their political creed. e-
But what policy do they mean to introduce, if, by
their articles and contrvances they gain the
dancy Thank God we are not without light to
inform US. The signs of the times furnish the most
pregnant proof. Their leading men, and all their
public journals, now openly take the field for Mr.
Clay, and give the most unequivocal indications OF
fixed purpose to support him in the next presiden
tal canvass. His opinions, (Which, thanks to him
are yelled in mystery) must then be taken as the
standard of their faith. To sustain the man is to
sustain his policy. What is his policy? The pro-
minent part he has acted for the last twenty years
or more shows him the unalterable friend Of high
protective Tariff of internal Improvements by the
federal government, and ofa National Bank, their
natural ally That these would constitute the lead
ing measures of his administration, none have the
hardihood to deny, And have the Federal Party
forgotten that the people Of North Carolina have
been united almost man, in opposition to these
measures? That they view them ruinous to their
interests and blghting to their prosperity and dan
gerous to the peace & stability of our happy Union
Have they forgotten that portion OF the South was
driven almost to open resistance by the cruel oppres-
sions and withering influence Of this system? Or do
they believe the people ductile or so vena as to be
seduced or brbed to ground their arms and lean the
neck TO their 10ould6e masters and oppressors 81
Indeed, have they mistaken their true character,
and as greatly overrated their own tact and SKILL
The people servile horde; nor are they ig-
norant that the constitution and laws secure 10 them
an equal participation in all the blessings of free 60
vernment; equality of rights equality of burdens,
and the full fution of the fruits of their labor
and industry, beyond the rightful demands of just
and frugal government. And with deep-rooted
and settled conviction, that these blessings can only
be secured by rigid observance of the code of rules
established by the democratic church, for the con-
struction of the constitution of the United States
think you they be far overreached as to sup
port for the Legislature party that would favor
policy that dsregards all those rules-a policy that
overleaps all the barriers of the econstituton-makes
it mean any thing nothing-and sets up the un-
limited discretion Of Congress as the source of
power?
The South is destined in all time to be the weaker
nteTest-its safety is identified with the democratic
reading of the constitution with that strict con-
struction which preserves, its primitive vgor, the
partition between the Federal and State Govern
ments, and requires in its purity the theory that the
powers not granted are retained. 1t would be no
difficult task to show, that if Tariff purely protec
tire-a system Of frodds and canals and national
Bank, within the constitutional competency of
the Federal Government, then our slave property is
no longer secure against interference by Congress.
These vagrant powers, to be found any where and
every where, will enable Congress PROSTATE State
sovereignty and to wrest from US our property. 1t
is known that there is already strong party in the
United States, who claim the power not only to ar
rest the traffic in slaves beweenthe States, but also
to relieve the slaves themselves from bondage.
People of North Carolina favor not their designs
do not become yourselves the allies of abolition
lists, nor employ as public agents those who will
They who aid in augmenting the political power
and influence of abolitionists, make themselves CO.
workers in their schemes of iniquity and mischief.
The given the present session of Congress,
on many questions touching the ghts of slave
owners, prove that almost the entire whig Fede-
raj party in the non-slave States hostile to
thern interests 1t would then be estrange-passing
strange any portion of the southern people should
be found fighting under the same flag. Mr.. Clay,
it is true does admit the power Of Congress to
abolish slavery in the States, but comedies the poW
er to do so in the District of Columbia. The whole
South maintains that the terms by which they hold
their property is without the pale of Federal jurs
dicon or Federal authority and deny the rig ght of
Congress to debate or entertain question concern
ing it. Mr.. Clay holds the right to debate and
courts discussion
For Gods sake, Mr.. Loring, proclaim these things
to the good people Of North Carolina. Beg them
not to give too credent the syren songs of
a party who seek power and will betray who are
content now to persuade and implore; but when
fully induced into power will assume the right to
dictate. MACON.
STANDARD.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN MEETING.
Pursuant to few moments previous notice,
number tf the Democratic ReDuhlicanS Of tho