The North-Carolina standard., 1839-06-26

because you could not, or would not, pursue III
course pointed out? BY one or the other vour
hopes Of dispacing our Senators were blasted. but
the malice Of party hatred was increased bv vonr
exposure, and led you still farther into the devices
of the Evil One. Alas for the progress of crime
when the first step is taken! Eagerly anxious for
Office, you did not appreciate men who gave duty
and principle higher grade in their estimation
Had you replied to the Senators that they were
not instructed, and quieted your consciences and
saved your political character, by manly retro
grade to the point where honor and justice had been
passed, the Senators could have been no where
blamed, and no elamors could have been excited
against them. But this was not to be allowed -
Z" They viii hold on" thought you "to their seat.
and by leaving the RAYNER resolutions unexplained
lhere may be some chance of exciting hostility a.
gainst them. We may throw suspicion upon their
motives and charge them with inconsistency and
disregard of pledges. We can say they disobeyed
instructions, and yet held on their stations. Or
what is still better, others will do it for US, and to
insure its being done we will insinuate doubt of
their sincerity in writing to Besides this there
will be no pretext for our declining to explain the
RAyNER resolutions unless we affect to be little
angry" Iput to your eonsciences, now that your
whether something like this was not the secret
working Of your mind 2 But, alas A.! how wretehed-
ly you have failed! How easily has your whole
plot been subyerted. Our Senators, by defining and
maintaining their position have at once vindicated
their principles and elevated themselves above the
shafts of your party malice! 1t is important that
this their true position shall be understood by the
Republican party. Attempts have been made to
falsify it, and they will be renewed. A party that
will resort to the unprincipled schemes already de-
veloped can hardly be expected to give over their
object from any unwillingness to deceive. The
Wings of the Legislature have fresh motives for it
now in their anxiety to hide their own treachery
What is the position assumed by our Senators g.
1t is this: "We are not instructed" say they "and
Therefore have right to resign account Of the
RAYNER resolutions. When the Legislature choOS-
'es to instruct u.s. we bound to obedience or re-
"signation. But we do not consider the RAYNER
| "resolutions to be instructions, and (as in duty
| bound when there was any room for doubt on this
'Fsubiect) we respectfully informed the General As
ssemby So and requested to be set right if we
in error in Interpretation of these resolutions
They have not answered US. Our construction
4" of the act is therefore sanctioned by those who
"performed it. Our duty citizens, as Represen-
"tatives as the friends of fair DEALING and the ad
"vocates Of honesty, is TO continue at the post as
"sgned us by the People of ". Carolina, and main
'tain the principles on which they selected US
But TO vindicate ourselves before the nation and
&c to manifest our regard for whatever may be the
o Opinions of the people of North Carolina we now
0give notice that at the first period when the peo-
'ple can be heard at the election of 1910, we shall
"resign to the people, and let them have chance
Ito speak" ....
Thus are Your tricks for imposing on the people,
by creating disrust of our Senators, met and dis
appointed, and the subject placed fairly before the
people. Your dishonest attempts to place others
in false position, has resulted in shelving your
own true and unenviable one. You were playing
blind mans buff with the people, but the bandage
was raised before you were ready.
Il The RAYNER resolutions declared that our Sena-
tors are misrepresenting the people of North Caro-
lima The Senators say they believe they are rep
resentng them truly; and offer to test the matter
in the only certain way. In so doing they act un'
der no compulsion. They do not resign in sub
mission to the RAYNER resolutions, or because they
understand them in any sense as Instructions
The principle Of their action is orthodox and rePub
lican. If the Legislature insructs, it assumes the
esponsibility for all the consequences of the act
and absoives the Representative from every thing
but obedience. If the Legislature will not assume
the responsibility, but chooses to declare that the
Senators are misrepresenting the people, the sena
tors may either disregard the declaration or repe
the charge, by submitting the question to the peo-
pie themselves.
This is the course of our Senators; if is wrong
let it be shown be So but let it not be by grossly
misstating it, Your organs may continue at their
dirty work, but by SO doing they will only debase
themselves-the position of those whora they assail
is impregnable. NORTH CAROLINA.