The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-18


lister quotes, does not refer to the pubic ands
other property of the Union in the Territories, is it
expressly declared in the latter clause of that section
paragraph, that snohing in this Constitution shall
be SO construed as to prejudice any claims ofthe
United States, or of any particular State'! Power
had been delegated to Congress to dispose of and
make all needfh rules and regulations respecting
the Territories other property sand thswas added,
that no State which might have claims to lands
in controversy, should be preiudiced or injured.
| Again: s. Congress shall have>power to make all
neeful rules and regulations These rules and
regulations therefore, to be Constitutional, must be
necessary Is the Wilmot Proviso e needfI rule''
or regulation Is it necessary We presume the
Register will not declare; and so declaring,
of course its reliance this grant of power dem
onstrate the Consttutonaity of the Wilmot ProYiso
is idle and vain. % '<t'1
The Register almost implores rs, from first tolast
through its ten mortal columns this subject be
done with arguments the Constitutional point and
unite with it in opposing the Proviso<as' unjust
and I" exceedingly offensive" We should be happy
to accommodate that paper in this regard but
not. We cannot consent to place this question on
grounds of expedieney, because if do, put the
North in the right and ourselves in the wrong, so
far as the Constitution is concerned and if
regarded the right enact this Provso doubtful,
we would not say So, and we could not, with due
regard to Southern interests, in the face of enc
mics, who eagerly catch up all our admissions this
subject they have heretofore uniformly wrested all
CONCESSIONS made for the sake of peace and the
Union, to prejudice and injury. But the Register
says diUideon the Constitutional question, and
that it is wrong for the Standard to press tha we
thereby revealing the weakness of heSouth and
playing into the hands of the Abolitionists. How
silly and how false is all this! Who, we ask,
caused this division Is'it not owing to Mr.. Badg-
er? And how many, out of the eighty thousand VoA
tiers in this State, agree with him in this respect
Not fire hundred, we feel sure and they would not
have done it, but for his in the Senate This
is the secret after all, of the Registers efforts the
Constitutional question, and of its attempts get
to be silent in relation to it. That paper knows that
Mr. Badgers fate politically is involved in the
suit that the people decide and speak for their
Constitutional rights, he will lose influence and final
Iy fall; and that Whigism here will fall with him.
People of North Carolina, choose. ye between Mr..
Senator Badger and your dearest CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS
The Register puts the following question to u.s. and
demands categorical answer.' &c Has not Com
gress the Constitutional right in organizing Terri
same, and make rules and regulations prescribing
the relation of master and slave ?' We answer No!
Congress, in humble opinion has no Jurisdiction
achaeUer Oner the question Of Slavery, sOhether the
States Territories and all ask of that body is,
to let this question aIOne This is the ground occupied
by the Democracy of the whole country, with some
exceptions, including both Gen-Cass and Mr.. Cal I
houn; and this is the position to which invite the
Register. Here we all unite in resisting North
aggressions, whatever may be peculiar views
to the Constitutional point and whatever the weap
we may select for our defence. Is the Register
answered! If not, and if it desires an more
at lengh would respectfully refer it to the South
ern Address and to- the Nicholson letter of Gen.
Cass.
But the Register, while it voluntarily admits the |
Constitutional power of Congress to pass the Wiot
Proviso land endeavors prove it-and while it de-
nounces agftators and Disunionists all those South
ern men, of both parties, who avow it to be their
intention to stand up for their rights the
same time protests that it sound the Szlcery gues
ton, and complains that we seeking show the
contrary. Now, what we have to say to that paper,
once for ALL is simply and purely this We do not
think that you design to betray the South this
question but if the worst must come you prefer your
party interests and your party obligations Southern
ItSuIS' VIC Oehefo Ihe EEOVlSO VIII pass
Congress, that Gen. Taylor will approve it, and that
you will sustain him in so doing. Not you would
nave all this provided you had your way and your
wishes; but the Whig party of the North, which
elected Taylor which still upbolds him. and which
leals out the patronage, wills it, and you submit
We Judge of the future only by the past; and we
give the following in support of our belief
md of these positions:
lst, You sustained Mr. BadUer in his ,onnosition
70 Texas, because Texas a slaveholding State. I
2. You voted for Millard Fillmore, notoriously .
Wilmot Proviso man, and in favor of aboshing the
between the States. ]
8. You opposed Mr.. Clayton's Compromise, which
offered government to the Territories without the
Proviso and which would have carried the question
fright tothe Supreme Court, and thus have settled it.
A. You either opposed did not approve the bill 9
of Senator Walker, which would have extended the
Federal Constitution California and with it the
lights of the STAKEHOLDER. Your Whig friend, Sena-
Seward, he has since stated the public used
MS best efforts defeat this b with the appreciation
md at the consent of Gen. Taylor and to substitute
or it Senator Websters, which would have confirmed
he Mexican laws, already in existence, and which,
yOu say will exclude Slavery from the Territories
5. You denounced the Resolutions of Mr.. Steele
1t the last session of the Legislature unnecessary
IS "tomfooery, as the work of political mounte-
'anks," and you did your best to defeat them and e
hat too though they supported and voted for by