Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-11-20
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I6, 1850.
THE RESULT IN NEW YORK. .

THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.
It's now pretty well settled that Washington
Hunt, the Wing candidate, has been elected Govern
or of New York. The Congressional delegation is
about equally divided; but the Wings have carried
the Legislature, thus securing Whig Senator in
place of Mr.. Dickinson.
Tile election of Washington Hunt is triumph OF
sewardism, and will have tendency to increase "a
ther than diminish the of anti-slavery agta-
ton He was supported by both wings of the party,
but it was clear, during the whole contest, that he
was the peculiar favorite of Greedy and the Seward
ties. In his letter accepting the nomination of the
Syracuse Convention he said:
"In surveying the measures of Congress connect
ed with the slavery question, we should rejoice in
the prohibition of the slave trade in the District of
Columbia. hail this great measure of patriot
ism and humanity. 1t removes from the capital d
traffic which shocked the sentiments of the people,
and brought reproach upon our national character.
should be wanting in candor if l omitted to say
that depore the passage of the Fugitive slave law,
in its present form. Recognising to the fullest ex
tent the constitutional obligation which is intended
to enforce regret the features of this bill, which
are calculated, to arrest agitation, but to make It
more intense and universal. 1t could not have been
well considered and needs essential notifications.
The summary operation of its provisions conflicts
with all notions of personal right and security,
derived from the common law, and recognized by ev-
cry free constitution
In the election of Mr.. Hunt New York has, there
fore, spoken out against the Fugitive Slave Law.
He deplores' its passage, and denounces it as in
"confict with ALP his notions of personal right and
security, derived from the common law, and recog-
nzed by every free constitution Thus It'll that the
Empire State puts her negative upon the only law
of the series of Compromise measures" adopted at
the late session, which was designed for Southern
benefit and We have doubt that most if not all
her members of Congress will vote for its essential
modification or repeal. The Union Meeting in the
City perhaps effected some good for justice and the
Constitution; but there after all the expressions
which were INDUCED in against fnaticism and Sew
wardism, Mr.. Seymour, the Democratic candidate,
only obtained some thousand majority.
Mr.. Brooks, Of the Express, who has recently ia
ken son grounds in his paper for the Constitutional
rights of the Southern people, has, it is true, been
elected; but he did not vote the Fugitive Slave
b and he distinctly declared in an Editorial, pend
inc the election that he could not have voted for it il
he had been in his seat. Like the President, and
good many others at the North, he talks very we'll;
but when the time for decided action is required he is
generally among the missing.
The following are the Resolutions the Slavery
question, adopted by the Democratic Convention Of
New York which nominated Mr. Seymour for Gov
ernor:
Resolued, That the Democratic party of New York
are proud to avow their fraternity with and devotion
to the great principles of the Democratic Party of the
Union, as declared by the National Democratic Con
ventions held at Baltimore in 1910, 1874, and le4s
and they look forward in hope and confidence to the
complete triumph of that party in 1852.
Resolued, That we congratulate the Country upon
the recent settlement by Congress of the questions
which have unhappily divided the people of these
States
Resotued, That devoted to the principles and form
OF our confederation, mindful of the blessings II
has secured to ourselves and to mankind and regard
ing the citizens of all sections of our country al
members of common brotherhood, we cherish the
Union of the States the ark of political cove
nant; and that deprecate all sectional agitaons
the North South, calculated to impair its sacred
o'.lgat'ons, or to threaten its prosperity"
Ihe election of Mr.. Seymour, under all these cir
cumstances' was decidedly preferred by the South
and MS defeat must contribute in no small degree to
weaken still more that feeling of faith in Southern
oosoms In the good or just intentions of the Northern
people. Upon the whole, we consider the result in
new York as against the South and as calculated to
increase agitation and imperil the Union still urthe,
and deeper. "This fanaticism,'' in tho prophetic
language of Mr.. Calhoun, wiu go to its e,,d What
will that end be!
i 1t Is evident also, that the Democrats were no,
united as they should have been in this election The
.o'e considerably behind, and it falls off most il
'ne barnburnng" Districts. This shows that .hes.
"en-tae Barnbarnets ''-ase not to bs ssIiea ap.
on under any circumstances. Many Of them pre-,
@nded to be satisfied with the nominations and cor
a'a' In their support Of them, while at the same tint
%ey were leagued with the enemy and playing inte
me hands of Seward. -,
O., the Southern people expect the Fugitive Slave
N'ase Law to stand, and if they are determined a.
e know they are, to insist for the future upon ali
'i f'gnts' they must unite to man in compelling
'''AeFn politicians to disregard party until Justice