North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-27

Oregon by the ordinance of the people and the act of
Congress in lS4S-in Utah and New Mexico by the
laws and constitution of Mexico before they
ded to the United States-in California by the
constitutional Texas by the act of annexation and
her constitutionand in the District of Coumbia
by the suppression of the slave trade and the refusal
to abolish slavery while 1t exists in adjoining states
There Isl therefore, territory in the Uni'ed States
mot one inch square-on which the slavery ques-
ton be raisedno an inch of ground to stand upon
TO raise that question-and it is all whig trick to
pretend that there is in order to gofy themselves
defenders of the Union. The fugitive slave act is
carried into effect every where by all courts, state and
edra without the least necessity for the army and
navy" There is, therefore, chance for future
slavery question and if there was Mr. w oodbury is
the exact man to meet it-he who in thirty years
ton on the subject has held constitutions
al, upright and conciliatory that not breath of
sure has ever fallen upon him-not even from the
tremes of either north or south.
8. He is not self-made candidate, the candi-
date of any man, set of men, of any cOterie
nor OF any segment clique or fragment of the dem
ocrauc party but has for six years retired from pol
tics, and secluded himself upon the judicial bench.
He seeks not the presidency; and if made president
it will have to be by drawing him from his retreat
the bench, as Washington was drawn from Mount
Vernon, Jefferson from Monticello, and Jackson from
the Hermitage. This is special recommendation with
store the selection well the election, OF pres
dent to the unbiased will OF the people.
10. He is the last of the Jackson stock-the last
OF the Jackson school-that be made president.
beginning to the end of Jacksons adm nstration
nued under his four years more and large
y contributed to the full revival and complete estab-
lIshment of Jeffersonian democracy. II elected he
will be the worthy contnuator of the Jeersonian and
Jackson policy.
IL. He is the most hated of all the named cand-
dates by the wings. They are ferocious upon him
more ferocious than cannibals-and fly at him from
the first moment of his nomination and that is
son for the democracy to take him. The military en-
envy attacks the weak points-the political enemy the
strong points. The wings attack Mr.. Woodbury. be-
they fear him. and that reason for the democ
racy to prefer him. To learn wisdom from the con-
duct OF the enemy, is maxim of most ancient and
approved utility, and applicable in civil in mill
tary warfare; and never more applicable in either
case than in the present conduct of the wings towards
Mr.. Woodbury..
IL. Finally, his preeminently special and truly
browning recommendation is, that he CAN be elected
and WILL be if nominated and that wthou: the least
regard to who his competitor may be-whether of
or obsolete Preensons the hero of battles of COM
promises, the defender of the constitution and guar
man now in the chair of state, and who signed his
own political death warrant, his first presidential
act in accepting the support instead of the opposition
OF that restless Paclcator who pacfy every thing
but himself-whose support is rule, and whose rule
IS ruin. He WILL be elected if nominated ; and
IT no nomination any one by the convention should
be made, then he will be one of the three that will
enter the House, and the head ofthe list and will
be elected there; for the Congress elections already
made assure majority in the next House both of
democratic members and democratic states-a MAORI
ty somewhat discordant, but which CAN, and WILL
unit upon Woodbury..