North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-10

bound 10 the car of Freesoilism, has denounced this
coalition and held It up in its coors to the South
ern people. The Fayetteville Observer and Peters
burg Inteligencer have done in severe terms and
the Baltimore American, speaking of it, says: 1t
wants honesty It wants sincerity. II is not plat
form upon which Northern Wings stand and look
their Southern brethren honestly in the face' And
vet all this TO nothing in the judgment of the
New York Tribune and the Raleigh Register. They
declare that this coalition is just and fair; and that
those who seek expose to the people and 10 warn
the South Of impending danger and renewed agisa-
tion are the veriest clamorers, y babblers. and
I" Disunionsts ..--.-.--
But the Registers if one wrong could justify
another-will reply to this, that the Democrats of
Massachusetts formed coalition with the Abolition
lists, by which they elected Sumner to the Senate and
carried the State. We admitted the fact at the time,
and deplored and denounced it. But the Massachu-
Democracy have recovered from this unfortunate
condition. and doing all they to atone for
their grievous At their late Convention in
cester the sound and national portion of that party
trumphed, and the following Resolutions were adop-
ted
Resolved, That the Democratic party is pre-emi-
neny national and not sectional, and for the Union
whole Union; that it has always sustained and
only retain its supremacy in the Union by adj
herring to its own and measures, reposing its
fundamental principles of excluding all tests marked
by sectional lines, South North, East West, and
by leaving to the sound of the people of each
State and Territory their domestic policy and nsti
tutions.
Resofred, That the convention re-afrms the resou-
ton passed by the democratic State convention,
September l6, 1916, in Fanueil Hail. in these words:
ResoUed, That we hold to the integrity of the Union
established by the constitution, and therefore
deprecate disunion, its acorst form, the attempts
of any party class to stignaize and den0unce
port of the Union its domestic institutions with
which the constitution does not interfere and of the
proprety of which each State is its Independent
judge.
ResOlued, That the democratic party of the Com
monwealth is national and sectional party and
fully and unreservedy adopts the resolutions of the
national democratic convention of Baltimore in ls49,
the only truly democratic creed.
Resolred, That the Baltimore platform covers, and
intended to embrace, the whole question of slave
agitation in Congress- and, therefore, tUe go for
faithful execution and acquiescence an aNe compromise
measures Of the lat Congress-
Can the Register show any thing like that as the
result of the deliberations of any Wing Convention
or Wing Legislature in the free States?
The Democrats of Pennsylvania have spoken out
in even stronger language in behalf of the Consti-
uonal rights of the South and against any further
agitation of the Slavery question and indeed in all
tine free States, where Democratic Conventions have
been held since the passage of the compromise
been in fauOr Of the faithful execution Of the fugitive
saUe aaO, and against the RENEWAL Of the arery agi-
t;on The difference between the parties present
appears, therefore, be follows: The Democrats
of the North declare that they regard the compro-
mise measures - as final settlement of the Slavery
question: and that they will resist all attempts
peal or modify the fugitve-slave law; and the De-
mocrats of the South have announced, that although
they cons ider some of these unjust the
South, yet they will acquiesce in them, and stand
by them, for the sake of the u MON, provided the
free States will do the same. portion of the
Northern wings evince willingness to respect these
and to oppose the repeal modification of
The fugitive-slave law, but vast majority of them
have taken the opposite ground. declaring that they
will discuss, modify, repeal, opportunity may of
Ter; and the former, on all occasions where the two
have met in council, haze surrendered to The latter.
The Wings in the slaveholding States, or large
majority of them, approve of these compromise
measures as just and fair towards the South, and
ienounce all, TN the South who will not do the same
while at the time they act in with the
Seward Wings of the free States,
md justify all the coalitions they form the basis
# opposition to the fugitive-slave law. The Demo-
rats of the free States speak kindly and respectful
in all their Conventions, of the people of the slave
ol0Ing StateS Inc wings oil the Tree StdeS IN their
alude to the South only as section TO
assaulted and circumscrbed in its area and as en-
tiled to rights but such flow from municipal
equations and So municipal - law. These are facts,
which we challenge the Wing papers of this State to
1eet and disprove.
And yet these Southern Wings and these Northern
Wigs constitute the 80 Union - party! In minori-
of some twelve or fourteen in the Senate, and with
My eighty-fve out of the two hundred and thirty
lree members of the House, they are to save the ,
Jnion-hhey TO rebuke Disunion, and make us
ontented, prosperous and happy! Potent indeed are
ley for such work. If the Union depended on
for its preservation it would go pieces in
twelve-month. The s. Union party ''-the Sew -.
dtes, the Scott men, the Fillmore men of the North
the clutches of Seward and his gang, and the STAN
and Register Wings of the South-these are the
Individuals who arctic from Disunion to pro-
ct rights, and give the Constitution, Justice,
rotherly feeling, and political equality The q
Union party! These people remind us of the =,
EVIL when he took the Saviour of mankind on f
le pinnacle of the temple and offered hin all the
lngdoms of the earth if he would fall down and I
orshp him. His Imperial BIackness possessed not {
red cent? of all these treasures, nor an acre of h
round yet he made large offers and boosted of his
over. 1t is just with these s. Union >, Wings s
hey promise to the Union, and invite the peo- y
e every where to join them on this PROMISE when =
10 fact is they cannot muster strength enough in the
ltional Senate or House of Representatives elect