Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-11-26
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vHIG MOVEMENTS.

rhs Wings or Federalists OF this S'ate-we mean
'.:.,. not the masses-are making an early de-
s.'.,oo s. a view IF the approaching campaign.
r r,sn1 (u;lford led of, ant Federal Randolph and
4, Wbg leaders of Raleigh hsve responded. BY
ss xsy. ,ha, Randolph Meeting must have been an
,Oosuo concern. Our Correspondent has no oooo'
1nk i, Justice. See his account in another column:
We observe that the leaders of the party in this
Ssse are generally planting themselves on the fugi-
tres|ave law. This is all very well. The Demo-
rats are with them here, to man but at the same
time We think it nothing more than simple justice to
have understood and declared, that this law is not
on. Of the compromise measures. but Demo-
cratic measure. 1t never was part of the 6 compro-
mise" 1t was introduced by Mr.. Mason, of Virginia,
an,-compromise man-it was adopted 10 pr rsuance
plain provision of the Constitution, about which
there could be no compromise ut was passed. as
general rue by the very men who had voted against
the admission of California, the dismemberment OF
Texas, and the bill abolishing the slave-trade in the
District Of Columbia and it Was not signed by MIR.
Fillmore, be it remembered, until after he had procur.
The opinion of the Attorney General to the effect
that was Constitutional law. Only three Wings
isAe House from the free States rotedfor it; and up to
this day, amid all the discussions and struggles to
which its enactment has given birh MOI the first Wing
Melting or Whig Convention in the free States has come
frrad 10 approve it in cordial or decided terms. The
Democrats of the free States, the contrary, have
sanctioned in nearly all their primary Meetings and
State Conventions. 1t was made the main issue by
them in Pennsylvania, and trumphed; it has been
sustained in New Hampshire, Illinois, Iowa, Michi-
gn Democratic States and it was beaten down in
Wisconsin only by an open and admitted alliance be-
tween the Whig candidate for Governor and the viii
est Aboli,ionisls. These ore .faets. We challenge
the Raleigh Register, any other Federal sheet, to
dispute them. They are drawn from the record, and
Eehold ourselves bound and able to make them good
ohe very letter. We say, therefore, that the fugi.
d'eslave law is Democratic measure-that Mr..
Fillmore signed it, only after much deliberation, and
The fr inference is that he would not have signed II
all NJ. Crittenden had pronounced ii unconstitu-
doual-hat it has met with no favor from the North
en Wings as body, but, on the contrary, with de-
nurciation and cries of modification or rePeal-that
the Democrats of the free States, as party, have
stood and are now standing by it, and will maintain
E is all hazards and to the last extremity and
Under these circumstances, we hold that it would
nave been bat fair and just, in the leaders in the
Wake Whig Meeting, to have confessed the facts
fanky, and to have rendered to Mr.. Mason and the
Opponents Of the compromise y their thanks fol
haElng introduced and passed this law.
We shall have more to say on this point hereafter
But here, We repeat, the Wings and the Democrat
Of this State are substantially together; they bo,t
agree in declaring THAI this law is of vital importance
The s'avehodng States, and that its repeal or non
enforcement would be just cause for dissolvlng tn
onIon So far so good. The nextqurstion is, wha
are The Wings. as party, in favor Of! Are they 70
National Baukl Are they in favor Of increasing
me fa'lftaxes Of the people! Are the Wing lead
s"o Wake for these things? If 81. why have the.
n0' said so! And if not, why their silence? Ar
"0se genslemen-Messrs. Bryan, Miller, Hinton. an
'a'es-for the ,ohite basis? Do they favor Con
'enon of the people of this State! If SO, why hav
ney not said so. And if not, why they are silent
ale 'ney afraid to show their hands
Again: What has Gov. Reid done, that thes
movements against his Administration should be Sc
'" 'oo' nine months before the election! Have til
p'ps expressed dissatisfaction on the subject! w
s''e 90 heard none. And are the sober people Of thi
s"s willing, at time like this, TO plunge into tn
,h .hs'snent of campaigning merely to crafty som
I"'S Or forty repudiated leaders! Are the friend
'n'efnal improvement and of State progress, pre-
raeo present to engage in the strife of politics,
esect of their interests and the injury of the
''sss Is North Carolina to haue no rest from I'll
aeaent Of Federal political Are the people to hav
"ae left them to attend to their domestic COZ
y; :'~' We put these questions from sincere d,
~ % advance the welfare of the State, and we hop
pOadered.
'' We do not propose, at this time, to enter int
'''eo's'0n Of the questions which may arise durin