North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-16
nEMocRAr1c DISTRICT CONVENTION.

DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT CONVENTION.
According 10 previous notice, Convention Of del
egates from the several Counties composing this
1Sonoressional District, assembled in the Town of
GatesyiIle on Monday, the 3lst ult. On motion OF
Whitmeil Stallings. Esq, rhos. Bragg IT.. Esq. of
Northampton, was elected President, and WIN. F.
Martin of Elizabeth City, Secretary.
On taking the chair, the President explained the
object of the Convention, viz the nomination of
Democratic candidate for Congress.
The several couuties were then called, and the fol-
lowing delegates appeared s..
Northampfon-Th Bragg, Jr. ~ 8
Bertie-Willie J. Gillian. James r. Duers, Geo.
Lane Col. w. g. Morley.
Hergord-Dr. R. billiard, A. Thomas, Col. +.
Jordan, VIM. Il. Bynum, Jas. II. Parker.
Gutes-Abel Rogerson, Whtlnell Stallings, Guy
Hobbs, VIM. E. Pitcher, Thomas E. Powell, VIM.
Manning, Noah Rountree, Alfred Rountree, Samuei
Lowther, VIM. H. Harrell, David Parker. VIM. W.
Hall, Jethro Blanchard. Henry Hotter. Jnn. J. Hun
ter, Hance Hotter, VIM. R. Jones. Thomas Riddick,
James K. Costen, Chas E. Ballard, Edw'd Harreil
Rizop Rawls. Seth K. Norfeet, Robert b. Parker,
Aug. Jones: Jas. Briggs John r. Morgan; ANDREW
Simon Walters, Blake Baker, l. Williams Sem, w m.
Cross, l. Pierce. George Moore. R. Calling, J. B.
Langston, P. Eure. J. Wiley, L. E: Parker, w. w.
Cooper, II. w. Parker. X. Parker, ]. B. Story, w.
H. Cross, B. Seares, B. Brady, R. H. Ballard. J.
Carter, ]. F. Parker, D. D. Eure, J. Brady, IT,, E.
Parker, ]. Nj. Matthews, ]. Nj. Parker, ]. Lee. L..
Green, VIM. G. Daughtry, Lassiter Riddick. Dr. H.
G.. Wiley, Solomon Rountree, John Figg, Thos. G..
Vaughan. Willis R. Hays, Marmaduke Norfeet,
James Jones.
CA0wan-R. R. Heath, G. w. Brrrer. L. 1. John
son, VIM. N. Fleetwood, Luther Long, Joseph Can
non. Jr.
Perouin.ans-E. w. Riddick, Josiah Perry, ]. P.
Jordan, Joseph Bunch.
Pasquotank-L. D. Starke, w. F. Martin.
Currituck-Solomon Ashbee, Benz. L. Simmons.
THE counties of Martin and Camden were not
represented
On motion of w. ]. Gillian of Berthe. a commit
consisting of one delegate from each County was
appointed by the chair to present to the convention
the name of suitable person the Democratic can
didate for Congress for the ninth District.
COMMITTEE R. R. Heath, Whtmell Stallings.
J. P. Jordan, w. ]. Gillian, DR.. r. billiard, Sol.
Ashbee, and l.. d. Starke.
The committee after retiring returned and reported
the name of DIR. Henry NJ Shaw of Currituck as a
suitable person represent the ninth Congressional
District, in the next Congress. The nominal ton
having been submitted TO the Convention was un1n-
imousty confirmed.
On motion, the following committee was appoint
ed to inform DR.. Shaw Of his nomination, and in
structed express to him the desire of the Conven-
ton for his acceptance, and to enter upon the can
vass at his earliest practicable convenience: W. r.
Martin, Willie ]. Gillian. Whitmell Stallings, K.
r. Heath, and Pleasant Jordan.
On motion of Mr.. Gillian a committee consisting
Of the following persons to witt L. l; Johnson. w.
G. Daughtry, Willie Gillian and l.. Starke, was ap-
pointed to draft resolutions for the consideration OF
the Convention and on motion of r. X. Heath the
Chairman of the Convention WAS added to the COM
mittee.
The committee retired and through their Chairman
L. l. Johnston, ESQ.,, reported the following pream-
amble and resolutions which unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, we regard the Constitution of the Uni
ted States the ark of Saety-the only star by
which the ship of State can be safely guided when
the storms Of fanaticsm gather around and where
entertain sentiments of the high veneration
for that sacred instrument, which, if carried out in tie
spirit for the purpose intended by its illustrouS tram
ers, will be handed down, paired, from genera
ton to generation the most precious legacy which
noble and patriotic ancestry could bequeath 10 thei
descendanis-shedd ing its blessings, like the dews
of heaven, equally upon al-but which, if perverted
for purposes Of ambition fanaticism, will become
engine uf corruption and oppression too intoera-
BILE TO be borne and whereas we believe the intern
ton put upon the Constitution by the lustrous lead
of the Democratic party be true, and ndispen-
SADLY necessary to the perpetuity of the Union and
the independence of the States; and Whereas mt ch
excitement has for sometime prevailed in the public
mind in regard to the slavery question, in all its bear
ings; therefore,
l. Resolred, That we regard the .. adjustment -
measures adopted by Congress the subject OF
slavery involving nothing but concessions on the
part of the South, without any adequate return by
the North that the South lost every thing and gained
nothing by said measures but that, they have be-
come part of the law of the land, would submit
to them rather than this Union dissolved, provi-
ded they are all faithfully and rigidly executed.
3 Res0Lred, That if the said measures not car
ed out honestly and in the spirit of Compromise in
which they were passed, and our Northern brethren
continue the aggressions of which we have hereto
fore had much cause to complain, we claim 1t as
right, as it will be our duty to such agrees
sions with force. should be necessary, let the
consequences be what they may-and should such
resistance end in dissolution of the Union of these
States, the fault will be theirs, not ours.
8. Resokred That, far old party lines con-
sidered the policy of the Democratic party has been
indicated by the r. test of experience, and is now
acknowledged, in the main, to be the true policy by
many of those who have heretofore been its most vi
oent opponents.
4. Resolved That reiterate devotion to
those great cardinal principles of the Democratic par
ty, which have heen fruitful of blessings 10 the
people, and so we'll calculated to preserve the Gov
eminent in its original purity and integrity.
J. P Jordan and w. F. Martin, Esqrs., being res
pectively called upon, addressed the Convention.
On motion, it ordered that the proceedings of
the Convention be signed by the Chairman and Sec
rotary, and published in the Pinoeer, Standard and
Norfolk Argus.
After passing vote of thanks to the officers of
the Convention, for the dignity and efficiency with
which they had discharged their respective duties,
the Convention adjourned.
THOMAS BRAGG, JR., President.
WILLIAM F. MARTIN, Secretary.
MACHINE FOR MAKING ENVELOPES. The Worces-
ter (Mass.) Spy gives the following account of new