North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-04
[ From the New York Herald. I

We have repeatedly expressed our suspicious
that the Wings would knock under to the free-soil-
ers at Syracuse, while nothing but liberal appli
cation of solar salt applied to the Seward faction
and well rubbed in, would restore the nationality
of the wing party of the State. Our suspicious of
the dodge of the only question at issue between the
two sections, are most abundantly confirmed by the
platform set up by the Wing Convention. The de-
cePton IS as transparent as the Crystal Palace.
1t can be seen throug IN in any direction Let us
look into the matter little, and then let the read
er determine how far those windy, high sounding,
but unmeanng, resolutions of the Wing State Con-
vention will go-how far they will satisfy the con-
servatives of the South and induce them to reunite
with their late Northern allies of the late national
wing party.
The compromises consist of several great acts of
settlement, all of qOlsich everything IS su7Ye1a
dered to the North Except the constitution of the
United States. The whole of California, with its
apparently inexhaustible gold mines, its rich agri
cultural, commercial, and manufacturing resources,
its extensive territory its vastly important seaboard
OF nine hundred miles-the whole of Alta Califor-
nia with all these incalculable advantages to all of
which, upon every consideration of justice and right
and fair dealing, the South entitled to divi
sion by the Missouri compromise ine-yet the
whole of California was 6 ven up to free-sol and
the North, concession, for the sake of peace.
The South also waived their claim to the Missouri
line for Utah and New Mexico; they consented to
what they believed to be the dsmemberment of
slave State, for the purpose of Strengthening free
soil territory they also acquiesced in the abolition
of the slave trade in the District of Columbia,
though many Southern men deemed it but an en-
tering wedge to the abolition of slavery ITSELF and
this, and all their other concessions were made for
the sake of peace. And what did they get in re-
turn? A law binding their brethren of the North
to the simple duty Of an honest observance of a
plain obligation of the constitution. Nothing more
nothing less-than a law enforcing the principle
of honesty, in the surrender of fugtivesaves back
to their masters In other words the South in the
surrender of all their rights and title to the new
territories, paid the North, in prncey style to be
honest. The North accepted the bonus: but how
have they fulfilled their share of the adjustment
the simple obligation of honest adhesion to the
constitution
MIR. Clay was right in declaring, as he is said to
have declared, that the whig party of the North
was especially fathless to the compact of the late
adjustment. The proceedings of the late wing
State conventions in Ohio and Pennsylvania are
proof positive against them. They could not be
brought to recognise their duty of obedience to the
rugitve-Slave act, except in such vague general
es as were satisfactory to the consciences of the
disciples OF higher law. They gave up the prin-
clpies OF honesty for abolition votes and the Wing
ctate Convention of New York has done substan-
TALLY the same thing. =. - :,