North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19

they came very near deleatHg tue passage OF Inc cV
and diplomatic appropriation BILL which, after the
rejection of the Clayton bill we had attached the pro-
vision.
My only reason for voting in favor of the PROPOSE
iionto repeal the Mexican law, when made at the
last session. was, that knew properly be sens-
tive, and feared that many persons might be deter
red from removing with their slaves to those terrific
rics, even should the discovery OF valuable mines
render their labor profitable after the opinions of such
men as Clay and Webster given in favor of the
validity of the Mexican law abolishng slavery. For
that reason, and that alone, a0Otifd again uoe for lis
| repeal
! You say that am claimed by the Union-submis-
sion party OF your county If the claim set up rests
upon che supposifion that am an advocate for the
formation of third party, either State federal, is
most erroneous. When attempted at Washington,
during the last session, think may safely say that
contributed more to defeat the movement than
did. have always considered the good old Dem
ocratic party the true Union party and that moth
ing is required to put down sectional divisions,
and preserve reace and harmony, than to have the
government administered in strict conformity with
democratic principles. l have ever been State
Rights of the Jefferson school, and fearless
y appeal to my whole public life in proof of the
sertion am not, however, prepared to admit that
the States possess either the cons tutiona the
served right to secede from the Union. consider it
to be paramount right. inherent in every people, TO
free themselves from oppression, when the action of
the government violates their essential rights, and be-
comes too grevous to be borne; and that, from the
nature of our federative SYSTEM it would be the most
effectual mode to accomplish that object.
have heretofore given publicity to my views as to
the position which conceive the slaveholding States
should occupy in reference the action of the last
Congress and will not extend this long letter by
apitulang them, but refer you to my answer to
the invitation of the citizens of Tuscaloosa, in the
month of October last Nothing has since occurred
to induce to change the opinions therein express
ed. 1t will at all times afford me pleasure to conmu-
nicate with you freely upon all subjects of public in
ssresa Faithfully am yTTr eSd and K GPSd!en
Col. A. B. CLIrHERALL.
We heard, few days since, of gentleman in
Alabama who had made up his mind not to vote at
the approaching election, and gave the following
reasons for his intended course Said he, " want
the Union ticket in this State be elected by very
small majority, for believe that overwhelming de-
feat of the Southern Rights party would ruin The
North would be embodened to yet greater disregard
of our rights, whereas, if the majority is small one,
it will be construed into evidence of strong resis
lance feeling here, and will restrain the encroach
ments of the Morrill, Last winter, while the cleo
ton going in this city, we happened TO stand
at the polls with a New Yorker, who had been resi-
roll of Southern Rig hts tickets in his hand, we asked
with surprise, if he distributing them.
s. Certainly, said he, g should like to that box
full of them. vote this ticket he continued, not
only because believe that justice is on the side of
the South in this controversy, but l am so well ac
quainted with the state of the public mind at the
orth and know well how it is acted upon by the
state Of feeling here, that am satisfied that the SUI
way restrain fanaIicsm there and thus the
Union, is to roll up tremendous popular majority for
SOUTHERN RIGHTs.'
The moral of these incidents is apparent. The
Southern Rights party is the Resistance party, and in
the spirit of resistance is be found the only
conservatism, only of rights but of the Union
ITSELF There is to be found in the history of the
Legislation of the last few years. single redeemng
feature which did originate in regard for this spr
it. Had the Southern States acted with union and
zeal in sending delegates to the first Nashville Con-
vention, the compromise measures would never have
passed Had the Southern Rights mass meeting at
Macon last August, mustered twenty thousand strong,
we should have heard Of submission in Georgia.
w hat true then is true The Southern Rights
party is yet regarded the North the party of
sisance, and so, too, the Union party, however it may
repudiae the name, is looked upon there here the
party of submission. The people on both sides of
the Chattahoochee are now engaged in struggle in
which these identical issues involved Not, in
Iced, whether they will resist submit to the meas
nres of the compromise, but whether the States
he provinces Of the general government whether
IN irresponsible majority Washington or the pec-
pie of the several States really the sovereigns of
he land. The country is divided into parties, of
which is essentially State Rights. and the other
consolidation party. Columbus (Ga.) Seminal
PoULTRY. There seems TO be no branch of domes-
ic economy less understood than proftaby raising