North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-02


in putting down Freesoilism and they repulsed
They assured US they in earnest, but Southern
Whigism told them they were liars and hypocrites !!
They declared that such treatment from Southern
Whigs together with the charge so necessarily urged
against them by Northern Wings, that they were in
league with the Shareholders, and in favor of the
tension of Slavery, would, if continued, result in
s,oeepng out of po,oer the only party TN the free States
aoho tn favor IF Southern rights and they were
answered with three cheers for " Buena VISTA" nine
cheers for ''old Whitley, and with declarations to
the effect that Gen. Taylor had whipped every thing
heretofore, and was now in love with every body.
Such was National Whgism in Is4s.
In that campaign, in this State, while the Southern
doctrines above alluded to, used for Gen. Tay
| lor and against Gen. Cass, the people were at the
same time assured that Gen. Taylor did not belong
any party, and that as he had fought with of all
parties in Mexico, so he would know no party in his
appointments TO Office. He was elected, and forth
with the " owner of three hundred slaves - became
subservient to the policy and aims of such men as
Ewing and Seward /; and the who, of all others,
was said to look upon prescription with adherence.
was used at willing or unwilling instrument
for carrying out the most general system of proscrp
ton for opinions sake known to this country.
The leaders, hungry themselves for the spoils, and
urged to their work by the camorous myriads their
backs. spared neither honesty, age, nor and
when reminded of their grossly violated promises
in this respect, they cooy replied, either that the vic
Tins had been guilty of misconduct in Office,
that the administration entitled its own agents
to carry out its measures-thus injuring the good
names of the prescribed in order to Justify their own
Perfdy and meanness, and setting up the very doc
trine on this subject which they had dsayowed and
denounced before the people! But Gen. Taylor died
and if he was not hunted to his grave, Gen. Har
rison was by these no-party oce-seekers, it be-
he possessed vigorous constitution than
the latter, and took less interest in what was going
1t is notorious that, under his administra lion,
Freesoilism acquired strength and influence
which it had never possessed before and from that
day to this, it has been going steadily forward its
final triumph But it is scarcely necessary to review,
atany length, the measures the unprncpled Cabal
who controlled him. They are fresh in the minds of
the people, and they will not forget either the
policy which such men Seward and Preston per-
mitted him to call his own, the means by which
he was elected.
The Wing leaders were silent in 1s4s as to Bank
and Tariff; but they no doubt anxio US at this
time to establish the and increase the other. Dur
ing the last Congress a distinguished Wing from
Road iron, for the benefit of the manufacturers of
Pennsylvania; and we have Mr.. Clingman's author
ty for saying, that if this Wing proposition had
succeeded it ''would have increased much the
cost of the iron for the completion of the
two roads now in progress in North Carolina, to wit:
the Central and the relaying of the Raleigh and Gas
ton Road, to be equivalent to direct rnr on the
State of four hundred Mausnnd dollars.'' The Wing
leaders of this State, with the exception of Mr..
Badger, profess friendship for the Central Road and
the Raleigh and CASTOR Road, and say they desire
their speedy completion and yet in the face of these
professions they would heap direct taxi once,
of four hundred thousand dollars Internal I'm
provements in the Stale, in order that Northern
ufacturers may double their profits, and with the
view of holding the I" great Wing party together
Such and such is North Carolina Whgism.
Mr.. Fillmore succeeded Gen. Taylor. He has al
ways been violent anti-Slavery man, and in 1886
he was Abolitionist. Next to William H. Sew
ard, Thurlow Weed, and Horace Greedy, he has done
as much as any in the free States in getting up
the anti-Savery agitation and in Keeping it in pro-
gress. Like Daniel Webster, he has assisted in
arousng spirit which he put down, if he
would. His sympathies all with assalants
and enemies Charged with the execution of the laws
and to them executed he refuses the army
and navy to the Marshal Boston, but directs him
to I" hire house " to hold the captured fugtves
and when the Marshal fails obey him in this res
Pect, and after gang of free negroes and nfa
white have broken into the Court of justice and
taken away the fugitive by force, he issues Proc
lamaton on the subject, and sends in a Message to
the Senate in which he admits that the Marshal had
not hired house - he instructed him to do and
regrets that he has not done so while at the same
time he continues him in office. Protesting, with
his SOuthern partizans, to hold William H. Seward
in detestaton, he authorizes his personal and po-
cal organ. the Republic, to express the "gratfca-
ton " with which he has heard of the election to the
Senate of the United States of Hamilton Fish, an
ally and friend of Seward and Seward himself, at
large Wing assemblage in New York City, in res
ponding to toast in which the President and him
self were included. speaks of the President as the
:" i!lustrous son of New York; and treats him. in
all he says of him, of Whigism, and of the Union,
as one of his particular associates and friends On
the other hand Southern Governor is dragged from
his duties on mere suspicion, and subjected to the
formalities of trial, charge of having aided a
downtrodden people in their efforts for freedom and
a sovereign Southern State, which chooses to mani
fest determination to tear aoOay, if possible from
her assaants and enemies, is dealt with in no spirit
of charity or of kindness, but is threatened by the
Prime Minister of this President, in public letter.
with fire and sword and the penalties of treason.
And this is the man who is pronounced nv the Rail