North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-22
WING MOVEMENTS.


monstration in view of the approaching campaign.
Federal Guilford led of, and Federal Randolph and
= the Wing leaders of Raleigh have responded. ~By
the way, that Randolph Meeting must have been an
. amusing concern. Our Correspondent has no doubt
done it Justice. See his account in another column
We observe that the leaders of the party in this
State generally planting themselves on the fugi-
tive-slave law. This is all very well. The Demo-
Gratis are with them here, to man but at the same
time we think it nothing than simple justice to
have it understood and declared that this law is not
one of the " compromise - measures, but Demo
cratic measure. Itnever was part of the compro-
MISE" 1t was introduced by Mr.. Mason, of Virginia,
an contemporaries man-it adopted in pursuance
of plain provision of the Constitution, about which
there could be compromise ut was passed, as
general rule, by the very who had voted against
the admission of California, the dismemberment Of
Texas, and the bill abolshing the slave-trade in the
District of Columbia and it not signed by Mr..
Fillmore be it remembered until after he had procur-
ed the opinion of the Attorney General to the effect
that it was Constitutional law. Only three Whigs
in the House from Aeree States cOefo ii; and up to
this day, amid all the discussions and struggles to
which its enactment has given birth, the first Wing
Meeting TDhig Convention TN the free States has
forsoard approve it cordial decided terms The
sanctioned it in nearly all their primary Meetings and
State Conventions. 1t made the main issue by
them in Pennsy vania, and triumphed; it has been
sustained in New Hampshire, Illinois, Iowa, Mchi-
| gan, Democratic States and it beaten down in
! Wisconsin only by an open and admitted alliance be.
tween the Wing candidate for Governor and the viii
est Abolitionists. These are facts. We challenge
the Raleigh Register, any other Federal sheet, to
dispute them. They drawn from the record, and
we hold ourselves bound and able to make them good
to the very letter. We say, therefore. that the fugi
tive-slave law is Democratic measure-tha Mr..
Fillmore signed it, only after much deliberations and
the fair inference is that he would not have signed it
all if Mr.. Crittenden had pronounced it unconsttu-
tional-that it has met with favor from the North
ern Wings as body, but, on the contrary, with de-
nunciation and cries of modification repeal-that
the Democrats of the free States, party, have
stood and now standing by it, and will maintain
it is at all hazards and to the last extremity and
| under these circumstances, we hold that it would
have been bat fair and just, in the leaders in the
Wake Wing Meeting, to have confessed the facts
frankly, and have rendered to Mr.. Mason and the
opponents Of the compromise " their thanks for
having introduced and passed this law.
We shall have more to say this point hereafter.
But here, we repeat, the Wings and the Democrats
of this State are substantially together; they both
agree in declaring that this law is of vital importance
the saveholdng States, and that its repeal or
enforcement would be just cause for dssolving the !
Union. So far so good. The next question is, what
the Wings, party, in favor Of! Are they for
National Bank? Are they in favor of increasing |
the Tariff taxes of the people Are the Wing lead
ers of Wake for these thingsl If So why have they
not said so? And if not, why their silence! Are
those observation-disclosures. Bryan, Miller, Hinton, and
Gales-tor the ,chite basis? Do they favor Con-
venton of the people of this State? so, why have
they not said so! And if not, why they silent?
Are they afraid to show their hands
Again: What has Gov. Reid done, that these
movements against his Administration should be set
on foot nine months before the election! Have the
people expressed dissatisfaction on the subject? We
have heard none. And are the sober people of this
State willing, at time like this, plunge into the
excitement of campaigning merely to crafty some
thirty forty repudiated leaders! Are the friends
of Internal Improvement and of State progress pre-
pared at present to engage in the strife of politics. to
the neglect of their interests and the injury of their
cause! Is North Carolina to haze rest from the
excitement Of Federal politics Are the people have
no time left them to attend to their domestic
Germs? We put these questions from sincere de-
sire to advance the welfare of the State, and hope
they may be received in the same spirit and duly
pondered. D
But we do not PROPOSE at this time, to enter into II
discussion Of the questions which may arise during
the ensuing Summer. In the language of the Colds
bor'ugh Telegraph Whig paper " the agitation of
the question, who is to be next Governor = is
premature" The Telegraph continues:
Some time must elapse before Convention will
be necessary, and still longer time before the day of
H.. Al n
may come! Federal as we'll as State politics may m
assume different hue from that they wear. The
next Congress may interfere in such way with the
Compromise measures, to call forth from the South
the exercise of all their energies and power to pre-
serve even remnant of those rights which have al
ready been tamped under foot by the North. And II
instead OF fighting paper and squabbling at cleo
ton grounds about the proFriey Of making Charles
Manly David S. Reid Governor. the patriotic sons
Of North Carolina. Wings and Democrats. men from
the mountains and men from the seaboard. may be Il
called upon to stand side by side, armed with some
thing more dangerous to person than paper tickets "
and for the purpose of waging, not friendly war
with one another but hostile one with that section
of the Union which, forgeul of past favors and kind.
ness, would now turn and rend us, because ask II
be let alone, and because insist upon the faith
fol observance of that glorious work Of fathers
which holds us together a people, and makes
government respected at home and feared abroad hi
The people Of North Carolina desire repose. They W
satisfied, doubt not with the present admins
ration of the State Government; and it will be time NJ
enough to move, with reference both Federal and
State elections, when they shall give the word.
We have received a of g Fan,-