Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-05
AN ADDR ESS,
WHITE OAK, April goth, 1852
To my FtAoc- Citizens, the Democrats o. '0""-
ston County.

we'll for the selection OF youl a. Az
y, Gov the nurpose of appointing delegates 10 inc
$500 and Nashville Conventions; the former
~ nominate your Candidate for Governor inc
latter TO elect your representative to the baiIore
Convention whose important duty 1t VIII De- u
aid in choosing from the list OF distinguished oeo
cratic competitors, the most suitable Caholo't'eS
for the HIGH offices of President and VICE Ireside
of the United States. | should be glad 10 NC lIo
sent and to speak to you, in person. ABOUT ti''
great questions upon which you are soon 10 ''c'
to congratulate YOU upon the triumPhs OF inc III
vincibie democracy, and to urge upon each OF YOU
the exercise of every honorable and legltlmale
,ooons +o foster. forward and perpetuatc those
cherished principles for which Washington 'eF
forSon Madison. jackson, Polk and most Oh our
,oto,,nor,rcs Of worldwide fame, have SO honest
w and so bravely contended. But It provldentlal
dspensation as unexpected as 1t Is afflctNe' lheS
II necessary for me to be absent from the 0tate or
a few weeks and feeling under obligations 10 you
for that confidence and partialty which has Placed
me in the position of one of your representatives.
for several years. besides my identity as ctlzell
7 am not willing to set off on my journey, without
addressing to YOU a word of laid and comfort
and of warning, how feeble soever 1t may be.
IF experience has taught us, that the present
Tariff based upon the ad valorem principle the
object of which being revenue alone, has brought
more money into the Treasury, with less inequality
md oppression in its operation, than the protective
policy setting aside the constitutional question,
it is both our duty and interest to Oppose Its re-
peal. ,,.
If experience has taught us that the country has
prospered to an unparalleled degree without the
agency of United States bank, III spite OF the
efforts and predictions of its advocates to the con-
trary, and that the sub-Ireasury has answered the
ends for which it was established, being safe and
sure mode of receiving and discussing the public
money, we ought to continue our opposition to the
former, and our advocacy of the latter.
If we find in the Constitution, no power by
which Congress can carry on works OF Internal
Improvement, by appropriations from the public
Treasury or pass any law, the right to do which IS
not clearly expressed or legtimatey inferred us
to leave no doubt as to the intention of its trainers,
it is too late now to abandon the doctrine. Our
democratic predecessors have fought too many bat
ties upon these questions We, ourselves, nave
shaped our political conduct by them too long.
Under their auspices, from an infant, our country
has grown to be the great giant of nations. They
have become fixed facts" in our history. Even
with wing administration, these fundamental
principles in the democratic creed are left in quiet
repose. But why! The answer is obvious. y
head without body fit were possible for it to
plan, it could not execute. The President has no
power in Congress. The majority is against him.
The people have again decided in favor of demo-
cratic measures. They have uniformly done So,
unless dazzled, for the time by the glory OF mill
tary achievements Or deceived by the presentation
of false issues no issues at all. but the day Il
whg President is installed in office, with majority
in the National Legislature, will be the resurrec-
ton morn for the Tariff, Bank, Internal Improve
ments, with all the other ingredients of the great
American System. You will find that &" Ephraim
is Joined to his idols" You will then be exult-
ingy asked, are not ALBANIA and Pharpar, rivers of
Damascus better than all the waters Israel " The
answer which has been made under like circum-
stances will again be given. In Jordan alone can
the disease of the body polite be healed. But if
they have given up their old issues, they thereby
acknowledge that they have been wrong, and being
wrong in so many important particulars 1t would
be prudent for them to make new ones with great
caution and reasonable distrust of their political
effect But they have made what they regard as
two new issues, on which they hope to carry both
the federal and State elections. The first is They
claim to be the great Union party, who stepped
forward in the midst of the storm and lashed the
ship of State to the Constitution, and that the
democratic party, having thrown the flag of seces-
sion to the breeze, were for dashing it into frag-
ments. The second is They advocate amendments
to the State Constitution by open Convention, and
oppose them by Legislative enactment. Let me,
gentlemen, examine for a moment this narrow
platform. Upon what ground do they claim to be
the Union party! The vote in both houses of
Congress upon the fugitive slave bill-the passage
o which all agree saved the Union-will place this
pretenson in its true light. "Facts are stubborn
things" Let them speak. How stands the vote ?
One hundred Democrats voted for the bill to
eighteen against it. Thirty six Wings voted for
the bill to sixty-fve against it. This statement
shows.you that in the Wing ranks, not counting
the free soil vote majority of twenty-nine voted
against the Union, whilst majority of eighty-two
Democrats voted for it. After this showing it is
folly to combat this issue by further argument
Fifty -seven northern Wings voted against the bill
to three for it. 1t is pretty certain that General
Scott will be their candidate. Southern wings
say that in voting for President, pledges to execute
the fugitive slave law will be a Sina ana noa y
Gen. Scott has not given them. He will not give
them, even if his opinions would allow him to do
so, and why He wants the vote of these fifty
seven wing representatives and that of their aboli
ton constituents. Under such circumstances, with
their interests at stake and their conditions not
complied with, will the Wing party South support
him! VIII MIR. Stanly's assurance, that before the
passage of the compromise measures and afterwards
Gen. Scott was in favor of them, satisfy their de-
mands and case their apprehensions of the danger
OF placing man at the head of the Government
unpledged to support the only law, which secures
their property and persons, and dependent mainly
upon abolition votes for his election? If he was
for the measures as whole he may have been op-
posed to the fugitive slave provision and only de
sired that they might pass to avert, at the time
the impending danger to the Union. If he is fol
the execution of the law, why will he not say 6,