Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-10-06
7 The New Fork Vhig State Convention,
leld last week at Syracuse. adopted the following

-Ss'S LID PoPOis GAlcs AIlUuuc
s." The only difference Of opinion developed relates
to the everlasting topic of Slavery, which nothing
directly SAID in tie resolutions, but general decla-
ration is made ,cch those ,Dho please can construe into
an approval Of the baltimore Platform.
large majority of the Convention was opposed
IN sentiment even to this concessions but yielded it
Tor the sake of peace. On all the distinctive Wing
grounds the resolves arc right, strong and explicit"
We invite the particular attention of Southern
men to those portions Of the foregoing which we
have put in italics. Greely and the "higher-law -
men, as we'll as Stanly and Mangum, hold that the
!" compromise was not "legitimately before " the
Wing National Convention, and they endeavored
to keep it out of that body; but failing in that,
and the Convention having approved it, the Neso
York Scott men now give it the cold shoulder, or
"spit upon ii" just as they happen to be in good
or i'll humor.
Mark what Greely says: III large majority Of
the; Convention scas opposed IN sentiment euen to-
is concession, bat yielded 1t for the sake of peace"
Such is the treatment which Southern Wings are re-
ceiving at the hands of the ScottSewardtes of New
York and such are the allies of William A. Gra-
ham, the SSouthern STAKEHOLDER, who, having be-
Southern people urging SCOTS claims, and conse-
quently has oson, to popular support!
We now challenge the Scott-Seward journals of
the South to point to the first Democratic State
Convention with the exception of that of Ohio)
held in the free States, before since the passage
of the !" compromise which has not given to it
unqualified sanction and cordial approval Where
is the Raleigh Register But that paper will re-
ply that the Van Burens and other Freesoil Demo-
Gratis are supporting Gen. Pierce. Admitted, but
did the Democratic National Convention truckle to
these mene Did it nominate their first choice {?
Did it not the contrary, nominate the first choice
|of Virginia and North Carolina Most certainly
it did and these men in supporting Gen. Pierce,
do so as Democrats, and not as Freesoilers. We
neither court their support nor reject it. Bad rs
they are, they now acquiesce in the fugitiveslave
law, which the Sewardites of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, who controlled the Whig National
Convention and forced Scott on the Southern
Wigs, mever haze done and never aciU do. That is
the difference. Gen. Pierce, by whomsoever sup
ported acas nominated By Southern men, and is a
national and not sectional candidate; whereas,
Gen. Scott is not only supported by worse men than
the Van Burens, 6uthe acas nominated as the first
choice of worse men, and is now supported by
them as sectional candidate and that too over
the heads of Webster and Fillmore. Gen. Pierce's
whole career affords abundant proof that he would
rather be defeated than yield hairs breadth to
such Freesoilers in the Democratic ranks choose
t. support him but Gen. Scott owes his ''onaina-
ton to Wing Freesoilers, and, if elected, he will
be bound in common gratitude to yield to them
and reward them. Indeed, he has already prom.
ised them, in his letter of acceptance that he will
not prescribe them on account of their opinions or
lSlayery