Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-06-19
ppc1sTER-THE PLATFORM.

THE REGISTER-THE PLATFOKM'
The REGISTER quotes from the New York Evening
p,.,. Freeso Democratic paper, with the view OIL
,.,ino that the Resolutions constituting Inc pat
If the Democracy did not pass the Convention!
w.. Post. speaking of the Resolutions, says:
They were not adopted by the Conrent'on. Three
10 If the nembers-more than three-tourths' II
fouIHI hy some-had left the room; not more than
IS S Of The rest kne,o tUhat ,O1s doing. Mr. DAVIS,
GO- psnsident of the Convention. had been oohgeu
me baustion to leave the chair. Mr. Irving was IN
y? luce and exertlng himself Valniy 10 esldo-
ms Pomehino like order. The main business OF the
i!tsrention had been completed {: members and oY-
Ciers were talking it over with each other' ana
sxsry thing attended to but what was gong on
t;3e the chair. In the midst OF this ousue dnu
Of,sion in the midst of loud conversations shou's'
ga the noise of hasty entrances and hasy departures
6;u5 ,Oas read which nobody heard, and concern
inc which very few.were aware tha' II was ie"V;
NJ Irving put the question on all the resoluuons' III
in TThe ayes In that fragment OF ConVentloh'
;t in the hustle of breaking up, were more numer-
~ than the noes, and he declared the resolutions
adopted.
JaI;berate and notorious faisehood. We knOD wha'
,vas done in the Convention, for we were member.
At about five o'clock, Saturday, the last day. inc
resolutions were read by the Secretary, and they
moro listened to and heard by the Convention. When
the Secretary came that portion OF them relating
tremendous and long -connued the ladies In the gal
law waving their handkerchiefs, the members on
their feet huzzang and throwing up their hats, and
the audience in all parts of the vast edi6ce joining
in the demonstrations of applause. The reading OF
this norton of the Resolutions was called for again,
agan read and the same feeling of qualification mani
tested. General Saunders then moved the previous
ouestion-it was put and carried and then the vote
was taken on the Resolutions whole by ayes and
noes The ayes went up from the large assemblage
like the sound of many waters, " and there were
seven or eight noes, which produced general laugh
We are sustained in this statement by the Baltimore
Sum- as we'll as all other papers of that City; and no
man who has any regard for truth, will any thing
TO the contrary.
The fact is, the Evening Pos; wanted some pretext
for supporting the Democratic nominees 1t is De-
mocrac paper in all but its notions on Slavery, and
il has become tired Of them and wishes TO drop them
and do better for the future. 1t, with its Freesoil
hackers, had been put to the wall at Baltimore, and
it has been compelled TO resort TO fasehood to frame
an excuse for supporting the ticket. We inditfer-
en as its 1t may support the ticket if it
chooses; but neither Gen. Pierce the Democracy
will be controlled in the slightest respect, by its
views and opinions Slavery. The true course
was (and the Democrats have most noby performed
their part of the duty) for both parties to take high
ground for the fugitiTeslave law and against further
agation and thus compel FreesoiIers of both parties
to change their conduct or, isolated in their infamy
die out.
But the object of the Register is apparent. Thai
paper would nsinuate what it dare not charge, tina
Gen. Pierce is unsounG Slavery and has Free
soil afinites. But what says the Washington Re-
public That paper, the organ of Mr.. Fillmore, in
its issue of June 7th, says:
On The Slavery question Mr.. Pierce is undoubtedly
conntitted to Southern Uiencs and in his support Mr.
Rantou and his associate Freesoilers will have an
ample opportunity of manifesting the extent 10 which
they willing Gin Mr.. Rlntouls language) to- eat
Southern Dirt
Again, tho Boston Atlas, Wing organ of Massa-
chusetts, paper heretofore comPlimented by the
Register, speaking of Gen. Pierce and the action of
the Baltimore Convention. says:
"'The proceedings of the convention from first to
last have been of sectional and anli-natonal
character Ii has been southern and nothing but south
The great North, with It's three-hiths OF the
population and representative and electoral strength
has been treated as Of no account. An ultra southern
spirit has pervaded the convention. Its nomination
is any thing but national and save only in name, any
thing but democratic. The platform they have final
ly adopted and promu gated is in its political latitude
many degrees sol tn of any thing the democracy,
they falsely call themselves, have yet venured go.
All mis- want oil nationality, anu all ms SuDSeTV-
ency sectaranism, stands out most prominently in
all they have said and done.
We see il in their nomination and endorsement of
franklin Pierce, whose highest, if only, recon-
mendaon appears have been his complete and alb
ject devotion 10 the demands of the South. No man
has earned for himself deservedly the rePu
tation of a thorough paced dough-face. Be-
cause John P. Hale had the manlineSs to refuse to
assent to the annexation of Texas, he viIlifed,
denounced. and ostracized at the high behest of
franklin Pierce The democratic journals that had
dared to take similar grounds, and denounce the
whole scheme in all its blackness, driven by
his management to eat their own words, and to fall
into the support of that which they had so vehement
ly condemned. More recently, his connection with
the persecution of Mr.. Atwood, the nominee of his
own party, and his final prescription, for the henous
offence of not regarding the fugtve-slave law the
perfection Of human wisdom, well known. These,
and these only, the heroic achievements which
so strongly recommend franklin Pierce to the sup
port of North Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia
nulIihers, and which gave him their early support !;
and all this is plainly enough avowed by them in the
alleged ground of their adhesion and support
We have nothing more to say.
Extract from letter to the Editor. dated
TUscUMRIA Ala Nav