Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-06-23
CITY OF RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE

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THE REGIsTER-THE PLATFORM. :.
The Register quotes from the New York Evening
Post, Freesoil Democratic paper. with the view Of
showing that the Resolutions constituting the plat
form Of the DenoIracy did not pass the Convention
The Post. speaking Of the Resolutions, says:
"Ihey were not adopted by the Conuention. Three.
fourths of themembers-mose than three. .fourths, it
said by soe-had left the room; not more than
dozen e Ms rest kseav suhat ,uas doiag. Mr.. Davis,
the President Of the Convention, had been obliged
BY exhaustion to leave the chair. Mr.. Irving wss in
nus Pace. and was exertiag himself vainly to esab-
asn something like order. The main business of the
Convention had been completed: members and BY.
ISLANDERS were talking it over with each other, and
eveIy thing was attended to but what was going on
beside the chair. In the midst of this hustle and
confesion in the midst of loud conversations shouts,
and the noise of hasty entrances and hasy departures
,ras read vhieh nobody heard, and concern
Ing which very .wsre aware that it was reading.
Mr Irving put the question on all The resolutions in
just in the hustle Of breaking up, were more numer.
oor than the noes, md he declared the resolutions
adopted.'' . -
we brand the foregoing statement, at once, as a
deliberate and notorious falsehood. We knosu what
was done in the Convention, for we were a member.
AT about five o'clock, Saturday, the last day, the
Resolutions were read by the Secretary, and they
were listened to and heard by the Convention. When
the Secretary came to that portion Of them relating
to Slavery and the compromise, the applause was
tremendous and longeontinued, the ladies 10 the gal
ley waving their handkerchefs, the members on
their feet huzzang and throwing up their hats. and
fho - III, oS H.
in the demonstrations of applause. The reading Of
this portion of the Resolutions called for again,
again read, and the same feeling Of qualification mani
tested. General Saunders then moved the previous
qnestion-t was put and carried; and then the vote
was taken the Resolutions as whole by ayes and
noes. Tho 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 sustained in this statement by the Baltimore
Sum- as we'll as all other papers of that City; and
man who has any regard for truth, will say any thing
| to the contrary. 49,"
The fact Is, the Evening Post wanted some pretex,
for supporting the Democratic nominees. 1t is De-
mocratc paper in all bot its notions Slavery, and
1t has become tired ofhem, and wishes 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 fasehood to frame
excuse for supporting the ticket. We indifer-
ent to its course. 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 on Slavery. The true course
was (and the Democrats have most nobly performed
their of the duty) for both parties take high
ground for the agiti7eslave law and against further
agaton and thus compel Freesoilers of both parties
to change their conduct or isolated in their infamy,
| to die out.
But the object of the Register is apparent. That
paper would insnuate what it dare not CHARGE tha,
Gen. Pierce is unsound Slavery and has Free
soil af6nites. But what says the Washington Re-
public That paper, the organ of Mr. Fillmore, in
| ito issue of June 7th, says:
ION the Slavery question Mr.. Pierce is undoubtedly
committed to Southern vielcs: and in his support MI.
Raniou and his associate Freesoilers2 will have IN
ample opportunity of manifss,ing the extent to which
they willing Gin Mr.. Rantous language) to''
Southern dirt.'' - 500
Again, the Boston Atlas, Wing organ Of Massa-
chuserts, paper heretofore complimented by the
Register, speaking of Gen. Pierce and the action Of
the Baltimore, Convention, says: -s-
| "The proceedings Of the convention from first to
last have been Of most sectional and anti-national
character 1t has been southern and nothing but south
ern. The great North, with its three-6fths of the
population and representative and electoral strength,
has been treated as of account. An ultra southern
is any thing but NATIONAL and, only in name any
thing but democratic. The platform they have final
~ adopted and promulgated is in its political latitude
many degrees sor tn Of any thing the democracy, as
they falsely call themselves have yet vensured 60.
All this want Of nationality, and all this subservi-
DO To-
all they have said and done. :
We see il in their nomination and endorsement of
Franklin Pierce, whose highest, If not only, recon-
msnda,on appears TO have been his complete and alb
iect devotion to the demands of the South No man
has ever earned for himself deservedy the
tation of a most Thoroughbred dough-face. Be-
cause John P. Hale had the manliness to refuse to
assent to the annexation Of Texas. he was vi!lied,
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, were driven by
his management to eat their own words, and to fall
into the support of that which they had vehement
| " condemned. More recently, his connection with
the persecution of Mr.. Atwood, the nominee Of his
own paty and his final prescription for the heinous
offence Of not regarding the law as The
perfection Of human wisdom, are we'll known. These,
and these only, are the heroic achievements which
so strongly recommend franklin Pierce to the sup.
port of North Carol;na. Mississippi, and Georgia
nuIi6ers. and which gave him their early support;
and all this is plainly enough avowed BY them in .he
alleged ground Of their adhesion and support"
We have nothing more to say. :: ,... r.,,; a. a.
Ex.rac. from a letter to the, Editor. dated =.
y:< ,ac,@s g, TuscuMssA, Ala. Msy 81, 1851
s. Can't North Carolina resume her former position
10 the Democratic ranks the coming elections As
a son of good old Edgeeombe assurs you were she
70 do it, I should rjoice beyond msasure. Every
thing il riut in AIabatna w ith any thing like