Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-10
ce ofthe North Carolina standard.
WASHINGTON CRY. Nav 6. 1854.

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caa,a"an Of he coasn,it.s Territories, 70 tie No
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The week Just closed has been marked one in
the political world As l anticipated in my last let
ter, the President sent to the Senate (he House in
which the bill orignated) on Wednesday last, his
first veto, the bill granting ten millions of the
Public Lands to the States for the support of the
Insane. This bill passed the Senate on the 9th of
March last when that body was very thin, by ma
jority of thirteen votes-25 yeas to - nays. 23
members absent. The nays were Messrs. Adams,
Atchison, Butler, Clay, Cass, Dodge of Iowa, Doug
las Fitzpatrick, Mason Petit, Miller and Williams.
The document is before the country and speaks for
itself 1t is an appeal from the heated elements of
Congressional strife and combination to the sober
sense of the nation. Every President from Wash
ngton to Pierce has found it necessary to this
conservative power. 1t is difficult to find any pro-
per reply to the positions taken in this veto of Gen
era Pierce for if the INDECENT insane are preper OBJ
jects of the aid of the United States so are the in
digent sane, and thus the Federal Government be-
comes great almoner in the charities of life. The
most Objectionable feature in the BILL to my mind,
is that it directs the States make annual returns
to the Secretary of the Interior of their action in
this behalf and thus sacrificing all State-rghts and
sovereignty to the great concentrated Federal power
of the general government History proves how
reluctant many States were to accepting the terms
imposed their rights by the Federal Constitution.
North Carolina at first rejected this overshadowing
power for years kept out, and her final ratification
was the subject of national congratulation by Gen.
W ashlngon in his annual address Tin l79O) to Con-
gress Gen Washington too found difficulty when tax
ing the Executive authority to obtain the services of
able men of sovereign States they preferred re-
naming where their characters were well known and
appreciated, and the chances for promotion
more certain. How changed is the scene! The
federal Government by its patronage overshadows
the power of the States and they have too truly
been dwarfed into provinces or departments and
all sovereignty vested in an absolute consolidated
central power against which the spirit of liberty has
often and in many countries struggled in vain.
truly believe, that, if in the organization of the
Government, the Convention of the States met to
ratify the Federal Constitution had anticipated the
enormous powers of the federal authority welded
in the present agt that it could never have been "a
greed to, without security to the States against
the encroachments of power. But better day
dawns upon our Republic. A disciple of the State
rights school, now, by the suf
frages of the people, holds the Executive rains of
authority. His veto Qike that of Jackson on the
Mavsville road bill in 1880, and on the U. S. Bank
in 1922 will be trumphantly sustained by the
ton. 1t is true, that in free government where
every one thinks as he pleases and speaks as he
thinks that many will complain, and some become
disatfectcd This is the case here. But when the
discussion comes on as it will upon this bil it will
be that the Staterights Democratic portion of
the Senate will sustain its principles and the bill will
hardly receive a majority much less the two-thrds
vote required to pass it.
The news from Spain received by telegraph this
per the Steamer Africa arrived on yester-
day from Liverpool from our Minister, Mr. Soule, is
not so pacific The report is that he has not been
able TO settle the Black Warrior seizure nor is he
likely to affect it. That he has demanded this, and
also that the Governor General of Cuba should be
TO settle all future questions of difference
without referring to the Cabinet at Madrid In
of the refusal of these moderate requests lie is to
demand his passports and return home.
The recent speech of Senator Slidel in the Senate
proposing the enquiry into the propriety of author
Zing the President to repeal the neutrality laws,
seems to shadow forth that this is correct. The
outrage done the Black Warrior, and the wanton
insult to flag has properly reused the feeling of
The whole nation. Had an English or French YES
sci, in the peaceful pursuits of lawful trade, been
thus treated, before any remonStrance, hundred
ships of war would have surrounded Cuba and sat
sfaction demanded at the lannon's mouth, which, if
it be the uUimaratio of negotiation, is the only eff
ectual and pursuasve one with perfidous and in
solent nation
This city has been crowded by the hosts of Mail
Contractors from the Western portion of the Union,
whose bids were decided on Monday and Tuesday.
No one can hardly appreciate the heavy labor and
faithfully and laboriously discharged by Judge Camp
oell and his able Assstants-ofen laboring from Z
N the morning until past - at night. The appoint
nent of the of the late Major Hobbe, as
First Assistant Post Master General most judi
:ious. Mr.. King has been true and faithful officer
n the Department for long time, and his promo |
ion will inspire others to hope that industry atten
ion and fidelity will meet proper reward This was
he true secreat of Napoleon's success-who often |
ook his Chief Marshalls from active and meritori !
JUS subaltcrns.
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr.. Dcbbin, has been |
his week a VISIT for the first time, to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis exercising over this, as |
over every branch of the Naval Service, most |
7igant supervision. He returned to this City last
evening
As advised you in my last letter. Mr.. Richard |
Al ho
should call up the Nebraska Kansas Bill and after
time for further discussion press it to
7ote. This meets with cordial reception from the |
louise and the nation, expressed in the Philadel-
,hia National Argus and other papers. The gath |
ring in of the Members, who have been for few
lays absent proves that the measure will soon be
inally disposed of. Debate will be continued, for
NOW of some ten fifteen members who are de-
irous to speak the bill-discussion has most ma
eriay strengthened its friends and COMPOUNDED its
opponents, who are confined as the Argus says,
o "AbolitionistS and such of the Wings and Free
oilers as are willing to overthrow the principles up
N which the Union rests" still hold the opinion
often expressed to you before, that the bill Will
Ass. There can be no good reason why so fair and
arge portion of the public territory should be be-
ond any territorial government. Large delegations
f the Kansas Kicapoces Sac and Fox Tribes are
ERE anxious to dispose of their interest in these ter
tories, now useless to them hunting grounds,
nd yield them to the plough Of the white man, to
Utilization and improvement
The "peculiar Domestic Institutions of Utah
'erritory have been the subject of much excited de-
ate in the House. 1t is we'll known that the Nor
who chiefly nhabit this territory hold the pat
hal n nluarity of wives The Gov