Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-02-22
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY, FEB. 1s,.1s54.
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.

| RALEIGH, SATURDAY, FEB. 49, 1854.
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT
BosroS, Feb 12-Rev. E. N. Kirk, in his sermon
at the Mount Vernon Church this morning, pointed-
" condemned the Nebraska bill. The christian
church he said should not close to the reck
less ambition of trading legislators nor cease to pray
for their conversion to honest and enlightened prin-
ciples He (Mr kirk had given IN his adhesion to
tbe compromise of 1850, though hardly with clear
conscience for the sake of the permanent peace ana
unity Of the whole country. The passage OF the
Nebraska bill would in his opinion constitute rev
oluion He regretted that the author of the bill
should have been born in New England In conclu-
sion he invoked the prayers of the church for our
legislators at Washington, and especially for Sena-
tor Douglas and Franklin Pierce
| The Rev. Theodore Parker also made the Nebras-
ka bill the subject of his morning DISCOURSE denounc-
ing it and its author with eloquence and sarcasm.
We beg leave to add to the foregoing Abolition
denunciatons of the Nebraska bill, of the admins
traton of Gen. Pierce, and of Judge Douglas the
following from the Raleigh Register, Southern Whig
paper:
"We have not the slightest faith in the motives
Of the author of the movement-we believe that he
has been actuated by that low demagogueism for
which he is so notoriously distinguished but, since
an issue has been must be joined, we see no other
alternative left than to carry the measure through"
1t was expressly provided in the compromise
measures of 1850, that New Mexico the greater por
ton of which lies south of the Missouri line. and
Utah. all of which lies north of the line should come
into the Union as States with without slavery as
the people thereof should determine; Judge Doug
las, as Chairman of the Committee on Territories,
reported these provisions as to these Territories,
and as Chairman of the same Committee he could
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involved in the organization of Nebraska and Kansas
Nebraska lies northeast Of Utah. and Kansas east of
the same Territory and both are north of the Mis-
souri, line. The bill under consideration opens both
these Territories to slavery it may go there and ex
ist if the people will it; it may not 60 there if
the people so determine. The bill, in other words,
but carries out the compromise" of 1850 as ap-
piled to Utah and New Mexico-that compromise
which the Raleigh Register and other Southern
Wings once insisted was sacred and final, overrid-
ing all other compromises and restrictions, and which
Mr. Fillmore approved as "inal settlement, both in
principle and substance, of the question of slavery"
Now We find this same Register joining the Aboli-
tonists far as it dare do SO in opposition to the
compromise" denouncing the motives of Senator
Douglas, the champion Of the measure, and acqui-
escng in the measure itself with evident hesitation
and reluctance measure, be it remembered, which
operates to repeal the unconstitutional restriction of
1920, and at the same time carries the gitireslare
Iau, in its letter and SPIRIT into the Territories Of
Nebraska and Kansas!
The stalwart Douglas leads the column, now as
ai0etme, in defence of the Constitutional rights OF
the States. This is gall and wormwood to the Ral-
egh Register it would drag him down from his high
position and brand him as a demagogue because, as
ne true to the rights of the States and to the Con-
sututon which is the bond of union upon all and
over all the people cluster about and cling to him
they did to Mr. Clay anterior to 1924 and as they
Always did to Jefferson, and jackson and Polk
More upon this subject hereafter.
H The Wing Convention will assemble here or
tuesday next What that body will resolve, or .wht
Will nominate for Governor, it is not easy to pre-
oc1 The signs thus far are that it will take groun,
ior tree Convention to amend the Constitution 10
though opposed to any alteration Of that instrument
many Wings appear to be willing nevertheless t
'nfow it into an unrestricted Convention, where
'Oud not escape innovation and radical change.
But what of Free Suffrage2
and the Nebraska blu 2win that body be siler
On this question, or will It march boldly up to th
support Of the administration and of Judge Doug
as In their efforts to open new territories to the
s''tutiOn of slaverys We shall see :. &. :.
~ The Rev. Francis Z. Hawks made visit
nus friends in this City during the present week
.ss lot New York on Thursday morning We +
eet that his arrangements for returning home pr
vented him from delivering lecture, which hheSx
strongly solicited to do By number of our citizen
ne preached in the Episcopalian Church in ii
pace on Sunday last ssss
~ Ut. Hawks, lis well known il: natiyesof Nor
voted son.