Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-20
ANTI-NEBRASKA MEETING.

/ NEW YORK. May 14th. Pursuant to notice. the
i opponents of the Nebraska bill assembled in the
4 Park last evening at O'clock in great force The
proceedings were of the most earnest and decided
character. The Hon. Mark Spencer presided, sup
ported by many prominent men of both parties.
Among the speakers were Hon. B. F. Butler, A. N.
| Havens, Samuel Fessenden and numDer CT work
ingmen. The following resolutions were adopted
amid repeated cheers:
The first refers to the present crisis when the peo-
pies will is oyerborne in the House of Representa-
| tives. The I'd thanks the members who, true to
their honor and their. oaths, keeping sleepess
watch at their posts in defense of Northern rights
and the national honor. The Sd declares that no
man who votes for the repeal of the Missouri COM
promise, in any way abets it, shall ever receive
their votes for any Office. The 4th pronounces the
pretense that the bill recognises non-ntervention
transparent sham. The 9th calls State convention
and recommends similar conventions in the free
States also in Maryland Delaware and other North
ern slave States. The 9th appoints the committee
before appointed a permanent one, and proposes an
efficient scheme of emigration to Nebraska. The
last directs these proceedings to be sent to Congress
and the Governors of the different States.
1t is becoming more and more apparent every day,
that the feeling in the non-saveholding against the
slavehodng States stronger than was be-
fore This feeling has been aroused and is gathering
in volume and power simply because it was propos-
ed in the Senate of the United States, by Senator
| Douglas, in introducing the Nebraska and Kansas
bill, that the people of the slaveho ling should be
permitted to enjoy equal rights in the common ter
ritories with those of the nonslaveholding States
So reasonable, fair just request and yet such
bitter and unrelentng oppositon
The struggle now going on in the House of Rep
rcsentatives this question confirms the significant
and important fact that the only friends of the rights
of the South in that body from the free States arc
Democrats. Free State Whggery utters but one
voice, and that voice is persistently and bitterly
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ance and insult; and it has just gone out to the
country from New York City, heretofore regarded
the commercial metropolis of the Union The
South has lost ground since 1850 and this loss to
be mainly attributed to the submissive attitude and
conduct of Southern Wings in the late Presidential
contest-those very Wings who, in this State, are
now asking us to 60 with them in their reluctant
support of ill-conccaled opposition to, the Ne
braska BILL We cannot do it. The people of the
State, who vitality interested in the institution
of slavery, cannot and will not do it. Gen. Docke-
ry the candidate Of these men for Governor was
prominent in 1850 in his submission to Frecsoil in
suits and Freesoil demands; and while such men
Clingman were foregoing personal ease and stalking
themselves for the rights of their native land, he
found employment in impeaching motives and en-
deavoring to render them odious to those whom
he had political influence
The true course of the Southern people is to unite
man, to sustain those of both parties, wheth-
er here or in the free States, who standing by
their rights and to put forever from their fellowship
and confidence the Wings of the non-slaveholdng
States. The question is of existence, and
not be postponed The South must also look
and more to the development of her resources and
to building up seaports and markets within her
limits. To this end, systems of internal improve
ment should be pushed forward, aud agriculture,
mining, manufactures and the arts generally promo
ted and encouraged We must learn to live, as far
possible independent CT Northern fabrics Northern
commercial advantages and Northern products. The
North wills it-there is other safe course for
people. AS grow weaker in the free States
and in Congress must grow stronger at homo.
AS we decline there we must increase here, else
when the evil day" comes it will find US divided
and defenceless before our enemies.
FIVE HuNDRND Souls RESCUED FROM A SINKING
SHIP. despatch from New York, dated Sunday
May Il, says the steamer Washington reached
quarantine last night and arrived up at noon She
brings 24O passengers and full cargo.
The Washington also brings the passengers and
crew. about five hundred souls taken from the ship
Winchester bound from Liverpool to Boston She
was wrecked the frghtful gale of the 18th of
April, and had been in crippled condition. kept
from sinking. by constant labor at the pumps. The
Washington fell in with her OH the I'd inst, and
notwithstanding the prevalence of heavy gale,
ceeded in rescuing all the passengers and crew.
The Winchester went down in thirty inmates |
after the last left her. She belonged to Bos-
ton, and had valuable cargo. She sailed from |
Liverpool on the 18th of April.
Another despatch says the ship Winchester had |
100 souls on board $50 taken off by the ship |
Mary and Caroline, and Paragon, and the briggs Ann |
Edwards and Robert Bruce, all bonnd to Quebec, |
and the remainder by the steamer Washington.
TERRIBLE RAIL ROAD CoLLIsIoN-GREAT MANY
PERSONS WOUNDED. A Geographic despatch from
Troy. New York, dated Saturday, the 18th of May,
says the eight and forty minutes express train from
Trey, when Bath Station, this morning,
took and into the eght-and thirty minutes Green
bush train, from Troy The express locomotive
went half way through the passenger of the tran
smashing the and less njuring every
one of the passengers. None were killed, but some
were terribly mangled and few, it is thought,
not survive. Among the badly injured is the
ductor of the Greenbush train, and Judge Hunt, of
this city, and his two daughters,
The CANVASS General Doekery, the Wing
ddate for Governor we learn, will spend this week
at home, attending to his own private business, in
Richmond county. Next week he and Mr.. Bragg
will re-commence the canvass together.
Mr.. Bragg, the Democratic candidate, is fulfilling
appointments this week, at points in this District
where his competitor has already spoken. We regret
that it is out of his power to visit Wilmington at
present. We understand that it is his wish. and we
homo will he in his mower tn address the