Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-09-06

~ The Register is laboring to prove that the
Whigsny is not the antislavery party of the coun-
try. That paper pleads specially on the subject,
conceas and misrepresents, but all to no purpose;
the Albany Register, Mr.. Fillmores organ, and the
Boston Courier and the Boston Atlas, the leading
Wing papers of Massachusetts,, would be indignant
at any such argument even by Southern Wing pa
per.
Will the Register tell its readers how many Wings
from the free States voted in Congress for the Ne
braska bl-for the right of the Southern people to
60 to the common territories with their slavesP Here
is the number-OOOl
Again: How many Wings from the free States
voted for the fugitive-slave lawe Only three Some
thirty Democrats in the House from the free States
voted for that law, and forty-four from the same
quarter voted in the same body for the Nebraska
and Kansas bill.
These are facts, which the Register cannot evade
1t may conceal them but that is confession of its
weakness and of the truth of the statement that the
Wing party is the antisavery party of the country
Again: The Democratic party is not only the soun-
dest party the slavery question, but it is the Con-
stitutional party in other respects. 1t is opposed
now, as it was in the days of Jefferson, when the
Federalists advocated the alien laws to prescribing
account of their religion or the land of their
birth. The Whg party, we undertake to say, oc-
cupies the contrary ground Witness the Resolu-
ton of the late Whig State Convention of Massa-
chusetts against adopted naturalized citizens and
look, for further proof to the amalgamation going
on between Whiggery proper and the elements Of
Know -Nothngism.
The followipo Resolutions were RECENTLY passed bv
the Democrats of Old Berks, the Tenth Legion of
the Pennsylvania Democracy. We challenge the
Register to show any Resolutions adopted by Wing
make any approach to the soundness and to the
Constitutional spirit Of, these Resolutions
"Resolred, That civil and religious liberty have
ever been cardinal objects of American Democracy
that it to the enjoyment of such liberty
that fathers left their native land, and planted
this land of freedom that the constitution of every
State in the Union guarantees to the humblest cti-
Zen full, undsturbed, and unassailed enjoyment of
the right to worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience.
Reaolred, therefore, That any organization, open
or secret which aims at DISTINGUISHING any citizen
because of foreign birth, or on account Of partcu-
lar religious faith of fexcuding him, for such
sons from participation in the honors and offices Of
the country, IS guaranteed by the constitution, is
nti-Democratic, is congenal with the spirit of the
old federal alien laws, and is at variance with the
spirit pervading the Farewell Address of the immor-
tai Washington, who cautioned his country against
the dangers Of all secret political organizations and
is therefore, unworthy Of the American people.
Resolred, That the passage of the Nebraska Kan
sas BILL recognizing, it does the great principle
of self government and establishing finally the prn
cipe of non-nterference by Congress in the domes.
tic affairs of the States and Territories of this Union
meete with our hearty appreciation.