Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-05

will never 60 Repeal the fugitive slave law if you
choose but the responsibility is yours not mine,
and the consequences must be on your heads.
"A word now TO my Wing friends of the North, if
i have any there I have always been a Wing from
the honest convictions of my judgment but am
told now, by resolutions passed by Wing meetings
at the North that test of my devotion to that par
ty is to be found in standing with The North, the
northern wing of the party, in opposition to the re-
peal of the Missouri restriction Well, gentlemen
If this test of fidelity and orthodoxy is to be
applied to me, am a hereto; and if | am to be.
doomed politically for that you had better prepare
your edct now. If 1 am required to perform an act
IN violation of what believe to be the spirit the in
tention and the letter of the Constitution, decline
the honor. If to be Wing, am required to sur
render the rights and to invade the honor of my con-
sttuents as understand them, decline the honor.
If you assume to yourselves the power of laying
down aplatform to which my acts shall conform,
ana l do not choose to conform to that platform,
what will you do? Assume to read me out of the
political church? Read on I deny your authority.
You cannot drive me from my convictions, nor from
my principles. stand now where have ever stood,
and there expect to stand. But if it be of the
articles of the creed of the great Wing party that
shall make upon the institutions of the country,
l am not Wing in that sense. If it be one of the
articles of the creed of the Wing party that shall
deny any portion of this country an equal particpa
ton in its rights and benefits, confess cannot sub
scribe to it. But utterly deny that you have any
right to make any such Interpolation the creed of
the Wing party.
Wing party to merge itself into anti-savery par
ty, then the separation is easy, certain and final.
But be assured, gentlemen, that the southern Wing
party will maintain their principles and integrity,
never conceding to you the exclusive right to con.
troll its action WELD its destinics. E,.rs-
Sir, am Wing upon the very same principles
which have ever been and that is, perfect equal
ity among all the States of this Confederacy. If
that is Whiggery, l am a Wing. If that is not
Whiggery, am not Wing; and when you tell me
that can no longer cooperate with you, that you
will no longer cooperate with all that have to say
is painful may be the separation, good bye; for
would rather die than follow your lead in any such
crusade. If these be the terms on which l am to
go on with you, L cannot go. Personally, l shall
cherish for you kindly feelings, and wish you album
dant happiness; but Heaven forbid that any such
principle as this should become the principle
upon which this Government is to be upheld. If we
are to live together in peace, it must be upon the
broad platform of perfect equality of rights among
all the members of this Confederacy, both to States
and individuals These, sir, are the opinions which
l entertain"
We invite the serious attention of our Wing rea-
dcrs to the foregoing, and especially to that portion
of it which is addressed to the Wings of the free
States Mr.. Jones is as true Wing as lives and his
declarations this subject as others, is entitled
to respectful hearing and to be fully weighed by
the members of his party in the slaveholdng States
The Raleigh Register endeavors to conceal the
fact that Wing from the free States voted for the
Nebraska bill and that paper, after attempting to
show that the Democratic party of the free States,
as party, is unsound the slavery question and
opposed to the BILL asks if will go again into
National Convention with them. Our answer is
that majority of the Democratic members from the
free States voted for the Nebraska BILL though forty
odd, the Register states, voted against it we will
go into Convention again and again with this ma
jority, but not with the fortyodd referred to- But
if we ought not-as the Register insists and VIC
admit-to go into Convention with these forty |
odd, what will the Editor of that paper do in view
of the fact that all of his party from the free States
voted against the bill? Is he not concluded by his
own argument on the subject? And has he not adj |
mtted substantially that his party national par
ty, is dissolved? What has he to say in reply to !
the remarks of Gov. Jones, above given?
The only hope for the country and for the perpet-
uation Of the Union is in the great Democratic party
1t may be assaulted by all kinds of sms and shaken
now and then by treachery and detection among its
own members; but it will continue to stand and
spread itself abroad for it is rooted in the Consttu
ton and in the hearts of the masses of all portions
Of the country When that party is sundered and
destroyed national party, distant be the dayD
rs the Wing party has been the rights of the States
Or the Union of the States one or the other, will
cease to exist. r."
Since the above written We have seen the re-
marks of Mr.. Dixon, of the Senate another South
'rn Wing. He spoke on Wednesday, and declared
hat he had always been Wing; but if the Wing
party was to become infected with abolitonisrn he
would cut loose from it forever He wished to call
he attention of the Wing party of the North to the
act that present indications show they are fast be-
coming aboltionized, and unless they desisted from
hat course they would ruin themselves, if not des-
roy their country.
The Richmond Wing also denounces the Wing
'arty of the free States. That paper says:
We said that Northern Wings had deserted us
n most important crisis We say further, that
heir present temper and purposes, as exhibited in
he spirit and language of their organs, distinctly
Indicate that the bond of union between us is wax
ng weaker and weaker with every prospect of its
eIng finally sundered, beyond the power or hope of
eneWal Certain it is that unless they recede from
ne position they have taken, there is possibility
our meeting together in the future. 1t isswell
noWn that even that small portion of the Nor
bern mig press which has heretofore pursued the
lost moderate and conservative course towards the
outh has latterly come out in tone of furious de-
unclatlon boldly asserting that the Nebraska out
age has settled forever the annexation of slave ter
tory to this Union'-that it has efectualy pre-
ented the admission, at any time hereafter of an
ther slave State into the Union i ,