Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-08

Nebraska bill, the very men who unitistlv censure
him as the cause of agitation and who ilpeach his
motives and maign him, would have been the first
70 sleRopnee him as freesoicr and untrue to the
equal rights of the States
! Andnow, what is best for the Southern people in
tins crisis? We have uniformly stood, on this ques
tion with Southern Rights Wings as well as Demo-
Gratis; we have recently borne willing testimony to
the patriotic course of Mr. Badger of the Senate and
Mr. Kerr of the House, in relation to the Nebraska
bill; and we propose to of all parties, now as
aforetime to forget party at leastupon question:
and that question of SO vast and awful Importance
to all Can it be possible that there will continue
to be two, voices in this State upon the Nebraska
bill? Why, what can the Wing leaders-and we
appeal especially to the young men of the party
what can they expect from national Wing organi-
cation ? Can they hope to hold another national
Convention? Will they consent to unite in such a
body with men, all of whose Senators and Represen-
tatyesvote against the Nebraska bi and therefore
voted that North Carolina is not the equal, under
the Constitution of the non-slaveholding States !?
Can they do 1T? Has not Truman Smith, from a
free State, proclaimed in the Senate that the Wing
party is denationalized broken up and has not Mr.
Kerr, from slaveholdng State, announced in the
House that he will disregard all party ties to protect
his State against the tyranny of sectional majority?
And have not Seward and Greedy, at this moment
sole control of the Wing party in the great States of
New York and Ohio? Can the Wings of North
Carolina continue to act with such men We think
Motive feel confident they ought not. If they
should they will not only desert MIR. Badger and Mr..
Kerr, but they will manifest disposition, the result
of party associations, to abandon their rights and
those of posterity as involved in this question.
hat is best then repeat for the people of this
State Is it not to sustain the Administration which
has staked itself the Nebraska bill?-to go with
that party which is truly national, and which, here
at home does not hesitate, the late Wing Con-
vention did, to out boldly for the rights of the
South? But, told, North Carolina wants her
share of the public lands-or little money out of
the proceeds-or, like the fool in King Lear, "poor
Toms acold, " and would like to be warmed and
have bite to cat and therefore Southern Wings
must still act with Northern Wings. And this at an
hour like this A miserable squabble over pennies
when your whole fortune is in peril-a struggle for
money when principle survives pershes as you
may decide IA clamor for measure which is feder
al, consolidating in its nature and that too when
you know, from sad experience, that CONSOLIDATION
IS ABOLITION! If you aoiU beg, down upon your
knees to Seward and Truman Smith! Tell them you
are good Whigs-that you very poor-that you
hate Douglas and the Administration as heartily as
they do, for vindicating your rights-that the Ne
braska bill is troublesome-that you would like to
have principles and equal rights if convenient but
money or lands you mast hare at all hazards! I'M
agine their cold look and their finger of scorn and
their answer-"you may hare lands, or you may
hare money, If goa seiU be conservative and quiet
this slarery question, and gire IN addition
higher Tariff 6ut, remember, you to hare
la7,ds north of the Missouri line -
How, then, the Wings of this State provoke
bitter campaign with the Democrats? Where is their
candidate for Governor on the Nebraska bill? Is he
still what he in 1851, when he announced that
he would, in certain contingency, vote fire and
sword against South Carolina? Will the South be
strengthened if at next election hould pro-
claim by the result that we are Indifferent to our
rights, and that party is in power whose Conyen-
ton deliberately refused to encourage the Admins
tration in its conflict with aboltionism, and which
did not mention the Nebraska bill We.trust
that our Wing friends will ponder these facts seri
ously, and that the issue may be such that no
say the South has lost ground through the action
at the ballot-box of the people of North Carolina
az We are authorized by James B. Shepard,
Esq, to state that the application, numerously
signed and with such respectable of citizens
of the County of Wake, that he would become
candidate for either the Senate House of Com
of the next Legislature, has been received and
most respectfully considered MFR. Shepard feels
deeply grateful for this cvdenceaof regard and val
ues highly the compliment so delicately conveyed.
He would cheerfully CONSENT had he the requisite
freehold. As it is otherwise, and the time has ex-
pred for obtaining one it will be seen to be impos
sible to crafty his numerous friends He had been
spoken to onthe subject about year since, but sup
posing it the wish of a few partial friends, had for
gotten it. Though it is much earlier than the
usual time (May Court to agitate this subject, yet
the Constitutional period for obtaining qualification
has expired. Had he been aware in time of so strong
desire to see hmza candidate this application in
dcates, he would have obtained freehold. Though
Mr.. s. cannot be candidate, his heart is with the
good cause; and no will be more rejoced than
he to witness its success in the Old North State"
~ We were not mistaken in the opinion that
some of the more independent Eastern Wings would
not go for Convention to amend the State Const-
tution. The Weldon Patriot, respectable Wing
journal has thus far declined to raise the of
Gen. Dockery and do not see how Col. Joyner
Will, his opinions on the subject, support him.
It issrumored, too, that Hugh Collins Esq, of
Chowan, is opposedtoas Convention, and will take
ground with his usual ability for the legislative mode
Of amendment.