Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-08-30
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nuE,cU. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2e, 1854.
MASSACHUSETTS, WHIGGERY.

We are indebted to the Richmond Enquirer for
the following summary of the proceedings of the late
Who State Convention Of Massachusetts,.
The fact can be 10 longer disguised that the Whig
Marty of the free States is tie aati-slaceTy party.
Nany of the Democrats, too, have been scduced from
thel party obligations and principles and are taking
sides AGAINST the Just rights of the slaveholdirg
States Detection in the Democratic ranks has al
ready lost us New Hampshire and Iowa, these States
having been carried by the Wings and anti-Nebras-
ktes in opposition to the rights and interests of the
South and yet there are Whig papers in North Ca
roina that announced these results in the States
frcl to as Wing victories! When will the Wings
Of the South open their eyes to the dangerous con-
duct of their allies in the free States?
"lSoTIER WARNING TO THE SOUTH Even at the
pri Of too much repetition, feel it to be our duty
to ring one more note Of warning to the Wings of
tie SOUTH as 70 the utterly demoralized and aboli-
ionized condition Of the Northern Wing party. To
place the matter in its true and strongest light,
publish at length the resolutions of the Whig State
Convention of Massachusetts,, which attended
by about 2 900, and at which were present, in per-
son or by letter, the leading Wings of that State;
Mr. r. c. Winthrop declining to attend on account
Of the severe and sudden illness of his son at Cam
bridge"
l. RssOzred, That the Whig party of Massachu-
setS ever true to liberty, the Constitution and the
Union needs not to abandon its organization, to
change its principles.
2. ReS0lred, That the amendments to the Consti-
tuition passed by the last Legislature under the con-
current action of all parties wise and expedient,
and well calculated to meet the progressive spirit of
the and the reasonable wishes of all those who
sincerely desire amendments to our present Consti-
tuition, and that we will labor to secure the election
Of Senators and Representatives favorable to their
adoption.
J. Eesolred, That the Union was formed " to Es-
7AELsi JUSTICE, insure DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, pro-
mote the GENERAL WELFARE and secure the blessings
d LIBERTY TO OURSELVES and our PosTERITY.'
Resolced, That we cherish cordial, habitual,
ahl mnoveabe attachment to the Union, as the pa
adlum OF our political safety and prosperity; that
We We recognize now and ever, our fealty to the Con-
StutlOh, and our obligations to maintaih it's princ-
PIES, and yield to its requirements.
a, o. Res9Ired, That it was the policy of the fathers
Tue republic to confine slavery to its then existing
naiS, as IS evinced by the ordinance of 1887, ap-
le TO all the territories of the Union thus clearly
es'aolsilnG as cardinal principle of the govern
ae'l Iiat slavery should be forever prohibited in
the epuJlr domain.
y: Ees0red, That, the recent act of the National
legislature, IN wantonly and fathlessly annulling a
se'h covenant which had stood for more than thir-
years, and of which the South had received the
" oehelt, leaves no restrictions upon the action
VI VI ule Tree States the subject of slavery beyond
u's exact provisions of the Constitution itself
:. hes0tced, That the repeated and long continued
ls.fcSsons of the advocates of slavery extension,
aE mas awakened the people of Massachusetts,, and Of
m ree oates to the fact, that their end and aim is
tnuea t supremacy that by :his last crowning act,
ls. s repeal OF the Missouri Compromise, effected
m ''ueh Southern fathlessnees and Northern treach-
s!, simulated by the corrupt of executive in.
ence the naked question of liberty or slavery as
cOntroins principles of the government is pre-
,su W. TO the American people; and for ourselves
eaeclare readiness to meet that issue and OH
asnaDl arullation at all times, and under all crcum
0tn ~ 10 exercise constitutional rights as
or sscfe the blessings Of liberty to ourselves anc
0ar poserity" ",
,bo AeS0cred, That we are unalterably opposed tt
nou SilSion S OF slavery over foot of territory
coD,ra. .ee-that we will seek the immediate and un
Ka,Nohal repeal of so much of the Nebraska ant
that ~ acS as annuls the Mssour: Compromise, ant
ac We s Will oppose the admission into the confeder
rto,oi any new State formed out of any of our ter
therein, ~'''0i'S' Unless slavery Is pronioite
finn II lse91red That the provisions in the Constitu
ato' ,he United States that the citizens of eac
munSns ita be entitled to all the privileges and i'm
Ses OF citizens in the several States" has bee
ds ana Is now, grossly violated by those State
Of ct;, onlon, where laws exist for the mprisonmen
puao shs SC OF Massachusetts, without trial or the i'm
cn.ns neso10ed That the Fugitive slave law of 1856
unnecos.narsh marsh and arbitrary provisions, which a,
der o to secure any rights of shareholders u,
obrox;.o neutrality-suspicious. which are iustl
hheritouusand us ana odious to free people, who claim
Of 6oHan the right of trial by jury and of the wr
ertr corpus, as the great safeguards of person
: amenSsd ana that we will never cease to demand sue
tntioieh as will make it consistent with the CO..
its rights of the free 5tates-ol failing in thi
. II unconditional On repeal. -
D. for hoin congress deserve our hearty approbatit
y and nrt patriotic opposition, on national, honorah
and o pfnclpes, to the Nebraska and Kansas bill
from t,n '2o'ce in the fact that every Wing memb
"'S iice States has been thoroughly true