Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-01-11
e 4 RIIITlgI,E Bf,AsT FROM GUILFoRD.


vention.s The preamble and resolutions in
troduced by John A. Gilmer, Esq. They may be re-
garded under the circumstances, as the Wing mani
festo of the day The man, the occasion, and the
County adj unite to stamp them thus. They occupy
column and half in the Patriot, considerable
portion thereof being in the way Of preamble; which
said preamble teens with many things against the
"locofocos "-as Mr.. Glmer politely terms them
calculated, may well believe he thought, to
ovcrset demosh, cxterminate them. We feel bound
to declare, however, that survived it; and not
only that, but the resolutions and not only the
olutions but the apprehensions they were expected
to occasion.
We do not perceive, after ALL that this manifesto
amounts to as much put forth by Wing
meeting in the same County, under similar auspices
some six years ago, in which it predicted that
the Sub-Treasury would destroy the Banks-our
own State Banks among others-and that the ascen-
dcncy of Democratic principles would injure and
distress the country generally. That declaration of
principles, coupled with such notes of warning re-
turned only to 'plaguc the nventors'-for the Sub
Treasury the Tariff, and Democratic policy gener
orally continued and still exist; and the pco-
pie instead of having set their faces and raised their
voices against Them have recently declared by the
mouths of twenty seTcn sovereigntes their cordial
approval of and their mistaken confidence in them.
And so it will be, ant! hereafter.
The first paragraph of this preamble revvcs the
old SANDER that the Democrats have said that hose
who trade on borrowed capital ought to break the
second alludcs to metallic currency and to the 'pet
Banks charges that millions lost to tie gov
ernment by them, and thousands made bank
rupts, inducing the passage Of bankrupt law by
Congress for their relief the third alleges that
the Democrats have failed to redeem the pledges
Treasury for that the government and the Banks
have not been divorced; the fourth advances the
Their surprising idea that the Democrats have acted in
consistently in not urging the SubTreasury system in
the administration of State governments; the fifth
endeavors produce the impression that President
Pierce is in favor of Tariff for protection, because
he recommends enlargement of the free list and
reduction of the present tariff; the sixth refers to
the compromise of 1S50-to Van Buren, and "negro
testimony to the Buffalo patform-to Gen'l.
Cass and 1913, and to many things irrelevant and
farctched, and which, jumbled together they are,
calculated TO excite the rsiblcs of Tacott
Burr; the seventh relates to the public lands-com-
plains that seventeen millions of these lands
"sndpped up"-that's the expression, rcader-last
year by the States, and that six millions we're
"deroured" last year by military bounty warrants;
and then we have the Resolutions, fourteen in
ber the first of which declares that the Culford
Wings there assembled have increased confidence
in the integrity ofthc Wing party and in Wing prnci
pies y; the second announces the old Federal doc
trinc the subject of the public lands takes ground
against grants to the States and claims share
for North Carolina; the third claims " the passage
of the charter Of the late United States Bank as
'Rerubcan measure Approves it, and rejoccs
that, in the opinion of the meeting, it very
good Bank and of course, quite harmless; the fourth
expresses the belief that the Wings right in
advocating the Bank, in opposing the removal of the
deposites and what is called the "war" "the
then existing currency" but admits at the
time that business and affairs y under the new
system are moving prosperouay on" and that there
fore, it is well enough not to advocate Bank n0c;
the fifth is inclined to approve "any" fiscal "sys-
tenn that remains permanent" but complains of the
government for locking up so many millions in the
vaults of the Sub-Treasury! as if the Banks would
not do the same if this money in their possess
ion; the sixth takes ground for flair discrmina-
ton in favor of American industry; the seventh
proposes hearty cooperation with all men, North
and South, who will honestly agree and stand with
US on the Compromise of 1850 to which VIC cor
daily subscribe, and affirm this is just what Presi-
dent Pierce has been and is now doing; the eighth
alleges that the President and Cabinet have nterfer-
cd in State elections the ninth relates to the
Of the State and avors prudent and judicious
system of internal improvements TO which we
also cordially subscribe; the tenth takes the ground
that 1.-The only republican and American mode of
framing amending the Constitution of free pco-
pleis by Convention directly from the people them
selves and Independent of party considerations;
the eleventh admits that the legislative mode is Con-
stitutiona but expresses opposition to it the twelfth
intended to be important, but is obscure that
give it in full, in order that may have the
aid of readers in asceraining clearly what the
whole of it means:
g Resolred, That we favor and anxious for
many of the amendments proposed; but confess that
prefer their failure the loss of great funda-
mental principle of freedom, and by precedent have
entaed on the people of the State for years the
penses, troubles, and excitement growing out of
succession and series of constitutional amendments
by legislative enactment, of which We have already
had some little foretaste. u
Those who voted for that resolution must have vo-
ted very understandingly. We question if Mr. Gil
fully comprehends it's drift and meaning him
self We call on the patriot forlight on the subject
We shall allude hereafter to some of the points
presented and endeavored to be maintained in these
resolutions.
We take this occasion again to urge upon our De-
mocratc friends the propriety and Importance of
holding meetings and appointing delegates to the
State Convention Our opDonents II is aDnarent