Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-22
=, op1oUs OLD PENNSYLVANIA.

..n,r with the Washington Union, that there
"'N ..h;rr in the prompt and fearless patriotism
..o,t old State, especially when the Consti-
'H0 ;nnsrilled, to awaken the admiration of all
lO'r ,rors of Democratic principles, Her attitude
uus ..n,out moment is worthy of her long years
Of fidelity ,,o,;.;o W.; D..
oroinst the Nebraska bill, were refused con-
IN her Senate, by strict party vote with
'.roontops-there being fourteen Wings and one
".,r,t in their favor, and sixteen Democrats and
D'D, Who AGAINST them This shows what party it
.h.t Is the national party of the country.
Tho Wings from the free States IN Congress, the
u-hic napcrs in the free States, and the Wing peo-
=, e the free States are en- mdsse against the Ne
~.t, hill No Wing from the non-slavehold;Eg
,tcs has raised his voice in Congress for the bill
>. Wbir meeting III the non-slaveholding States has
..,roved tive have seen nothing from the Wing
If those States at all favorable to it The bill
nrst be passed by the united Southern vote with
se aid of Pennsylvania and other Democratic non-
savehOdng States.
These facts speak volumes.
The Washington Union, the organ of the Admin
kratiOn says:
aThe bill reported to the Senate by Judge Doug
las is approved by nearly the entire South, by
l-ce number of the soundest and most steadast de-
moorats of the North as well in as out of Congress,
and by the administration Of Gen. Pierce. 1t Is
Issd upOn the great fundamental principle of pop
MA, coyerpiqnty Its vital element is that which
Strengthened and carried the compromise measures
Of 1850 1t is no party principle. Such wings as
Webster and Clay and Clayton did not hesitate to
cooperate with such democrats as Cass, Douglas,
BRIGHT and Pierce, in support of it. When the Com
UCmise of 1850 was perfected, the cry over the
whole Union was that its principle final set
fnent of the question of slavery hereafter. Then
he most odious measure to the Wings of Pennsyl-
nnia was the Missouri Compromise. 1t was offered
70 them BY that eminent and enlightened statesman,
James Buchanan and was assailed by them with the
utmost violence Had they and their associates ylc-
led to this line in 1917, when he proposed lt-had
they accepted it in lS4S, when it was advocated IN
Congress- it would now be the basis of adjusting all
The issues growing out of the slavery question IN the
Territories. But it was mainly because the wings
Of the North rallied in solid column against the
compromise of 1920, when sought to be applied to
our acquisitions in Mexico, that the other Compro-
nse-that of 1s50--which superseded the princl-
Pe0f the Missouri Compromisc-was conceived and
NnSummated. 1t is true, the violence and the de-
lunCiatiOns heaped upon the one were transferred,
with Superadded bitterness to the other. What re-
atS followed the supersedng of the Missouri Com
promise? Why, that not one foot of the slave ter
HtOry has since then been Incorporated. The South,
WITH this result full before its eyes, finally accepted
nc Compromise of 1850, though for long period
he southern people seriously agtated and pain
hy divided on the subject