Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-11-14

err exercise of their civil and religious rights and
privileges; the maintenance of the right of every
man in the full, unrestrained and peaceful enjoy
ment of his religious opinions and worship, and
Jealous resistance of all attempts by any sect, de-
nomination or church, to obtain an ascendancy over
any other in the State, by means OF any special
privileges of exemption, by any political conlbina-
ton of its members, or by division of their civil
allegiance with any foreign lower, potentate or &C.
ccsaStc.
y g. The education of the youth of our country in
schools provided by the State; which schools shall
be common to all, without distinction of creed or
party, and free from any influence of depomina-
tional or partzan character and opposition to every
attempt to exclude the Bible from the schools thus
established in the States.
Z. Affirming the most ardent attachment to the
Union of these States, the bulwark of our civil
and religious liberty, and the depository of the hon
and glory of the nation and OF the citizens of the
several States, and avowng our determination to
stand faithful to the Union at all hazards, those
of dsloyalty to freedom and dishonor to ourselves
as freemen speaking from the shadow of free insti
tutiOnS, desire to make permanent record of
our sentiments touching slavery it exists in the
Southern States Of this Union, and as it is obtruded
and made an element and condition of our CO.
herence as family of States Slavery existing not
only in and by law in the Southern States, is neces
sarily a local thing, and ought not in fact, to
have to deal with it in any form. But the present
Constitution of the United States having made it the
subject of restraint evidently, too, the beginning
of measures for its adjustment, and Congress hav-
ing subsequently passed laws for the recapture of
slaves escaping into free States this local institution
has been constantly forced upon the people of the
North, until it has become the object of rcpugnant
and well settled public opinion. The public opin-
ion of the inhabitants of the free States is and has
been adverse to slavery, and that opinion has been
confirmed and strengthened by recent events. We
sympathizc with the Northern sentiment in regard
to slavery, and claim the right on all legitimate &C.
casions to discriminate by the bestowal of suf
RACES in favor of the and the measures prorns-
ing the most to conserve and give efficacy to the
Northern sentiment touching slavery, and to repro
duce in ultimate practice In the Southern States the
views of Southern statesmen who calculated the Pc
rod which should witness the adjustment of Afr-
can slavery in the United States therefore,
Resolued, That we do not propose to interfere in
any wise with slavery within the limits of those
States, where, by the laws, it already exists but
that to every attempt to bring the frccmen Of the
North into partnerships with slavery; to every
attempt to subject territory to slavery to every
measure proposed in Congress for the further pro-
lection extension of slavery, and for the admis
sion of new slave States, we declare ourselves now
and immutably opposed and repuguant.
ResoIUed, That the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise was an lnfracton of the pghted faith of the
ton, and that it should be restored and if efforts
to that end should fail, Congress should refuse to
admit any State toleratng slavery, which shall be
formed out of any portion of the territory from
which that institution excluded by that Com
promise.
8. That the principles Of the Order shall ut all
times be publicly made known, and any member is
at liberty to declare his membership with said
Order, and the existence of the same
WlscoNsN-In this State the Know Nothinss
have also merged into the Know Something's, and
with the Abolitionsts form the Repu6lican party,
with this Platform:
The candidates being selected, the Convention
adopted the report of its Committee on Resolutions,
and adjourned The report aside from some minor
touching the present State Admnstra-
ton, re-attrmed as the basis of action the Platform
adopted by the Republican Convention which met
here on the 18th of July, 1854, and which is
follows:
Resozred, That the repeated and long-continued
of the slave power, eliminating ut
last in the repeal of the law of freedom in all the
hitherto unorganzed territory of the Union forces
upon the conviction that there is escape from
the alternative of freedom slavery, political
issue which is to determine whether the future adj
ninistraton of the Government shall be dcvoIen
the the other.
Resozced, That we accept this issue, forced upon
us by the slave power and in the defence of freedom
will cooperate and be known as Republicans pledged
to the accomplishment of the following purposes:
To bring the administration of the Government
back to the control of first principles.
To restore Nebraska and Kansas to the position of
free Territories.
To the repeal and entire abrogation Of the Fugi-
tive Slave act.
To restrict slavery to the States in which it exists
To prohibit the admission of any more slave States
into the Union.
To exclude slavery from all the Territories over
which the General Government has exclusive juris-
dicton. And to resist the acquisition of any more
territory, unless the prohibition of slavery therein
forever, shall have been provided for.
Resolced, That in furtherance of these purposes,
we will use such Constitutional and lawful means as
shall seem best adapted to their accomplishment
and that will support no man for Office under the
General or State Governments, who is not positively
and fully committed to the support of these princi-
Piles, and whose personal character and conduct is
not guaranty that he is reliable.
ResoJ0ed, That cordially invite all persons,
whether of native foreign birth, who in favor
Of the objects expressed in the above resolutions, to
unite with us in carrying them into effect.
States furnishes of the strongest and most sat
isfactory criterions of the magnitude of our com
merce, and the unparalleled prosperity of the coun-
try. 1t will doubtless surprise most of our readers
to learn, that both in number of vessels and tom