Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-03-07
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northern men nave IN the whole country that IN
troducel the Nebraska and Kansas bill Wishing ;e'
ton territory, admitted in 1883, leaving her e
her pleasure rs to slavery-one year after brought
in the Nebraska bill-the very same The 6rst Ma
whig doctrine which that party embodied as to
washington Territory, under the platform and ban
ner OF General Scott You turn against the Nebras-
ka bill because thereby You can get men in power =
VINO otherwise would never be elevated to Office.
1t ia hypocritical. You know it to be 60 / have
thrown it into your teeth thousand times. The
game is to dissolve the Union
There is not aboitionist in the country who
is not q disunionst-and whyf The consitution
recognizes slavery. If you don't accept this ele.
ment it is your duty to go for dissolution Disun-
ion IS at the bottom Of the scheme Nebraska ron
don't care for. There is not principle in the Ns.
braska bill that was not in the Washiurton hin :
This Union can't be preserved except by fidelity TO
the constitution-Shail be true and loyal to tho
constitution If so, We shall support all the laws
which emanate under the constitution We win
admit new States to have such laws as they please
SO long as they don't violate the constitution While
Virginia or any other State has slaves, the new
States should have some liberty
- deny the right of men who were kicked out Of
the whig party, rejected by the democratic party
for not being sufficiently honest; and who, finally,
by fusion, get into power, to speak for the North
Your representatives came here by Know Nothing
votes CTo Mr.. Fessenden.) Do you know rep
resentatve from Maine who came here with Know
Nothing votes against him?
Mr.. Fessenden.-The question was Nebraska or
anti-Nebraska
Mr.. Dougas.-A Know Nothing cannot be
know-Nothing without swearing to tell q lie.
Mr.. Fessenden-Do you apply this to me!
Mr.. Douglas-Show me a Nebraska man who
was elected by the Know Nothing yotef
Mr. Seward-Mr. Morgan from my district.
district.
MIR; seward-If there was, did not hear of it,
and don't believe it, and Know Nothing about il =
Dir. Douglas.-lts well known that the people Of
Chicago would not hear me. lot of Know Moth.
Ings, two by two, with pistols and bowie knives,
went int" the crowd and broke up the meeting Ny
colleague voted for the Nebraska bill under instruc-
tions from the Legislature. Now they say he was
beaten because he obcyed his Instructions He was
cut by the know-Nothings He guilty of the
enormity of being born abroad, and had not split
quite blood enough to rectify the mistake
All this prctcnce is for political purposes can
forgive the Senator from Ohio for his vociferations
and his indisnatons. His term is about to close.
lie does this to combine all the isms and ride into
power again But the race is almost run. They
call US traitors-to what? To the constitution -
No. the North. man that caters to q section,
will sail by every current -betray every friend Sir
Ito Mr. Wade) am ready to meet you as a North
ern man on Northern soil to discuss this question
Mr. Giilett--l regret TO trespass the time of
the Senate but inasinuch as nay colleague has fig
ured in this debate feel it due present the true
! sentiments OF Connecticut upon the subject which
has been precipitated upon US. 1t would be more
congenal to me to sit in silence; but when propo.
! sItions which cannot approve, and measures inju-
rlous to humanity are proposed, cannot help speak.
ing. The Senator from Louisiana has made aggres-
| sions. l shall speak within the record call the
attention OF the Senator to this very District for
which all the States are responsible [sir. G. here
read from the laws governing the District of Colun
| ba.
Mr.. Dawson.-These laws are as obsolete as the
blue laws of Connecticut They were never enforc.
! ed here don't want such false impression to 60
| out. am chairman of the District of Columbia
committee.
Mr. GlIett offered the black code of the District of
Columbia.
Mr.. Joncs.-That book is a slander upon the
South and upon the country.
MIR Giliett-A thing on horseback, dragged along
on Monday before last a woman tied with a rope u,-
der the very shadow Of the Capitol.
Mr.. Rusk Where is that book the black code Of
| the District OF Columbiag
Mr.. .Jones.-tExamning the book lit is pub
lished by an anslavery society, from the press Of
| w. B. SnetferS. John street New York
| Mr. Rusk.--l suppose
Mr. Giliett continued for than an hour speak.
ing and citing extracts from foreign and domestic
authors in derogation of slavery, when Mr.. Jones,
| of Tennessee, said the Senator fr. m Connecticut
| (Mr G) observed at the commencement Of his
| speech that the measure precpitated upon
them ; and he has read over so pages which must
have taken week TO prepare; and he speaks Of the
remarks of the Senator from Ohio, (Mr. Wade) which
.
Cro the frecsoers) Nov, own up, gentlemen, that
you knew all about this bill, and what each other
were to say on the bill. l do not say in my Sena.
toriai capacity. but personally, verify believe you
are a band of traitors
MIR. Chase moved to adiourn--yeas Z, nays 80
Mr.. Petit ridcued the idea of State soveseignty,
and gave dissertation the Romans. Scandinayi-
ans Normans, Saxons, Goths, Yandais the Grac-
chi, &C.
Mr.. Wilson said he was ready to carry out every
provision OF the constitution, but was opposed TO
the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia
or in the territories of the United States and he aud
those who acted with him, determined to abol-
ish it there They believed they shared the respon-
sibility OF its existence wherever was under the
control of Congress, and desireds to relieve them.
selves Of that responsibility.
DE earnestly desired the perpetuity Of the Union,
and thought that il the fugitive slave law should be
repealed, that the provisions of the constitution
would be carried out by the States themselves
At IL o'clock the Senate was still in session, but
rs there appeared to be NO prospect Of any impor.
tant business being transacted close our report
at this point]
The Fayetteville Argus and the Wimingtsu
Herald complaining that the North Carolina Raj
road is central and that its operations thus fal
have tended more to the benefit of Virginia than o.
North Carolina. Too late for complaints, gentlemen
the Road has been located and will be finished and
the true policy is to render as valuable to our owu
people and rs profitable Is possible.
By the way, We trust the business men snd mer
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