Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-04-02
VOICE OF THE DHM0CRACY.
Democratic Meeting in Columbus.

Democratic Meeting in Columbus.
ACCORDING to previous notice, meeting OF the
Democratic party of Columbus county was held at
Whitevlle, on the 18th inst, which was organized
by Calvin Haynes. ESQ.,, being called to the Chair,
and L. l.. Vail and A. j. Butner reqested to act as
Secretaries
The object Of the meeting having been explained,
viz The appointment of delegates TO Raleigh i'm
order to nominate Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and the selection of delegates to assemble at
Whitevie on the 7th of April next for the purpose
of making choice of IN Senatorial candidate; the
Chairman appointed Messrs. F. George, j. c. Pow
ell, w. Ii. Toon, Col. NJ. Powell and j. H. Sum-
merset to draft resolutions for the action of the
meeting. After a short absence the Committee re-
turned, and through their Chairman, F. George
Esq, reported the suboincd resolutions, which
unanimously adopted
Resolced, That we approve of Raleigh as the place
and the 10th Of April the time of holding Demo-
cratic State Convention, for the purpose Of no.nina
ting candidate for Governor in the ensuing guber
material canvass.
ResolUed, That the Chairman appoint twenty-five
delegates TO represent the county of Columbus in
said Convention.
Rcsotced, That concur with our friends Of
Brunswick county in the propricty of holding Dis
trict Convention composed of delegates from BIa-
den, Brunswick and Columbus, at Whiteville on
the 9TH OF April next, for the purpose Of nominating
Democratic candidate for Senator to represent this
district at the ensuing session of the Legislature
Resoteed, That the Chairman appoint fourteen de-
egatcs to represent this county in said Convention.
ReSolrod That the Democratic party is the only
one which can justly lay claim to nationality in
timent and acon that to this party alone the coun-
try can look with any reasonable expectation that
its best interests will be promoted, by preserving the
Constitution intact, respecting the sovereign rights
OF the States, and thus pcrpctua,ing their Union.
! ResoLced That President Pierce, by his bold able
and patriotic administration of the affairs of State
at home and abroad has proved himself eminenily
worthy of the confidence of the American people as
their chief executive; that his patriotism is not m
| tied within sectional lines and boundaries but is
| large enough to embrace our whole country North
! South East and West, and that in his recent clear
| and elegant messages To Congress, he has pointed
our people to their true constitutional duties, and
called upon them in the language of patriotic earnest
ness, to act in good faith towards one another.
Resolred, That the Democratic party of this Stat
have reason to be proud of their present able and
patriotic Governor; that his course has been such
throughout as TO claim tie undiminished confidence
of his -citizcns and, therefore, that he is our
first choice for standard bearer in the ensuing guber-
material canvass.
In accordance with the above resolutions the Chair
man appointed 25 delegates to represent this county
in the Democratic State Convention, to be held at
Raleigh on the 10th of April next, viz:-Mcssrs. f.
Col NJ. Powell, Neil Mcko!csky, Lewis Williamson,
\. L. Williamson, j. Ii. Summersctt, o. Ii. Powell,
ID. F. Williamson, JAS Faulk, NJ D. Goodwin, w. j.
Stanly, Everett Hnson, John Mills, Jr J. ii. Gore,
2. p. Jenrett, W. X. Gore, j. p. Lee JAS Beach, c.
c. Gore, J. c. Pierce, Warren Haynes, and J. W.
Rouse. On motion, the Chairman and Secretaries
were added to the above delegation.
To attend the Senatorial District Convention the
Chairman nominated Il delegates, viz
Messrs. X. Wooten, A. j.. Butner, L. l.. Vail, W.
W. Brown, j. G. Powell ID. F. williamson W. j.
Staniy, Jno Mears, Jno. LII. Gore, w. n Gore j.
p. Fornyduval, j. NJ NJ. Gore, A. j. Baldwin, and j.
Morgan Heigh.
T. George, Esq, was then called for and respond.
cd in brief and pointed address which was received
with marked satisfaction by the meeting. He alud
cd to the proud position occupied by the Democratic
party as the only one that truly constitutional
and national; and, going back to the early political
history OF the country, he showed, while op.
ponents were constantly aiming TO centre power in
the federal government, our doctrine and practice
tended to place and TO keep in the hands those
whom Of right it belonged He rapidly sketched the
turns and manouvrcs--the false professions and
shifting expedients of Whiggcry until it finally as
some had truly said, died Of innate corruption,
and was within the last few years attempted to bs
raised again under new form and new name tha
Of Know -NothingSm. lie then touched upon thu
nominees Of that party, Fillmore aud Done.son
, Why, Inc asked, should Mr.. Fillmore be the hero o
/ Southern people? Was it that, when the Fugitiy.
! Slave Law passed, much doubt hung around
his mind about the propriety Of it, that he mus
consult the Attorney General its constitutional
! ty? And in concluding, he observed that not unit
thoroughly organized Democratic party got com
plcte ascendency would sectional strife cease ant
! the voice of diSunion be huShcd in the land
1t was then moved that the proceedings be sent t.
the Wilmington Journal with the request to publish
On motion of Col. NJ Powell, the meeting adiour
ned. e. HAYNES, Chairman.
4 4 ]. J. RaIEan Rns, Secretaries.