Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-27
Demecratie lIeetiag Il, wayne.

At emeeflnk of the Democracy Of the county OF
Wayna held e the Courthouse in Goldsboro', in
accofdance with previous notice, on Tuesday Of.
Court week, being the l9th<of February, 1856, S.
d. Phillips called the meeting to order, and OH his
motion, Everett Smith, sEsq.s was called to- the
Chair, and James H. Everett and James s.. Lane, I
appointed Secretaries. "a
WIN. Robinson, by request of the Chairman, |
stated that the object of the meeting was to APP
point delegates to State Convention to be held in
the city of Raleigh. on the 10th day of April next.
Gen. G. Fl. Brogden then moved that Commit /
tee of five be appointed by the Chair to prepare
and report resolutions expressive of the and
political feelings of the meeting. VIM. Robinson,
s. ID. Phillips, Gen. c. H, Brogden, d., A. j. Brooks,
and Rufus Edmundson, were accordingly appointed
said committee, who after short absence from the
meeting, reported the following resolutions which |
were unanimously adopted:
Rssotced That the Democracy Of Wayne approve
of Raleigh as the place, and the 10th of April as
the time Of holding the Convention and regard the
objects and purposes for which it is to convene
namely to re-affirm the high Constitutional princi
pies by which true Democrats ever governed, as
we'll as to effect more thorough organization of the
party and consolidate its strength for the approach
ing State and national campaign, as objects and
purposes of paramount importance to our whole
country-tO our own good Old North State-and to
ourselves as American citizens.
Resoloed, That the able, faithful, and impartial
manner in which our estimable and worthy Gov.
ernor, Thos. Bragg, has discharged his official du-
ties merits and receives our cordial appreciation.
He has shown himself to be honest, capable, and
faithful in office, statesman and patriot. whose
love OF country, whose sense of honor, whose ad-
| miration of justice, whose devotion to truth and
| moral integrity are too pure-of too high an Or
der-to be sold in the market of corruption, for the
| qualification of personal ambition, or the accom-
pshment of selfish designs. His aims and objects
are his country's good. He is the Governor of the
whole State and not of party devoted to the best
interests of the People, the firm and UNMARRIED friend
of Free Suffrage, by legislative enactment and he is
our first choice for the ensuing Executive term:
| Resotced That we have the utmost confidence
in the final adoption of that great fundamental
principle Of political liberty and equality commonly
called Free Suffrage passed by our last State Legis
lature, and we shall regard its passage by the next
| Legislature and its subsequent ratification by the
people, as the complete triumph of great Demo-
cratic principle, and measure, of constitutional
reform sanctioned by justice, reason and comhon-
sense.
Resolped That the course Of our Rcprescn-
tative in Congress, the Hon. Thomas Ruffin, in re-
! lation to the election of Speaker, commands and
meets with our warmest appreciation and that, in
refusing to organize the House of Representatives,
by any comp Omise of principles, such fusion
with Black Republicans Free sellers, Know no
things; himself, and democratic COLLEAGUES did faith
fully reflect the will and the wishes of their admir-
! ing constituents
| Resolued, That the decided ability and fear
less patriotism of President Pierce, as evinced by
his faithful and efficient devotion to the rights of the
States and the integrity of the Union, commands
highest admiration and deserves our warmcst sup
port That his recent annual message, in every SEN
tence and paragraph is repete with instruction and
redoent of patriotism, and will 90 Gown to posteity
not only as a state paper OF inestmabe worth, but
. as monument of the moral herosm of the man and
the incorruptibe integrity of the officer; That
long as he wicds the national sceptre, the South will
be protected in the uninterrupted enjoyment of her
peculiar Institutions, the citizens in the territories
guarded against the aggression of pensoned fanatics
and mercenary hypocrites and the government adj
ministered by an Executive, who knowing no North,
no South East, West, looks only to the inter-
of the whole country and the sacred maintenance
| of our glorious Constitution: And, that should he
receive the nomination Of the Cincinnati Convention
the Whole South will, in opinion, rally to his
support.
| Resolred That we make no aggressive war
fare the Institutions privileges pursuits of the
northern peop!e-a people whom would still
fondiy denoninatc brethren That we deprecate the
bitter euds and sectional strife that agtate the coun-
try and threaten It's tranquility but we cannot pur-
chase peace at the sacrifice of honor barter prn
cple for the most enduring prosperity. We will not
forego a solitary particle of our Constitutional rights
be the consequences what they may, nor submit to
wrong, even TO save the Union.
Resoloed, That deprccate and denounce all
external interference with the internal affairs of
actual settlers in the Territories of the United States
whether that interference is nstigated by eugrant
| aid societies, instituted and fostered by fanatcal
abolitionsts is nstigated by slave holders That
the actual settlers in any State Territory the
| sole, and only competent persons to decide upon
the nature of their own institutions, more imme
diately affected by them: That if they choose to
enter the Union slave States, they have the right
to do so; and if they choose to enter the Onion as
| free States, the South will not murmur. We mind
our own business, and allow every man and every
community the same privilege and advise him and
them to exercise that privilege dscreetly.
Resolred, That dePlore the faulty, still
visible in some quarters of the South that allows
Southern men to fraternize with Northern know no.
things, Notwithstanding the recent denouen.ent on
the floor of the House of Representatives and that
the design, by Southern men, to revive the secret
order in the South offers sufficient reason why the
democracy of this State. of the whole South and of
every conservative State in the Union should con-
tnue their opposition to know nothngism under
whatever name or garb it may assume.
Resolred, That the INIQUITY OF KNOW
| NOTHlNGISM is but the legitimate result of that
fendsh fanaticsm which has filled the popular
branch of Congress with black republicans, placed
notorious traitor in the Speakers Chair, made
wicked abolitionsts charnen of the most iih por
tant standing Committees in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and which has spit upon the Constitn
tion, Knocked at States rights, degraded the South
by deriding her Institutions and vastly imperilled
the peace of the whole country and the integrity
and perpetuity of the Union.
Resolued, That in packing the standing Com
mttees of the House of Representatives Mr.. Speak.
Banks has shown himself the fit dupe and servile
tool of Horace Greedy and his motley gang of indel
socialists and PICTURED abolitionists: That in crush
ing out the South-a people inhabitng fifteen States
of the Union-not only by refusing to place any
Southern man at the head of any important Com
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