Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-24

Gov. B., which denounces the ADMINISTRATION for
having recklessly andunwsey repealed the Missouri
Compromise-a pretty platform for Southern man
to stand upon, especially when adopted in place Of
that Of the year belorel He read from the speech
Of Mr.. Badger to show that all the Wing Sena-
tors from the South supported the KansasN
braska bill except one, and that the measure was.
passed by Northern and Southern Democrats and
Southern Wings, and that Mr.. B. said it was light
and proper that it should pass
Gov. B. then gave the history of the Missouri
Compromise line-showed how unjust it was to the
South orignally-that the South had, however,
shown every disposition to abide by it, and had time
and again sought to have it extended over the new
territory to the Pacific, while the North repudated
that line. The South was, therefore, not properly
chargeabe with any breach OF faith, and was right
to get rid of the odious act. Now, he said, there
wer. questions of vital importance growing out OF
that matter, and we wished to know where our
Know Nothing opponents stood with regard to them
But no one could tell. What was Mr. Fillmore's
opinion upon any one ofthese questions? No body
knew. He had said nothing while at home, and at
the last accounts, strange as it might seem to hnow
Nothing ears, he was in the city Of Rome partaklng
of the Inequalities of the Pope. Was the matter
pressed, we are here told that the party eschews all
sectional questions State and NATIONAL in order that
the paramount principles of Amercansm may have
full play TINS raising the question only who shall
hold the Offices of the country, and not in what
manner our government shall be administered. Can
it be possible said Gov. B., that the people =" i'll be
thus humbugged and trited with when the country
is in danger?
Gov B. said he would then examine the claims of
this new party. He went into full examination OF
its principlcs-stated what had been its history
North and South-what had been its fruits in differ
ent sections-how it sent nothing but abolitlonlsts
and freesolers to Congress-andc challenged his COM
petitor to point to solitary Northern national man
of his party in either House Of Congress-gave the
history of the election of Speaker of the House OF
Representatives, and how not one of them voted
for Aiken when the contest was between him and
Banks although five Of them had voted for hun the
day before, including their candidate, Fuller.
He then examined into its origin, and traced out
the machinery Of the whole thing-showed that 1t
monstrous attempt to subvert the plan OF gov
crnment adopted by fathers and to substitute in
its stead these worse than midnight Jacobin clubs
But am unable to follow the Governor through this
part of his speech without too much prolixty.
He exposed their constitutions, rituals, obliga-
tons and oaths, some of which he read. Said they
had been hunted from their dark places in this State
and now profess to have done away with all this
how and in what way don't appear; while at the
North these councils, as appears from their last ma
tonal platform, are still kept up.
He concluded by saying that sucha party did not
deserve the support of free people, nor did ne be-
lieve they would receive it. lie was willing to 60
before the people of North Carolina this subject,
and should do so confident of success.
NICARAGUAN AFFAIRS.
The President of the United States transmitted to
both Houses of Congress- Thursday last, the fol-
lowing Special Message:
To the Senate and House Of Representatives.:
transmit, herewith reports of the Secretary OF
State, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Attorney
General in reply to resolution of the Senate OF the
Oath of March last and also to resolution of the
House Of Representatives of the 9Th of May instant
both having reference to the routes of transit be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the
Republics of New Granada and Nicaragua, and to
the condition Of affairs in Central America.
These documents relate to questions of the high
est importance and interest to the people Of the nj
ted States.
The narrow isthmus which connects the cont-
nents of North and South America, by the facilities
it affords for easy transit between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, rendered the countries of Central
America an object of special consideration to all
maritime nations, which has been greatly augment
ed in modern times by the operation of changes in
commercial relations especially those produced
by the general use of steam as motive power by
land and sea- To US, on account Of its geographical
position and of political interests as an Amer-
can State, of primary magnitude, that lsthmus is of
peculiar Importance just as the lsthmus OF Suez is
for corresponding reasons, to the maritime powers
of Europe. But, above all, the Importance to the
United States of securing free transit across the
American sthmus has rendered it Of paramount in.
terest to since the settlement of the territories Of
Oregon and Washington, and the accession of Cali
fornia to the Union
Impelled by these considerations the United States
took steps at an early day to assure suitable means
of commercial transit, by canal, railway, or other
wise, across this iSthmus.
We concluded in the first place, treaty of peace,
amity, navigation and commerce with the Republic
of New Granada, among the conditions of which
stipulation, on the part ofNew Granada, guar
anything to the United States the right of way or
transit that part of the sthmus which lies iii
the territ, ry of New Granada, in consideration of
which the United States guaranteed in respect of the
territory the rights of sovereignty and proper
ty of New Granada.
The effect of this treaty to afford the people
of the United States facilities for at opening
common road from Chagres to Panama. and for at
length constructing railway in the same direction,
to connect regularly with steamships for the trans
portation of mails, specie, and passengers to and
fro, between the Atlantic and Pacific States and Ter
ritories of the United States
The United States also endeavored, but unsuccess-
fully, to obtain from the Mexican Republic the ces-
sion of the right of way at the northern extremity
of the isthmus by Tehuantepec, and that line Of
communication continues to be object of solicit
tude to the people of this Republic.
In the mean time, intervening between the Repub'
lie of New Granada and the Mexican Republic, lie
theStates of Guatemala San Salvador, Honduras Mica
ragua, and Costa RIGA, the severed members of the
former Republic of Central America. Here, in the
territory of the Central American States is the mar
rowest part of the lsthmus. and hither, of course
public attention has been directed as the most invi
ting field for enterprises of nter-oceanic communi
cation between the opposite shores of America and
especially to the territory of the States of Nj
caragua and Honduras.
Paramount to that of any European States as was
the interest of the limited States the security