Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-01-16

The X. N. Members from North-C Carolina,
The Nebraska. Kansas bill passed the House of
Representatives the LIST of May, 1854, by vote of
l13 to 100, and was Immediately thereafter approx
ed by the President By this act the great principle
of non.intervention by Congress, which had been
established in the :" compromise" of 1850, in ques
tons of slavery, was reafirmed and it was declar-
ed that its true intent and meaning was not to
legsate slavery into any Territory State, nor to
exclude it therefom, but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way, subject only to the
Constitution of the States" and it also declar
ed that these Territories, "when admitted State
or States, shall be received into the Union with or
without slavery MS their Constitution may prescribe
at the time Of their admission" This measure was
sustained in the House by the Southern Democrats,
by the great body of the Northern Democrats, and
by all the Southern Wings with the exception of
five 1t was voted for by Hendrick b. Wright, of
the 18th District of Pennsylvania; and i'll the cam
paign of 1866, Mr.. Wright took the field, defended
this vote and stakcd himself upon it, and was de-
feated by Ii. NJ. Fuller for whom Messrs. Purycar,
Paine, and Reade, of this State, are voting for
Speaker.
The Wing State Convention of North Carolina,
which assembled in this City on the 2lst February,
1854 adopted among other Resolutions the follow
ing:
"RssolceA, That we re-affrm the Resolution of
the last Wing Convention the ''cumpromise "
measures Of 1850 which declares them final set
Element in principle and in substance, of the dam
gerous and exciting subjects to which they relate;
and that are in taroro Of the doctrine Of non-1n-
IN the Territories Of the United States, noc held or
hereafter to be acquired"
By this Resolution the doctrine of non-interven-
ton was expressly approved; and the inference most
clearly is that it was approved as carrying out ola
portion of the compromise" of 1850. The Wings
of this State entered the campaign this PLATFORM
and professed to stand OH it in good faith until the
election Both parties, then, in this State in
favor of the NebraskaKansas bill-both approved it
and justified it before the people. But what do
We see? Mr.. Richardson, the Democratic candidate
for Speaker, was the most active and prominent adj
vocate of this measure in the last House of Repre-
sentatives; Mr.. Wright, who was defeated by Mr..
Fuller, voted for it and spoke for it at home and
now, IN a contest between Messrs. Richardson and
Fuller for the SPeakership, the three X. N. Wing
Representatives from this State arc found uniformly
voting for the latter. But Mr. Fuller say these gen.
temen and their adherents, is now with us-he is
now sound. What proof is there of this 1t is
known that he was party to the late fusion move
ment in Pennsylvania of Know Nothngs, abolition
lists, and black Republicans; and he is now enjoy
ing his share Of the honor resulting from that
ment. With the temptation of the Speakershp gilt
terng before his eyes, he says he is opposed to ag
tation, and would not vote to degrade the Southern
people by again fixing on them unjust and I'M
constitutional restriction; but he expresses
greet for his course and his lips sealed to the
manner and the means by which he triumphed over
Hendrick B. Wright. The latter gentleman has
been uniformly true to the Constitution and to his
Southern brethren. His speech on the Nebraska
Kansas bill, delivered in the House, April 4th, 1854
shows him to be an out-and-out non-intcrvention
statesman-in favor of the compromise of 1850,
aud the advocate Of the right of shareholders as well
non-slaveholders, to to and settle in the
Territories of the Union In fine, Mr.. Wright sens
Nth us IN the day Of trial, and was defeated be-
cause he stood by us, by Mr.. Fuller. Mr.. Richard
son soas also soith in the 10y Of triu and was re-
elected against the most desperate efforts of the
Know Nothings and aboionists to defeat him.
The difference, then, between Messrs. Clingman,
Branch, Rufin, Craigc, and Winsow, and Mcssrs.
Puryear, Reade, and Paine is assuming as do,
and justly, that this question of nonintervention is
paramount to all other that the former are sustain
ing for Speaker man who did not desert us when
aid was needed; and the latter sustaining man
for the post who did desert us before the people
Of his District and who succeeded thereby in defeat
ing one of our most attached and active friends. 1t
is also apparent that the three latter gentlemen
acting in direct opposition to the deliberately cx-
pressed opinion Of the Wing State Convention Of
1854; and as we humbly conceive, p direct oppo-
sition to the opinions and wishes of a majority of
the people of their respective Districts.
But say these gentlemen and their friends, we
cannot vote for Mr.. Richardson, because the Demo.
Gratis who nominated him passed Resolution de-
nouncing and insulting US, and erected thereby an
''impassable barrier ?" between US. Why, what a
subterfuge is this! That Resolution is neither in.
sulting nor denuncatory. 1t is dignifed and res
pectfu but it announces in plain terms the position
OF the Democrats, and expresses, q consequence
their opposition to all other parties and isms Know
Nothinslsm included. The Democratic members did
no more on that occasion than the Know Nothings
and Wings themselves have done a thousand times
towards their opponents We tell these gentlemen
and their organs in this State, once for ALL that such
an excuse will not do. There can be-there arc
only two parties in the House of any Importance
administration, and an anti-adminstration party,
Messrs. Pnryear, Paine and Reade can offer no OBJ
lection to that portion of the Presidents late mes.
sage devoted to slavery. In their hearts they ap.
prove it-and yet they are contributing to weaken