Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-08
From the Savannah Georgian. ]

tracts from it. we show by them how our
friends (who are the friends of the whole South)
speak to the people ofthe North. There is no nine
ing of language-no Fillmorean suavity and oily
ness but the plain, out-spoken truth. Ii anything
in the world could open the eyes of the American
party in Georgia. it is the sentiments OF such man
as Hallet. In tho very hot. bed Of Aboltionism-
Boston, he dares to live and entertain such senti-
ments. Show US anything ike II anywhere North
of Mason & Dixson's line.
There are thousands of men at the North, holding
exactly such opinions, who call upon the South to
strengthen their hands, and that they will fight the
battle upon the broad ground OF equality and JUS
tice: and vet there are at the South with such
napab]e evidence of the right path to follow, and
absolutely nothing to recommend their own party,
who persist in clingng to the last rag Of an EXPIRE
sdential vestment as the pieces OF the 'trce cross
were treasured by the bigots of creduous age.
While Mr.. Fillmore in his letters and speeches,
invariably lodges the great question" and talks about
"the constitution and his past career" Mr.. Hallet
meets the issue at the threshold, and thus speaks
of it:
"THE SLAVE POWER"
Be not deceived by name. The power they stig-
Matte as the slave power is that Democratic Power,
acting by democratic majorites South and North,
which has made this county democratic which has
preserved the equality OF States and the vitality OF
the Union, by sustaining national government of
expressly delegated powers, instead of consolidat
ed government of underlined usurping powers. 1t is
that Democratic power which acquired Louisiana
and the free navigation of the Mississippi in 1S03,
admitted her as an equal State in 1Sl2,-sustaned
the second war of Independence, purchased Florida
in 1814,-annexed Texas in 1845 ,-conquered a
peace with Mexico in 1913, Extended our borders
to the Pacific in 1885, and laid the foundation of
empire of States along its endless shores 1t is that
power which in the half century of our Union, has
expanded this Republic from thirteen to thirtyone
States 1t is the political power, moreover, which
strations, and unde, them formed and established
everygreat measure Of finance and of domestic pc.
Icy that has agitated the country, until all parties
have acquesced in their final settlement by the
Democratic party. If that is " the sSh,re pocer ;"
against which demasogues, political parsons, law
breakers, and union haters rail, mark it well brother
democrats of the North lit is the progressive, con-
sentative, democratic and constitutional power of
this Union, North and South! And when North
democrats mslcd by that false cry against their
brethren shall shake hands with Northern fusionists,
Southern know-nothings, to strike down that
power they will deliver the Constitution, the Union
and the Democracy bound hand and foot, over to
their worst enemies.
challenge our opponents to name any one great
measure Of national policy, any act of progress and
enlargement Of our country and its liberties; any
prominent and enduring legislation at home or d.
plomacy abroad, that has not been made q part of
our laws and institutions by democratic adaninistrd-
tions chosen and sustained by the gotes of Southern
andNorthern democrats against Northern md South
trn minorities The local fact that Southern dem
ocrats held slaves has no more to do with the DEM
ocratic power which has prevailed in this Union,
than the fact that Southern ederastS and Southern
know -nothngs owned slaves And never did you
hear this false cry Of slave power" raised against
those shareholders at the South, who have Joined
with the federalists, the wings, the knownotlngs,
or the freesoers of the North to put down demo-
cratic administrations. Mark that democrats, and
take lesson from it. When your opponents cry
"slave power" they mean, just what the Hartford
convention federasts meant in 1914, the democratic
Pouer.
AGGRESSION SOUTH. :.
Hence sectional division was the first aggression
of the North upon the South, not because it held
slaves, but because it held Thomas Jefferson and
democratic votes enough, when combined with the
then few Northern Democratic States, to twice elect
him to the Presidency.
plain that the lost political power of New England
could be regained only by putting down the South
ern Democratic States, and preventing the admission
of new States from the South and West, which have
always come in democratic States. To aid this sec
tional policy there was but subject upon which
the people of the States disagreed precisely accord
ing to geographical lines That was domestic sla-
Gerry; the cry of slavery" The Hartford Con-
vention seized upon the geographical element of dis
cord to divided and conquer the united Southern
and Northern Democracy. The first movement in
that Convention was against what they then de-
nounced, just as our opponents do now, " the pre-
ponderance Of the slave power" They demanded Of
the South as the conditions of continuing the Un-
ion
Frst-That slaves should not be counted as three.
fifths Of the population required to make up the
ratio of representation
Second.-That a two-thrds vote in Congress
should be required to admit any new State, to lay
an embargo and to declare war.
Third.-And in many words they " ResoLced,
that no person aoho shall hereafter be naturalized,
shall be eligible member Of the Senate or House
of Representatives. Of the Unitsd States capable
of holding any cicH office under the authority Of
the United States"
In the same spirit the Know Nothing Convention,
(Feb. 90 1860 laid down their narrow platform,
pledging the party to the advancement to all pot
ica stations executive legislative judicial or dplo-
matte, of those only ho dre americans by birth edu-
cation, and training"
These changes in government it was proposed to
effect not in the mode provided for amending the
Constitution, but after the of the attempted
revolution in Kansas, by conventions chosen by the
people in each State, outside of the Constitution.
Massachusetts with her Hartford Convention bill,
was at the head of that geographical party of dis
union then, with her personal liberty" nulfca-
ton BILL she is at the head of the geographical dis
union party of black republicans and know moth
ings, now.
Does any party exist, Wn1cn Will MAINTAIN that
the Hartford Convention of 1914 not geograph-
ical, sectional organization of the federal North
against the democratic South? There were then
nine non-saveholding and nine slave holding States
in the Union. Every Northern State except Yer
mont, Pennsylvania, and Ohio were in the opposi-
tion-Every slave-hoding State except Delaware
was democratic.
WHO HOLDS THE HARTFORD CONVENTION CREED?
have given you from the record, the creed of
the first geographical sectional party formed in this
country. Where is that creed now? In the Coali-
ton Conventions of the Republicans" and IS North
Americans" that nominated Mr. Fremont, and also