Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-06-25
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,IE1Gu. SATURDAY. JUNE FL. 1856.
Agitation of the Sla very Question:

Agitation of the slavery VucssioA'
The last Wilmington Commercial puts the follow
nr nointed question to the country: Dtd any par
tu erer ogitate the saue,y question more than u IS
no initiated 6v the different dicisions Of the h"o'0
rotbjna or american party?" Never. Why, look
=, tho facts The Know Nothings first met IN ma
.onal Convention in June, 1856. They were unit
On every thing else but slavery, but here they at
once divided. By bare majority they adopted
rb,t is known as the twelfth section, embodyng
unon the whole sound platform but in February,
1876 thew met again, struck out this sectlon and
divided into two factions, the " North Americans,
md the "SoutA Americans" Mr.. Fillmore was
nominated by the Southern K. Ms, with the per-
mission of few Northern X. Ms and forthwith ne
was ,epudiated by majority of the Northern States
all the X. Ms in the latter taking ground against
! be South. and denouncng the repeal of the Mis-
o,r; line as atrocous" and Infamous" They
met arain. a few DAYS since, in New York, where
bev disputed on this question: quarreed, and again
divided and now we see the great body OF the Nor
thern X Ms openly uniting with the black kepuo-
leans or abotionists and such men IN the lead as
Gardner, Conrad, and Johnston, whom we were told,
but twelve months ago, by Messrs. Rayner and
aughton, could be trusted on the question of slave
ry. Indeed, it requires a pretty good memory to
keep Up with the Conventions, the divisions, the Sc
cessions, and the factions of the Know Nothings.-
Tzey haze done but little else, since they were or
ganzed nationally, but agtate the SLAVERY question:
and they are now using the question North IN one
way, and South in another-their paramount object
being to get into office. And yet Mr.. Fillmore is
simple enough to declare in his letter of acceptance
that the K N party alone, of all political agencies
now existing, is possessed of the power to silence
this violent and disastrous agitation, and to restore
harmony, by it's own example of moderation and
Orbearance!'
And now contrast with this dsjonted concern the
great national Democratic party. Its old platform
on slavery was re-adopted at Cincinnati without
dissenting voice and the Kansas Nebraska act was
expressly endorsed and added to the platform, and
that by unanimous vote Of the sic hundred dets-
gqtes in that Conuention, not altered q senti-
ment in the slightest degree etensire to Southern
ear As Mr.. Avery stated, in his eloquent speech
in this City on Monday night, when the resolution
approving the Kansas Nebraska act read to the
Convention, scores of Northern delegates rose to
their feet, manifesting much enthusiasm as Sou
thern delegates; and every expression uttered by
Southern gentlemen in Convention in support of
their rights under the Constitution greeted by
the North with marked demonstrations of concur
unit upon the question of the Constitutional rights
of the South the K. N. party is divided, cut up,
and powerless for good. Which party is most like
to quiet agitation restore concord, protect the
Constitution, and save the Union? Let the people
of the South without regard to party, look at the
factsa the actual condition of things, and then de-
eide for themselves For more than twenty-five
years has JAMES BUCHANAN been devoting his en-
erges, on all occasions when called upon to speak
Or to act to the defence of the Constitutional rights
Of the South. He stood by Mr.. Calhoun in his eff
forts to prevent the circulation of abolition docu.
ments through the mas-he was the first leading
ed ground against the Wilmot Proviso-he stood by
Mr. Clay, Mr.. Cass, Judge Douglas, Mr.. Webster
and Others in their efforts in 1850 to settle the ques
uon, and save the Union and he stands now upon
the kansas-Nebraska act which is the legitimate
result-the carrying out of the "compromise " o
1850 so far as the Territories are concerned He is
wise, an experienced, a safe statesman and he is
sustained by the only party which is national and
which is capable of restoring pesc, to distracted
country, and of saving the Constitution and the
Union of the States.
| w The greatest enthusiasm and unanimity per.
Vade the Democratic party from Maine to California
The Democrats and anti-Know Nothings feel that
the responsibility is them of meeting and putting
oown abotionists and traitors and saving the coun
Try; and they will be equal to the great duty assign
ed them. Ratifi cation meetings have been held ir
every portion of the country, and there is but one
voice for Buchanan and Breckenridge. Neso York
~'" COTE for them. The reconciliation there is com.
pete Gov Marcy, Gov. Dickinson, Mr. Bronson,
and others, have cordially endorsed the nominations
IL the Democrats are ouly true to themselves
'ey abate not their exertions, but go through the
.o'est as they have entered it, they will carry the
Vu"'ry oy as large majority as that obtained over