Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-10

In the Congress Of the United States there is one
foreigner In the last legislature of our Statc-el-
ected, as the members were, before the Know Moth
ing hood-there was but one and he was leading
[-Imight say, without being invidious, the leading
member of the Senate allude TO Col. G. Zeigler,
who came or was brought to this country when an
infant eighteen months old. He is one of the first
intellects of our State, or any State He has been
my political friend-my personal friend-my sup
porter in every aspiration. | submit it to you if
there is not something radically wrong in organ
zation which would prohibit Inc from voting for him
merely because he was born outside of the United
! States, though brought here when mere child I
| have used his name without his authority. I know
| he will pardon me, when he sees that have only
used 1t to illustrate more strongly to people than
could by hundred arguments the absurdty of
this indscriminate prescription of foree n-born men
| from Office.
| If the despotisms of the Old World should ever
attempt to destroy government by sending their
population here, will not, as your representative,
pause to talk or argue about our naturalization laws
1t shall speak and vote for prohibiting any foreigner
from treadlng his foot upon soil! shall strike
at the root-not waste my time and energies in lop
| ping Oft the branches.
| have always understood that three grand lead
ing ideas run through our institutions, giving them
all OF their vitality, their beauty and their power
hrst, that the people are capable of seEgovernment
This is the doctrine of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
| Second, that had made an asylum to which the
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here they might worship equals at the altar Of
our liberty; that here they might lift up their hearts
to their God according to the dictates of their con-
sciences, and there should be none to modest them.
Third, that there should be aristocracy of birth.
have regarded, and regard, these as the peculiar
pride and boast, OF my country. l regard them as
the three grand and massive pillars upon which the
whole magnificent structure of our government rests
will not, by any action of mine, deface or mar
these pillars.
1 have been often asked if am uot in favor of
recognizing the Wing party? answer that, in the
present condition Of parties and the country in nv
Judgment such an effort can do no good, and might
do great harm.
say to you that we have no sound material North
out OF which to reconstruct that party. Look back
at the past Every Wing representative from the
North in lS49 voted for the Wilmot proviso But
three OF them out of sevcnty-three voted for thefu-
| gitve slave law-that law which does but common
justice to the South, and which is cor ,manded by
the constitution itself! Not one Wing North of Ma
son and Dxons line voted for the Kansas Nebraska
! bill OF 1854! On all these measures majority of
the Northern Democrats voted with the South. Have
we, them not reached that point in the North pre-
supposed by Mr.. Clay when he said 4; ''If the Wing
party ever becomes merged into contemptible abo
lition party, will abandon in disgust ?" and should
| not we, his old followers, take his implied counsel
| and his proposed example, when he says; 81 will
act with that party whatever its may be, that
stands by the constitution and the Union" 10 en-
| DaftV would
but to divide aud distract the sound national men of
| the South.
Where have we ally i'll the North outside of
Democratic organization? These allies have been
true to US in the past With patriotic devotion to
| the Union of the States and patriotic regard to
the constitutional rights of the South. thew have
barred their bosoms to the ragngs of the storm-they
have stood unmoved while palignty and fanaticism
have poured their fiery torrents upon them take
them to my heart as political brothers, and wea, and
| cherish them there
How stands the Democratic party? have given
you the resolution of the present members of Con-
gress
Listen to Ohio STEPPED as she has been in free.
soilism, in State Convention assembled, with the
boldness of right, with the candor of manhood thew
declared on the Sth day of January last follows
81. Resolsed, That slavery (being the creature
of positive law, cannot exist without it is domestic
institution, and that Congress has neither the power
to legslate it into any Territory or State, nor to
exclude it herefro, 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 United States.
''2. Res0lred, That the right of the people of
each particular State and Territory to establish their
own Constitution form of government, to choose
and regulate their own domestic institutions of eve
ry kind, and to lcssate for themselves, is funda-
mental principle of all free governments and that it
is the selfsame right to which our ancestors
| wagcd the war of the revoution-a right lying at
|
cognised in the Declaration of independence, and
established by the Constitution of the United States
and we hereby endorse and reaffrm this now dis
| putcd principle"
Contrast this with the resolves of the Know-No.
thing Convention at Cincinnati.
Listen to Indiana, She too speaks in her Demo.
| cratic State Convention. She SAYS:
| "ResotUed, That we approve the principles of the
compromise measures of 1850, and their applications
as embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill and will
faithfully maintain them"
Hear the Democracy of New York, as they, too, in
convention, declare:
| Resolued, That the determination of Congress-
avowed in the Kansas Nebraska BILL to reject from
the national councils the subject of slavery in the
Territories, and to leave the people thereof free to
regulate their domestic institutions in their own way
subject only to the Constitution of the United STATES
is one that accords with the sentiments of the Demo-
cracy of the State and with the traditional course
of legislation by Congress, which under Democratic
auspices, has gradually, in successive territorial
bills, extended the domain of popular rights, and
limited the range of Congressional action and that
we believe this disposition of the question will result
most auspiciousy to the peace of the Union and the
cause of good government"
! All, everywhere, from Maine to Texas, speak the
same language, declare the principles, and rally
under the same flag Is not this party national p
Contrast these resolves with the fact that the Know
i Nothing party, but two years old, has managed,
even in that short time to be in favor of secresy
against secrcsy in favor Of test oaths against test
oaths-n States for the Catholic test in others
against the Catholic test-on side of the Union
for the twelfthsecton, the other side against the
twelfth section; and, in their late convention at one
time the Southern chIvalry bolt at another the Nor
thern FrecSoilers bolt and tell if you can sup
port such party, even though Willard Fillmore is
| its candidate for the Presidency?
AS to the Black ReDublican marty # has nou, tho