Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-02-06


ality of the Wilmot Provso, and yet the Southern
locofocracy support and applaud him, as they did
Van Buren, and do Pierce, and will any body who
can keep the spoils in their pockets. A precious
cious of all that pink Of Journalists the Editor of
the Raleigh Standard. Eliz City Sen
We have but little time and space to devote to the
"Sentinel but we have thought it proper to no.
tlce and expose the above declarations.
In the course of his remarks in the House of Re-
presentatives, on the 18th January, Mr. Richardson
said:
t" In 1903 we acquired Louisiana; it slave
territory. In 1920 we divided, by line of SO deg.
30 min, that territory; north of the line it was to
be free. In l845 we annexed Texas; that
slave territory We divided that by extending the
line of 36 deg. 80 min, through that north to be
free. voteo repeatedly to extend the same line
west to the Pacific ocean. voted for that line with
a few Representatives from the North and the
whole body of Southern Representatives. When |
gave those votes did not believe thcn nor do |
believe now, that violated the Constitution of the
United States. If you have power under the Con-
stitution TO exclude slavery from half of Terrific
ry, :hink you have power to exclude from all,
though such an exercise would be unjust and wrong.
have never therefore, voted to exercise that pow
er, except upon the principle of compromise
On the same occasion Mr. Richardson also said
"The Constitution does not, in my opinio-, carry
the institutions of any of the States into the Terri
tories; but it affords the same protection there to
the institutions of one State of another The
citizen of Virginia is much entitled in the com.
mon tc ritory t, the protection of his property
der the Constitution the citizen of Illinois; but
both are dependent upon the leg slaton Of the Ter
rltorla government for laws to protect their prop
crty of whatever kind it may be-"
Mr.. Richardson also stated that he had never
ted for the Wimot Proviso and that he regarded
any interference by Congress in questions of slave
ry, unjust and wrong, and opposed to the xpir-
1T ct' the constitution
Is it necessary to inform the I" Sentinel that Mr.,
Badger. Southern man. argued in the Senate Of
the United States to prove the consuonality Of
the Wilmot Proviso?' The Raleigh Register" al
so occupied. at the time the same ground; and if
not greatly mistaken, Col. Outlaw, then the
representative of the Edenton District in the House.
sustained Mr.. Badger in this view Of the question:
The "Sentine therefore, makes no capital against
the Democracy by attack Of this sort Col.
Richardson.
Hundrcds-yes. thousands Of Northern Demo
Gratis have been sacrificed, for standing up at home
for the rights of the South and the equality Of the
States under the constitution sacrificed, to crafty
the lust for power of black Republicans and the X.
N. abolition allies of the "Senncl" newspaper;
sacrificed, while such as the "Sentinel" were SUBJ
mitting to abolition aggres>ions and while they
characterizing these very Northern Democrats
as frecsoers and abolitionsts. and slandering and
vying traitors and dsunonists all in the South
who stood forth manfully for the constitution an!
| for what was due under i: to their section And
even now this very vigilant and patriotic "Senti-
mel is willing to so in Convention at Philadelphia
with the X. Ms Of the free States ninety inehun-
|
| Councils, without exception, have repudiated the
twelfth section of the national X n. platform
the question of slavery. And yet this paper has
the cfontery to lecture others about their devotion
| to Southern rights!
! The ''Scntncl" has turn for abusing its political
opponents. We Shall not initiate it in this respect
Its allusion to the "Spoils' shows where the shoe
| pinches. 1t hates the Dcmocracy-it receives no
patronage from the administration ard hence it can
nothing to admire and commend in the noble
| and constitutional stand occupied by President
! Pierce. Its ill-natured illusions, so frequently
made, to the Standard, serve but to amuse us-wc
| are not at all hurt by them.
MR.. FULLER'S POSITION.
The following, from late number of the "W ash
ngton Unon," wilkshow at glance the position of
| Mr. ruler, 1Of WhOm tiic o0uW americans nave
been voting for Speaker
| I'VE have neither time to-day to discuss
the opinions enunciated in yesterdays debate
in the House by Mr. Fuller the American candidate
for Speaker We have only this to say that yes
tcrday he denied that Congress. had the power to
egislatc the subject of slavery in the Territories
and yet three weeks ago. in his place in the House,
he yielded the whole power to Congress the sub
jcct of slavery in the following declaration:
| "If the Missouri Compromise can be restored,
acoua most certainly be in taeor Of ats restoration
but in reac Of tile difficulties aohich surround that
question: and must defeat your efforts, sag that
am opposed to the agitation Of the question:"
In the course of the same debate, he said of the
Nebraska bill:
IL should have opposed the legislation of the last
Congress l do not endorse it now"
That is, he would restore the Missouri line, if he
could he would have voted against the Nebraska
bill, and does not endorse it now.
w" Among the cases recently decided in the
Supreme Court of the United States, at Washing
ton, is the case from Arkansas of R. A. Parker cs
William Overman. This was case ofmuch mpor-
tance, and settles the question of title to large quan
ttes of land in that State which have been sold for
taxes. The decision in the Court below was re-
versed We that our late townsman, William
S. Bryan, Esq, of Baltimore, was sole counsel for
the successful party; and we glad to learn that
a generous quidam honorarium rewards his efforts,
1t always gives pleasure to record the good for
tunes of native North Carolinans whose interests
them to other fields of action. and there