Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-09-17

Will our Democratic friends who are fond Of coupling
Americansm with Aboltonsm, publish the following re-
solution adopted by the Democratic State Convention of
Ohio in February last?
"Resolyed That the people of Oho oD as Mey hare al
.9a de look upon slavery as an evil and to
the development of free institutions and that entertaining
these sentiments they will at all times feel to b. their
tonal to its increase. to mitigate and
Wilmington Herald.
The Herald is mistaken about this matter. The
above resolution was adopted in 1855 but in 1856,
in their State Convention, the Democrats of Ohio
passed sound resolutions the subject of slavery
as were adopted in any free State. They were rep
resented in the Cincinnati Convention, and their
delegates voted unanimously for the platform there
adopted, which the Editor of the Herald will no
doubt cheerfully admit to be sound far slavery
is concerned. Will the Herald correct its mistaken
We know what we have here stated to be so.
The Herald speaks of "coupling Americanism
with Abotonism." Does not the Herald know
that the "twefh section" on slavery, which was
in the main sound, was adopted by the Know Moth
ings in national Convention in June, 1856, by a
bare majority; and that within two months after
the Convention adjourned every K N. Council in
the free States had repudiated that teefh section?
Answer u.s. Mr.. Herald. Again,-does not the Her
aid know that in the last K. n. national Convention
this twelfth section stricken out; and that the
Northern Know Nothngs, nneteen-twenteths of
whom are abolitonists, left that Convention, and
afterwards declared for Fremont? As general
rule, "Americanism ard "Abolitionism" in the
free States are one and the same
Again, we ask the Herald if Mr. Fillmore has
erer expressed sentiment schich shoacea his piing
ness to see sluuery extended Nay-we 90 further
xbo,, Al, ho
Nebraska act, which opened new Territories to the
Shareholders Of the South? Answer us that, Mr..
Herald. Again: While President of the United
States he wrote letter to the people of Boston, in
which he spoke of slavery as "evi," and ex-
pressed the hope that it might in the of time,
to exist. Is this denied? If so, we will pro.
duce the letter. Yes, he apologized to Boston
mob, deeply infamed against the South, for the
istence of institution sanctioned by the Bible and
recognized in the federal Constitution; and in doing
so, he placed under the ban, socially as well as po-
litically, the people of fifteen States of the Union!
What right had he, occupying the seat of Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Ty
Ter, and Taylor-all slavehoders-to utter his pri-
vate opinions against slavery, and thus reflect on
these illustrous and fifteen sovereign States
of the Union? The Herald strains at gnat," but
"swallows camel" 1t the Ohio Democrats were
in error, they have their error, and taken bet
ter ground; but how is it with Mr.. Fillmore? Can
the Herald show that lie has taken back the
timents expressed in his Boston letter Gov. Wise
stated not long since, that while serving with Mr..
Fillmore in the House of Representatives, he, Mr..
Fillmore, more than once declared that he was
"distur6ed by the elanking Of the chains on the
slares in the District Of Columbia" How will the
Herald explain that? Mr.. Buchanan declared, in
his place in the House Of Representatives, thirty
years ago, that if necessary HE WOULD BUCKLE
ON HIS KNAPSACK, AND MARCH TO THE
DEFENCE OF THE SOUTH AGAINST THE
ABOLITIONISTS. Wespeak from the record-see
"Gales and seaton's Register of Debates" vol. 3D.
1926, page a,1so. And yet the Herald would have
its readers believe that Mr.. Buchanan cannot be
4 sofelv trusted on the onestion of slayervi