Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-09
Rati6cation Meeting in Aiamanoe.

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81 a portion Of the Democrats Of Alamance met at
Haw River on Saturday, June %, and organized by
appointing John Troiinger, Esq, Chairman, and J.
W. Lea and DR.. G. D, Cobb, Secretaries. S. E.
Williams, Esq, explained the object of the meeting
and entertained the audience with aneat and appro-
pirate speech In obedience to calls upon them, F.
l. Wilson, Esq, and Dr. P. A. Holt also addressed
the meeting. The following resolutions were then
unanimously adopted: -..,.-.-s
WHEREAS, The time has arrived in the history of
our country for men to look well to, and examine
thoroughly, the great principles by which the des.
tiny of country is to be decided, either for good
or Tor evil Therefore, we, as citizens of common
country, and of common interest, should mark we'll
the political horizon .nd Whereas new parties and
principles have arisen to distract and divide U.S.
it becomes our duty to speak plainly and boldly our
opinion of men and measures: therefore
Resolued That we have an abiding faith in the ca
pacity of man for sefgovernment, SO long as he is
left free to act for himself, and not bound by the
mandates of a secret council
Resolued, That in the great fundamental truths Of
political policy, 2ropounded and enforced by JEFF
ferson, as successfully carried out by Madison, Mon
roe, jackson, Polk and Pierce, we find abundant
safeguards for the safety Of this Union and OF our
republican institutions.
Resolced That religious liberty, the inalienable
right to worship God according to the dictates Of
own conscience without restraint or restriction
is the great foundation upon which the Union is
built, and alone upon which it can stand.
Resolued That any party, secret in its move
ments-bigotry and superstition its fundamental
creed cannot stand the test of truth and of reason
1t is antirepublican and dangerous as history will
abundantly show, to the institutions of an enght-
ened and liberty-loving country.
Resolced That the party known in our country
as the Know Nothing alias American party, is Sec
tonal in all its movements, has no claim to nation
atty, has fixed principles, is alone opposed to
Catholicism and fOreipnerS and therefore. luStV
entitled to the unqualified condemnation OF every
American citizen.
Resolced, That the Democratic party is the only
national party now in the country; that its princ
pies are interchangeable and unchanged. They are
the same from Jefferson to Buchanan,--they re-
ceved the hearty support of Jefferson, and elected
him. They now and have been for thirty years.
enthusiastically and cheerfully endorsed and defen-
ded by James Buchanan, whom they will also elect.
Resoloed, That We most heartily endorse the NOM
ination by the Cincinnati Convention, of the Hon.
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, as our candidate
for President of the United States. That in him
we find man, sustaining and possessing all those
elements of true greatness, which characterize the
honest, the good, and great man. His national rep
utation is far in advance of any OF his countrymen
for it is not confined alone to the bounds of the
Union,-Europe acknowledges his vast and varied
information his spotess integrity, and unfiinchns
patriotism. That we will give him our hearty sup
port and influence; for we know and feel that the
platform laid down by the Cincinnati Convention,
with Buchanan as its defender, can alone save our
glorious Union and sustain our republican nstitu-
tons.
Resolred, That the nomination of the Hon. John
G. Breckenridge of Kentucky, for the Vice Presiden-
cy, was Of the best that could have been made.
His indomtable energy, his firm PATRIOTISM and dis
tingushed character statesman, has won for
him a reputation enduring and lasting as the
granite hills of his own native State.
49, c1
standard bearer, the Hon. Thos. Bragg. We can
but give faint echo to that tremendous applause
which greets him in every portion of the State. 1t
cannot and will not be settled until August next
Then it will be announced in thunder tones by the
freemen Of NorthCarolina, that the gallant and no
bic Thomas Bragg, of Northampton, is the Governor
elect of North Carolina for the next two years.
On molten, it was resolved that the proceedings
of this meeting be published in the n. Z. Standard.
The meeting then adjourned.
JOHN TROLINGER, Chm.
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