Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-06-18
Mr.. Gilmer against the South.

We stated recently that Mr.. Gilmer had declared
that if he had been in Congress he would have voted
| against the as-Nebraska bill and We now ask
| attention to the following from the Ashevie News
"LE. IT BE REsEHsEsED;-Goy Bragg put the question
Mr. Gilmer Rutherordton directly Had you been
We hope Of North Carolina will ponder this
matter we'll Can they vote for man for Governor VINO
would this question of vital importance to the South
have voted against his section and with the Of
of the eemen of North Carolina from Cherokee to Curr
tuck"
In this opinion Mr. Gmer differs with Mr.. Badg-
err with Mr.. Kerr with all the Southern Senators in
Congress at the time the bill passed but two, and
with all the Southern representatives but five He
agrees with all the Wings in Congress from the free
States when the bill passed, for not one of them vot
ed for it and he agrees also with Sumner, Seward,
Trumbull, and other aboltionists of the North. On
the 9th instant, in the Senate Mr.. Trumbull said
81 think the occasion of all the mischief in Kansas has
been the passage Of the act repeating the
their former position, and pursue different course
The New York Evening Post, one of the most de-
PRAYED and infamous of abolition papers. says:
"But the passing of the Nebraska BILL might have
been spared these exhibitions of the morality Of slavery
for there would have nothing be gained them
They part of the machinery by which the reign of
slavery to be extended the region which that bill
wrested from freedom But for the of that law
the struggle which we making might have been
postponed for years. and the between the North and
the South which is attroeousy broken with the
melancholy promise of violent conflicts, would
have remained for the present at least unvolaed Yet
the test of orthodoxy at the Cincinnati Convention
this dseord all these outges Nobody contends that
they could have happened if the Nebraska bill had been
for nomination Cincinnati by declaring that he thinks
the Nebraska bill fair and just settlement of the slavery
M t Fma Il s rs. up tine agitation
strs between the free and the slave States to which
all the quarrs that have hitherto arisen but the da
ance of lovers.
The Philadelphia Sum- an abolition K. n paper,
says:
much and they shall be goaded and thoroughly
ed to retaatory measures the conflict will be erce
fifteen number down by the violence of as
and they feel that their lives in jeopardy
but sided WITH
They begged the interpOston of Gov Shannon but he
loved his daily potatons and the smiles of the
more than TRUTH decency and justice The notorious Atch
ison has done much to stimulate the bad passions of the
vaders of Kansas aud in fact present the sackng
he said a traveller whom he met "WE ARE DOING 1aEss
THINGS UNDER THE FORMS OF Law, BUT THERE
TIE LAW ABOUT II"
1t not possible that these abocal atrocities can con-
tinue without embroing the entire country Calm
moderate men are fast taking their stand with
Kansas and redress her This greatly enarges
the field of conflict and what the end will be no one save
the Ruler Of Nations foresee We are stand ny on
fearful precpce and it is than folly shut our eyes
against the impending danger. And why all this turmoil,
and the prevalence OF fierce conflicting passions Every
intelligent man instantly the question Eoery
man knosos tat the 0ieted repeal Of tile Hissou,i Cpro
,' g. aaa the a pgoss to ssnd the area Of aoe Ss
lous vacating President has famed the fame which is
ready to burst forth destructive energy
recent arocy in the murderous upon
sumner has capped the climax and exasperaed the public
mind to the highest point"
at . late meeting of the Know Nothing Council
Of the State Of New Jersey, the nomination Of Mr.
Fillmore was endorsed, and it was unanimously re-
solved
That the repeal of this wise of craftsmanship (the
Missouri the present administration, an out
rage upon good faith and because unsettled the
peace and quiet of the country and plunged into con-
dition Of dangerous to the Unon for the base
motive Of the political aggrandizement Of its
Mr.. Sumner characterizes the Kansas Nebraska
act as crime against humanity and before God !;
and such is in substance the language used with re.