Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-30

I6SeFVUQ rg0tS OF Se4teS Inc equal rlg0tS
II the masses of the people of the States.
Brought to the test of this rule, how stands the
Office holders-the political friends Of Senator
Dougiasremoved from Office in Illinois, and for
whom much sympathy has been invoked? 1t
will be recollected said Mr. b. that the political
issue between the President and Senator Douglas
had sprung out of the submission to- Congress by
the President of the Lecompton Constitution for the
admission of the Territory of Kansas State of
the Union coming as it did to the President, with
Agitation and agitators in the Northern and North
western States, saw in its adoption, and the conse
quent peace and harmony of the country, the end
of their occupation. The standard of violent oppo
sition, if by general preconcert, was raised in
Congress and throughout the States alluded to,
against the President and his policy; inAammatory
appeals were made to the people of Kansas, and
that eminent statesman charged with countenancing
fraud and tyranny. How fraud and tyranny, he
would ask? By recommending the unheard of out
rage that territory with small population should
be raised from the condition of territorial Deepen
dency and made sovereign State, equal with the
greatest of the confederacy, and the consequent
power to change her constitution at her own pleas
ure! Indeed, this is new discovery in the COM
mission of fraud and Tyranny. In the language of
celebrated patriot of antiquity, in angry dia-
logue between himself and friend, he would say,
"a friendly eye sees not such faults"
He (Mr b. .dissented widely from the views of
the Senator from Orange to the relative position
proposes to sustain and the party he proposes to
mplicate by his resolution. The President had
endeavored to carry out the views before entertained
by him, and which subsequently fully coinci-
ded in by the decision of the Supreme Court in rela
ton to the institution of slavery in the Territories
and which principles recognise, in the broadest
sense the equality of the States The views of the
Senator from Illinois had, if his speeches reported
in the newspapers to be credited conficted to
| some extent with those opinions. He desired not
fO take from the Senator Illinois tho credit
which he had justly earned before this difference
originated. What the friends of the administration
| and he would further say, and those entertaining
| national sentiments of all parties, had right to
complain Of the violent efforts that had been
made to break down and disorganize the administra
| ton party in the North and West when the great
aim and end of the President, all right minded
must concedc, was to restore peace and harmony to
the country and equality to the States by the
| sure which he had proposed. He therefore, would
not consent to unite with those who were disposed
| to censure the President for the firm and manly
stand he had taken, in endeavoring to protect the
reserved rights of the States, much less could he
| consent to applaud those who sought to paralyze
his exertions when he engaged in such patri-
otto purpose. President Buchanan had stood by the
constitution and the rights Of the South-he would
say, the equal rights of every State of the Union
and it would be unworthy of the great national dem
ocratic party to abandon him when so manfully and
honorably contending in cause which was emphat-
ically the cause of the whole country.
/ Mr. Humphrey moved to lay the preamble and
| resolution on the table,
Mr.. Leach demanded the ayes and noes.
| Mr. Steele hoped the motion to lay on the table
would be withdrawn to allow Mr.. Turner to reply.
He for settling these matters. If they were to
come, let them come-for one he ready for them.
| Mr. Humphrey withdrew the notion
Mr.. Turner assured the Senator from Caswell Cdr.
Brown that he meant no disrespet in the call he
made upon him to respond to the resolution. As
for himself he assured the Senate that he did not
presume to lecture Illinois. He gloried in her
age But the Senator wanted proof of the removals
he had alluded to- If the Senator had kept up with
the news of the day he would have received abund-
ance of proof Douglas had stated the fact and he
had also stated that act of interference had been
committed by those men, except that they were in
favor of his Oouglas) election. He, Mr.. T. denied
they were elected from office on account of their in
tcrering in the election. And what was the charac-
ter of those put in? Did they not subscribe sums
of money to carry out the contest in the election?
Mr.. Brown rejoined and said, as respected the al
legations that the Office holders in of the States
had taken active part in the elections in favor of
| the administration, they were unSustained by any
proofs so far as he knew, except newspaper publ
cations and all knew that they were not to be re-
garded as conclusive, especially when made by vio
lent partizan editors. This charge, however, was
irrelevant to the question raised by the resolutions
before them and that question as to the remov-
al of the officers in the State of Illinois. He reiter-
ated the charge that most of the oficers-not per-
haps all, as some may have been removed for Off
cial delinquency-were removed for active political
partizanship; some of whom he had understood
were delegates to conventions in which the leading
measure of the administration before the last Con-
gress was denounced and that too, while nation
al Democratic ticket in the field in Illinois. If
Office holders turned political propagandists, they
subjected themselves to the rule applied by of
| the early administrations to such transgressors
| and had well earned the fate which, by their con-
| duct they seem to have courted Nor, said Mr. B.,
was this proceeding the less censurabe, from the
fact that the moment chosen to assai the President
| was precisely that when the combined elements of
opposition which abolition fanaticsm formed the
larger part-were engaged in violent warfare against
| the President for announcing principles of State
equality in the confederacy-p principles which de-
served to meet warm and hearty response in every
patriot bosom-frOm every portion of our country
men from Maine to California. On the doctrine of
the reserved rights of the States the President had
| firmly planted himself On this doctrine of the re-
served rights of the States ably advocated by the
early leaders of the State rights Democratic party
he had for long period believed depended the safety
of our federal Union Every departure from this
doctrine was step towards consolidation and every
tendency in that direction was step towards abso-
lutte military government Mr.. B. said to the affec-
tons of no was the federal Union more DEAR as
| the constitution intended it, than to his connec-
ted as it was with the most interesting memories
that ever formed nations history. Those in favor
of the reserved rights of the States the best
friends of the federal Union and strict adherence
to that political faith the only certain means of
| its preservation. Id
Mr.. Humphrey now renewed his motion to lay the,
preamble and resolution on the table. -'.t
Mr-Leach demanded the ayes and noes.
Mr. Boyd called for the reading of the resolution,
which being done -
The Senate voted on the question to lay on the
| table as follows: .s'.
| Aye-Messrs Basnight, Bledsoe, BOYD, Brown.
Cunningham Davidson, billiard, Dobson, Edney,
Gilmore Guyther, Houston, Humphrey, Landlord,
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