Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-15
[From The Richmond Examioel
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The undersigned citizens Of the Southern States,
accidentally assembled the White Sulphur Springs,
have read with much surprise the speech Of Judge
Douglas, recently delivered at Norfolk, and being
many of them too remote from their homes to take
part in any public expressions Of opirions there,
deem due to themselves to mako known in this
manner their dissent from its doctrines.
In this address, Mr.. Douglas declares that if the
Southern States mot part but alp shall secede
from the Union upon the Inauguration Of Abraham
LINCOLN it will be the duty Of the President of the
United States, who, in the case supposed, will be
Lincolp, by arms to punish or subdue them. and
that he will counsel him to do so and aid him to do
so by all the means in his power.
Now, as there is large party at the North avow-
ing the most implacable hostility to the institutions
of the South whose candidate for the Presidency is
Mr.. Lincoln, this declaration Of Mr.. Douglas is in
effect that the election of man to the Presidency
of the United States by the votes alone of one sec
ton, who is pledged to use all the powers Of the
government for the destruction Of the rights and
property of the other section, would not Justify the
weaker in resistance but that if in such an event.
the fifteen Southern States should assume to dcrter-
mine on the extent of their danger, and to quietly
withdraw from il, he should regard their action as
revolt, and such to be punished with all the force
Of the government. Than this car conceive Of
no doctrine more dangerous to the South. 1t con-
Pounds resistance TO established law by individuals
which it would be the duty Of the Chief Magistrate
from compact no longer consistent with the inter.
est or existence of its constituents but it treats
the Union as perpetual bond, exacting uncondi-
tional submission for ver from weaker to stron-
ger section 1t strips the States of the chief attr,
butte Of sovereignty, to wit the right to determine
when their existence it put to hazard, as to the
means necessary to their preservation and afirms
that while it is legitimate in the people Of the North
having control of the general government through
it to infict upon the States of the South whatever
wrongs it may be consistent with their interest OF
feelings TO impose it would be treason in the people
Of the South to obey the orders of their States in
opposition TO federal authority.
Fraught with error as this doctrine is subversive
of that constitutional theory in which alone the
rights of the States to be found it has this
moment and under circumstances, n bloody signifi-
canoe The enemies of the South. in the Northern
States have selected Abraham Lincoln to lead them
in the rrepreSsble conflict" which he has pro-
claimed Mr.. Seward the most distinguished coun.
seller of Mr.. Lincoln, declares at Boston that the
election of Lincoln Is Sure-that with it the power
of slavery will end, and that the "irrepressibe
conflict" will be pressed to its Infamous and bloody
close
At such a moment the proclamation Of such SEN
timents by Judge Douglas Coming Immediately
after Stewards Boston Speech uttered here at the
South, and addressed to the citizens of a State
whose Executive declared to General jackson that
the bodies of her sons-by man from the North,
from the neighborhood of Lincoln himself candi-
date for the Presidency, volunteering his counsel to
Lincoln and in the event Of his election his aid to
wage war upon our people and to slay them in bat
tie rebels, hang them in cold blood traitors.
if they shall render obedience to State rather than
federal authority, is rcpugnant to every sense Of
right and merits from the people Of the South the
severest rebuke Such rebuke sincerely hope
will be given the doctrine and its author at the No
vcmber elections
James Lyons Richmond city.
John Perkins, Louisiana.
Allen S. lizard, South Carolina.
Ii. K Burgwyn. North Carolina. ..
H. r. Runnels, Texas
Edward Halle Florida.
d. W. Spratt. South Carolina
John Cunningham. South Carolina.
R. V. Barksdae, Virginia.
Geo. R, DrummOnd, Virginia
John Mars,
Z. c. Thomas,
j. G. Keitts, South Carolina
A. R. Blakey Virginia
John c. Griffin, Virginia.
A; B; Henegan, South Carolina.
Charles Irby,
F. NJ. Z. FAINT
j. Dantler,
W. Ederington,
Phillip Howerton, Virginia
VIM ii. Terrill, Bath county, Va.
N F. Bowe, Virginia,
Robert N. Taylor, Virginia.
Geo. NJ. Bates, i"
John W. Street. Z"
W. A. Street. "
III. b. Tomlin, d"
VIM. Polk Louisiana.
W. L. Johnson South Carolina. "a.
John Prosser Tabb. Virginia.
Miers W. Fisher, Virginia.
Leland Noel, Mississippi
: Langdon Cheves, South Carolina.
v. c. Bee, South Carolina
Wharton j. Green, North Carolina
Edward o. Datchell, Virginia.
George f. Wilkins, Virginia
A. Saltmarsh. Alabama.
Jos. A. Graves, Virginia
Thos. B. Lynch, South Carolina.
VIM. r. Peck, Louisiana.
J. A. Riddick, Virginia.
w. A. Selden, :"
Jno A. Selden, &"
G. B. Singeltary North Carolina.