Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-11-28
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RALEIGH: SATURDAY. NOV. "a. 1860.
Governors Message.

RALEIGH: SATURDAY, NOV. a. 1860.
Governors Message.
We publish to-day in extra form the message Of
Gov. Ellis to the Legislature Of this State
There are portions of this document to which we
earnestly and respectfully object We regard por-
tons of it tending to disunion without good cause
and fear that the purpose of the Governor is to
"precipitate" the State into the position occu-
pied by South Carolina. We say this after care
ful reading of the message. We regret that it is
our duty to say it. for were anxious, if possible,
to approve the tone of the message and the policy
rec0mmended in it.
The Governor recommends in the first place
consultation with the slavehoding States and he
then recommends that "a Convention of the people
of the State be called, to assemble Immediately after
the proposed consultation with other Southern States
shall have terminated" This consultation is to be
held through commissioners or delegates, to be ap-
pointed by the Legislature, and tte' yards the peo
pie of the State to be consulted rather to be
called upon to carry out the programme Of disunion
which this consultation will propose. In other
words steps are to be taken to dissolve the Union
on account of the election of President according
to the Constitution and the people then to be called
on, not to direct or control the consultation but
merely to register and carry out the disunion
schemes of the disunion leaders, There it is, fellow
citizens, in plain English That is the plan of your
Governor. He desires to dissolve the Union, but
he fears to trust the people with the question. He
would agitate and arouse passions in advance, and
commit the honor ard the pride of the State to dis
union schemes; and then, and only then would he
consult the people of the State in their sovereign
capacity, to know what their views on the most
important subjects that have engaged their at
tention. Such is the Democracy of Gov. Ellis
such is the respect which he entertains for his
ters, the people Of North Carolina
We understand Gov. Ellis as eGphatically advi-
sing the people of this State to resist the inaugura
ton Of Mr.. Lincoln. He says ait is true Abraham
Lincoln is elected President according to the forms
Of the Constitution; it is equally true that George
the Third was the rghtful occupant of the British
throne, get fathers submitted not to his author
ity" That is, our fathers resisted George the
Third, and we should resist Abraham Lincoln. We
should resist him without trying him; We should
leap violently into the untried scenes of anarchy
and revolution simply because bad man has been
chosen President according to the forms of the Con-
stitution. But we deny that George the Third was
the "rghtful occupant of the British throne" Our
fathers fought not only against George the Third
but against the doctrine of the Divine right of Kings
Every schoolboy knows this to be so, yet Gov Ellis
tells us that George the Third twas the rightul
occupant of the British thone!'
. There are various other points in this disunon
document which we will notice hereafter. Mean
time we reproduce the language used by US on this
subject in our issue of the 17th instant, and an.
nounce it as our purpose to stand mmovaby on the
ground then occupied In the Standard of the 18th
we said:
The banner of the stars and stripes now so bitter
ly denounced in Charleston, waved but for the
protection of South Carolina. Hundreds of her sons
have ded beneath its glorious folds foreign battle
fields. 1T is true the election of Lincoln by strict
ly geographical vote is great calamity. If thos
who elected him shall attempt to carry out thei
peculiar views with reference to the South, every
Southern State will at unite and make common
cause against common enemy. Let us then
Watch and Wait Mr.. Lincoln will either breal
up the Union by attempted aggressions on tn
South, or he will break up his party by refusing t
attempt aggressions. We say attempted aggres
sions for actual aggressions he will never be per
mtted to make. We are for the Union as long a
it can be maintained with safety and honor If W
believed that the honor of the South had beel
touched, that the slaveholding States were no
safe IN the Union, we would strike for dissolution
without stopping for moment to count the cost
Here, then, we stand. We denounce and def
the dsunionists, and we will make war upon then
until the people of this State, Of all parties, shal
rise in their might and teach them, and teach al
professional and designing politicians that thei
property their fortunes, their lives and the intee
nty of the federal Constitution shall not be subet
Ted to the control of demagogues lusting for powe
and for new places in Southern Union. Our r.
''aaes is on the people. If they will stand by us i
o's struggle as we believe they will, we shall fea
no consequences. + ...-....- .5-..,r
'Y 1t is stated in the New York Herald, tina
resident Buchanan insists that the Constitution
Tue United States establishes government and he
S tne sworn head and Executive thereof, mus
S"o Will See to the execution of the federal laws tina
sm suv aea OF peaceablc secession by any State is
aiaey which he does not recognize, and must n
bo ;. VIZ 'ui extent Of his power In this vie,
ne ne IS supported by Cass, Black, Toucey, and Hol
'N opposed oy Floyd, Cobb, and Thompson
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