Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-03-03
pEMo Or MEETING IN BURKE.


and District Conventions and giving expression.to
their views upon the vital questions now agitating
the public mind
p On motion, the meeting was organized by the APP
pointment of John H. Pearson, as Chairman, and
Rufus Kincaid and Fletcher Walker as Secretaries.
The object of the meeting having been explained,
the Chairman, on motion, appointed Hon. w. W.
Avery, Dr. j. g. Mcdowell and Samuel Med. Tate
ESQ.,. a committee to prepare and report business
for the meeting. During the absence of the COM
mittee the crowd in the Court House became i'm
mense far exceeding in numbers any political meet
ing heretofore held by any party in this place.
After consultation, Hon. w. w. Avery, on be-
half Of the committee reported the following resolu-
tons:
Resolred, That the Democracy of Burke shall be
represented in the State and District Conventions,
and that the Chairman appoint seventy-hve dele
gates to represent us at Raleigh on the 8th March
next and twenty-five delegates to the convention at
Asheville.
Resolred That his Excelency John W. Ellis, has
discharged the duties of his Office with marked abil
ity, fairness, and impartiality, and in our opinion
his denomination will not only be cordially received
by the people of Burke County, but will be hailed
by large majority of the people Of the entire State
as an endorsement eminenty due to him for the Il
deity and devotion with which he has watched over
and protected all the great material interests OF the
State.
Resolred, That we heartily approve the admins
tration of James Buchanan President of the Uni
ted States, and proudly point to has Nationality,
proclaimed by precept and developed in practice,
emblematic of the broad comprehensive and national
principles which animate and distinguish our great
Democratic organization from the tides Of the Atlantic
to the shores of the Pacific and from the Northern
exremites of the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
Resolred, That we cherish devoted attachment
to the Union of the States and the Constitution
which cements it but the sanctity of the grows
out of the compacts for our protection guaranteed
by the other and the deliberate violation by confed
crate States of the rights secured to us by those
compacts, whether effected directly or indirectly,
cancels the bond of Union and leaves the States
whose constitutions. rig hits may be thus violated,
free to choose the mode and measure of redress.
ReS0lred, That the black Republican party, eX-
Guiding fifteen States of the Union organized
upon a platform which, however disguised pro-
poses the emancipation by fraud if possible, by vio
lence If need be- Of four millions of slaves, 20 be
turned loose as frecmen in our midst that having
adopted Helpers book their text and Seward, bru
tai and bloody manifesto as their creed, their rally
ing cry among their adherentS at home is death to
the master and freedom to the slave" and the dom
inant sentiment which impels them in this unhoy
crusade is intense malignant hatred to the South
and her institutions. Such party, organized
and for such purposes, is tantamount to declara
ton of against the Constitution and the Union
of the States, and triumph by such orgar =ation
in Presidential contest, would be virtual dissou-
ton Of the Union
Resolred, That whilst tleploring the calamtous
consequences which black Republican triumph
would entail upon our beloved country, and SYM
pathizing most deeply with our noble Democratic
allies at the North who would thus be left to the
tender merces of that revolutionary and fanatcal
party nevertheless take this occasion to declare
most solemnly that in such an emergency, our po-
sition will be taken beside Southern brethren ;
that the concerted action of sister States Of the
South shall be our guide, and we as individuals
pledge to the holy Of the South, amid every
| peril, "Our lives and our most sacred honor"
ReSolred, That the spirit of submission to black
Republican rule has existence among the mass of
people and any expression to that effect is but
ebullition of individual partisan sentiment rarely
avowed and finding few sympathetic ears.
ResOlred That the only hope for the preservation
of the Constitution and the safety of the Union, in
the present crisis is the of the Democrat
c party, and we look to the deliberations of the
Charleston Convention as furnishing the only means
of escaping the perils which now environ ship of
| State. To the nominee Of tina: Convention pledge
a warm and cordial support, and we invite the pa
triotic men of all parties to rally around that nomi-
nation. No third party can be formed with any
! chance Of success in the coming struggle. The
Democratic party is the only Union saving par
ty. The cry of "new Union party" is deluson
and snare the real and only contest for President
| will be between the Democratic nominee and the
! black Republican candidate; the stake is our go-
rious Constitution and the Union consecrated by the
blood of fathers, the side, and disruption,
perhaps civil war, on the other; between these ex-
tremes of lofty patriotism and of bloody treason,
! patriots must choose.
! Mr. Avery advocated the resolutions in a speech
! of an hours Misunderstanding upon all the excl
! ting issues embraced in them reviewing The past
and present relations of existing parties TO the
mentous questions before the country and invoking
! all patriotic men to rally beneath the Democratic
banner. He was followed by Messrs. John A. Dick
son and S. c. w. Tate, who entertained the large
audience with eloquent and effective speeches. The
resolutions were then unanimously adopted.
On motion of John A. Dickson, ESQ.,, it was or
dered that the proceedings Of this meeting be pub
lished in the Standard, Asheville Neos and West,
ern Democrat and Salisbury Banner, and other dem.
cratoic papers in the State be requested to copy.
The Chairman under the first resolution, appoint.
ed the following delegates to the State Convention
at Raleigh, to wit:
W. W. Avery, R. c. Pearson, Saml. Med. Tate,
j. c. Mcdowell, Z. j. Kirksey, Jacob Seagle, John
A. Dickson S. c. w. Tate H. j. CASTOR, VIM. R.
Duvall, James I. Pearson, Joseph Britain, James
NJ Henderson, z. D. Lancaster, j. NJ. Happoldt, c.
Happoldt, c. NJ. Avery, j. B. Kincaid, W. c. Good
John NJ Carson Isaac E. Avery Samuel Tate, Jas.
c. McKesson, Phillip Warlick, W. R. Aiken, Saml
Aiken, William Bally, William Berry, j. d. Glass
w. L. Glass, A. S. Greenlee, Bartlett Berry, Michl
Spanhour, Wesley Berry, Daniel Burns, j. W.
Wilson, John W. Duckworth, John Ferree, W. R.
Tennessee Levi Laxton, j. D. Tennessee R. U.
Michaux, E. S. Shipping j. c. Estis, H. Comfy, Bar
net Moore, Nelson Lindsay, Riley Talent Claiborne
Branch, VIM. Stamey, David Mace, Britain Hawk
ins, d. W. Stacey, Robert ]. McElrath, Geo. Hodge
j. H. Hall, VIM S. Sudderth, Sidney Poteet, Johna
than Hine. Henry Deal Peter Epley, Joseph Deal
Marcus Winters, VIM. H. McElrath, Jesse Comfy
Alphonso c. Avery, Thos. A. Dorsey, VIM. Keller,
NJ D. Britain, W. S. McConaughy, Daniel Jarrett
E. NJ Ferree, John Kincaid, Robert Presnell, Aaron
Kerly, w. W. Kincaid, n. P. Beck, j. P. Beck
Henry P Lindsay, NJ. D. Armfeld, VIM Mccall
lard, E. E. Greenlee, Calvin Houck, and B. Stacey
The Chairman appointed the following delegate:
to the District Convention at Asheville
S. G. W. Tate John A. Dickson II. j. CASTOR
Joseph Britain, Saml Med. Tate, James I. Pear