Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-30
Mr.. LANDER'S SPEECH.

At the solicitation of friends, VIM. Lander, ESQ.,,
of the delegates from this district to the Charles
ton Convention addressed large number of the cit
liens of Mecklenburg at the Court House in this
place. on Wednesday last.
The meeting was called to order by appointing 7.
N. Alexander, Esq, chairman, and d. B. Rea, Esq,
secretary.
When Mr.. Lander commenced speaking lat
o'clock, about dinner time) there were abont one
hundred persons in the Court House, as we are
formed by gentleman who counted; but in a few
minutes the crowd increased to the number of three
hundred, at least.
Mr. Lander rehearsed, briefly, the action of the
Charleston Convention, and sustained the course of
the North-Carolina delegation in remaining in the
Convention, fully convincing the audience. We have
no doubt that our delegates acted properly and with
commendabe discretion lie thought the seceders
ought to have remained and stood by Virginia, Ten
nessee, North Carolina, Maryland, Kentucky, Mis-
souri, and Delaware. The border States had the
brunt of the battle to bear in the conflict with abo
tonism and the enemies Of slavery, while the States
that seeded were far removed from the immediate
influence and depredations of northern fanatics. If
the Union were dissolved which he (Mr. L. hoped
would never be the case, the States that remained
in the Convention would have to meet the first shock
of civil war, and it was natural that their citizens
should be disposed to do all in their power to pre-
vent such calamity; but they were as firm in their
devotion to Southern rights as any men in the coun
try, and were as ready to maintain their rights as
those who withdrew from the Convention at Charles
ton.
Mr.. Lander said he believed that large majority
of those who withdrew patriotic gentlemen and
desired to see the Union preserved; but he knew
there were many among the seceders who favored a
dissolution of the Union and the formation of a
Southern Confederacy. He thought they all should
have remained in the Convention and acted as uni
ted Southern people-the States that did remain had
more at stake than those that withdrew, for their
interests would be more Immediately affected and in
jured by dissolution r.
Mr. Lander declared that while he was opposed to
the doctrine that Congress or Territorial Legsla-
ture had the power or right to legslate against
slavery in the Territories, he was also opposed to
demanding at this time slave code for the Terrific
ries-he in favor of non-interventon; for If the
right of Congress to interfere on one side was &C.
knowledged, then the same right would be claimed
by the enemies of Southern institutions to intervene
on the other side. Some of the seceders demanded
that the Convention should acknowledge the right
Of intervention; but Northern gentlemen-men who
have been fighting for Southern rights all their
lives-denied it. and large majority Of the South
ern people also deny it. deeming it imprudent to
spring question Of that kind at present He did
not abuse or denounce the seceders but merely pon-
ted out the error they committed in Withdrawing
from the Convention.
In conclusion, Mr.. Lander said he had no doubt
but that acceptable nomination would be made ct
Baltimore the 18th of June, and platform adop-
ted to the entire satisfaction Of all true Southern,
Union-loving men. t -
We have not attempted anything like synopsis
Of the speech-we took notes, and rely entirely
upon memory. All agree that it was IN able effort,
and that it meet the appreciation Of the people ll
who desire the success Of the great democratic par
ty) the frequent and rapturous applause with which
the speaker was greeted ia sufficient evidence.
The following resolution was adopted by the meet.
ing: , E5..6.' g. 8 ''a '77'.
Re.oloed, That we approve the course pursued BY
the North Carolina delegation in the Charleston
Convention, believing that it was eminently nation.
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