Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-09-19
Frem the Richmond Examiner. |
A PROTEST.

n fhOlESI.
The undersigned citizens of the Southern States,
accidentally assembled at 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 opinions there,
deem 1T due to themselves to make known in this
manner their dissent from its doctrines.
In this address, Mr.. Douglas declares that if the
Southern States mot part but alD 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
Lincoln, by arps 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 impacable 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
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 event,
the fifteen Southern States should assume to dertcr
mine on the extent of their danger, and to quietly
withdraw from it, he should regard their action
revolt and such to be punished with all the force
Of the government. Than this we car conceive of
no doctrine more dangerous to the South. 1t con-
founds resistance to established law, by individuals
which it would be the duty of the Chief Magistrate
to punish, with the peaceable secession of States
from a compact no longer consistent with the inter-
est existence Of its constituents but it treats
the Union as perpetual bond, exacting uncondi-
tona submission for YER. from weaker to stron-
ger section. 1t strips the States of the chief atri
butte of sovereignty, to wit the right to determine
when their existence it put to hazard to the
means necessary to their preservation, and ahirms
that while ii is legitimate in the people of the North
1of
it. to nlict upon the States of the South whatever
wrongs it may be consistent with their interest or
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, subversiye
| of that constitutional theory in which alone the
rights of the States to be found it has, at this
moment, and under circumstances, bloody signifi-
cance The enemies of the South. in the Northern
States, have selected Abraham Lincoln to lead them
! in the "irrepressible 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 "rrepressible
conflict" will be pressed to its Infamous and bloody
| close.
| At such 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
| federal troops should only cross her borders over
the bodies of her sons-by man from the North,
! from the neghborhood 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 as rebels hang them in cold blood traitors,
if they shall render obedience to State rather than
federal authority, is repugnant to every sense OF
right, and merits from the people Of the South the
nh,,lyo o1,-
will be given the doctrine and its author at the No
vember elections
James Lyons, Richmond city.
John Perkins, Louisiana
Allen S. lizard, South Carolina.
II. X. Burgwyn, North Carolina.
! H. r. Runnes, Texas.
Edward Halle Florida.
d. w. Spratt. South Carolina.
John Cunningham, South Carolina.
R. V. Barksdale, Virginia.
Geo R; Drummond, Virginia
John Mars
j. G. Ketts, South Carolina.
A. R. Blakey, Virginia.
John c. Griffin, Virginia.
A; B; Henegan, South Carolina
| Charles Irby, I"
F. NJ. f. FAINT,
j. Dantler,
w. Ederngton, s
Phillip Howerton. Virginia.
Wm. H. Terrill Bath county, Va.
N. F. Bowe, Virginia,
Robert NJ. Taylor, Virginia
Geo. NJ. Bates, 6.
John W. Street,
w. A. Street, l"
II. 3. To,nlin, "
VIM. Polk, Louisiana.
W. L. johnson. South Carolina
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
G. B. Singeltary, North Carolina.
INFORMATION WANTED.--We find the following in
| the telepraph column of the Nashville Banner and