Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-05

right Of self government over their domestic affairs,
cannot see why the same right should not be guar
anteed to the people of territories since the rev.
olution. (Applause) have never yet claimed for
the people of the American territories, any other
right or higher right, than our fathers maintained
at the point of the bayonet for the colonies prior to
the revolution. (Appause.) If an American cru
izen of North Carolina moving to territory oil the
United States, is not entitled to as many rights Oh
self government there, as British subject oeiore
the Revolution, let me ask what did you gam oy
the sacrifices of that Revolution oices, goou
and applause) Who are the people OF the terrific.
ries that they are not capable OF self government!
You do not doubt that you citizens oil North-Caro-
lima are entirely competent to make laws for your
own government. You do not doubt but what the
right of self government is an inherent right IN
North Carolina If it be an inherent right in this
State, let me ask you when you emigrate 10 hansas
at what point of time do you forfeit that right ?
Do YOU lose all the sense all the intelligence, all the
virtue you had upon the wayside, while ENGRAVING
to territory of the United States? No man doubts
your capabllity while you remain at home to decide
for yourselves what kind of laws you Will have IN
respect to negroes as well as to white men. Are
you any less capable after you have left your native
land and gone to territory Is there anything in
the character of the men who emigrate from their
native valleys the plains and prares of the North
West that renders them less fit for self government
than those who remain where they were born p
Those of who in early lie left the old States who
penetrated into the wilderness, secured our own
homes, made our own farms, erected school houses,
and churches, made our own fences and split our
own rails, Qaughter) think that we know what
kind of laws and institutions will suit our interests
quite as well as you who never saw that country.
Voices, "right" and applause.) We have quite as
much interest in the laws under which we are to
live, as you have who never expect to 60 to that
country, and Therefore have no concern about our
laws.
These are the opinions of Northwestern man, a
man who has spent his whole life upon the frontier
You cannot convince us that we are not as good as
our brothers who remain in the old States. Know
there is something in the human mind that leads
every one suppose that his own birth place the
very center of civilization and that there is nothing
good beyond the range of his infant vision. When
/ was a child, l though that the mountains which
surrounded the valley in which was born were
the confines Of civilization, my vision was limited
by them, and | fancied beyond their boundary there
was nothing but border ruffians and outside bar
barians When, however, | crossed them and got
into the next valley, found there were just as good
people there as had left 5ehiHd me, and so with
the next and every step took from the east to-
wards the setting sum- unloosened and shook of IN
Just prejudice. Ignorance has fixed around other
people prejudices similar to those then had. We
in the Northwest have much more respect for you
than you have for u.s. We do not feel disposed to
but you deny ours with you. We love you better
than you do us. We love this Union better than
you do, in consequence of the circumstances which
surround us. You go into one of our new settle
ments in Kansas, Nebraska Illinois, or any OF Them
and there you will find that NorthCarOlinian has
settled down by the side of Connecticut farmer,
with Virginian next to him. New Yorker,
South arolinian, and representatives from every
State around him, the whole Union being repre-
scented prairie by the farmers who have settled
on it. In the course of time the young people of
this society begin to visit and in little while the
North Carolina boy Yankee girl he likes, and
his prejudices against her people begin TO soften.
Qaughter) In few years the Carolinian and the
Connecticut people are united; the Virginian and
the Pennsylvania, the Yankee and the STAKEHOLDER
united by ties of marriage and blood and friend
ship, and social intercourse; and when their chill
dren grow up, the child of the same parents has
grand father in North Carolina and another in Yer
mont and that child does not like to hear either Of
those States abused. That child has reverence
for the graves of his grandfather and grandmother
in the good Old North State, and he has the same
reverence for the graves of his grandfather and
grandmother in the valleys of Vermont; and he
will never consent that this Union shall be dissolved
so that he will be compelled to obtain passport
and get it rsed to enter foreign land to visit tie
graves of his ancestors.
You cannot sever this Union unless you cut the
heart-srings that bind father to son, daughter TO
mother, and brother 20 sister in all States
and Territories (Cheers.) Besides the ties Of
blood and affection that bind to each of the States
we have commercial intercourse and pecppiary in
terests that We are not willing to surrender. Do
you think that citizen of Illinois will consent
to pay duties at the custom house when he ships his
corn down the Mississippi to supply the people be-
low? Never on earth
We shall say to the Custom House gate-keepers
Of the Mississippi river that furnish the water
khaf Nt.N, c.
throughout its whole course to the ocean, matter
who or what may stand before u.s. (Cries of that's
good" So with the East-we are bound to the
people of the East by the ties Of blood and
kindred and you cannot sever this Union without
blasting every hope and prospect that Western
man has on this earth. Then, having so deep
stake in the Union, we are determined TO maintain
1t, and We know but one mode by which it can be
maintaned-that is to enforce rigidly and in good
faith every clause, every line every syllable of the
Constitution as our fathers made it and bequeathed
it to us. (Cheers) We do not stop to enquire
whether you in Raleigh, or the ab0litionsts up in
Maine, like every provision of that Constitution
not 1t is enough for me that our fathers made it.
Every man that holds Office under the government
is sworn to support it Our children are brought
up and educated under it. and they are early i'm
pressed with the injunction that they shall at all
times yield ready obedience to it. | am in favor
OF executing in good faith every Clause and provis
~" vi Tie Oonsutut!on, Coud cneers,) and oil pro-
tectng every right under it CHEERS and then hang
ing every man who takes up arms against it. (Con-
tinued cheering) Yes, my friends, would hang
every man higher than Hannah who would attempt
to resist by force the execution of any provision of
the Constitution which our fathers made and be-
queathed to U.S. loud cheers and voices, "that is
Southern enough for us y" Yes sir, that it is'')
gentleman behind me says that that sentiment is
Southern enough for him and for you. do not 90
for the Constitution because it is Southern or North
ern-not because it is Eastern or because it is West
ern, but | go for it because my allegiance TO the
Constitution-my oath and my duty-my love for
my children and my hope of salvation in the future
makes it my sacred and bounden duty to vote for it
and maintain il. loud cheers and hurrahs for
Douglas.) l claim no rights for my State that /
will not concede to you and defend for YOU and the
whole South. lCheersl will accent 10 nriuilenes