Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-01
THURSDAY, MARCH /, 1860.
Opsosifion State Conventions OF North
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We find in The Raleigh Register. of Satur-
day, the proceedings of the Opposition State
Convention which assembled in that city on
the ed ult. The Register says:
A more intelligent and respectable body
of gentlemen never assembled under the dome
of any Capitol. than that which convened in
the Commons Hall of North Carolina on the
Birth Day of the Father Of bis County, to
arrange fthe order of battle" for the preser-
walton of the priceless heritage which he left
to his children. The veterrns of the purity
were there with sage counsel and ad vice, and
with stirring words of encouragement for their
younger BRETHREN" who must do the hard
fighting, and be On hand, in season and out
of season, in fair weather and in foul, to meet
the enemy at every point and beat back his
assaults upon the COnstituiion-ihe citadel
of the Union. Never did a finer spirit ami
mate any assembly Of men.
The Register adds, the Convention was the
largest that ever assembled ia the State. The
Hon. JONI Pool, of Pasquofank, was nomi-
mated for Governor; the Hon. WV A.
GRAHAM, of n. c., recommended for the Pres
idency, and Hon. WASHINGTON HuNT, of n.
T., for the Vice Presidency. Hon. GEORGE
E. BADGER, and other distinguished gentle
men, made speeches on the occasion. The
following propositions constitute so much of
the platform adopted as relates TO federal pol
itics:
l. There should be an honest and faithful
administration of the general government.
separating its appointments and contracts
from political bribery. and arresting the pre-
sent profigacy and corruption.
2. The control of the Senate over the trea-
ty-makinS power of the President ought to
be ever carefully preserved by that body az
well In substance as in form, and the public
treasure and the war power of the govern
ment, ought with the just jealousy of free
people to be kept in the hands of Congress.
3. The appointments to Office should be of
faithful and efficient men, and not of mere
partisaDs, who, Tor years past, have occupied
some OF the most prominent stations, to the
dishonor of the nation, and the inminent dam
ger OF our cherished institutions.
4. The rights OF American citizens, wheth-
er native or naturalized, should be protected
from aggression, and the national honor pre-
served, by fulfilling all our obligations to 9TH
er governments, and by demanding and en-
forcing fuIiilment of theirs to us.
5. New States should be admitted into the
Union without regard to the establishment or
rejection of slavery in their constitutions
6. The present laws of Congress On the sub
ject of slavery should be adhered to-and all
further agitation of the question Withdrawn
from the arena of national politics, and the
whole subject left to the uninterrupted con-
troll OF the people among whom it exists.
z. Feelings of fraternity and good neigh |
borhood should be encouraged among the |
States. and the aggressions of one upon an-
other should be repulsed and punished. That |
notwithstanding the recent outrage in the |
Invasion of a neighboring State by a band of |
EaEa rnv1G
insurrectiOp, and the Gelinquencies of certain |
Northern States, in not fulfilling the cove
nants of the Federal Constitution, in relation
TO the Institution OF slavery in the Southern
States, we still regard "the preservation of
the General Government in all its constitu-
tioaal vigor as the sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad, )" and that we do
not acquIesce in the necessity for a dissolu-
ton of the Union as a remedy for grievances
now existing, or that in our belief are likely
to OCCUR
s. That we yield to no portion of our fell
low-citizens in our determination to main
tain our common rights in slave property,
and this can be better effected within the |
Union than by its destruction. When ag-
gressions upon these rights are committed |
within our own borders the remedy is IN our
own hands; and the noble example of Vir- |
GINA in the recent execution of Justice upon |
the invaders of her soil, will, we trust, render |
far distant the day which shall witness |
another such expedition for assassination, |
and treason When the perpe- |
traitors of injury do not venture within our |
limits, as in cases of seducing and aiding es-
capes. transmitting incendiary publications
and refusing and resisting the capture and |
of fugitives, the remedies in /
practice are not so effectuzl as We could |
wish, and in good faith have right to de- |
mand; but it is difficult 10 perceive how
they would be made more so by converting |
the present frontier of Free States into q /
foreign frontier, by surrendering the right to
redress for injuries of this nature in the
Courts of the United States, the power to
demand the surrender of fugitives from
Justice by the Governor of States, and the
right TO the capture and return of fugitive
slaves, with all the force and al the expense
Of the United States.
9. That in our opinion much relief may be
against such injuries by "a revision
of the police laws of the Southern States,
and That whenever these frontier States shall
ind annoyance TO their proper enjoy ment
Of this species OF property FALLING for redress
BY force. We shall be ready TO hear ken to
their voice, and TO make their cause our own.
10. That in States which have violated
he Federal Constitution by statutes designed
20 nullify the laws of the United States for
The arrest and return to their owners of
ugitive slaves, the Federal law should be
maintained by the vigorous punishment Of
III persons guilty of this violation, such
State laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
III. That we reaffirm our long cherished
opinions in favor Of The distribution of the
'ub!c lands, or their proceeds. among all
he States of the Union as more than ever
desirable as relief to the people of This
State against the present b1rdens OF taxation.
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