Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-11-24
Governors Message.

Governors Message.
We publish to-day in extra form the message of
Gov Ellis to the Legislature of this State.
There are portions of this document to which we
earnestly and respectfully object. We regard por-
tons Of it as tending to disunon without good cause
and we fear that the purpose of the Governor is to
"prccipate" the State into the same position occu
pied by South Carolina. We say this after care
full reading of the message We regret that it is
our duty to say it, for we were anxious if possible
to approve the tone of the message and the policy
recommended in it
The Governor recommends in the first place a
consultation with the slaveholding States, and he
then recommends that "a Convention of the people
Of the State be called to assemble Immediately after
the proposed consultation with other Southern States
shall have terminated" This consultation is to be
held through commissioners or delegates, to be ap-
pointed by the Legislature and afterwards the peo-
pie Of the Stale to be consulted or rather to be
called upon to carry out the programme of disunion
which this consultation will propose. In other
words steps are to be taken to dissolve the Union
on account of the election of President according
the Constitution and the people then to be called
on, not to direct control the consultation, but
merely to register and carry out the disuniOn
rlemes Of the disunioa leaders. There it is fellow
citizens, in plain English. That is the plan of your
Governor. He desires to dissolve the Union, but
lie fears to trust the people with the question. He
would agitate and arouse passions in advance, and
commit the honor ard the pride of the State to dis
inn md w rhan ha
consult the people of the State in their sovereign
capacity, to know what their views are on the most
important subjects that have ever engaged their at
teRtiOn. Such is the Democracy of Gov. Ellis
such is the respect which he entertains for his mas
tsrs the people of the North Carolina.
We understand Gov. Ellis as emphaticaly adyi-
sing the people of this State to resist the Inaugural
ton Of Mr.. Lincoln. He says, ait is true Abraham
Lincoln is elected President according to the forms
o; the Constitution; it is equally true that George
the Third was the rightful occupant of the British
throne, get our tatherS submitted not to his author
FF." That is, our fathers resisted George the
Third, and we should resist Abraham Lincoln. We
Should resist him without trying him; we should
leap violently into the untried scenes Of anarchy
chosen President according to the forms of the Con-
sutution. But we deny that George the Third was
the "rightful occupant of the British throne" Our
hthers fought not only against George the Third
INT against the doctrine of the Divine right of Kings.
Every schoolboy knows this to be so, yet Gov Ellis
tells US that George the Third twas the righyat
occupant of the British thoneI
Ihnrao IL
document which we will notice hereafter Mean
TINE We reproduce the language used by US on this
SUBJECT in our issue of the 18th instant and an
nOunce it as our purpose to stand immovably on the
ground then occupied. In the Standard of the 18th
We said:
The banner Of the stars and stripes now so bitter
Fdenounccd in Charleston, never waved but for the
Protection of South Carolina. Hundreds of her sons
nave died beneath its glorious folds on foreign battle
neS 1t is true the election of Lincoln by strict
geographical vote, is great calamity. If those
WHO elected him shall attempt to carry out their
PECULIAR views with reference to the South, every
southern State will at once unite and make common
tauSe against common enemy. Let US then,
"atch and Wait. Mr. Lincoln will either break
Up the Union by attempted aggressions on the
Su'n or he will break up his party by refusing to
@.'empt aggressions. We say attempted aggres-
'ols Tor actual aggressions he will never be per-
4''''ed to make. We are for the Union as long as
uan be maintained with safety and honor If we
's"eSed that the honor of the South had been
"ucned' or that the slaveholding States were not
''.e In the Union, We would strike for dissolution
uncut stopping for moment to count the cost.
=, here, then we stand We denounce and defy
"s uSrnIonists, and we will make war upon them
'U the people of this State, of all parties, shall
e IN their might and teach Them and teach all
rO'eSSlonal and designing politicians that their
rOPerty their fortunes their lives, and the integ
Ivy OF the federal Constitution shall not be subjec
~, 70 the control of demagogues lusting for power
- '' lot new places in a Southern Union. Our re-
A. "'e IS on the people. If they will stand by us in
struggle, as We believe they will, we shall fear
10 Consequences.
o., .hDAR FORK AcADEMY.-We are requested tc
' mat the Fall session of Cedar Fork Academy,
l. "iS County, will close on Thursday the 18th Of
a., .'nioer, on which occasion an Address will be
,'ered by the Rev. C. H. Wiley, Superintendent