Newbern weekly progress., 1860-05-29
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 2s. 1860.
Douglas and the North Carolina Delega-
ton.

Douglas and the North Carolina Delega-
It will be recolected that we warned democratic
editors and politicians in this State year ago,
to be cautious how they spoke of Stephen A Doug
las-that they might have to support him. Whetb-
er we were right not will be seen. The North
Carolina delegation will vote for Douglas at Balti-
more-they regret now that they did not do it at
Charleston.
But to show how the former preudices against him
| are disappearing, make the following extracts
from the published proceedings of meeting recent
ly held at Raleigh to nominate county candidates:
After the adoption of the resolutions. Mr.. Holden
was again called for, and continued and concluded
his remarks. He gave full account of the action
of the Charleston Convention and spoke with conf
dence OF the result at Baltimore. He took strong
ground against any and all attempts to sectionaze
disorganize the Democratic party of the Union,
and deprecated all movements at this time designed
or calculated to dissolve the Union of the States He
did ljustce to all the Democratic Statesmen voted
for at Charleston for the Presidency; and though
Stephen A. Douglas had not been his first choIce'lIe
nor prepared to support him cheerfully and cor
daily. He expressed his qualification that the
mittee ON resolutions had recommended Judge Doug
las for the Presidency, and then passed high eu
logium on the boldness. ability, and frmness with
which that gentleman had defended the rights of
the savehodlng States against the assaults OF the
black Republicans. But we will not attempt sketch
of his remarks To have been appreciated they must
have been heard.
Mr. Holden offered the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
Resoiued, That confidence in the frmness and
integrity of our North ern Democratic friends is
diminished. That their votes to Texas by
which three hundred thousand square miles of slave
holding TERRITORY added to the Union-their op
position to the Wimot Proviso- their votes for and
their support of the fugitive slave law-their ad-
herence to the doctrine of nonin ervcnton by Con
gress the subject of slavery in the Territories as
contained in the Clayton Compromise, IN the com
promise measures of 1850 and as fully established
by the Kansas Nebraska act of 1S54-their OppOsl
ton TO black Repub}canism, and their regard for
our Constitutional rights shareholders both in the
States and Territories-and their hearty and unani
concurrence with us in all honorable efforts to
acquire the island of Cuba furnish the strongest ev
dence that they national and just in the views
and purposes and we hereby pledge to them our
cordial co operation in the pending campaign for
President and Vice President
Resolved That sufficient exists at this
time for dissolution of the Union; that to disorgan
ze and sectOnaZe the national Democratic party,
is to pave the way for disunion; and that we indig
nartly repudate all movements the design tenden
cy of which is to precptate the cotton States into
revolution' and to involve North Carolina ia
premature, and perhaps bloody struggle with her
sister States of the North and Northwest That while
North Carolina will submit to no wrong at the hands
of sectional majority, and while she will be among
the first the last resort to protect all herrights with
the sword if necessary, vet she will not follow those
who would dissolve the Union for insufficient
will she disorganize and destroy the national
democratic party, because of the failure by nation
al convention to approve recognize the doctrine of
Congressional prot econ to slavery in the Territories
Res0IUed That while we have OH preferences for
President the following facts should, opinion
greatly modify, if not entirely change the opposition
TO Stephen A. Douglas by portions of the Southern
Demucracy: He the trusted political and per
sona friend of Andrew.Jackson having made one of
the ablest speeches delivered in the House of
Representatives In favor of refunding the tine i'm
posed on him, hv Judge Hail. He the ardent
adnirer Of the Mexican and the annexation of
Texas. He has uniformly opposed the Wilmot Pro
viSo. He proposed and advocated the extension of
the Missouri line to the Pacific, measure earnestly
supported at the time by Southern Statesmen. He
supported the compromise y measures of 1So0, the
fugitive slave law included. and encountered the fury
of mob in Chicago in defence of that law; he pro
poseo and voted for the repeal of the Missouri re
st,ction for which he maligned and burnt in
efigy in hOldng States he not only admits
but maintains that the people of the South have the
same right to emigrate to the common Territories
with their slaves that the people of the North have
to emigrate TO them with their property, and to hold
them ami enjoy their labor where territorial Legis
nture thinks proper to protec them, and also to hold
them and enjoy their labor, under the decisions OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, where a
Territorial Legislature refuses to protect them he
is op osed a tariff for protection He was the first
lpadng public man IN the country to denounce the
Know Nothing organization and to warn the people
of the evils which would flow from it he is the re
c0gnized opponent aud champion of vast mAj0Titles
of the Democracy of the Northern and Northwest
States he Is the great antagonist an! enemy OF
the black republicans in the Senate of the United
States and in the uouslavc holding 81 ates he receiV
ed maiority of all the of the Electoral College
in the Charleston Convention; the States and Dis
rlcts which voted for him that occasion, having
cast in 1856 one million of democratic votes out OF
the one million eight hundred thousand east for Mr.
Buchanan he Is regarded by the majority referred
to the strongest man, and as probably the only
man with whom defeat the black-repubhcans, |
and thus Dr. serve the government and this view of
theirs is sreng gthened by the nomination of Lincoln.
who as against any candidate but Douglas, may
carry Illinois and the whole Mort Invest Under hese
circumstances and with these views it is hereby
Pesolred That if Stephen A Douglas should be
nominated for President by the Baltimore Conven
ton we will rally to him rallied to Pierce and
Buchanan, and extend to him a cordial and active