Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-11-07

policy of Washington and Madison prevailed, ana
the Constitution was adopted upon these compro.
misses. And Gen. Washington, the head and front
of the States right party, electd President upon
these guaranteesscouchedi in the Constitution In
the year 1898 fugitive slave case arose between
the States of Virginia and Pennsylvania in when IT,
was necessary to carry into effect the fugitive saVei
clause in the constitution above quoted General
Washington, then President, requested the passage
of law to carry this into effect. This was passed
in which the State officers required to act and
the county jas used for the fugitives. This was
respected by all the free States until about the year
1905, when the States began to refuse the use OF
their ails and forbid their officers to act Hence
they departed from the sacred Constitution and cast
odum upon the noble and generous Washington,
the father OF onr liberties.
Now, Mr.. Editor, ought we not to turn back TO
these fundamental principles of our free country,
and endeavor to elect President again, upon these
sacred principles, which are contained in the addl-
tonal resolutions, passed by the convention that
nominated John G. Breckenridge for President, and
Joseph Lane for Vice President? Here they are:
First That the government of a territory, organl-
zed by an act of Congress, is provisional and tenn
porary, and during its existence, all citizens OF the
United States have an equal right to settle with
their property in the territory without their right
either of person or property being DESTROYED or IN
Secondly, That it is the duty of the federal gov
ernment in all its departments to protect the rights OF
persons and property in the territories and wherever
else its constitutional authority extends.
Third, That when the settlers of territory, hav-
ing an adequate population, from State constitu-
tion the right of sovereignty commences, and being
consummated by their admission into the Union, they
stand on an equality with the people of the other
States, and State thus organized ought to be ad-
rnothor ito Stnt
cognIzes or prohibits the institution of slavery.
The three resolutions above given, contain the
identical ideas contained in the three articles of the
Constitution of the United States, before quoted
equality Of the States, the protection of property by
the federal government the inability of a legsla-
ture, national, State or territorial, to pass an &c
post tacto law-to legslate mems property away
from them, the return of fugitive slave Elect
President upon other than these principles, and he
is not President of the Union, for there can be no
Union where there Is no Constitution, and we will
have Constitution if these articles are disregard
ed but one will be submissive or conquered, and
the other the conquering party. The conquered
having no Constitution, may form one to suit their
own political Observation-Disclosures our government
supersede the government of Washington, by that
of Lincoln, Douglas or the submissive Bell. Friends
of our common country never desert your flag, but
rally around John e. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane,
and the Constitution of our common country. Men
of the Southern States protect yourselves, your
wives, your children and every thing that is near
and dear to you by voting for John C. Breckenridge
and Joseph Lane for President and Vice President
Now, Mr. Editor, having given the three articles
Of the Constitution Of the United States that cores
pond with the three additional resolutions passed
by the convention that nominated John c. Breckin-
ridge of Kentucky, for President, and Joseph Lane
of Oregon for Vice President, l shall proceed to
show the result, if any of the other candidates
should be elected.
First If Lincoln and IIamlin be elected, the peo
pie of the United States will have passed through
perfect revolution bloodless revolution, however
at the ballot box for here three of sacred guar
antics granted us in the constitution of our common
country, disregarded by great sectional party of
the North and West These are equal rights Of the
States to emigrate to the common territories with
their property, and, secondly to have it protected
there by the territorial federal government
through their inability to pass erpost faeto law,
and, thereby, the return of fugitive from any of
the States or territories provided in the consttu
ton and ordinance of 1877. If this result should
take place, what assurance have We that our gov
eminent shall remain republican in form? This
great sectional party having in effect abolished a
portion of the Constitution, and forced deadly
my on the Southern country, one that would not so
much as protect the lives of our women and chill
dren but leave them to the butchery fire and sword
Of liberated hordes of heather slaves and such fanat
les as John Brown, and the Harper's Ferry band.
Oh God, protect us. Why are We divided here
where our vital interest is at stake? Oh man, if
you have soul in your breast come now, to our
rescue No odds what your former preferences may
have been rally around the sacred Constitution that
guarantees our liberties to us; for which Gen. War
rem died, Lafayette bed, and Marion Sumpter, Nor
gan, Lincoln, and Washington, suffered unheard of
hardships Let the Southern States stand as solid
phaanx for the protection of our equal rights 1t ap-
pears from the late elections in Pennsylvania Indiana
and Ohio that our last hope is nearly gone. Now each
citizen of the Southern States show his love Of
equality and justice by voting for Breckenridge and
Lane nominated on these principles But to drop the
curtain, and let Lincoln pass, and vote for Douglas
and squatter sovereignty, and what equality have
you-what Justice have you? Why if territorial leg
sture establish abolish slavery at WILL what
protection have you for your property? If terri
torial legislature has the ability to pass an erpost
tacto law, which other Legislative body has, arr
not the ends of the Republican party secured in dis
regarding the rights, and privileges. and immun
ities Of nearly half the States in this Union? Look
we'll at this Douglas Democrats. Look well at this
Messrs Dick Settle, Miller, Busbee and others. be
| fore you pass the American rubicon, and seal thu
late Of the United States. Mr. Dick, in calling the
Douglas convention, tainted every body else thai
if this government went down, he would hold uE
our Constitution as model which he had stood by
in voting for Douglas in the Baltimore convention
hut had been deserted and stood alone. Now, Mr.
Dick deserts our sacred Constitution by voting fo
the great squatter sovereign for President, and w
will hold up and read these articles to you Ifneed
be- in the last extremity of our lives, united stand
divided we fall nine Democrats out of ten in North
Carolina will vote for Breckenridge and Lane. VIII
taen makes the DIVISION the great mass of the par
ty headed by Clingman, Bragg, Winslow. Reid
with hostof Others these few strong headed Doug
las Democrats? The answer is not given, but tn
inference is clear and conclusive
But elect John Bell President, and what hav
you done-have you settled single point at issue
Not one TIE North interprets the Constitution il
one way, and the South another, and, when We re
fleet that most of the Bell men in the North are real
ly Republicans, as the great mass of the Bell part,
nPennsylvana who tits conceded even by that Graz
sheet, the Greensborough Patriot, voted for Curtin
the Republican candidate for Governor, and We pre-
oil IF fhoro in no Mouth ond ar.