Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-01-18
Union Meetings.


intention to interfere with slavery in the States de-
precate agitation on the subject of slavery, but
with some few exceptions they offer to the South no
prospect of the extension of the institution.
At meeting of the citizens of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts held recently, the following resolutions
were adopted:
Resolped. That we the citizens of Lowell, view
with utter detestation the acts and designs of John
Brown and his confederates, and believe that they
have suffered but the just penalty of their crimes.
Resolred, That we disapprove of any and all at
tempts to interfere with the rights and internal pol
lev of our sister States.
Resolred That we discountenancc sectional fana
ticsm, whether North or South, and will resist it,
its teachings and purposes by all Legitimate means.
Resolred, That We hold the perpetuity of the
Federal Onion paramount to all other political con-
sideratons, as being the chief basis of the liberties
we have inherited from fathers, and that it is
duty We owe to ourselves, to our children, as well
as to the cause of liberty throughout the world, to
transmit it unimpared to posterity"
The people of Newark, New Jersey, held a meet
ing on the 22d December, at which the following
resolution among others was adopted:
"Resolred, That the action of the Hon. VIM. Pen
nington, Representative in Congress, in voting
for candidate tor Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatves who recommended the circulation OF Help
er's Compendium does not meet with the approval
of his constituents but on the contrary, is emphst-
ically condemned by them"
Resolutions were also adopted at the same place,
commencing Virginia for the prompt enforcement OF
her laws against John Brown and others-declaring
that the adudications of the Supreme Court must
be sustained that the fugitivc-slave law
ought to be respected and faithfully enforced-con
demning the circulation of incendiary documents in
the Southland pledging "to our brethren of the
South our determination not only to respect the
compromises of the Constitution but as far as in us
lies to enforce the complete recognition of all their
rights, without exception; hereby renewing to them
the assurances of amity and protection mutually in
terchanged by our forefathers."
Able and eloquent speeches were made on the oc-
casion breathing the strongest devotion to the Con-
stituton and the Union. 1t was the largest meet
ing ever held in Newark.
Lowell and Newark are both deeply interested in
Southern trade.
\ large Union meeting was recently held at Troy,
New York Gen. Wool presided Patriotic resou
tons were adopted by reclamation.
great Union meeting was held on the 4th inst
at Barnstable, Massachusetts. The following among
other resolutions were adopted:
"Resolred That five mean to recognise duty
under the Constitution to and in the suppression of
instruction throughout the Union, whether civil
servie, land which duty cannot repel without so
far dissolvng the bond Of Union,) it becomes es-
pecially duty as honest men and good citizens
neither to encourage cOuntcnance, nor incite such
teachings, contributions, acts lead directly to
Seditious armed interference with the domestic
relations of sister State, under any preteXt what
| ever. whether it be to compel her to change her
laws or to free her slaves to aid them in escap-
| ing from service and labor.
| That this duty involves no Infringement of free
speech free acts, because if the act itself be a
crime, man has right by speech or deed, to aid
! in melting others to commit crime any more than
! he has to commit the crime himself
And, therefore, it morally and logically follows
that sympathy with John Brown is sympathy with
| the crimes of murder and treason under the laws of
sister State and the Constitution of the United
States, which makes us one people, and that to pre-
tend to condemn the act and approve the motive is
only saying approve of motives which must be
criminal, because they lead directly to the commits
sion of crime
Resolrea, That, as lovers of the Union and friends
of this great family of States, we rcpe all such
| sympathy and regard as enemies of our beloved
! country all who design, by word or act, to bring
| about conflict or division between the different
sections which, if persisted in, must lead to dis
solution of that Union which leaves every State the
sovere On of its own domestic Institutions and by
the blessing of God has made US great people, en-
jOying more of general prosperity and individual
liberty than was ever before vOuchsafed to any ma
nation upon earth.
Resolred That,as it is apparent from history that
the Constitution could not have been established by
Washington, Adams Jefferson, Madison, and their
compatriots without insuring the rights therein Sc
cured to the Southern States it is manifest that the
North cannot honestly remain in the Union and en-
joy all its benefits without just compliance with
the obligations and duties which the Constitution
enjoins towards sister States.
= And therefore We hold all Union hatcrs and sym.
pathizers with insurrectlon, murder, and serve war
to be the enemies of our peace and prosperity as
mariners, merchants and farmers of Cape Cod
whose rights, property and independence abroad
and at home depeEd on maritime and CONNER
cial relations with all the States and all the world
and especially upon protection under the undivided
national flag of the Union"
Hurrah for the Barns:able people they arc
worthy descendants of the Concord and Bunker
Hill men.
A large Union meeting was also held at Bangor
Maine on the 18th. Speeches were made by Hon
George Evans and others. Letters were read from
Ex-President Pierce, Hon. Edward Everett, lion
Caleb Gushing and others. The resolutions adopted
were eminently Constitutional and patriotic
A large Union meeting was held at Albany, New
York, on the 18th instant Able and eloauen
speeches were made by Henry j. Raymond and Gov
Seymour. long letter received from Elk
President Van Buren, sympathizing with the objec
of the meeting and giving his views of the agitation
now distracting the country.
The Washington Constitution noticing thes
Union meetings, says:
"These demonstrations are as gratifying as the
are powerful for good They are attended by thou
sands Of honest, intelligent men, needless of win
and weather. or personal convenience and the spin
it which they evince is even more gratifying and sic
nfcant than their numbers. They prove that tn
neonIe are aware that an irrcnarable calamity in,