Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-17

ztb Had not the State Contehtion the same right
IN attach TEXAS to Nova Scotia, Canada Mexico, or
China AZ tn the Confederate States Of America 7"
OH VIM are 90 many of the lsadsrs in the South
,,,," r,ere snilinon for fight few months since
now hunting some con temptibe hole IN the form OF
an office to crowd into. s1'F. y s,,t....'
sthr WHY are Wigfall, Yancey, Memmnger, Rhett.
Boyce, Kett, Benjamin &C., now founo WIN an VI
fee rather than musket p Waco (lez) Democrat.
In our last issue we expressed our decided appro.-
baton of the new Constitution but also our earnest
desire that e should be submitted directly TO the
people of Florida for their ratification, or rejection
We are urged to this by honest principle ana
motives of expediency, and with no desire to dis
turb the harmony, or impede the actions OF the
Confederate States. We have never permitted our
selves to deal in any annadversons or ordinations
toward the actions of the State Conventions An
of our sympathies and interest have been win
them, and we are willing to sustain them IN their
proceedings at the point OF the bayonet so long
we believe they express the sense of majority OF
the people The assumption of p]enary power,
heretofore may be excused, on the plea OF the ne
cessty of the times and the dangers of delay, but
we now have an organized Government, and the
legislative functions Of the state conventions have
ceased. They have no more right to adopt consti-
tuition for the people, than has the Emperor OF
France by an imperial edic to declare it binding on
them. We therefore earnestly protest. against the
adoption of the Constitution, by the members of our
State Convention. By all correct principles Of Re-
publcanism-by the sovereignty of the people-by
the shades of our fathers! We conjure them to per-
NIT the qorerned to haze q coice in the formation
of their government We like the Constitution,
and expect to urge its adoption by the people, but
we desire to clothe it with authority and dignity
West Florida Enterprise
Hon. e. B. VANcE.-We learn that Mr.. Vance
made speech at Waynesville, on Tuesday of last
week, and announced himself candidate for re-
election to the next Congress of the United States
His speech, We are informed, was an able effort and
that he took bold and very decided grounds against
the separation of North Carolina from the Union,
without the cooperation of the slave States that
nave not seeded His position, as we understand,
is, that the slave States remaining in the Union
should hold conference, argee upon a common
line of policy, and make common cause: that this
line of policy, when adopted, should be submitted
to the Northern States, an altimatum If this
ultimatuna shall be accepted on the part of the
North, then the Union will be preserved and peace
good WILL and fraternity be restored. But on the
other hand, if it shall be rejected then he is for
pursuing such course of policy, as, under the Cir
cumstances, the honor and interests of North Caro-
lima and the other slave States, with which she is
identified may dictate for their future safety and
happiness Mr.. Vance still INDUCES the hope that
the North will, in due time, do us justice, by guar
anteeing the necessary constitutional protection
We have not heard Of any one who proposes to
become candidate against Mr. Vance, although we
have been informed he will certainly have opposi-
ton. In what shape this opposition if Eade, will
come, We cannot tell-Ashepiue Spectator.
Not the least among the anomalous characteristics
of the evil day upon which We have fallen is the
spirit of and intolerance with which honest
differences of opinion treated by political op-
ponents. Gratuitous malevolence, combining with
public dscord, seems in some cases to have taxed
its ingenuity in order to asperse and blacken the
putations of those whose only crime has been at
the most. an error ofjudgment. The vocabulary Of
abuse has been exhausted in order to furnish nvec
tive for the qualification of partizan spite and ami
Mostly insomuch that the current disrespect for
the obligations of truth has been only: equalled by
an impudent contempt for the rules of common de-
cency.-NatiOnal InteUigencer.
In no State are these sad truths more emphatical-
ly true than in North Carolina. The vilest ISLANDERS
uttered and written, and printed maligning the
characters Of editors and public and private indv-
duals, who dare to think for themselves as to the
rights and interests Of their State Two-thirds of
the people think as they do, which ought to furnish
some presumption to the minority that the two
thirds may possibly be right But in proportion as
the one third is weak, is it virulent, vindictive
abusive, and slanderous The shameless ISLANDERS
published may be dsproved by evidence as clear as
sunbeam, but what care the slanderers? They
retract none of them nor allow the injured lndiv,-
dual to disprove them through the same vehicles in
which they were perpetrated. On the contrary
the more clearly is the falsehood shown, the more
cherished is it by its originators andcirculators.-
Fay. Observer.