Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-08

+ cotton States had not withdrawn at Charleston
| there would have been moral certainty of obtain
ing platform Of principles, substantially as strong
and with principles the same, the platform requlr
ed by their State conventions. The resolution TO
which he referred, was adopted by committee oil
| the New York delegation in conference with the
| seven slavcholdng States which remained IN the
| Convention-waS submitted to the entire New 1OrS
delegation asSented to by them in full meeting ana
q pledge given by them to support it an Convention.
The resolution is follows, to be found in the pro-
| ceedings of the Convention at Charleston:
"Rts0ired That the citizens OF the Unlted States
have an equal right to settle with their property IN
the Territories of the United States; and that, uH,
der the decision of the Supreme Court OF the United
States which recognize as the correct exposition
of the Constitution of the United States, neither tho
right of persons property can be destroyed or I'M
paired by congressional or territorial legislation
Here then was resolution as explicit ana as
comprehensive as language could make it, declaring
the equal rights of the citizens OF the States to set
tie with their property in the territories declaring
that the decision of the Supreme Court is correct
exposition of the Constitution of the United states,
and that neither the right of persons or property
can be impaired or destroyed by Congressional or
Territorial legislation The decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States declares that slaves are
not only property in the Territories out hdt ~ Is
the duty Of erery department or the gOCerHment TO
protect them us property. The delegations OF the
1
them remained some days there, expressing desire
to return if their platform of principles was complied
with The resolution referred to, as he knew, was
! shown to many of them in private interviews, and
known to all, yet they declined doing so. BY this
course they prevented the passage of reSolution-tor
by their votes it could have been carried-as strong
virtually as their State conventions had adopted
for the resolution by adopting the decision OF the Su-
preme Court which asserted it to be the duty ct the
government to protect property i'll the Territories,
recognized fully the principle of protection. The
presence of these delegations would not only, as he
believed have secured the passage of the resolution
but they could under the twcthirdS rule have defeat
cd Mr.. Douglas, and in all probability have nomi-
mated and elected some such national man as Daniel
5. Dickins; on and united nomination would no
doubt have been victorious over Lincoln. Should
those who brought this calamity on the country, or
at least who are largely responsible for it, now be
followed in their precipitate course in Overthrowing
the federal Union, without cXhauSting all proper
means first for a settlement jus; safe and honorable
to ourselves? Let all the States interested in slave
property act together in making their demands, and
act as one. if proper terms are not conceded.
The Senator from New Hanover, Mr.. HAIL. in his
recital of the wrongs and injuries which the North
had inflicted on the South had continued the same
onesided statement and ignored, seemed to ignore
the great and essential aid which the true hearted
national men of the North had rendered lis. Mr.. b.
said there were no words of reproach, epithet of
denunciatOn that the abolition traitors of the North
acting in conjunction with British emiSSarieS did
not merit. On the other hand, there is language
Of euOgy that the good and true men there who,
rising above sectional feelings, and standing with
on questions of peace and war; not entitled to
from our hands. Let the dadtheBaG HtardHathd be
pronounced against the traitors who had nued
the laws and Constitution in the North. On the
other hand, in the spirit of Southern honor and
Southern chivary let Justice be done though the
heavens fall-give honor TO whom honor is due.
The Senator in charging grievances and injuries
by the North, again ignores the noble deeds of our
friends there By their aid Southern Presidents
have been elected and directed the policy of the gov
eminent for two-thirds of the time the government
has been n operatIon and when Southern men
not Presidents, with exceptions such men as
Pierce and Buchanan have governed with principles
in harmony with ours History awarded to Robert
R. Livingston of New York, more credit for the pur
chase and acquisition of Louisiana than any other
next Mr.. Jefferson. He was the untr-
ing ncgotiatUr, who, afterwards joined b. Mr. Mon
roe, effected the treaty with Napoleon. True heart
ell national men of the North voted with Southern
men for the fifteen millions 10 purchase it. and for
the ratification OF the treaty. Its acquiSt not
only saved the federal Union from the alarming
spirit Of discomfort and dIsuniUn pcrvading the
tire Western and Southwestern SiateS-rom the
fact that the free navigation of the Mississippi had
been denied them and the great outlet to the Gulf
of slavery greatly frDer basis than before, by
the incalcuable which it opened to slave
labor, and the command which it gave to the slave
States of the Gulf of Mexico The larger portions
of the States of Mississippi and Alabama held then
as territory OF the State Of Georgia had been pur
chased of Georgia by the United States and erected
into great and furnishing States by the aid Of votes
from Northern statesmen. Florida had been pur-
chased of Spain Northern Secretary of State hay
ing negotiated the treaty for its purchase. The In
daC treaties, and removal oil Indians from Flo
rida had cost the government Of the United States
first and last he supposed not less than thirty mil
lions of dollars. The same national men had contri
buted speeches and votes to effect these Objects
The Indians occupying portion of the soil of North
Carolina, Tennessee, fourth Of the entire soil
! of Georgia, large portion Of Alabama and MSSis-
Sppi treated with, the soil purchased and they
removed, thus simplifying immensely the agricultu-
! raj resources and population of the South. These
great measures were effected by the aid Of such men
Silas Wright Franklin Pierce, and their compa-
triots. The acquisition of Texas was also made by
the same kind of patriotic aid
While, therefore, he would again repeat, that no
language could express the contempt for the Sec
! tional traitors who had made war on US, no Ian
guage too lofty, no eulogy too great, to CON-
memorate the deeds of those who had stood by US
in sunshine and in storm, and the million and half
of true men who stand on the solid rock of the
| Constitution. If they and their services to be
ignored-if they are to be included in the sweeping
dcnunciation against the entire North-this Ian.
gCage striking at friends as well foes-he
would ask, where has good faith among men
fled? where is that sentiment of brotherhood
which proclaimed in all the high ways a
few months since ? and where is nationality
gone? Is the plighted faith, which binds men to-
gether who stand together in common cause-no
matter in what latitude-to be violated? Are we,
because defeat has pcrched on our banner and that
/ brOupht bV the violent men orr own Marty
NTH Yankee calculation, to cut loose from our mil
lion and a half of true Northern friends, and cry
save himself who can? If this is in the code Of
Southern honor and Southern gallantry, | confess
have now for the first time learned it.
Mr. B. said this million and half of national
men Of the North are the only friends which the
slavehodng States have outside of those States, in
the civilized world. We cannot shut eyes to
the fact, that Engand-whch has been the eUI &C.
MUS that has haunted us as colonies and indepcnd