Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-03

4, capt Berry then offered few remarks, opnosine
sie amendment said it was premature and that
North-Carollna ought to remain still and wait for
inc action OF the border States that they were the
otates that had suffered the most from Northern
aggression, and they should be first to speak and
then IL would be the duty of North Carolina to fol-
low. W ioi-
sidney Smith, Esq, then claimed the floor. and
IN beautiful and oratorca style advocated the cali
Oh convention. He spoke of the Personal Liberty
Laws, said that Lincoln was elected President be-.
cause in him was embodied the PRINCIPLES of the
Qrreprt sslbe eontiicD party. He spoke of the fire.
quent aggressons of the North upon the RIGHTS and
interests of the people of the South. He had M
particular objections to the resolutions of the Chair
man OF the Committee, but that they only amount
ed to Watch and Wait"
Ex,Gov. Swain then addressed the meeting in
speech OF an hours length. He gave history of
!he Trying times through which our State had passed
III Ihe Gays OF the Revolution. He said that at one
tiine LORD CORVALLIS proclaimed in the streets of
hillsoorough that Carolina was a conoured nro-
vince but through all this she had borne her part
Win honor and pride; that no State had greater
cause to be proud than the old North State. He 70
ierred to South Carolina with indignation We had
survived, and he believed we were destined to i'm
mortality lie declared himself in favor of a Con.
ventlon, but opposed Conetleracy of the Southern
States; that he would shoulder his gun and march
to the border o! the Northern States and defend the
Constitution; that he would rather fight in the
Union than out of it. He regretted that South
Carolina had gone out but believed that Georgia
Alabama and Mississippi would not
Samuel +. Phillips, ESQ.,, was then called for, who
responded to the call in brief but patriotic speech
lie advocated and urged the call of Convention
ana SAID II there was necessity for armng the State
there was necessity for the calling of a Conyen
ton that the people might be heard and their wishes
known; that the sentiments of the people could not
be known by the holding of meetings throughout
the country; that there would be as many different
opinions as there was meetings, &c.
Paul C. Cameron, ESQ.,, read the following reso-
lutions, as embodying his views in relation to the
present crisis:
Whilst We, portion of the citizens of Orange in
county meeting assembled, declare that we regard
the separation of the States of the Union as the
greatest of political evils with the single exception
OF subjugation and enslavement and believing as
we do that in this crisis of common danger all men
shOnd unite in solemn and earnest consider alton of
what is best to be done for the common safety,
therefore
Resolred, That there appears to US sufficient cause
to apprehend additional wrong, injury and insult
from the Black Republican party; that it i'll becomes
us to submit to their defiant fanatcsm and disregard
of Constitutional obligations; that we should and
will be prepared for se:preservation that we ad-
wise concert OF action with all the Southern States
as tar as 1t shall be practicable to protect rights
and redress our wrongs; to that end we approve of
a conference of the Southern States
Res0tred, That we are unwilling to act without
mature deilberatOn, but it is our duty as people
to meet consult and deliberate as becomes freemen
seeking for what is right ana submitting to nothing
that is wrong. We therefore unite in the recon-
mendation of Convention of the people of the
State limited to the consideration of Fedora! affairs,
as the best means of providing for the safety
OF the people and of the State
ReSotred, That we most respectfully urge the
Legislature to provide at for the proper defence
OF the State, as matter of internal police well
to indicate our purpose to maintain equality in
the Union, or our independence out of it.
Resotred, That the interest and welfare of North
Carolina, as we'll as the sympathy of her people,
are, and ever must be- with all her sister States of
the South.
MIR. Cameron then followed in spirited and ami
mated Speech urging his convictions of the import
ance OF cooperation the part of all the Southern
States as the only efficient remedy for pres
ent difficulties and his belief that separate State
ton and the establishment of two or more Repub-
lies out of the Southern and Western States, would
result fatally to all and in the destruction of slave
property That a united front on the part of the
South would alone make any impression the
North. That the Union might be saved by the pre-
senation to the North of the ultimatum of the
South by conference of the Southern States held
at Washington mat there was out one disease
the agitation of the slavery queston-and but one
remedy, and that to let it alone and that Con-
ventiUns of the people the only efficient ma
chinery to operate in times like the present. That
whilst he not for hasty action and dsunion, he
was no submissionist, and all his sympathies were
with our sister States of thv South.
Josiah Turner, Jr, Esq, then addressed The meet
ing. He took strong ground against the proposed
Convention.
The question upon Mr.. Norwood's amendment
was then called which lost by small majority.
The vote upon the resolutions was then taken,
which were carried by large majority The meet
ing then adjourned.
VIM II. BROWN, Chm'n.
D D Ham Secretaries.