Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-21
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adopted By the Union Mass Meetino 6<z7 ::
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Adopted by the Union Mass Meetino hall -
leigh on the 9Th Of February, 1861. 10
WHEREAS, The people of North Carolina IN H.
vention on the 2lst day of November, 1889 sf,n-
two years of trying deliberation ratified the Con-.
tuition of the United States established amon .E
things, for the purpose of forming more 1s U.ner
mon, promoting the general welfare and seem;
the blessings of liberty to themselves and their ing
terity; Therefore, p - 49, ---' '" pos
Resotced, That we, a portion Of the neonlo -.
North-Carolna, never will submit to the adIn;n VI
tratlon OF the Federal Government on the princna-
Enumerated oy the Black Republican party, and arc
firmly resolved not to surrender any right IN vh;h
North Carolina is entitled under the Const;tn,;o "a
the United States; yet we unwilling To disCo,H
the Union formed by that Constitution. and Give W.
the liberty and blessings won by the many and - r.
trlotic sacrifices of revolutionary forefatbara
and secured to under the Constitution. wtbor:
first appealing to the States themselves or tn tSs
people OF the States through the ballot box f,r
such explanatory amendments to that instrpment
and such guarantees may be acceptable and Sst;s
factory to the people of the States and more eSno
cially to the people of the slaveholding States
ResotUed, That we do not regard the Union o.,
Course, blighting the progress and prosperitv ~.
our own section or of any portion of the country
nor can we forget that the Federal Government bsS
as yet, made no aggressions our rights, Nor AZ
tempted any which have not and cannot he go
Union of the States to have been the copious fonn
tain of our national social and personal happiness
the palladium of our political safety and prosuerit
shielding and protecting among the nations Of the
earth, at the same time securing to US benefits and
blessings unknown to any other people.
Resotced, That we still have confidence in the.
conservative patriotism of many of our Northern.
fellow-citizens, and yet believe that our national
Government having in its infancy successfully
ed through the struggles and difficulties of the old
confederation, and afterwards the excitement and
dangers consequent upon the passage of the Alien
and Sedtion laws of 1889; and again. the trials
and crises Of the years lS12, 1920, 1888 and 1880
each pregnant at the time with the most gloomy
forebodings for the preservation of the Ua1on viii
yet safely weather the storm raging around lis
and that shall transmit to the millions of Amer
can freemen to come after us, the same Union with
all Its blessings and advantages received from the
fathers who established and left it to us.
Resolred. That the Union of the States cannot be
preserved maintained by force and that the first
attempt of the Federal Government to do So under
any preence whatever will inevitably result in civil
war between section and section. We, therefore
earnestly desire and so recommend, the Federal and
State authorities to abstain from the commission of
every act which might in the present sectional ex-
ASPIRATIONS lead to any collision.
Resotced, That while we are determined to MAIN
tain in every event Constitutional rights in the
Union, if possible yet if it should be ascertained
that final and satisfactory adjustment of existing
differences cannot be had, still, we hope that every
effort consistent with honor win be made by the
people of North Carolina to promote peaceable sep
aration of the slave from the free States
Resolred, That We pledge ourselves to vote for no
man who is in favor Of secession for existing causes
and who will not endorse the sentiments contained
in the foregoing resolutions and above all who is,
or has been unwilling, to submit the action of the
Convention to the people for ratification or rejection