Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-13

7th. Had not the state convention the saule IiSus
to attach Texas to Nova Scotia, Canada, Mexico, or
China as to the Confederate States Of American
9Th. Why are so many of the leaders in the South
who were "spiling" for fight few months since
now hunting some contemplate hole in the form OF
an office to crowd into.
9th. Why are Wigfall, Yancey, Memminger Rhett
Boyce Keitt Benjamin &C., now found with an Of
fee rather than musket ?-W Waco (Ier.) Democrat
In our last issue we expressed our decided appro-
baton of the Constitution but also our earnest
desire that it should be submitted directly 10 the
people of Florida for their ratification, or rejection.
We urged to this course by honest principle and
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 annadversions OF ordinations
toward the actions of the State Conventions. All
of our SympathieS and interest have been with
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 penary power,
heretofore, may be excused the plea Of the ne
cessity of the times and the dangers Of delay, but
we now have 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 edct 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-
publicaniSm-by the sovereignty of the people-by
the shades Of our fathers! aCe cOnjure them to per-
init the gOreTned to hare a rOice an 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
Vest Florida Enterprise.
HON. z. B. VANCE-Ne learn that Mr. Vance
made a speech at Waynesvle, on Tuesday of last
week, and announced himself a candidate for re-
election to the next Congress of the United States
His speech, we informed, 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 common
line Of policy, and make common cauSe:-that this
line of policy, when adopted should be submitted
to the Northern States, as an attimGtum. If this
UHimdtum 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 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
haze been informed he will certainly have OppoSi-
ton. In what shape this opposition if Eade, will
come, cannot tell.-Asheriue Spectator.
Not the least among the anomalous characteristics
Of the evil day upon which We have fallen is the
spirit of rancor and intolerance with which honest
differences of opinion treated by political op-
ponentS. GratuitOus maevoence, combining with
public discord, seems in some cases to have taxed
its ingenuity in order to aSperSc and blacken the
putations of those whose only crime has been at
the most, an error of Judgment 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 dsreSpcct for
the obligations of truth has been only:equalled by
an impatient contempt for the rules of common de-
cency.-NdtiOndl IHteiiig6Hcer.
In no State are these sad truths more emphatical-
ly true than in North Carolina The vileSt ISLANDERS
are uttered and written and printed maligning the
characters Of editors and public and private ndvi-
dua>, who dare to think for themselves as TO the
rights and interests Of their State. Two-thiriS of
the people think 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 Slandcrous. The shameless ISLANDERS
published may be diSproved by evidence as ce-r as
a sunbeam, but what care the SlandererS? They
retract none of them, nor allow the injured ndvi-
dual to dSprove them through the same vehicles in
which they perpetrated. On the contrary,
the more clearly is the ialsehOod shown, the more
cherished is 1t by its originators and circuators-
Fay Observer.