Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-09
Great Union Meeting In Boston.


of the Crittenden propositions. The greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed. letter from the Hon. Edward
Everett was read, from which we make the follow
ing extract:
1.-The crisis is one of greater danger and impor-
lance than has before existed Six States have
declared their separation from the Union, and the
withdrawal Of the seventh is probable event. The
course of the remaining Southern States will be de-
cided in few days. They are under opposing IN
fuences. A strong conservative sentiment binds
them to the Union natural sympathy with the
seeding States draw them in opposite direction.
If they adhere to the Union there will be no in
superable difficulty in winning back the sister States
which have temporarily withdrawn from us, but II
the border States drawn into the Southern con-
federacy the fate Of the country is sealed Instead
of that palmy prosperity which has made US for two
generations the envy of the civilized world, we Shall
plunge into the road to ruin. We must look Tor
ward to collision at home-ferce, bloody deadly
collsion-not alone between the two great sections
of the country but between neighboring States
own and country, and embitered parties in the same
city-and abroad we must submit to the loss Of the
rank we have hitherto sustained in the family of
nations. Human nature is the same in al ages, and
the future impending over our once happy
country may be read in the mournful history OF the
Grecian and Italian republics, and in the terrific an
nails of the French revolution To expect to hold
fifteen States in the Union by force is preposterous.
The idea of civil war; accompanied it would be,
by servile instruction, is too monstrous to be en-
tertained for moment. If our sister States must
leave u.s. in the of heaven let them go in peace
| agree in the sentiment that the people alone can
avert these dire calamties Political leaders, how
ever we'll disposed are hampered by previous COM
initials and controlled by their associates. The ac-
ton of Congress, unless accelerated by an urgent
impulse from the ultimate source of power, is too
much mpeded by the forms of legislation and edl-
business of debate. There is no hope from the po-
liticaI parties of the country-agences unhappily
too potent for mischief but in the present extremi-
ty, powerless for good except by generous sacrl-
flee of all party views, interest and ambition to the
public veal
No; it is only by the loud, emphatic, unanimous
utterance of the people, that the danger can be
averted. Let the cry go forth from Faneuil Hall,
and ring through the land that the Union must and
shall be preserved! Great chcering)
The following resolutions were unanimously adopt
Resolced, That the citizens of Massachusetts,,
assembled in Faneull Hall, taking counsel of the
spirit of the place and of the memories which hal
low 1T desire to express their deep and unalterabe
attachment to the Union of these States, and their
conviction that in times like these it becomes the
duty of every good patriot to rise above party con-
sidcratons for the sake of the good of his country,
in that spirit of generous compromise in which the
constitution framed and without which it never
could have been framed.
| Resolued That while we recognize with sorrow
and anxiety the present disturbed state of the
try the secession of several States the doubtful at
titude of Others the alienation of feeling between
North and South the conflict of sectional passions,
the extreme bitterness of party strife which marks
| the hour cause for despair and acknowl-
edge dangers before us but such may be avert
! ed by wisdom, moderation and unsefsh patriotism,
and strong in the faith that the great body
of the American people sufficiently possessed of
those virtues to meet this emergency, and to meet
! it successfully.
ResoLred That in the recent speeches of Mr..
J Seward and Mr.. Adams, the former the leader, and
| the latter distinguished member of the republican
! party, hail with pleasure the expression of a
] generous and patriotic spirit, willing to make con-
ccsSons for the sake of the Unon and setting their
! country above their party.
ResOLred, That in the present crisis we turn with
! hope and faith towards the State of Virginia and
the other border States, and earnestly appeal to
them to rise to the height of the great trust devolv
ed upon Them to be faithful to the call of patriotic
duty, and to stand firm by the Union and the con-
! stitutiOn.
Resolred, That this meeting depends for the re-
turn of the seeding States and the permanent pre-
servatiOn of the Union, conciliatory cOunsels
! and Of the benefits which the constitution
cOnfers all the States of the cOnedeTacy, and not
! on military coercion; and that it shrinks with hor-
ror from the thought of civil war between the North
|, and the South.
! ReSolred, That the Territories of the United
States are the common property of the nation held
| in trust by the federal government for the benefit
of the whole people; and that no one class of the
States, and class of the inhabitants Of the
States, can have any just claim to their exclusive
| occupation and enjoyment.
ResOLred, That the existing national controver-
sizes between the two sections of the country re-
Specting the form Of labor to be permitted in the
Territories, can be terminated only by renuncia-
ton of so exclusive a claim to the whole of them
by each of the two sections and by the admission
flaS r1n
thereof
ReSOlUed, That we are in favor of the adoption of
a compromise line, to be established the parallel
OF Sc degrees 80 minutes North latitude, with the
provision that slavery shall be prohibited in all the
Territories North of the said line and shall be re-
cognized in all the Territories South of the same,
until the people of such Territories shall be author
lied to form State governments, when they shall
continue or abolish slavery, they may see fit
And in asserting to this compromise are moved
not merely by patriotic feeling but by the conTc-
ton that whether given Territory shall be ulti-
mately slaveholding or non.slaveholding depends
upon laws of soil and climate, and cannot be effect
ed by political combinations or legislative action
Res0lced, That while we arc in favor of this mode
of settling present national difficulties, and be-
leve that such compromise can alone give peace to
the country, we earnestly recommend an amendment
of the constitution which shall make vote of
three-ourths of the States in Congress necessary to
ali future acquisitions of Territory in order that
when the existing controversies shall be finally set
tied, neither we nor posterity may be again cx-
posed to the danger of having one section of the
Union arrayed against the other upon any question
respecting the occupation and enjoyment of nation
al property"
The SURPLUS REVENUE OF lS36-The following
is statement of the shares OF the several States in
the surplus deposited with them by the
United States government by the act of June %,
1885, Public Laws of the United States, vol. ",
page 55.) The statement is taken from a report
made to the House of Representatives by Mr.. Wood
bury, Secretary of the Treasury Sept, 25, 1897:
Maine, $s55,83S %; New Hampshire, 669,OS6
70; Vermont 669,OS6 70; Massachusetts, 1885