Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-03
Sorth.Carolina Dissatisfied, and Preparing &c
Secede again!

ain the State Convention, yesterday, a motion
vas made providing that the discussion of the Per-
,,.Dens Constitution of the Confederate States shall
toke Mace in secret session. The debate upon this
solution elected quite a spirited discussion of the
,uor;ts Of the Constitution ITSELF which was partic
mated in by Messrs. Adams, Spratt WitherS, Gregg,
Rbett Middleton and others. The motion was fin
civ carried; Twenty-Five votes being cast against it.
Co. the Constitution will be debated with closed
doors =
Mr. Rhett offered an Ordinance, which refer
red providng that in the event of the admission of
any free State into the Southern Confederacy the
Governor shall call another Convention to decide
upon the course of South Carolina"
The same paper adds:
"For ourselves We can see no prospect of such
CHANGE as would warrant the slaveholding States in
AGAIN placing themselves under the damaging infu-
p4ces of the Northern States 1t is policy involv
inc little less than the destinics of the South. To
ms it indicates on the part Of its advocates, failure
IN comprehend the requirements of position, and
a disposition to tribe with the securities we now
have Tor safety, independence and prosperity. We
trust the public of this section will scrutinise the
matter closely, leaving behind them all sentimental
ty and unrcasoniag timidity. Then will they rise
I'D to the full measure of their great future, and
Mace their aeel Sterny upon the scheme of reorgan
izing the Union Of the irrepressible conflict"
The Constitution Of the United States provides
that the Congress may admit new States into the
Union, but the Constitution of the Confederate
States provides that "other States may be admit
ted into this Cenfederacy by vote of two-thrds of
the whole House of Representatives and two-thirds
of the Senate, the Senate voting by States" The
leading disuuenists of South Carolina fear that
der this proFision free States may be admitted and
the consequence is that while they are debating the
new Constitution in secret session. they are also pro-
yding for another secession sin the event of the
admission of any free State into the Southern Con-
federacz." Mr. Rhett leads in this he led in the
first secession. The Mercury thinks the policy of
admitting free States involves little less than the
destlnies of the South"
Such is the wild dance of secession! The people
of this State are urged their action on the
2Sth of February and to join SouthCar as soon
as possible. Well, suppose they should do so, and
by the time they had gotten fairly within the new
Confederacy South Carolina should seeede again? p
Who could say nay to her? No one. The new
government as based the right secession at cin
Col Jefferson Davis the President of the new, he
could not be of the old Confederacy would be bound
to hearken to the voice of South Carolina 1t would
be his duty to give her certificate under the broad
seal of his agency of the Confederate States" to
the effect that she had Joined his agency of her own
accord-that she had gone out of it of her own ac-
cord taking with her all the vauables she could lay
her hands on as Florida, Louisiana and Texas have
recently done; and that, in consideration of the
premises, and looking to the rights and the happi
ness of the people of South Carolina, we'll as of
tho ~ SFofo - ha he int Of
all corners to treat South Carolina as one of the pow
of the earth. But suppose Mr.. President Davis,
with his standing army of twenty thousand men,
should not do that-suppose he should say it was
his duty to enforce the laws in all the States what
then? Abe Lincoln said that, whereupon divers
persons "cussed powerful" they say in Georgia
But suppose President Davis should proceed to en-
force the laws and to hold on the forts in South
Carolina and should send troops to overawe the peo
ple-woud not that be coercion? What then p
Why North Carolina, having joined South Carolina
would be called upon to aid the latter in fighting
Davis, she is now called upon to aid her in fight
ing Lincoln. But if NorthCarolina should refuse
to do that and should remain in the new COnfeder-
acy, she would be cut off from her sister States by
the secession Of South Carolina for the latter would
then be a foreign State. What then? We are free
to say We do not know.
Such is the wild dance of secession
The Constitution of the " Confederate States is
to be debated by the Convention and adopted "~ith
closed DOORS" We expected that The people in
the seeded States amount to little. They con-
reRiences now and then, to give the oligarchs
start in the schemes they have set on foot; but,
once started, the machinery of revolution must not
be touched by them. 1t is their business to
prowl around the closed DOORS" and beg to be in
formed to the progress of events. lis their busI-
ness to pay taxes -to send their sons to serve on
loot in the army while the lazy oligarchs ride on
horseback, with boots and spurs, and ribbons AID
feathers, and commissions, and high salaries; and if
they complain they are denounced as traitors, and
threatened with "swft attention by vigilance COM
mltees appointed by secret organizations. That is
what the people are expected to do in the seeded
States. Will they endure it? We think not. And
this is what the leading dsunonists in this State
want to do with the people. They have already as
good as told them that they are fools for having
voted down Convention. Mr.. Branch thought they
would ruin" themselves if they did as they pleas
ed and behold they went and did as they pleased
Mein Got" as the Dutchman said, "vot pee
pesm Mr.. Samuel j. Person and his brother dis,
uhlonists in the Legislature wanted to deprive the
people of the right to vote on the action of the Con-
Fentlon, should one be called and verify believe
and we charitably believe, that if Convention had
oeen called, in the way in which the ogarchs in
'hs State desired to call it and had been composed
ol majority of disunonists, that Convention would
nave debated with closed doors, and would have
taNen the State out of the Union by the strong
nand OF military power, without regard to the wish
Is or will OF the people. That is our opinion of the
leading disunioniSts of this State The doctrine Of
our Bill of Rights that all political power is vested
IN and derived from the people only" is ridculed
oy these Oligarchs as relic of old fogyism which