Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-30
THE DIsUNIoN PLATRor.M.

Resolations adopted by the DSsrASon Meeting held
at Goldsborou0h on Fft2aS and Saturday tho
22d and 23d March, 1861.
WHEREAS, The General 4 ssembly of the State
of North Carolina recently in session. passed by the
Constitutional majority, an act authorizing the people
of the State, at their dIscr eton 20 call Convention
for the consideration Of the relations of the State Of
North Carolina to the Federal Government or agen-
cy of the United Sites, and to the different States
composing the Ur.iou or Confederacy known as the
United States; and whereas, the citizens of North
Carons, srder,t lily attached they have been, and
still are to tie institutions under which they have
been raised and which have been transmitted to
them nom their revolutionary ancestors, have, IN
some cases been unwilling to recognise the fact that
these institutions and the true principle upon which
they were founded have been totally subyerted or
It sucn act were recognised have still hoped that
Some plan Of compromise or reconstruction might
yet be agreed upon; and whereas further, events
have sufficiently and most conclusively shown that,
far all efforts to obtain our proper and satIsacto-
ry guarantees for the protection of threatened rights
OF the Southern States land North Carolina claims
to be- in the fullest sense of the world, Southern
and not merely border State have failed, and we
believe will fail; be it therefore
Resolred That the interest well as the honor Of
North Carolina naturally ard imperatively demand
that her political connections hereafter should be
with her sister States of the South, and not with
the States of the North opposed to her. they are
in social Institutions and in pecuniary interests, and
enemies, as they have shown themselves to be in
both relations.
Resolced, That we respectfully recommend the
formation of an organization whose object it shall
be to disseminate the facts and present the argu-
ments bearing upon this issue to the people Of every
county in the State Of North Carolina, believing
that when the facts prior, well as subsequent to
the day of election, (2Sth February, 1861 are fully
understood the citizens of North. Carolina will
consider their action and demand from their servants,
the Governor and General Assembly, opportuni-
ty to so express their wishes through the ballot
box
Resolred, That for the purpose of disseminating
these facts and presenting the arguments deduceaoe
therefrom, we suggest LIST, that the President OF
this meeting appoint State Executive Committee
of two from each Congressional district whose duty
it shall be to adopt all honorable and proper means
for carrying out the objects and defending the prin-
cples of the Southern Rights voters of North-Caro-
lima.
ReSOlred, That we respectfully recommend to the
Southern Rights citizens of each county in the State,
to form at the earliest practicable time, county or
CARNATIONS whose proper executive affairs shall cor
correspond with the Southern Rights State Executive
Committee.
ResOlred, That the forts of the Federal Govern
ment on the soil of North Crroina, were intended
to defend and protect and not to menace or Sub
jugate her citizens and that any additional force,
placed in such forts not simply without the request
but against the wishes of the people and of the
State, must be regarded as menace and as a pre-
liminary step to subjugaton, which as North-Caro-
linians must not only denounce, but in the last
resort resist at all hazards.