The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1861-03-30
From the State Journa
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, }

March IUth 1861
JNo. SPELMAN, ESQ: Living the m,rgin of the
State in which, (as yet) are to some extent cut
off from the news of the world, well from the
rest of mankind, have not heard hoe0 the State
has gore but we sti have hopes that in despite Of
stz.S lying. Misrepresentation by kilograms and
otherwise, of the Tory press and partisans, that all
| things will come right and that "Conventon'' has
| trunphed We say Toy press and partzans, and
precisely what say for as the old party
lines have been completely obliterated, men have
again to be classed according to their respective
political proc,ivties, and these h1ve already, to
some extent been developed it both right and
proper that they should take their appropriate
names.
No man now speaks of Wings, of Democrats
Americans; and following the example of our Re
lutionary sires in tEeir memorable ''srusgc' for
equality under the British Constitution, conceive
that ''Whg' and Tory is now the only correct
cassipcation Why. we respectfully ask, aid it
not be SO =? Who the 'TOries'' in l11t? They
the o>l1creuts OF the ancient Constitution Of
England. WHO the ''Whgs?" They were a
political party who might be traced back to the
reign of Charles l. or H., when great contests ('s
now,) existed between the royal preroSative| and
. the rights of the people Those who supported the
King in his high claims were called Tories, and
the advocates OF popular or e4u"t rights were called
WhlgS.' During the Revolutionary war the friends
an support ers OF the and of the principles in
volvcl. called ''Whi ss"-why? B.ca they
claimed e7uality under the British Constitution.
Our farthers did not separate from Great Britain
6ecaus they dislihed the English Constitution nay,
verify bat bee of tyrannca al unconstitu ion
al cxactions claimed by Lord n nths Admnis,ra-
ton; at the present day the State Rights men Of
the South, (a'ias Nhigs,) have rot proposed a
separation because they even now disk; tue Fcde-
al CONSTITUTIONS but because of the unconstitutional
Interpretation placed upon it by the Black Repubi
can myrndous now in power. Look for one mo-
ment at the principles Involved in the present
struggle fr equality, and you perceive at once
that sWhig' and Tory the appropriate design
ations and apply with mnch force as they did III
20 Wao now claim equality or the equal rights
OF the States under the Federal Constitution? The
| "Whigs" of the present day. Who deny this right,
and 60 for maintaining and uphoding the Re2u ,li- :
can Administration in coercion, what Is the
same thing, in collecting revenue at the ports of
seeded Statese The supporters of stron govern
mcnt the modern Tories" Of the present day,
hold ng the sentiments the Tories OF '76.
| We insist, that the designation proper one
matter from what stand point it may be viewed
| In the days Of 76 there were many North Caron-
inns who allowed their .'conserv vatsm their at
tacament, the old order of things, their te1,s
Of the British Lion first, to put them i'll opposition
| to the movement for constitutional equality, and
! finally to- array themselves on the side of King
| G George and the Paliament
Although young IN, we knew some of them,
and they recover from the disgrace of posi-
ton. the first steps into which taken doubtless
with the best int entio:s.
In the revolution now progressing, and since the
shameful and insulting propositions submitted by
the Peace Congress; revolution equally more just
itiable and more pressingly mportan. than that of
76, it is be hoped that every of North Caro-
| lima will be found array himself on what
classify the 'whig side-on the side of the South
against the unconstitutional exactions of the Seward
Lincoln administration. The noble stand taken by
South Carolina and the unanimity of her people in
taking has prove Itself to have been perfectly right
and in taking it she has wiped out whatever ofstain
| 'torysm' may have attached to her political cscut-
cheon in "by gone days. for she, too, had more
| than her proportion of them.
But now, for that gallant little State, "the
nobIest Roman Of them ALL single handed and alone
threw hero starred palmetto to the brec and
although a"Hale" and certain redonbtablc Gene-
raj Dockery, from adj lining county, may traduce
and vent their low malignant par'izan spite upon
| her much as they please, for ourselves Say,
''a hail the gallant State Of South Carolina. y
Apropose of the rcdoubtable general alluded to-
1t has reached here. and that t,o from such rea-
BILE aosucc will not admit tn be questioned that
| General Dockrry stated, in his county village, the
- - $500
Spectacle CITIZENS OF ms county, that he (tie Gn-
eraD should fee. himself bound to aid Lincoln to re-