The Portland daily press., 1863-09-05
North Carolina and the RELATIONSHIPS
sion causeless--.Peace desired.


sion causeless--.Peace desired.
The Raleigh IN. c. Standard of July 3lst--
the leading paper in that State, and the organ
of Gov Vance-contained very remarkable
article reported 10 have been written by Hon.
II. S. Donnel, Speaker of the House Of Com
mons of North Carolina, aided by B. +. Satter
thwaite, President OF the Governors Council,
and to have been published with the approval
OF Gov. Vance. Owing to its greatlength, we
are obliged to content ourself with an abstract,
though in making it up we have sought to do
substantial justice to the sentiments it enun-
ciates aud the disclosures it makes.
The writer denies the oft asserted resem-
bance of the confederate cause to that OF the
thirteen Colonies In the Revolution. Unlike
the Colonies in their relations to the crown, the
Southern States had equal political rights with
the other States Of the Union. The Colonies
tried constitutional resistance to the oppres-
sion of the home governments government
to which they paid tribute, but in whose coun-
ellis they had no voice-so long as there was
any promise of relief, and fell back upon the
force OF their own strong arms only when all
hope of relief from other sources was cut off,
We quote from the Standard:
( But how different has been the course of
the secessionists. They seem to have resolved
years ago that the Union should be destroyed,
and then to have set themselves TO work to
forge such grievances as would seem To give
them "A decent pretext for the accomplishment
OF their premcdtaied schemes. The first ef-
fort was made in the days OF notification by
the secessionists of South Carolina The griev-
ance then complained of was the tariff, although
the State Of South Carolina, herself, had been
from the foundation of the Government nearly
up to that period, as strong an advocate OF
high tariff as any State in New England. That
question was compromised-Soutn Carolina
obtained all that she ostensibly demanded.
But still they were not satisfied Immediately
after the passage OF Mr.. Clays compromise BILL
the newspaper organ OF the secessonsts of
Washington declared that the South could
never be united on the tariff question, and that
the slave question was the only one that could
unite them" Mr.. Calhoun said the same thing
in a speech at Abbeville, in South Carolina,
about the same time; and OF course was fol-
lowed by all the lesser lights among his adher-
ents. Then commenced that violent agitation
of the slavery question which had nearly cul-
minated upon the admission OF California, in
1850. Again, by the efforts of those immortal
Clay, and others, was the matter compromised.
The whole country at first appeared TO be sat
ished with this settlement, bat it soon appear
ed that there were number of restless spirits
among the extremists of the South, that would
be satisfied with nothing short OF II dissolution
OF the Union. or this class of politicians, w.
T.. Yanccy may be fifty selected rs a represen-
tative man.. He Immediately began to agitate
the question again. He went to the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Baltimore, in
1852, rs delegate from the State of Alabama,
and there proposed, as the uitiDdtum on which
he could continue to act with the Democratic
party, and upon which, in his opinion, the
Slave States could consent to remain in the
Union, that the doctrine of non-intervention
BY Congress in regard to slavery in the terri
tories should be incorporated into the Demo-
cratic platform. r
In this he failed, and therefore did not sup
port the nominee of the Convention, Mr.. Pierce
In 1886, he again went as delegate from the
State of Alabama to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, with his old uitimdtun in his pocket
Contrary to his wishes aud expectations, it was
Incorporated into the Cincinnati platform, and
being thus left without an excuse, he support
ed Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency in the
fall Of that year. In the meantime however
that fatal measure, the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, had been consummated. 1t was
brought about by the extremists of the South,
aided by few partizan Democrats at the
North. The avowed object of its author was
10 open to slavery the territories north OF the
Missouri compromise line notwithstanding the
agreement of 1920 that said line should forerer
divide the territories between the slave and
free States.
The writer then traces the effect of this I'M
fortunate measure, which effect, he suggests,
was precisely what the ire-eaters aimed to
produce. 1t stimulated the formation of
party at the North, based on opposition to
slavery extension, which came near electing
Mr.. Fremont in 1856. Madness ruled under
Buchanan. He attempted to force upon Kan
sas, against the will of three-fourths of her
people, the Lecompton constitution with slav-
cry. This quickened to madness the anti
slavery spirit of the North, which had been
quietly slumbcring. This measure of Buchan-
ans is denounced as "mosl unjustfabe," and
the great stimulant TO the development and
success of the Republican party. Yancey de-
termincd the Republicans should succeed so
abandoning his doctrine of non-lntervention,
he and his friends went to the opposite ex-
IRENE and demanded that the Intervention of
Congress fer the protection of slavery in the
territories should constitute a part OF The
Charleston platform. This demand they well
knew would not be complied with, nor did
they desire that it should be.
Their object was to procure the secession of
the delegates of the cotton States from the
Convention, and thus by defeating the nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Douglas, and rending asunder
the Democratic party, TO insure the election