Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-12-13
Wllkesboro', Nov 10, 1864.
Mr.. Stipe's Resolutions.
With the highest regard,

Resolutions Protesting against the Orerthr0uo of
State Sovereignty and Civil Liberty.
ResolUed, That endorse and re affirm the
patriotic resolutions adopted by the last General
Assembly of this State protesting against the
constitutional acts and usurpations of the last Con-
gress, which are in the following words:
Resolutions concerning certain Acts of tie late
Congress of the Confederate States.
ResolUed, That while the people of North. Caro-
liIa have ever been and still are anxious to streng-
then the administration of the Confederate govern
ment in every legitimate way, and to promote the
success OF the common cause, in order that we may
have speedy and honorable peace they view with
deep concern and alarm every infraction of the
Constitution by the Congress of the Confederate
States, and this General Assembly doth, in their
name protest against such infracons as of pernici
Gus example and fatal tendency.
Resotcc2, That the act of the late Congress, en-.
titled act to suspend the privilege of the writ
Of hdbedS corpus in certain cases." violates the
fundamental maxim of republican government
which requires a separation of the departments of
power clothes the Executive with judicial functions
which Congress cannot cOnStitutonally confer even
on the judiciary ITSELF and sets at naught the most
emphatic and solemn guarantees Of the Constitu.
ton.
ResolUed, That this General Assembly, represent.
ing the people of North Carolina, doth consent
to the sacrifice of the vital principles Of free gov
ernment in war carried solely to secure and
perpotuate them, and doth declare that &" condi-
tions of public danger" present or prospective,
probable or possible, render the liberties Of the
people incompatible with the public safety.
Resolred That the act of the same Congress,
entitled an act to organize forces TO during
the war;" declaring all white men residents of the
Confederate States between the ages of seventeen
and fifty to be in the military service, embracing
in its provisions every State officer in all the de-
partments, Executive, Legislative and Judicial, and
r Al.
to military supervision and control reduces the
State governments to mere provisional administra-
tOns dependent on the grace and favor of Congress
and the Executive, is destructive of State soVer-
eign ", and imports an assertion of power on the
part of Congress to convert the Confederate gov
ernment into a consolidated military despotlsm.
ResoLUed That this General Assembly doth
therefore request our Senator'S and Representatives
in Congress to use their best endeaVorS to procure
a repeal of the first mentioned act and such modi.
fcations of the second as shall secure the rights,
and preserve the integrity Of the States of the Con-
federacy.
ResOiUed That copy of these resolutions be
transmitted to each of our Senators and Represen-
tatlveS in Congress. .-.
And, whereas, this solemn protest of o sovereign
State against placing such arbitrary powers in the
hands of the President instead of being needed by
him, is followed by the demand of the most abso-
fute and deSpoGc powers, which are nothing less
than that the freedom of the press, which, in all
free Governments, is looked upon as one of the
great bulwarks of civil liberty, shall be placed
der his control; and that except by his aoil there
shall be no exemptions from military service, even
of officers of O sovereign State; thereby evincing
determination to consolidate all power in his hands
and to strike down the freedom and the sovereignty
of the States by making the personal liberty and
action Of all State officers subservient to and depen
dent on his piu and thus arrogating to himself the
power to regulate and control the domestic affairs
and internal concerns of the State, which belong
exclusively to the States themselves. Therefore
be 1t
ResOlped, by the General assembly of North
Carolina, That our Senators and Representatives
in Congress be instructed to protest. in the of
the sovereignty Of the State against placing such
biIrary powers in the hands of the President and
against the suspension of the writ of habens corpus
and should Congress- regardless of their protests,
confer on him these despotic powers alike destrue-
tive of the liberty of the citizen and the sovereign.
ty Of the State, that they hereby instructed to
Withdraw from Congress and return to their homes.
WHALE LEATHER.-A Frenchman has obtainea q
patent for whale leather, which IS found to be re-
markably plant stuff The skin is so thick that,
after removing the inner portion which is spoDgy,
the remainder is split to make it Of the usual shoe
thickness 1t is remarkably tough, but as sofa as
buckskn, and it repels water well. The discovery
comes at time when land leather Is growing alsrnI=
ingly scarce, and may tend to equahze the relanOh
between supply and consumption
GEI. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON gentleman WIFE
for the present, make Coumbis, s. O., his home.
Soup houses bave been established in Rchmond
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