Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-12-14

Resolutions Protecting against the Ocerthrow of
State Sovereignty and Cioil Liberty.
Resolued, That We endorse and re-afirm the
patriotic resolutions adopted by the last General
Assembly of this State, protesting against the I'M
constitutional acts and usurpatons of the last Con-
gress which are in the following words:
RESOLUTIONS concerning certain Acts of tho lats
Congress of the Confederate States.
Resoloed, That while the people Of North Caro-
lima have been and still 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 infactions of pernici
Gus example and fatal tendency.
Resolued, That the act of the late Congress, en-.
titled act to suspend the privilege of the writ
of habeas 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 constituGonally confer even
on the judiciary ITSELF and sets at naught the most
emphatic and solemn guarantees Of the Constitu-
tion
Resolced, That this General Assembly, represent
ing the people of North Carolina, Goth not consent
to the sacrifice of the vital principles of free gov
eminent, in war carried on solely to secure and
perpetuate them, and doth declare that no cond-
lions of public DANGER" present or prospective,
probable or possible can render the liberties of the
people incompatible with the public safety.
Resolced, That the act of the same Congress-
entitled an act to organize forces to serve 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
subjecting all the industrial pursuits Of the country
to military supervision and control reduces tue
State governments to mere provisional administra-
tons, dependent the grace and favor of Congress
and the Executive, is destructive of State sover-
eighty, and imports An assertion of power on the
part of Congress to convert the Confederate gov
eminent into consolidated military despot,sm. :,
Resoloed, That this General Assembly doth
therefore request Senators 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.
RESOLVED, That copy of these resolutions be
transmitted to each of our Senators and Represen-
tat,ves in Congress-
And, whereas, this solemn protest Of sovereign
State against placing such arbitrary powers in the
hands of the President instead of being needed by
lutte and despotic 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 un-
der his control; and that except by his soi there
shall be no exemptions from military service, even
IF officers Of 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 uiM 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
Resolued, By the General assembly Of North
Garoliaa That our Senators and Representatives
in Congress be instructed to protest. in the name OF
the sovereignty Of the State against placing such n.
bitrary powers in the hands Of the President and
against the suspension of the writ Of habeas corpus
and should Congress, regardless of their protests
confer on him these despotic powers alike destr1c-
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 LEArHER-A Frenchman has obtained .
patent for whale leather which is found to be re-
narkabiy plant stzaG: The skin is so thick that,
after removing the inner portion, which is spongy.
the remainder is split to make it OF the usual shoe
thickness 1t is remarkably tough, but as SOFT as
buckskin, add it repels water welE The discovery
comes at time when land leather is growing alarm
ingy scarce and may tend to equalizs the relation
between supply and consumption. -.
Grs. JOSEPH e, JOHNSTON gentleman viii,
for the present. make Columbia, 8. G., his home
Soup houses haze been established in Richmond