The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-17

commons, nor the whole Legislature. ArDl-
trary power is thing which man can nei-
ther give nor hold. Arbitrary power is not
to be had by conqest. Nor can any sover-
eign have it by succession; for no man can
succeed to fraud, rapine and violence
Those who give and those who receive arbit.
trary power are alike criminal; and there is
no man but is bound to resist it to the hest
OF his power whenever 1t shall show its face
to the world. Law and arbitrary power are
in eternal enInity." st is contradiction
in terms, it is blaspheny in religion, it is
wickedness in politics to say that any man
can have arbitrary power" We may bite
our chains if we will, but we shall be made
to know ourselves, and be taught that man
is born to be governed by law, and he that
will substitute will in the place of it, is an
enemy to God"
Resolced, That to make people love their
country. their country should be lovely, and
governed by its constitution, and not by Ex-
ecutive, Congressional, or Judicial will.
Resolced, That we have hopes that it is in
the ordinary course of Gods providence to
mend our condition, and finally to relieve us
from the dominion of Thad. Stevens and his
faction, in his own good time and way and
we shall patiently await the looked for
event.
Col. William McCauley offered the fol-
lowing resolution;
Resotued, That we protest against VIM. W.
Holden's leading loyal men in any political
work or act, because he brought up and
educated the Democratic people of North
Carolina in the doctrine of peaceable seces-
sion, telling them for twenty years they owed
thn,r al fr, Gornlfpo
and not to the United States and that 'se-
cession was an original, preexisting sovereign
| right" Because he signed the ordinance of
secession, and publicly pledged the last man
and the last dollar to make it good; Because
he said the "war was Gods holy cause"
and then deserted the cause; Because in
| 1861, he said every union man among US de-
| served to die traitors death; Because he
wanted every man from sixteen to sixty put
into the Confederate army beat the drum,
| blow the fife," drill them until their legs are
| timber; if they will not volunteer, drive
them in the army" said Holden; Because
he wanted the helpless woman and children
| of those men who fled from CONSUMPTION
turned out of their houses and homes in dead
| winter and driven from our midst half naked,
| half starved, and broken hearted, to seek
| their husbands and fathers in the Federal
| lines; Because, in June 1860, he vowed he
would never "bow his head to the degrading
yoke of black Republican rule;" and then,
in the first resolution in his white and black
platform, he says: "We this day with proud
satisfaction unfurl the glorious banner of the
Republican Party" Because he said in 1856,
using the language ofanother: 1.-THE leaders
among our enemies, the Black Republicans,
are to my certain knowledge the meanest
and most contemplate creatures on earth,
excepting only those in the South that are
willing to be governed by them y Because
| he once said God never intended the black
race for freedmen, and now says, in the 4th
resolution of his white and black platform,
"we exult in the fact that We are nation
of freemen. and that the sun no longer shines
| upon the brow of slave;" Because in the
| white and black platform he talks mourn
fully over the fate of the late President Lin
| coin, while the vile sheets of the secession
| Standard smell ASSASSINATION and the blood
of the murdered President, for he called him
abraham the fool, tyrant, usurper," and
even inquiringly advertised in his paper
| (before Booth thought of his foul deed) ask
ing "who would plot for the head of '' Abe
Lincoln" He espoused and betrayed the
cause of the Wings; he espoused and betray-
ed the cause of the Democrats; he espoused
| and betrayed the cause of Secession: he es-
poused and betrayed the cause of the Union;
he espoused and betrayed the cause of the
| Confederacy he espoused and betrayed the
cause ot States Sovereignty; he espoused
and betrayed the cause of President johnson.
As Provisional Governor he espoused the
caase of the people of North Carolina, truth
fully and truly representing them as loyal;
when they refused to debase themselves by
voting for him, true to his instincts he be-
trayed, mali9ued and sought to have them
punished. In fine, he should not lead, for
his life was one continued series of dupli-
city, treachery, political crime and iniquity.
Mr.. Turner requested Mr.. McCauey to
withdraw his resolution, or he should move
to lay it ON the table 1t was not his pur-
pose to dignity the late Provisional Cover
nor by the introduction of his name into the
meeting in a manner so formal. Peter Par
leys history was not more familiar to the
people of Orange than the history and DO
litical adventures of w. W. Holden.
The resolution was laid on the table.
Mr.. Turner spoke at length on the dis
turbed and distressed condition of the coun-
try, and said it was the work of party and
faction. He had said so in the Senate in
January 1861, after South Carolina and the
Gulph States had seeded. He would re-
peat now what he said to the Senate: Mr..
Speaker, the people of North Carolina can
not now declare for disunion and march off
with South Carolina. without sacrifice of
their dignity and a surrender of their own
opinions. In November last they declared
the election of Lincoln would be no cause
tor disunion. Lincoln has done nothing.
Lincoln has said nothing to cause them to
change that opinion. Ifthey go they 90 not
upon their own judgment and conviction.
but they go as captives tied to the chariot
wheels Of South Carolina, to attend and
grace her unconstitutional triumphs. Ishalr
feel Inundated if 1 see them tied to the
chariot wheels; and fear, if l see them seated
In the chariot, to use the language of another,
shall think of Phaeton, the son of Apollo.
who said he had discovered a new track
ecross the heavens for the sun:
Leap'd on his fathers car and seized the reins:
Far from his course impell'd the glowing sun,
Till natures Laws in wild disorder run.
l say, with such political charletans as
Yancey, Rhett and Keith, let the people of
North Carolina beware how they ride. 1
had as soon trust myself to Mons Blonden*
to take me out of the Union upon his back
on the stran of wire which he has suspended
over the rushing cataract of Niagara, as to
trust myself to be taken out by those con-
spirators against the government who fired
the Sauthem heart and precipitated the
cotton States into revolution"
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