The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-04

through substitute resolutions. which
the main contention. tut sug-
gested that the Missouri compromise
line be extended into the Territories
acquired from Mexico to settle exist
ing Controversies and deprecated amy
attempt TO dissolve the Union. .
Thus in 1888 a cleavage was be-
gun among the Wings on the sub
ject of slavery. The next year the
Democrats carried the State elections
on the issue of suffrage N
the choice Of State senator's. On the
Democracy lay the duty Of shaping the
States policy toward the slavery prob
lem. The compromise of 1850 had
just been passed when the Legislature
met in November. The abolitionists
of The North We're lifting their voices
against the fugitive slave law. while
the radicals at the South proposed 20
repudiate the entire compromise even
st the cost OF secession. A joint com
mittee on slavery was appointed. It's
report advised aCqulcscenCa in the
compromise of 1850. but retaliation in
the future if slavery in the District
of Columbia or the Interstate slave
trade We're restricted, the fugitive
slave law changed, or = slave State
refused admission 10 the Union. and
recommended an ad vulorem tax on
merchandise imported from tbs nom
siaFeholdlng States to offset the agita-
ton against the fugitive slave law.
The minority Of the committee recon-
mended q manifesto defending the
right Of secession, to be added to these
resolutions. The center OF debate on
these reports was the Senate, for there
the margin between the Wings and
was very mall. In the
end resolves Of the minority, looking
toward secession. were rejected and
those Of the majority were consider
ably revised in the interest of con
serNatisn. This was due to a division
among the Democrats, 4 sane. sensible
group Joining with the Wings TO adopt
? the revised resolutions. AS radicaiisra
! was checked in the Senate the fight
IN che House was dropped. Thus early
2 Was the Democracy. as Well Us Wing
, Gery, divided into radical and con
~servative factions.
I The right OF secession, rejected il
the Legislature, was presented to tn
people in the congressional campaign.
e Of 1851. In the third district C,eorgt
". Caldwell. Democrat, elaborates
n and defended the right of WithdraWa
: from the Union. while his Wing op
+ ponent. Alfred Dockery. went 80 IA
as to declare that II South Caroln;
n or wen North Carolina should at
tempt secession he would vote Tea al
appropriation to keep the ofend,r'
o State within the Union. likewise. il
e the eighth district. Edward Stanlc
l. took q similar position While opposin
e Thomas Hutfin, a secession Democrat
e In the district C~1ingnan,
le Wing With a secession bias. was Oh
g posed by 3. S. Gather. 4 mon Hhi<
r n made concil;atoIy explanations {
= Eis previous radical peecn IS. I'll
as result WIS shat the Wings, allhouS
ct they had lost the State elections G
er h previous year, carried five OF I'll
n nine congressional districts.
thus secession as a ened fO, tn
OF South was ~repudiated in the I.cyi!
al lature and rebuked by the people. B,
q strong. active State-rights 1ninorii
re had appeared during the controyers
re Its leaders were ready to insist at 9
e. times on the full southern position
IN regard to slavery and to reconmeT
he secession as a right, II not q practic
up remedy. The story OF secession
North Carolina is really the proce
o. by which this minority kept it's i'd
d before the public n by which Il
tie logic Of events REINFORCED ~
Is, until al inevitable choice between 1!
n Union or the ~Confederacy was fore.
o upon the people in 1861.
ng u radical spirit next asserted
re sell during the controversy over {
,se kanSas-Nebraska bill. Equal riGh
ms in the Union or independence out
NJ it was the ultimatuIn Of the Ealeis
Standard. the leading ~i)eTnocra,
Pr journal: bat radical resolutions in t
Legislature of 1854 were defeated.
,ry the campaign OF 1855. however, {
in extremists made considerable headW
en- in popular agitation. h Standa
declared that the Union could not ST.
nd vive tho election Of Fremcnt~a
ma Cling:nal. who had left the WI
yer party in 1882. advised resistance
ter the case Of a Republican victory.
me What extent public feeling was arous
IAN is vel! illustrated by the case OF PI
cry lessor Benjamin Iedrick. OF the ST.
it University. A North Carclinian,
Ola. graduate OF the University, he h
l.. studied at Harvard, and had return
rO- TO his alma mater as professor
the chemistry. His early impressions
the evils Of slavery We're strengthen
hat by his residence in the North. DUR
the presidential campaign he stat,
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