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rOLITlCAL. TEXAS AND NF.VV MEXICO. The PessrDENT yesterday transmitted to the Binate the following tnessage : WisHiitcTojt, June !7th, 1850. Tj the Senile of the United Stales: I liar received a ropy of the resolution of tin? ft'iiate of the 11th June instant, revesting me "tu inform tli? Ste whether any orders have been issued t.i any military olS'v r at Santa rV, to hiilj p.mcssion agiiiwt -toe authority utTexis, or ir, any way ti embarrass, prevnt the ex.-rcise of h-r jurisdiction over I'.i-il Civinl'y and lo fnrui-.fi the S-oate with to'ies, i('nv correspondence vhieh may have taking place between !h Wr Department ul "Military st i tinned at S aula Fe . rinee the d-te tif my last cwuiuuiiicalivti to the Senate nu lh.it subject. ; lit reply to that resolution, Istateilut no such orders iiirs hee.i given. 1 herewith present tu the Senate, copies- nf si! the correspondence re ferred tn iri tiio resolution,. All the other or der irVUling In the ' subject-matter of ti resolu tion have besn heretofore Cuoitu niiicnteJ tu the fcenvte. , I have already, in a former messago, referrd tn thef.ct ihat the huun.l try between Texas and New Mexico is diput?d. I have now to state that in formation Ins been re.emly received, that a cer tain Roliert S. Neighbours, styling himself com missioner of ihe Stite of Texas, h i proceeded to Santa Fe with view of organizing counties in t'nt district under the authority of Texas. While I ha ve no power to decid" the qnstion or bounda ry, anil no desire tu intf rfer with it as n question of title, I hive to unnerve that the p wsessinn of the territory into which it appears '.hut Mr. Neighbours his thus goi" wis actually acqiiired'by the United .State from M'Xii.n, and his since been held hy the United Stat, and in my opiniun ought so to remain until the question of. boundary shall h ive been determined hy so. hp competent authority. Meanwhile, I think thre is no reason for serious ly apprehending that Texs "'ill .i'etirally intor lr' with the possession of the United States. 1 : Z. TAYLOR. : Among the letter accompanying the message w the follow-in j. '-' e.i?T., Sm Fs, April 15, 1830. ..8('s Hiviti en during the day notice putted p, both in Spanishand English, 'inritini! the citi aens nf this place to convene on Saturday next, '-to tike into consideration the propriety ul making a 3ti;e movement, nn l lo petition you. an the head : of this (SovemnTM't, to Cai.i a convention,' etc ," I ' deem' it ay doty, as comtnissioner of Texa', eent here totT"ct nn orwaiittitinn vim'er her laws of thin prj 'tion of he' lerriiorv, to call your attention to the fact; a wel1 ad to the 3d sec tion, 4ili article of the Const;tutiou of the United Statet. I deem it the more necewary thus nlemnly tn protect against any countenance or aid beinrrpiven to this movement by Ihe preeent head of this Gov ernment, In consequences of The published orden which have etnantted from the War Department, and the result of an interview had between hi a few days since. 'The government which 'I have the honor to represent has declared her delerntin utioa to maintain inviolate all the territory within her boundaries! sucli bmwdarie a were naran tied to her by her cooipict of union ; nJ I would lake this opportunity to refer yow lotlte 2d section if the "'Joint Resolution Torn anexinjl Texts to the United State," and preamble of the constitution of the State of Texas, by whili the lentis of ea id "Joint Resolution" are accepted. And also, to the "Join Resolution for the admission of the Hrat of Texas into the Urnou" approved 2(th Decewtier, 1845. All of which. in my opinion, wonld be violated by a con.iUtmnalion of the ebjects i( aaid State movement. And further to state, that I now most solem dy protest sgainst any inovement in favor of State cause, until Texas has extended her jurisdiction over this portion of her territory, or until the will ot the State of Tex as can be Itnnwn in this matter, as guarantied to her by the enactments referred lo above. I have the honorto be, very respectfully, yoor bedient servant, ROBERT a. NEIGHBOURS. Commissioner State of Texas. ; To Col. J. Mu.ikoe, Commanding 9th Military Divuion, U. S. A , Etnta Fe. . . A SETTLEMENT. .X" nf the Btltimore Sun has the follwing, In late rorrespnui'snee : '-The real and only las ling compromise between the South and the North consists in the onslilutinit, snd is leafGrmed in the bill reported from the committee of thirteen. The South want to extend slavery, the North Viiiit to restrict ii ; between the two, the only safe ty is the principle of non-intervention; that Is, Inking the q:istion out of Congres and let it be settltd hyth? people of the territories. The Mis souri compromise brings the question back to Con press, by giving Congress tl:e right to prohibit it north of3630,and thus reopens the whole question Have tee South tlrought ot that ' The Northern df rrocrata, like Cass, Dickinson, &c, have fought fho freo-soilers under tha Constitution; declaring the principle of non-iutervention as the snpreme law of the lartd, to which every individual hias most yield; the Southern ultras want them toitv up the constitution and legislate for slavery, dri ving them head foremost into the jaws of free-soil-m, or compelling them lo commit snicide.ta satisfy a abstract principle of justice, without the sligh test advantages In practice. "I ka made special inquires, and there is not me tneovbor from Pennsylvania who wiH er casi ssote fur the 'MissourJ cumprom We j and if Penn sylvania will not rote br it, what other- Noetliern States will f ! ieff the adveosm of the Missou ti line tu name me three Northern members, deiuo- eraficer whig-.' wlie will positively vote for the Miwi-Mirt Jine.- This is the true stale'ef the case, iidif Ihe Sjothern ultras will mie the Missouri icoMuromiee a tine fus non 36 de. 80 m. or fight they m usi looi round lo see whether the inee i be are vi'.lMg to qgilale for tlat line, will also - '"Ins'tft w. it a the peril of treason. ' "If the Vieaoiiri line ould bo ohtahieaj by N'orlh- !ern votes, en onuiiionih.'itout of the ineinbrrt ovolir.gitall be returnod fotlie -next Congress, woiiU it be genpfoos, would, It 1 just would it lis iris fortim South lo insist on such a aacrifice ) ' .and frwrat! For a piece of parchmen on paper, tco the next Congrewi might tear Ao atoaia. - Im the Soulbem ponder no it btiween iui snd ' 3Joud:iy next . ; . 3-. i , ii OF tS-t lVA9BagA iispatch to i Tnrth Aineriei)Q nysthat (he President has sjirected tlj)'4rirt AtrrWi-y at New Orleans to croceed vigoroasly against all persons wlio cae jsn ived in rial's ieciisj tiie ejrpediJice sgakist Cuba, nd eapeetaTIr fho who were Vsders iu the at- tenjpt M Jial It la (futilities! with a rn.iemllj esirS , , 7.rresiniidvflce of itui Daltimore Sun. Old Zaik'slust struke of policy has created much sdmiration snd milch olvirgation. That meisa'e shout New Jlexieo came upon Conresi like a i lap of thunder in a summer's day. The thine was dime, 'no, with eo tnurh savgfrmd tiiat it smuaea tlio.e whom it confounds. Who wrote that mensaje? I have heard the inquiry often. 1 think H U Zack'a own. - What wonts of contempt for tliepn tensions of Texas could equal the simple notice of a certain John S. Neighbors, styling him self a "CVmmissioner of Texas ?" Then, after giving what ts to be constrned into a most important military order the most impor tant that he ever gave in his whole career after deciding in two words a liinh political question, which would puzzle jurists, raiurts, statesmen, diplomatists, for a 'year lie quietly winds np by statin;; that there m n reason to believe' that Tex as will ''practically interfere with the possession of the United States." This is as much as tn y, here is my decree ; you know me and I know yon. You will not interfere. The message is an admi rable specimen of Kxecutive order, wherein arms were to Is? kept out of view, until the force of law was firt tried. Rome people say the message is ambiguous. The Uiwm regards it as inconclusive. Certainly, they never considered it, in connexion with a II the circumstances bearing, or they would not have thought it vague or 'inconclusive. , If the t'nt'ori will recur to it, it will find that the last sentence Conveys a distinct declaration, by implication, that Texas will be restrained from any interference with the possession claimed and held by the United States. ' . I think the decision of the President is correct, lam very glarl that he has had an opportunity tn dispel the mist hanging over his policy on this sub ject. In common with many others.! had supposed that lie had abandoned his Original policy, in re- gard to New Mexico, and that he did not intend j topromnteor facilitate the -creation of a State j ' , .., . . ,. .. , . i . in . gnicrnmrm wmuu urn ..ini.a cmroeu J..; nd that he would not suffer any hindrance to be offered to the proceedings of "a certain John S. Neighbors, styling himn-If a cothuiissiuner of Tex as." ; What greater hindrance cculd he offer than to promote the organization of a. State Government, among a people disposed to assert their rights, and o:ily waitiiigacivil organization to give effect to their efforts? Rut does the President stop here? Oh, no. The next step will be that Major Mon roe, or whoever may preside in the Convention, will do as General Riley did, in California, retiign and hand over In the civil authorities his rule and command; but this is not the stopping point. Next comes the enforcement, by the whole execu tive power, of an executive decree, that Texas shall not interfere with the possessions of the U nited States until the dispute in question shall be settled by "competent authority ." I am much mistaken if, after ll,o!ti Zack is not sometiriies the President aye, every. inch the Pre sident, nor even here does the President's decree slop : for by giving tip the military government to the State ?rnment, he does decide, as far as he is concerned, the question in dispute; and fixes the Southern boundary of New Mexico, where Mex ican law fixed it by a lino crossing the Rin Grande, east and' west, one league north of LI Passo, ., Jos. .. Washixgto. June 23. 1850. The prosecnlion of Gen'l Foote, by Col Thomas II. Benton, before the Grand Jury of this District, terminated, as every reasonable man expected, in that body ignoring the case. The Senate com mittee continues its sessions at the pressing In stance of Col. Benton, but without progressing an inch. - Meanwhile Col. Benton has pretty well s'ueceeued in directing public attention to Mr. Foote's pistol, and away from Ihe furious manner in which he himself approached Mr. Foole in the Senate, and which made Ihe latter, in common with half the spectators, believe, that Col. Benton intended to commit an assault upon him. This swearing one's life against a man, and that man so feeble in health as Gen'l F ate, and the man ! swearing so stout a man as Col. Benton, is.afUr all, not entirely comme t'i faut. .' ! Ge'nT Twiggs arrived here yesterday, from Flo rida, without any of the Seminole Indians, which have won for that State such an enviable notorie ty. They have been graciously permitted to re train another year in the Peninsula, in order that Senator Yulee may ask for another appropriation for them next year, if. in the mean time, he doe not think proper tn dissolve the Union. IT The Editor of the Wilmington Aurora disa vows the publication of the following article: but some body trrvrfe it, though it may have seen pub lished by ir.isiiife. Wo eall it curious: u We must Fieirr. To that complexion it must corneal last. The chance of a compromise is hopeless. Suppose that there was room for hope, ilean lie found only In foriher rendition. Wluu have e left to give up ? Nothing, not even one eonwrtiitinal principle! ' Mr. Polk sacrificed us upon the W ilniia I'roviso on the Oregon question, But surrender bad been tjiad long before. Wash ington yielded the Bank and Tariff questions. We do not dispute hij honesty or his general greatoess. He was the first President, snd was skillful in pub lic affis; he gave to his administration a tone whieh is now well nigh ruining the Republic. But let that pans now. The present is demonstra ting and the future will more cleanly demonstrate our observation. Mr. Calhoun said to once. '( would not swap refutations with Washington, be nevrr nnilersiootUlie tiuverninentand Lximtitu lion. The fact was noti.r'wiM at the time. JIam iiion knew it, Adams knew it ; all of that lime know U. I am gtii)..t canonieijig .saints or polu tic!ua4 ami if I die hefoce jtou do, don't left me be put W calendar. As near Hit WujedHur can re member, the foregoing is cerbalimel iiUratbn." Jk.r Otti.tAiiSJiine2l True Bui fissituJ cof ;iif General Lofez and other Cuius Incadert The gfttod jury, tojity, aiuiog as a grand in quest lur fhe United Sintee, (unndatrue bTH a ininst Gen. Ipej ; Mr. Signr.ol Dolaware;.Go. eriKr Qmtinan ; Jm'ge C. Piuckoey ; Mr. Smith, of M isisiupi ; Ex-sciaV Jeendrrson ; M". O'Snl- liran. turnier editor of tlie Drnwcraiie Review end ten vtlvrsof the expedilion'wU against Cubti. They are indicated fur sMie offence prrsctibed by tlie liws rf oor country In reference to Ihe matter j in qnostion. They lesae hem feaU ball (hr4sSs4 J.rei.bsVJ.a. .t-csji THE 11ALEIGII TIMES. Slatilor, ftlanlji, anb tlje Union ! iffliiii '4 WsVlt-aiisfaJb smS RALEIGH, N. C. Sxitnw) fllorning, innc 2S, 1S50. IT The Raleioh Times will be furnished dur ing the Gubernatorial Campaign, say till 3 5l ti of August, for 5tt cents. Will our friends make up club (or us at that price 1 TREASONABLE CALL ON GOV. MANLY. On the 22J of January last, the Democratic or gan, the Rahisjh Standard, issued the following Manifesto to Gov. IUnlv. Mark Ihe majes'y of the language as though to this Editor were com mitted, in special charge, the di'stinies of North Carolina, and til! power over the ' uuverncr, "the legislature or his Council," to convene either at his command.' or to issue his Proclamation to the people 10 appoint Delegates lo the Nashville Con vention : . . . . "WE suggested last week, as our res ders nisy remember, that one Delegate he appointed to Nash ville by one party and another by the other party ; and that the eople should then choose nine more one from each Congressional District. ; If m caimut do heller, we are still irt favor nf this plan ; but it strixes us must forciM) that it is imirlant to the charart-i of the Commonwealth, liir various , we'shimld have,-if at all practicabl.- aulhttrilaine. Stale actum en the tulyect. VL t1(wfore fAL, llp,m Gov. Manly cither to con- veue the Legislature, or h s Council.or tn issue his Proclamation to the people, advising theni of the dangers which impend over them, and suggesting to tlii'in the propriety ami importance of appointing Delegates lo ihe Nashville Convention. WE should prefer to seethe legislature assembled; but if serious objections should exist to that in the tinv erior's ii iint, or if he should think thatany portion of the people would object to the expense to be in Ciirrcd LET 11IM call bis council together, and LET lhat btxly lake such steps as he and they may judge proper. And if neither the Jegilature nor his council, LET III.M issue his Proclamation Iv the people, ABOVE REFERRED TO." Reader have yon kept your gravity until you. got through with it ? Have you noticed ihe bombas tic style, (if it does not approach the lunatic.) of this grave Hnd solemn requisition on the Governor of North Carolina ? And what do you think of the pompous vanity which prompted it 1 Governor Maklt takes no counsel from those who would plunge North Carolina into sectional agitation, or commit her to a conclave of plotters against the Union of the States. lie took lis stand at once for the Union, and against the Nash ville Convention and all its advocates. No respect for party schemes no fear of party denunciation or hostility could shake for one moment his fidel ity to the duty he owed North Carolina, whose Chief Magistrate lie is and all the threats of trait ors and fanatics passed by him like the idle wind. His duly, he needed no Locofoeo parlizan to tell him he would allow none to be the interpreter of his oath to support the Constitutro of the United States. Cjingress was in session North Caroli na had her Representatives there ; and her rights were confided to their hands for the present. The people, for the Governor, have rebuked the impudence of the partiztns and agitators, and-ta-Len most excellent careof the Nashville Comtnlion'. KEfD-AND THE VVILMOT PROVISO. Dtiid S. lleii, the Locofoeo candidate for Governor of North CVolina, while in Congress, in 18 15 and 1847, VOTED TWICE for the Ore gon bill, wilh the Wilmot Proviso in it. The establishment of the truth of this charge ought' lo kill him. politically in this State; and surely en titles him to the exertation of every southern man. What insult, therefore, lo the people of North Car olina, lor tlie Democratic Convention to nominate such a man for the highest Executive Office. And now forthepror. The first time the Wil mot Proviso occurred was on Ihe passage of the Sill organizing Ihe Territory of Oregon, rn the 3.1 nf February, 1845. The bill eontnined a provis ion that slavery should never ejciit in that country, and thereby excluded citizens of the South from going there with their negroes ! Tlie bill, wkh this obnoxious and unjust feature, was passed Yea? 140, Nays CO. Among those who voted for its paawnge were farty-seren Southern Democrats, (David S. Reid, A. II. Arrington, J. 21. J. Dan iel, and James J. McKay, from North Carolina among them.) while every Southern Whig voted ftninAl ita p?Ango. find ill, Suw'Ihxo (Vino- crats Wen true to the South, they might have de feated the bill might have checked Northern ag gression upon Southern tights, and thus secured those rights. But no the object was In make the Punocratie piftty popular at the North, anJ hence Southern Democrats betrayed their const'.luents.. Now had these fortyrSeun Southern Democrats voted Say, !:; T.rc v;t:aU have stood, Y eas 9.3 Nays 107, and the bill would bare been deserved ly rejected. Can we hope to obtain jour rights, when Southern Democrats thus t orn against us? Dniid IS. fieid betrayed North Carolina, and surrendered the rights of the South when he gave that vote, and Might to have no office bestowed npon hiui by NorthCarolina Freemen. See House Jour. d Sew.. 98th Cong. Feb. 3d l45,pnge 2I. The Senate rejected Ihe bill. BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. Again Did t. Rtid soted for litis abom'ma, tion THE KECOND time, in the Jiobeof Repre eWatire. the 18th Jan. 1817. See Cong. Globe, -24 Sees. aP lb Cong, pace 193. Tlie same bill coutaininrtliesaaie Wiiinnt Proviso again was put npooits fsawrvge.an-l il passed, Yeas 138, Nays 35. Tw-third(il .the Southern Democmls again voted for it, while Southern Whigs again opposed if.To prevent mistakes we give ,lhe nausea of those Democrats and mark you ! Dcid S. Reid is again among themi Here they are : James B IfJowtin, Lynn Boyd, W. G. Brow, L . Cn, Hwj! Co!, Cullo-iv H J. Daniel, Geo. 3. -Houston, Jorsph Jihnston, An drew Jolii.son, Gei. W. Jones, Sealsiru Jones, T.in. Lumpkin, Jas. J. McKtf, Barclay Martin, Timo thy I'ilsUnry, DAVID S. REID,F. P.Staton.Jno. W. Tibbatls. John S. Phelps, Leoc. H. Sims, and Jacob Thorn pson. ' The Senate again rejected this bill; but in 18)9, ihe same bill was offered in Congress, and then passed both Houses, and was approved by President Polk." In the Senate there was a lie between the North and the South but two Democratic Sena tors, Thomas II. Spntnn and Samuel Houston bo tra'jei the South (as it had become usual for Dem erols to do,) supported the bill, and it passed, which it never could have done but for Democrat ic votes. Krefy Southern Whig voted a gainst the bill. ... And now North Carolinians sre( asked to cast their votes for a man for Governor, who has VO TED TWICE for theodioui and abominable Wil mot Proviso in the Oregon Bill and who is for suorn as a Representative, if he did not believe that Congress had the power to prohibit Slavery ! Look at it people of North Carolina ! He has twice betrayal the Sourti and how Can you trust him? . BETRAYAL OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS. We informed our readers last week, that the Democratic Convention of North Carolina, follow i"g the example of the Dinunion Nashville Con vention, ojujosethe Compromise of Mr. Clay now before the United States Senate, and which will soon pass that body, and are in favor of the Missou ri Compromise; which is absolutely a prohibiiion of Slavery in part of tlie new Territories, while Mr. Clay's plan leaves slavery lo go there if the peo ple desire it. That Ihe Missouri Cot. promise prohibits slavery should have been a sufficient reason why Demo crats, who deny the power of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery at all, should lie opposed to it, even by w ay of compromise but they are absolutely willing to have the constitution of Ihe United Stales, as they understand it, violated, rath er than go for the compromise of Mr." Clay, which preserves the constitution', and leaves tlie people of the Southern States as free to carry their slaves into on part nf the Territnry acquired from Mexi co as the other which, at any rate, prohibits slave ry nowhere! ' '' Mow hypocritical must Ihe leaders of that party be, who attempt to deceive the people by a show of desiring the settlement of the slavery question, when they propose a plan which they well know can never be attained; and thus prove to the world that they' desire, no settlement at all for if the Missouri Compromise were obtained, according lo Mr. Cass, the Great High Priest of ''the nurty," it would lie-no settlement becafce it has no validity, and is denied by him, in common with the IVilmot proviso, to be constitutional. See the attitude our Democratic friends assume, then, in going for a measure which they declare to be unconstitutional. But see what they propose when they advocate the Missouri Compromise to exclude expressly the Southern people wi!h their slaves from the Territories AorM of 36 deg. 3(? mill., while it (Mows slavery, only by implication, Sm(i of it. A nd a re these the sa me men w ho have all the time contended that the whole of the new Territories shenld remain open to settlement by the whole people, because they were obtained by the common blixai and treasure J These men Dem ocrats, as they call themselves who were ready to dissolve th Union, Unless slavery was allowed to go to California, New Mexico, and Utah, come be fore the people of North Csmlini with nothing bet ter to offer than the Missouri Compromise, which, when all's done and ssid, prohibits slavery; and which they themselves believe to be unconstitution al ! For party schemes, they are willing the con stitution should be riouerf, and the rights of the South in Half the new Territories furerer surren dered! Comment is unnecessary. It is only suf ficient tn state their position to cover the whole party with shame snd contempt. To prevent mistakes, we subjoin the Missouri Compromise. See Third vol. U. S. Statutes at larire.p. 548, Act of Congress, March 6, 1820."to Biithorisethc people of Missouri In form a consti tution and Slate Government," tc. "See. 8. And be it further enacted. That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States under Ihe name nf louismiia. which lies North of 36 degrees 30 minutes nf north latitude. IM inrlu tied within the limits of the State contemplated hy this act, -lavrrV and involuntary servitude, other wise than in the pHiiishment of crimes whereof the pa rtips shall have been duly eonvicted, shall be, and is herehy,o;rrer prohibited." That's the Missouri Compromise! What is it but Ihe Wilmot proviso? And that's what the Democratic Convention of North Carolini and the Nashville Convention propose in preference to Mr. Clay's compromise, which extends the Constitution of the United States over the Territories, and con tains no prohibition of slavery whatever, but pro vides for nori-inlerrenioi on tlie subject of slavery in Ihe vok,Tcrritorir$. THE NASHVILLE CONVENTION NO DODGING! It is well known that the Democratic Presses of North Carolina were all in favor of the Nashville Convention iw d the Democratic party, as such are chargeable with the attempts in this Stale lo get it up. Who called upon Gov. Manly, with tlie most brazen-faced impudence, to convene the Leginl M ure for, the purpose of carrying out the dis union movement ? 'Fhe North Carolina Stand- cri,"tlie central organ aad mouth-piece of Uie Democratic party, operated upon by Ihe leaders of that party, snd carrying out their wishes and ur.-po-es. It was the'i design to intimidate tlie Gov ernor S the State, if by possibility they could gel him committed to a treasonable scheme agauist Ihe integrity of the Union of the Slates. They fonod Mm as firm and immovable as the Moun tains of his native land, and resolved to stand by tlie honor and true interests of Korth (Carolina. But why did tlie Locofoeo parly demand action npo-i-sbiswibjecl in such hot haste by ear State legislature ? The period Sur lbe settiemsint of the question growing out af slavery in the Tnnritories had net arrived until the meeting of itlve .present Congress; and why eas there so miusk .noeosslty 4or our being represented st NaslvtiHe, .whn ree already had tmr wemliers of Congrces at Wash. ington ? The UtlPr was the body which had the setlWcr,! of all the aitSciiliie i its bands snd what was any boJy to do at Nishvlll'e, that the ! Governor should csn hastily and inconsiderately in calling the Legislature together without au thority of law t'i The Democratic mind was satisfied that a will's had arrived and Ihe call was made upon the Gov ernor in the na lure of a peremptory demand, eight or ten days only being, allowed him to consider of it, with the purpose of denouncing him if he failed to obey tlie orders ot the Locofoeo party, issued through llieir lnnwn and accredited organ ? The whole toneof lhatoigan tendedto Disunion. Professions of attachment lo the Union, were pro fusely made, but Ihe direct aim of all its appeals and arguments, as a supporter of the Nashville Convention, was to irritate and inflame the pub lic mind; to render the people dissatisfied with their Government and hostile to its continuance; lo ex asperate their feelini'S, and excite their prejudices against the people of another section of our com mon country , and prepare their minds to expect the eatahtropbe of dissolution. It was the con stant aim of the Standard, not only editorially, but in what its columns were filled with, to depreciate the value of the Union, and exaggerate the bene fits of Disunion. Comparisons were drawn be tween our present situation and what it would be in case of dissolution ; in which it was made to appear that the South would gain greatly by a separation and the establishment of a Southern Confederacy. Calculations in dollars and cents were paraded for the consideration and contempla tion of the people ; and doctrines were maintained which are ca'culaleit tooverthrow the Government, and place the several States in a worse condition thanthev were before the Revolution. We know that many respectable members of the Democrat party were not prepared to connect themeelvM with sr.y SCoetue iiiat could by posibil ity be converted into an engine of treason to Ihe Union. Hence the scheme of the Nashville Con vention did not succeed in North Carolina, notwith standing the united voice of the Locofoeo press in its favor. The Whig party opposed it almost to a man, and all their presses but one or two, and it died a most shameful and ignominious death! Since then, ererybody has been trying to eravrfislt out of it ; and we suppose the day will come when an advocate of it will hardly be found on the earth. But the Standard, the central organ of the Dem ocracy is fully committed. We have him on the record. Through him the leaders and the Democ racy in general are also fully committed and we shall permit no dodging upon the question. RAID'S POSITION. And now we want lo understand Dai id S. Reid's position ! : He has been put lip as the Democratic candidate for Govrrnor by a Democratic Conven tion, presided over by a Nashville Convention ist snd Delegate to that .body, -which opposes the set tlement of the Slavery question, and goes lor the impracticable Missouri Compromise, We want to know how David 8. Reid is to get off from the odium of the Nashville Convention. Twont dolo say he's not committed that he had nothing to do with it. The President ot the Convention whhili nominated him was for it. The Standard vas for it the organ of the Parly, the organ of Reid himself; and his friends who patronize the paper, were either all for if, or have shown no opposition to his course. Reid selected Holden tn publish his letter of withdrawal; He directs to him his letter of acceptance; The Democracy make Holden a prominent officer of their Convention; and express ed, when assembled as a party, no disapprobation of his course but on the contrary their confidence in, and approval of him ar.d his doings, by the at tention paid him and ihe office which he held. Reid wae the nominee of that Convention; and ac Surely, the distinguished- d;'v0,lon'" I",e"",, ImProvPn"'-'TbfJ always held politic.lly re- .fra,"";'e'l.""h him cordially on that subject. d distinctive opinions and F!". h'"'' ef"T"J. ' f'W f Dsmortit' cepts its nomination members of a party are sponsime tor trie repealed distinctive npi course of their official organ. Reid, therefore, is a Standard man, and of course a Nashville Con vention man, and so far disaffected to the Union ! The other Democratic Editors who were present in the Convention, agreed wilh and tipMd Holden in his course; and they all are still supported and trusted by the party. But this is not all. The Convention which nominated Reid passed a reso lution ot toleration towards all men who were Dis unionists in the State, and held out lo (hem the ol ive branch of peace as still members of the 1 arty. See Sautiders's resolution which speaks of their abominable treason as "error of opinion !" Thus all the Democratic presses of ihe State went for the Nashville Convention; the State Convention sup ports and countenances them; the Democrats are responsible for and bound by their course; a resolu tion of toleration wss adopted by the Convention which nominated Rird; and how can Dai nf S. Herd, by any subterfuge, escape from the damn ing conclusion that he is a Nashville Convention ist, fully tainted with ail the sins and heresies of his party? . We charge it upon him snd hold him to it! The Standard dares not deny it, and claim ss a merit 'for Mr. Keirlthat he wss opposed to the Nashville Convention for the Standard would repudiate his course, as a true Democrat, when he was abusing the Whigs and everybody else who did not go for that famous scheme. He called them traitors and lories he ean't say ,Vr. JJcrf onnosed if. for that wonld be Ii make a traitor snd fori of him ! How does Davy stand? We want to know! Will he dixlge!ot can he fess I We call the genllcman impaled I SAUNDERS AT OXFORD. When the would-be Disunion meeting was brui at Oxford, which was addressed by General Sana, dera, the account of the proceedings fiwjjUiieu' us by a friend, rind published in this p(4r, did n4 appear lo go far ennugh to suit &e Democracy, to which party Grnerul Ssciders st Ills I lime was understood lo be slightly attached, even if it suited General Saunders himself, and our account was called In question, because il did not represent him asit crmrmiltcd to the Nushvilie Cosujlij. The Standard therefore informed us on tlie 90;h March, lliatGcneral Saunders advocated tlie pro priety of sesiduig telegates to he Naslu Jle Con vention" and the Jerm f "ira'&ir" in the same paper, isspplied tothnae who oVnriuMxxlAhai Cjv renlioa. And In tlie Standard of April 3. appeared an article aigned MW. S. McClanalian," in which we ate informed that "Grn. Snander look groand tn favor of rtjmtentatw lo tb.e ftlasbiills pwv.iv fori" . This eonfiAed KashviU Contfnlianist is now a candidate for Ihe House of Commons in Wake County and we want to know what the true friends of the Union think of him? Can they trust hiin ? We seriously doubt whether it is best for the people of North Carolina, who repudiated and condemned the Nashville Convention with so much patriotic unanimity, to bestow, their confidence up on any one of its active supporters. The leaders of the Nashville Convention movement are strong, ly suspected of having got up that famous project for ulterior purposes of great mischief; and bad the SoHthern people generally favored ihe measure as a Convention of Sovereign Stales, which was originally intended, God only knows what might have been the disastrous consequences. We know no harm was done but that was liCHUse the Con vention was a failure instead of being the repre sentatives of. sovereignties, the Delegate there re presented nobody but themselves and no woight has len attached to their acta any where. We throw these hints out for the consideration of the people. For ourselves, we shall vote for np man, be he whom he may, nme and henceforth, who favored the Nashville Convention but we shall de nounce him as unfit to he trusted by the Uliion-lor-ing and law-abiding people of North Carolina. In the language of Judge Mangiim, we shall "put a mark upon him;" or asJudge Saunders himselfhas It, alter Mr. Jellerson.we shall let him "stand as a monument," not of "error of opinion," but of fvltu and fanaticism t THE ROLESVILLE MEETING. An Anti-R ailroad Convention waa held st Role. ville on Saturday last, over which the Rev. Bur Well Temple presided. It was culled for the pur pose of nominating candidates for J Iffis!afrB opposed !e t! 'er.!r,: Railroad, because it was thought by many Democrats that the former Con vention which nominated Jones, Saunders Si Co. was Unfair, and not entitled to the credit usually attached to such bodies; and because it (ejected Mr. Shepard's resolution, which is regarded of vi tal imortance to the best interests of. the Demo cratic pariy; in oilier words, because it refused to make Internal Improvements a party matter, snd nominated candidates friendly to the Central Rail, road. - The resolution of Mr. Shepsrd, rejected by the Raleigh Convention, but adopted by the Rolesrille meeting, requires a pledge from the Democratic candidates (if elected,) to av;jui instructions from the people of Wake, iu Convention, should any at tempts be made in tlie next Legislature to appro priate money from the Public Treasury to com menceany new plan of internal Improvements, or to enlarge the subscription on the State's behalf to the Central Railroad. This Convention also re. solved that they would support no candidal v?he .'. does not endorse the above resolution; but should Jones, Saunders, Newsom and Rollins refuse to do so, the views of this Convention would be carried out at a meeting on the 4th of July, namely, can. didates opposed to the Railroad nominated. We learn further, that Mr. James B. Shepsrd attended this meeting, at the request- of General Saunders, and gave "direct and positive evidence that Gen. Saunders does endorse" the foregoing resolution, and in riew of all that has eome to our knowledge, it may be assumed that he will "endorse and adopt" it in the S.'sniard1, as direcid by ihe meeting. If he does, of ciurse he repudi ate and rejects the action of the Convention which nominated him, and carries out the treachery and . doubledealing with which we charged him in our laal paper. Which faction are to be gulled? These are the two wings of the "progressive Democracy" in Wake county. The Whigs have already been decei ved by General Saunders by his promises of ic menus, a dihiiic uniupn inastA.i him him were delighted to have his rid and co-opers-tion in the patriotic work nf improving the Slate. He won their confidence by his hypocrisy, and many of them hsre pledged him their rotes. But now art they fully absolved. If he selected to the Legislature, he goes there bound hand and foot ; and though his role may be necessary to preserve the faith snd credit of the Stale, sndtoadvancsthe Central Railroad, he is tosil still in his seat, chain ed and manacled, AwiiTiKO the instructions of a part of the people of Wuke in Convention assem bledthat paitof ihe Democracy opposed to In ternal Improvement on principle, and notoriously a minbrity of the people of Wuke County. This is but a beginning. - . - WHO ELSE IS GULLED 1 The people of Newbera snd Eastern Carolina ! will open their ryes wide when lliey aee the res olution which Mr. Shepsrd pledged Gen). Saun ders to "sdopt and endorse.1' They had no direct interest in the Central Railroad, if it were to stop at GoMsboro', except that some of them were the true friends of State improvement, and were anx kits to see the work going an for the benefit of the whole State. But tliey were leilto believe, main ly from Genl. Saunders' promises and speeches, that the plan of extending the Central Railroad la Newbern would meet his support and that of all the friends of Improvement in tlie Staled He at tended end addressed the meeting in Newbern irt favor of such-extension ; and, during his stay there from 59 lo f70,000 were subscribed for that pnr. pose. Why did 'ni &. 0a undrrs tell them pfeirf ly, lite faith f tie State is plighted to tlse fentraf, riadi-4aiat is passed but hereafter I shall go f QPaaore improvements in which the State is to interested ? Not so he La J'nt become a pe,r'; man thenbut wail patriot, snd went for the io terests of North Carolina. We ask the Nev.hf.r people if Ihry did not;c,eupl ujwa Ity si aJ tuua. port! l-et them read the rraniuiion vHikh llr. Eltepitd enrsgos Get,!. Suitnders to "adopt ,s! endorse," and Arp jhey rot fulled jf The foregoing will sitfllre IOrcv hawuintlM led hiij patriot iiated intothe wereaittoinatiin of fsctiuc, ready to obey the dictation' first of ur, wing and then tire mher, of tiiA pat4y JfUeie serrupt he Jibs become. Which ofter e mean Jto deceive j not very okar a yet, Jliough It is said Mr. Shefwrd is very proud of li,isf'ruri)ei, . 4ije me ajitiii!, fel nt j,k Ihe Whiirs and Imw Democrats i f tfijCoouiy, how can you solf lor sueb a mere hnrl e-!wig tfa candidate? Must a ii.an low lis inoVpendr nee wltn be (wv-nies a DeoiocrKl? Tn $ipr'ty l Si' oW-., -
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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