Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-07-23
MIR. MILLER'S GRAFTON.

SATURDAY. JULY IL. 1851.
MIR. MILLER'S GRAFTON.
The number of the Raleigh Register which was
;ssued on the last 4th of July, contained the follow
ing:
uWhy has the cup of national glory, and national
joy, been mixed with waters OF bitterness! why
disuuion raised1 Painful is the inquiry, we know
not better time make it than when assembling to
commemorate the birth day of the only true Rspub-
lie remaining on the globe
If it be found that the existing excitement, which
has done so much to arouse the fears of the timd,
and startle even the boldest and most determined,
has been caused by nisstateents aru got I'D to de-
csre The people from motives of personal ambition,
LET the authors of it meet with the highest punish
ment-the scorn and contempt Of an insulted peo-
pie!"
The above was no doubt intended as a sort of in
PRODUCTION to the party portion of Mr.. Miilers Ora
ton, to be delivered that day. The Register was
preparing the mind Of the community for what the
Editor knew would be uttered by the Orator. day
common to all and the property and glory of ALL We
find nothing in the above extract of an enlarged or
liberal character. but the contrary, the existing
element is attributed to the friends of Southern
rights, and an attempt is made to mark them as the
enemies of the Union and Of public order. In addi-
ton to this our assaants in the free States are told,
in SO many words, that the existing excitement "has
been caused by misstatements artuly 60: up to de-
ceve the peope' and in this way these vile fanat-
les are encouraged in their work of insult and ag-
gression. We take this the meaning and tenden-
of the above expression because the Register IS
in the habit of denouncing what it calls Southern ia
natcism and because, furthermore, the article from
which these extracts made, contains no hard 0ords
for the FreesoiLers and .aboitionists-the very men
who caused the present excitement and who are rush
ing this Republic to the gulf of ruin. Then came
the oraton. Portions Of it, we have heretofore
stated in good taste and embodied sound senti-
men,s but much of it was devoted to an argument
against State sovereignty and to denunciatons of fa-
naics, disunionists and demagogues, s. North and
SouM" Why these wholesale denunciations of
Southern men! Did the orator give the history Of
their wrongs! Did he show soho and u hat had PIa-
| ced the Union in peril! No such thing. He inclu-
ded tie ,u,onged in the sweeping condemnation
with the ,vrongdoers and that too after he had dem
onstrated, he thought, that the Southern States
could 6nd no safety out Of the Union under any cir
cumstances, matter what they might be required
to endure at the hands of their assailants. We ap-
peal to the printed Speech for proof Of what We saw.
And now what Was this but party Grafton. so far
as these sentiments concerned Did not the Ora
tor know that large portion of his audience differed
with him on these points
We have no idea Of reviewing Mr.. Mller's Grafton,
Of exposing the falaces of any Of its positions.
1t has been printed it is true, but it will die with the
occasion. Like many of the Registers anti-South-
ern Editorials, it will provoke momentary indignation
and then be forgotten. That portion of it intended
to benefit the Consolidation Wing party, will do nc
injury to the doctrines it assails These doctrines
firmly fixed in the very soil of the country to
be shaken by light winds.
The Register denies that MI. Miller charged the
State Rights men with being Disunionists and fac
donists. This denial is worth something, at an,
ra,e, for it shows for the first time that quarter
some respect for State Rights; but we refer to tn
speech and to the inference to be clearly drawn fro1
it, to sustain Us in our remarks in relation it. Blu
II the Register denies and apologies for Mr.. Miller
what will that paper say for itself! Can the Edit0
Of the Register deny that he has charged tile Democrat
g this Stale, in many scords, aoih being enemies
the Union That paper, in recent article againe
State sovereignty, declared that the Democrat
leaders in North Carolina are determined the destu
lion Of the Union,' and charged that those who vote
Tor the right OF Secession at the late session of tn
Legislature. hated and desired to destroy the Fee
efal Government! Dare that paper deny this stat,
ment! And yet such an Editor is the apologist fl
'"'s o'atlon' which. it is denied by him, was not il
!enoed to reflect the State Rights men as disunol
ISIS: Mr.. Miller, to say the least, is found in ba
company and has for his defender man who ha
maoe the very charge against his political opponent
which is clearly deducibla from the Oration, b,
which, as to the Ora'ion is bitterly denied-the R,
s,s'er' we presume, being willing to take all til
o'ame Of so Infamous a charge on it's own shoulder
provided can free Mr.. Miller from any blame in h
premises. But We pot them both in the same eateoo,