North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-06
From the Richmond Enquirer. ]

clans of various shades of opinion in different por
tons of the Union, on the other, These first named
gentlemen have assumed the character of members
of the Democratic National Committee in their side
of the correspondence and in this assumed Demo
cratic character, have held communication not only
with leading Democrats in the Union but such
Villas as Joshua r. Giddings of Ohio and such
FreesoiIers as Salmon p. Chase of the same State
and Martin Van Buren, of New York. That is the
sort of good faith they have observed to the Demo
cratic party which they profess to represent; and
as if to convince the public of the auteticity of
their commissions, and the sincerity of their pur-
poses Zone of their alleged purposes being no less
absurd than to bring General Commander of South
Carolina, and Joshua Giddings of Ohio to shake
hands on the same platform y they have published
their whole correspondence in the HerGt6.- Those
letters which they have written to national Demo-
Gratis, the supporters of the national Democratic
platform of Baltimore in different portions Of the
Union, have been responded to frankly and in good
faith, in the full belief that the two pseudo commit
teemen were really entrusted with the commissions
and confidence of their party.
1t appears, however, from the following official
announcement, that they are but irresponsible in
dividuals and have no authority to act for the
Democratic party in their assumed capacity. Their
proceedings seem to be dictated, more by desire
to advance the political prospects of Senator Hous-
ton than the subs tantal interests of the Democratic
party. We doubt not that this distinguished Sen
ator will speedily disavow their proceedings, and
prove to the public that he looks as little to such
unhallowed alliances as the correspondence of these
men would seem to indicate disposition to effect
for him, as the national Democratic party of the
Union aim at Such criminal and at the same time
suicidal coalitions. The Washington Union has
the following reflections upon the subject. We
shall possibly publish the correspondence, if our
Wing contemporaries should seriously intimate
that it contains EVIDENCES of turpitude properly at
firth utoIl 10 in 10 no
"The Republic pursues, in another long article,
the phantom which its imagi nation has formed out
of the letters adverted to in our last issue, and
which calculated, if genuine, to throw suspicion
upon the political orthodoxy of few individuals
protesting the faith of democracy. If the individu
ais named were truly members of q democratic
committee, to claim for them the right of changing
democratic principle would be to burIesque all
party organization but when it appears that those
individuals are neither members of any regular
committee, clothed with authority to speak or
write for any committee the attempt to treat their
sentiments indications of party management
sinks to the level of mere badinage.
All that the people gather from these letters
Is, that the special organ is striving to make it APP
pear that the democratic party is as bad as whig-
gerry, and would not scruple to bargain with Sew
ard and his allies, if these cunning agents of aboli
ton and free-soil had not previously disposed of
their stock in trade to the wings. If this be not
CHe plain OF the Ell orr TO make the demo-
cratic party responsible for the speculatious of Mr..
Donaldson of Texas, and his correspondents, Mesn.
Chase and Giddings, why is there no fault found
with the notorious and solemn declarations of the
wing conventions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York
and Vermont These conventions are open commit
ments to free-soiGsm, and are admitted contradic-
tons OF the sentiments proclaimed as a motto for
the administration, that the Compromise is final
settlement of the slavery question, and that the
ecution of the fugitve-slave law is duty to the
South which cannot be disregarded without des-
troying the constitution. These conventions have
put forward Mr.. Vinton; Mr.. Johston, and others,
as practical exemplifcatious of the wing sentiment
of their respective States and they known to be
disorganizers of the most exceptonable character
yet the special organ has no leisure to expose to
the public the glazing opposition thus proclaimed
to the only feature in the career of Mr.. Fillmore
which gives him the slightest claim to the conf
dence Of the people. Does the special organ fall
back upon the old platform of its party, and mean
to contend that there is difference between the
barnburners and the Wings? And was the pro-
gramme of the administration still daily stuck at
the head of the Republic intended only as decoy,
to be abandoned as soon as the coalitions out of
which have sprung the nominations of leading whig
freesoilers become fixed and Interchangeable!
In our humble Judgment, it would be far more
creditable to this singularly unfortunate admins
tration to be employed in indicating its sincerity
Wnen attempting 10 make the people OF the South
believe that it had not entered into the coalition
with Mr.. Seward than to be pretending to find
fault with democratic consistency the subject of
the Compromise, because one or two irresponsible
men, without any authority to speak for the party,
have intimated free-soil and abolition propensity
But without dwelling on this subject, we call the
attention of our readers to the very pertinent re-
marks extrac ted below from the Boston Post, sta
ting the utter want of authority for the assertion
that either Mr.. Donaldson of Texas, or Mr.. Greer
of Iowa, were members of the National Democra-
tic Committee
The following official disclaimer by the Union
of Messrs. Donaldson and Greer is the one alluded
to above:
d" NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. We
authorized to state that there has been meet
ing of the executive committee of the National
Democratic committee in New York or elsewhere,
respecting national convention, has been ncor-
rectly stated in several presses founded an arti
Gle that originally appeared in the New York Ger
respondence of the Vincennes Gazette. ALI that
has been published pretended to have been done
on this subject is wholly unauthorized from any Of
fetal source, or from any member of the commit
tee. The subject of meeting of the national COM
mittee at Washington during the session of Con
gress, to consult with members on the call for
convention and obtain the best concentration of
opinion from all parts of the Union as to time and
place, has been suggested but no person has had
authority to act correspond behalf of the
committee, has any meeting been called or held
about it. There are two or three vacancies-one
in Texas and one in Iowa-caused by the lamen-