North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-08
THE PRESIDENCY.

The presses and public men of the country, and
especially those of the South, have been more oack
ward and silent than usual in relation to the Presi-
DENTAL question. Heretofore, at time like this,
GENERAL discussion was going forward on the subjects
hut about all that seems be said conceded now
10. that Conventions will be held and candidates
nominated. Indeed, Conventions cannot be avoided.
They must be held if the parties intend to present
candidates for the whole couny for, in the absence
of Conventions, the result would most certainly be
sectional candidates and sectional organizations. And
whenever parties become thoroughly sectionalized,
we may bid farewell to the Union. 81
What will the Wings do! Will they, already
tired of their name, become and more so as the
time for holding their Convention approaches, and
drop it But this is not very important TO the Peo-
ple except as stands connected with the avowal OF
principles by tiat party. rather their non-avoWa
We shall look at the body, and determine for our
elves as to its nature, without the slightest reference
TO the name. They may call themselves what they
please-we all know who and what they But
will they be able to unite and then make nomina-
ton We predict that they will. Will they endorse
and approve the fugtive-slave law We predict that
they will not and give as authority for this be-
lief the opinion of Wing papers in the free States
already referred to by But they will present to
the country ngeniously constructed platform, half
compromise - and compromise, leaving
the Sewardites and the Winthrop men to paddle aP-
parently in canoe and the Flmoreites in another,
while in reality they will be but one crew, with COM
mon aims, making for the same harbor. Will they
elect their candidate We cannot believe they will
but the contest will be close and bitter one, and
will be marked, in all probability, by more violence,
venom, and excitement than any which has taken
;n;e vii nla att n
play one of its very largest games of imposture and
humbug; but the present generation has been decel-
we'd once by these worthless. and cannot be again.
The next may.
We do not propose to discuss at this time the ques-
ton of the Presidency but may we'll say that
we expect support the nominee of the Democratic
party provided he be sound upon the subject of Sa
very. And we entertain doubt that he will be
sound for we have in the free States of the right
stamp, and the Convention, made up it will be of
representatives of the Democracy from all quarters Of
the Union, will do its duty without reference to Sec
tons or isnas. We ask new platform the old Une,
adopted in 1910, and reafrmed in 1874 and 1S48, IS
good enough for us. We sincerely believe that'the
success of Democratic principles in the ensuing cam
paign is essential the prosperity of the country
and the preservation of the Union. If those Prnci-
pies had prevailed constantly in the government since
1910, we should have escaped the perils in which
the country has been and is now placed. We go for
the Constitution the rights of the States, and the
rights of the United States; in other words, we go
with the old Republican party of the Gays OF Jeter-
son. Jackson, and ok. This is the flag we hold up
before the people, the safest and best rayng point
which can be presented them in this or any other
crisis and that flag if all of should do duty
in 1882 will wave first and highest at the close of
the contest.
We shall have more to say on this important sub
ject at the proper time.