North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-16
THE POLITICAL WORLD.

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THE POLITICAL WORLD.
| All along next spring the different parties VIII
mike their nominations and the different candidates
enter the field for the Presidential race OF 1907 AS
the time for such movements approaches, we a'e GU
abed from the preliminary movements OF 'he se'el
al ar,ies 10 ascertain pretty accurately the course
which each will adopt in the coming struggle: me
recent Convention movements in Pennsy !Vanla nave
no doubt Swallowed forth the course OF the great no
! DIV of the Wings Of the North. Ihey VIII go LOT
Scott or some such man, and Will recommend one
dience to the Fugitive Slave Law tcite IL IS mat
but will agilate, and keep agltatng for It's lmneoi-
ate repeal. On the old issues, they will 60 for the
old humbug of protection 10 particular branches OF
Northern industry and also for internal improve
men,s by the General Government, with as many
other .anliquaed ideas as they scrape together
The Northern Democrats or at least tie great bo-
dy OF the party the North, willing TO accept
the Fugitive Slave bill part of final settlement
and such, to execute its provisions, and trown
down aGy ag lltion for Its repeal as violation OF
pghied ;ailh At least such has been the uniform
tenor of the resolutions of their various State and
comfy conventions, and such are known to be the
views of all the distinguished Democrats at the North
whose at all mentioned in connection with
the Presidency-as BUCHANAN, who is known to be
the choice of Pennsy lvania-N ooDBuRY, who has
been nominated by New Hampshire-DALLAs, who
is asoa faYorite of the Pennsy vaniansCAss, whose
strength in the North West is unbounded besides,
Dickinson, of New York, and DOUGLAS, of Illinois,
speak OF whole most d otnerS he express
ed opinion of all these is that the compromise is a
definite settlement. and must be respected and left
disturbed in at all its parts and herein consists the
difference betwxt the Union Wings of the North
and the Democrats. The latter regarding, or SEEM
ing 10 regard, the late compromise the ultima
ha!.-the last land, beyond which agitation must not
pass while the Wings seem to regard 1t only as a
stepping stone 10 further aggression and renewed
agitation. Upon the old issues, the Democrats have
little to contend about-their policy is already in
operation, and the country Is prosperous beyond a
parallel, despite the extravaganza and Galphiasm Of
late administration and the forebodngs or the pres
eRt
The slavery question at the North is either a mat
ter of fanatica excitement demagogueical agita-
tim. The interest OF The people there in the matter
is purely speculative, while at the South the reverse
is the Here at the South the institution is in
terwoven with the property, prosperity, and social
habits of the people. 1t is, therefore, perfectly natu
raj that the Southern people should be much more
excited upon the subject and that Ii should occupy a
more prominent place in the public mind. The diff
ferpnces between the Democratic and Wing parties
at the South, do not rise in any great degree from
the relative value which they place upon the instu
ton of slavery II is probable that the actual inter-
of party in this species of property is about
great the other. The different degrees of pow
er which they ale willing to concede to the General
Government or to claim portions of the reserved
rights OF the States has throughout formed the real
point of divergence. However warped by sectional
feelings excitements, the Democratic party has
uniformly regarded the doctrine Of rigid construc
lion of the constitution fundamental pillar Of the
Democratic creed, and accordingly, during the last
Congress, We found Gen. CAss, Northern Demo-
Graf, with interest in slavery, chaIacterisng the
Wlmot provIso as unconstitutional at the same time
that Mr.. Badger, Southern Wing Senator, merely
regarded il wrong and ust, but MT unc0stitU-
io,saL Such is the difference between the States
rights principles of Democracy and the consolidation
isl doctrines of Whiggery.
Let look at the present aspect of affairs at the
South. From the inherent. difference in their politi-
cal creeds already mentioned, the Wing and Demo
cratic parties are opposed to each other upon the
- Southern Rights question. The Wings, or most
Of Them to their consodationist principles, as
that, under all circumstances Stale is as much
bound to the confederacy, and as much an Inherent
part of it, county is OF State. Such is certain
ly the language of their organs. The Democrats in
sist that the States have certain reserved rights,
violation Of which throws them back upon their orig.
inal sovereignty, and they claim for each State In
the last resort, the right OF judging for herself wheh
er not she will Withdraw from the Union. From
this difference of opinion has arisen, i'll several States
organization of parties, under the name oil
Union" and Southern Rights ''-the greater pro-
portion of the former being composed of Wings; OF
the latter of Democrats; although there many
democrats mixed up with the Union organization
and many Wings with their opponents. These or.
CARNATIONS We look upon as transient in their char
acier, although it must be confessed that the Wings
have been cunning for the more straightforward
Democrats, by getting up split among the Demo.
Gratis in States where the Wings had sort OF
chance, having fattered FooTE and COBB into head
Ing their bastard organizations IN mississippi ana
Georgia respectively; and, moreover, by misrepre-
senting the advocates of the right of secession in
mediate dsunionists, they have succeeded in awak.
ing the fears and exciting the opposition of many
who opposed to any violent measures at thePres
time, although, perhaps, admitting the abstrac!
rigM of a State 10 secede.
1t is more than probable that some Northern Dem
ocrat, such as BUCHANAN, DALLAS, Woodbury.. CAss
or DICKINSON will be the Candidate OF the Democratic
party. The platform of the party regards the slave
y question: will no doubt be-on the par; ofhe North
| the recognition of the compromise as a final ad-
ustment. and, consequently. the cessation of all fur
Their agitation upon the subject. Upon the part o
the South, Insisance upon this in its fullest ex-
tent and to the letter. IF this be faithfully carried
out, We have doubt that the South will continue
to - acquiesce' " subm,'' or anything else, to the
compromise bills, but otherwise the doctrine of So
cession may perhaps become Something more thar
an abstract right. Wiknings0n Journal
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