North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19

mas .He Used! Painful is the inquiry, we kno"
n, better time make it than when assembling te
commemorate the birth day OF Inc ol,t "ue 'ePu0
I;c remaining on the globe
HI :, he 61nd that the existing excitement, which
hoo dome so much to arouse the fears OF the tlmid
md startIe even the boldest and most determined
I hem caused By mSstatenenfs aryuLy got nD TO de-
" : tbe neopLe from motives of personal ambition,
&c, he authors of it meet with the highest punish
n,-the scorn and contempt of an insulted peo-
ple!"
The above was no doubt intended as sort of in
,,oducon 10 the party portion of Mr. Miller's Ora
zion to be delivered that day. The Register was
n,pparing the mind of the community for what the
Editor knew would be uttered by the Orator, on 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 ex-
o,emeut is attributed to the friends of Southern
.;ob,s and an attempt is made TO mark them as the
enemies of the Union and of public order. In addl-
ton IN this our assaiants in the free States are told
- so MANY WORDS that the existing excitement "has
hoon caused by msstatemens artfully got up to de-
ove the people''; and in this way these vile fanat-
no arc encour aged in their work of insult and ag
ossiop We take this as the meaning and tenden-
~ If the above expression because the Register is
the habit of denouncing what it calls Southern ia
r,icsm. and because furthermore, the article from
which these extracts made, contains hard toords
far The Freesoihrs and .45Ohtfonists-the very
pbo caused the present excitement, and who rush
ina this Republic to the gulf of ruin. Then came
be Grafton. Portions of it, as have heretofore
stated were in good taste and embodied sound senti-
monts: but much of it was devoted TO an argument
aGans State sovereignty and to denuncations of ia
natics, disunonists and demagogues, "North and
Southern men Did the orator give the history of
their wrongsl Did he show rOho and uhat had Pla-
ced the Union in peril No such thing. He nclu-
ded tie uuronged in the sweeping condemnation
with the crongdoers; and that too after he had dem
onsated, as he thought, that the Southern States
could find no safety out of the Union under any cir
cumstances, no matter what they might be required
10 endure at the hands of their assailants. We ap
peal TO the printed Speech for proof of what say.
And now what was this but party Grafton, so far
as these sentiments are concerned Did the Ora
tor kno,c that large portion of his audience differed
with him on these points =!
We have no idea of reviewing Mr. Miller's Grafton,
or of exposing the fallacies of any Of its positions.
Ii has been printed it is true, but ii will die with the
occasion. Like many of the Registers anti-South-
en Editorials, it will provoke momentary Indignation
and then be forgotten. That portion of it intended
to benefit the Consolidation Wing party, will do no
injury 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 Mr.. Miller charged the
State Rights men with being Disunionists and fac
;ionists. This denial is worth something, at any
rae for it shows for the first time that quarter,
some respect for State Rights; but refer to the
Speech and to the inference be clearly drawn from
H. TO sustain in remarks IN relation it. But
if the Register denies and apologies for Mr.. Miller
what will that paper say for itself! Can the Editor
IF The Register deny that he has charged The Democrats
THIS STATE, in so many tc0rd, ociM being enemies to
the Union That paper, in recent article against
Stale sovereignty, declared that the /" Democratic
leaders in North Carolina are determined The destruc
lion Of The Union' and charged that those who voted
for the right of Secession at the late session of the
hailed and desired to destrDy the Fed
eral Government! Dare that paper deny this state
ment! And yet such Editor is the apologist for
his Oration which, it is denied by him, not in
tended to reflect on the State Rights disunion-
ISIS Mr. Miller, to say the least, is found in bad
company, and has for his defender a who has
made the very charge against his political opponents
which is clearly deducible from the Grafton, but
which, as to the Grafton, is bitterly dcn:ed-he Re-
gis'er, we presume, being willing TO take all the
Oiame OF SO Infamous charge its own shoulders,
provided it can free Mr.. Miller from any blame in the
premises. But put them both in the same category
we can perceive material difference between the
'~o One turns himself loose, in the Register, and
uses rongh and bold language in imputing bad de-
signs to his political opponents the other imputes
he same designs in Oration but it is done Ly in
Ference and In as smooth a as possible. The
der Is exposed, and forthwith the former rushes to
MS Defence We leave the reader to draw his own
Inc last Fourth of Jelly, it seems, was desecrated
ny The uI'erance Of parzan sentiments in other places
OsSldes Raleigh The MiIledgvilIe (Ga.) Union no.
uces IN indignant TERMS similar course pursued in
mat place. That paper says:
Had the orator ' closed when he was done,'' his
u'dnon would have been pronounced appropriate to
w occasion, an eloquent and interesting offering up
vi MS .countrys altar. But after he had reached
S %ndt we regarded his peroraon, there was an ad-
ue"dG affixed, inappropriate as it was violatve
OF Tie true intent Of the historical records to which
1t brought wildly 10 our recollection the
senient given by the eccentric Randolph, al Pc
,Ou IKE the present, when consolidation was oblera-
oil 'ne landmarks of the republican creed. That
W.I was this: The Rights of the States
t de mortuis nisi bonu'' (say nothing of the dead
Luz Mhat Is good) Indeed our friend COL McKiu-
~ ~ "is apostrophes to the Union and his indirect
sU OF all who would not, under all circumstances,
the liz; 70 IL, seemed to think that it was for
~ o' and not for liberty, that our fathers fought
wv @ III lis maintenance in the spirit in which it
th :c iieo' the States had no more interest in il
ST. ,tney did not exist. OF the rights of the
IN thn ne spoke no evil, for he did once alIude
~ nem A foreigner, ignorant of the coustruction
have