Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-08-27

OF these gentlemen, Messrs. Harris, Hubbard, and
Cobb, were members OF the last Congress. ihe
According to former political distinctions the men,
bers elect are all Democrats, except Messrs. Aber-
crombe and White. The representatives from Ala
bama will hereafter stand as it did in the last Con-
gress, S to 2.
As the leading political issue of the present day, it
may be set down that Messrs. Bragg, Harris, and
Hubbard, (3) are Southern Rights men. while
Messrs. Abercrombie, Smith, Cobb. and White (4)
are ss Union - men. But this division demands
explanation. None of the members elect are disun-
ionists or advocates of Secession. The Southern
Rights men only contend for the abstract right of
Secession, supra constitutional remedy, but do
urge its exercise for existing In this they
are not materially different from the Union Rep
resentatives who all claim to stand the Georgia
Platform, and Pledged, in of any further ag-
gressions, resist even to disruption Of every tie
which binds the State the Unon.'' They thereft
practically differ from their Southern Rights COL
leagues, only as tweedledum did from tweedledee.
But this further explanation is also necessary to
understand properly the political character of the
members elect. In the first and third districts, the
election turned mainly upon the question of the ap
provai of the Compromise Measures. None OF the
Bragg and Harris were chosen because they were op-
ponents of the Compromise, while Messrs. Langdon
and Mudd, their antagonists, were its advocates and
just6ers.
In the Second District the Southern Rights candi-
date, Mr. Cochran was understood to hold ultra Sc
cession views, and defeated for this reason Had
more moderate and conservative Southern Rights
man been run, it is probable he would have been
elected. The same may be said as to the Seventh
District. Mr. Rice was an advocate OF the doctrines
Of the Montgomery Platform-indeed one of its chief
framers-and so extreme in his sentiments, as to
frghten off hundreds of the warmes friends of South
ern Rights in the strong Democratic District in which
he rum and thus the election of Mr. White,
the Federal w hig- Union Compromise candidate.
In the other Districts, the issues to Southern
Rights have not been made distinctly as in South
Alabama The people have generally adhered to their
old party divisions. This has caused the election of
Judge Smith, who, coming out an Independent
candidate has probably though the result is not GER
tainly known) received in addition to the entire Whg
vote. sufficient number of Democrats, 10 defeat COL
Erwin who ran as the State Rights Democratic :"
nominee.
In the SIXTH or Huntsville District, no issue was
made as to the Compromise Measures, the question
of State action. Both the candidates Uuion
men, both Democrats, and both in favor of abiding
by the Compromise.
Mr. Hubbard, from the sixth District, is we have
stated, warm Southern Rights man-but not a Dis
unionist.
In conclusion we may remark that the words Un-
ion men - and !" Union party have very different
spnifcaton in the interior from what they have here
in Mobile. With Us they indicate the friends and
iustiers of the ' Compromise Measures" The
Southern Rights Party embraces all the opponents OF
those Measures. Had this classification been observ
ed in the other Districts, and the issue turned solely
UPON that point, we have doubt every District in
the State would have shown itself as strongly in favor
of Southern Rights as the First