North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-02
THE UN1oN-wHAT WILL SAVE IT,

That the efforts of the men engaged in build
ing up Union party" throughout the county, are
predicaed upon the single idea of obtaining the spos
Of power, no candid mind will for moment question.
Who in Georgia the leaders Of this new move
ment? Stephens and Toombs: men who have ar.
rayed themselves against the home of their brit:
men, whose lofest aspirations bounded by an
ambition to become the eulogists of Southern sub
mission to Northern arrogance and federal despotism.
Who are the boosted leaders of this movement the
North! Seward, Van Buren, and Sumner-names
that stink in the nostrls of every Southern and
friend of the Union. Hand in hand, shoulder TO
shoulder, we find Stephens. Toombs, Cobb & Co.,
with Sumner, Seward and Van Buren-each profess
sing an unbounded devotion to the Union, and all
eager to consummate the idea of great Constitu-
tional Union Party.'' And who are these men that
would assume the peculiar guardianship of the Union
they are men whose vauliing ambition has brought
upon the country the very evils that threaten ami
hilate 1t foreyer the very who have nursed the
spirit of faction and fanatcism that Gsturbs
tranquility and peace-the men who have piled the
torch of the ncendiary to the temple of liberties
only to be first to sound the alarm. Will the old
Democrats of Georgia, men whose heads have sill
vered beneath the bengnant rays of the sun of de-
mocracy forget the past, disregard the present, and
give up the future desnies of the country into the
hands of aspiring and unprncipled party hacks We
believe not; we trust not.
1t has been by the steady progress of democratic
principles that the Union has survived the shock that
federalism has given it in times past. And if this
Union is to be saved, democracy will save it, and
nothing ese The question of the perpetuity of the
institution of slavery, is corrolary to the main prop
ostion, to wit: Shall the Democratic party stand
This regard as the first and paramount question
for the American people to decide. Let democratic
principles sway the administration of the Government
and we have fears of the Union. Let the repub-
can creed of Jefferson rule in the councils of the
Nation, and in vain will the North plan treason, and
plot the overthrow of the Constitution-that creed
will the rights and ilnmunities of ALL in the
proportion guaranteed by the Consituton-hat creed
will preserve State the great stone
that supports the Federal Union. Once let the obi
ous and, as supposed, exploded doctrine of
solicitation triumph, and the end Of the Union is not
far off. Once admit that the Federal Government is
the parent of the States, and the opring and the
desnies CT the Republic sealed forever.
We are glad to find among old Democratic
brethren, steadfast adherence 10 the time-honored
creed of State Rights-they into what dangers
the leaders of the socalled Union Party seducng
their followers, and they wisely ePudate the scheme
They say, the Democratic faith is good enough for
me, when find better III adopt it, but until this
is done, tell me of no new party, want no other,
I'll have other This is the spirit, the true spirit
for the times. But says one, MIR. Cobb is demo-
crat, and he is of the leaders of this movement
Il care not is the reply; Mr. Cobb may
born virtue in Mr.. Toombs and Mr.. Stephens-he
may have attended personally at the repentance and
washing of these political lepers, but years Of PEN
and oceans of water would ill suffice, in the eyes
of the people, purify these old and hardened sim
ners. Disunion - is potent instrument in the
hands of any man, to hoodwink the innocent and
frighten the timid-but conde in the intelligence
of the people, and their known allegiance to the prn-
cPles of democracy. to dives this bugbear OF its hid
appearance, and disarm its apostles of their pow
er to do evil.
We repeat, that the administration of the Govern
ment, upon the basis of the Republican creed, is the
only visible means of preserving the Union, and per-
petuating Democratic Institutions.
MiLLedgeriNe (Ga.) Union.