Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-21
WORDS OF TRUTH.

We make the following extracts from the last
Wilmington Commercial
The wings have now the First Lesson on the
Scott nomination, which we feared would not read
so well as many expected and deslred and so we told
the public.
in November and the honest Wings of North Caro-
lima who have permitted themselves to be deceived
bv the uphoders of the Baltimore betrayal, will see
more clearly than they do, the political hum6ugs
f the leaders of the Scott foray against the rights
and interests and honor of the South. False issues
and unsound conclusions now have their influence
over the minds of those who really wish well to me
Dariv and the counry-but after the Scolt ucke' 10
defeated in North Carolina, they will more clearly
discern what cormorant set of spells hunters ana
poiticaI asprants have in, as well as out Oh Tie
State. .,..u,
tho nresent crisis Long before the Baltimore Con-
vention we expressed the opinion that 1t Scott were
nominated, the Wing party would be put into posi-
ton past praying for; And now we rsP9a; tt.G
onnion that any hope the cohesion of the dsonted
narts at the South in defeat there hope In &C.
feat none in victory under Scott for in the latter case
the divisions of the party will be irretrterdoy ana
hopessIy SECTIONAL while the great mass OF Inc De4-
cratic party will cohere as the National party. Is
any Wing angry at our saying this! Are we your
enemy because we tell you the truth
We hone, however, that one section OF this verify
will be tested; we think 1t Will not De-
Scott cannot be elected, from present appearances.
But if he is not, the mischief Is done BY ms noml-
nation and the unwise adherence to 1t by So1tnern
men, While we say there is no hope but In defeat
we do not think there is very lively hope In that.
Southern men are endeavoring to get up Juror and
excitement in this election, grounds " as fase as
stairs of sand They profess to be bound by the de-
cisons of political Convention, when they Know
in TRUTH there is obligation whatever the northern
wing having repudated the contract. They hurra for
Scott, when they feel in their heart OF hearts that
the influences which generated and brought torh MS
nomination, deadly hostile to the rights and the
.c.N,, &C tho SO,,fh he
Union. And they hold their course in the vain
hope that all will end in the triumph of Party not
perceivng that jealousy and embIttered hatred Will
grow of the successful clrcumventon that gives
a triumph to northern abolitonism and freesolsm.
The vile incendiaries who have poised their lances
under the honored of the Wing party, will not
keep them in unemployed rest, when they have so
high sanction for the assault; SO pure party to
press them
But if the wing party alone were in peril there
would be rot much cause for grief and anxiety.
Parties may scatter and again form; If under new
name, still the principles will be the same. But dis
comfted nationality is transcendanty perllous-the
lamp of freedom eXtinguished is not easily reklnded
a household held long together by COM
munity of interests and reciprocal regard, be re-
novated and recognised in it's pristine excellence.
The men of this Union, estranged by the adverse
elements now in the ascendant in the Wing party,
can never be reconced brethren, if these elements
permitted to do their fatal work. The Union may
be outwardly preserved under Central Power. strong
in physical might, in the still more odious appli-
ances of corruption and bribery and fraud. We may
present to the world the fruits of commercial enter
prise, social grandeur and military glory. But no
more the patriotic heart of this glorious Union-no
her pure and unauthorized mind. This, even
this, is the best phase of the changes with which
are threatened. Well will it be for if we do
pent folly in social waling and in household blood
We have been led to digress from the immediate
ZINE with which commenced this article, by al
lowing the expressions of thought and feelings
they have arisen. We know that we will be censur-
ed, perhaps abused and traduced, for the freedom
with which utter these truths. But we trust
they are not less honest in their entertainment than
true in their character. Satisfied that in the
right, cannot and will not refrain from the per-
formance of duty to readers, and in hum
Bile position, to our country. And if we
could not greet the understandings of those who
read remarks, would still cry out and warn,
did the prophet when he poured forth his wo! wo !!
upon the eaden ear Of JUDAH
The Commercial, as our readers are aware, is a
Wing paper, Its Editor warned the Wing leaders
of the danger they would incur provided they NOM
mated Scott over the heads of Fillmore and Web
ster and since the nomination he has Ioiste6 the
names Of Webster and Graham.
We commend the foregoing, from q veteran whig
Editor to the particular attention of Messrs Rogers
and Miller and also to that enthusiastic young gen
tleman, the Editor of the Raleigh Register.