Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-11-10
THE TRIUMPH AND IT'S TEAoH1NGs.

| THE TRIUMPH AND ITS TEACHINGS.
1t is now clear that the national democratic party
has swept the country, and the whole country, and
that stands in attitude of sovereign power alto
gether unexampled in the history of any party, or
gained party, in the United States for it is so
far as this aspect of the matter is concerned, quite
immateria whether the wings have saved for General
Scott the electoral Uotes of Massachusetts, Tennessee
and Kentucky, whether Vermont alone forms the
" column which General Scott - Leads,'' mas
much as each of the abovenamed States, if carried
by the wings, has been carried only by the almost
total destruction of their usual whg mdiorties. Ger
tainly in State but Tennessee and as we feel
fully assured, not even there, has General Scott
majority of the popular vote. In the great Of
the country, on the other in the four States of
New FORK, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana-with
sole reference to which General Scott put in
nomination. the people have risen up in against
him, and given the entirely unexampleG majority for
the democratic candidates of hundred tho,rsond
UOtes, and perhaps more! This popular verdict is
final and conclusive; there is appeal from it and
the only question now is, What does 1t mean, and
aUhat does ii teach
First and foremost, then, think it means that
the main public sentiment in this country, which calls
itself conservatism, has repudated and abjured forev
er, both the sectional policy. of which Mr.. Seward
IS the special representative, and also that mill
tary eclat which supposed constitute the whole
of Gen. SCOTS personal availability.
1t is avouched as fact, that Mr.. Webster sent,
his dying nlessage' of his chieest friends,
the expression of his conviction that " after the
ond day of November, 1852, the wing party, a
national party, will exist only in hstory!'' The
people have now signally verified those mighty words.
The wing party lies to-day in broken fragments all
over the land-a wreck with great tempest has
scattered; and the question rises in every rejecting
mind, What shall be the next form nd name in which
the selt-styed conservatism of the country-that
servatism which has always feared and opposedEthe
democratic pary-shall organize? Towards
the solution of this question little be
seen than that any such organization, unlike the wing
party of old, must abjure sectional fanatcism and
prejudice as one of its means Of power, and must
include In its creed distinct recognition of the
tity of the common brotherhood - and the oblga-
ton of the common bond - among the States of the
Union. In other words, party can live a
tiona party, nor escape annihilatng defeat
tional party, which does make fundamental in its
organization the policy of peace and justice between
The North and South This is great step forward
in our national politics. 1t is truth worth almost
the whole tremendous and most perilous sectional
| struggle which its establishment has cost.
In this point of view, recognise, of especial
| importance, the immense popular reclamation with
J which Sewardism has now been rebuked and repud-
ated in its home-the Empire State Had this been
otherwise, the glory of this great victory had been
incomplete. 1t is true, that in her great election of
last year, the noble old keystone State placed herself
in front of the battle for the peace of the Union, and
glorioUsly fought it through; and the mighty maj
itJ by which she has now sustained and fortified the
national position she then assumed and sig
naizes the Profoundness and the power of her patr
otto devotion to the Union, and 10 that ime-honored
democratic policy in which alone the peace of the
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commanding voice of New York was needed. in its
whole power and significance, to give assurance to
| the country that sectional aggression, predom-
nant element in our national politics, is longer 10
| be endured. All honor to the united democracy of
| New York, which, through the policy and in the
power of its union, has given that full and final
assurance. 1t has struck down forever, in his own
onghold, that bold, crafty and INSCRIPTIONS party
leader, who, through his sway the whig organ
zaon in his State, has been enabled for the first
time in history, to organize and control the whig
party of the country to all the fatal purposes of
| tiona agitation
1t is most gratifying and cheering note the fact
that the democratic party of the North has risen with
resstless power, and, by its vote, done enough
TO place in the presidential chair the candidate desig
mated first by the South herself the representative
of justice and peace, and loyalty the whole of the
constitution, in the relations existing between the two
sections of the country. This isa deed fully worthy
the best and grandest days of our republic. The
South will doubtless accept it and respond 10 it
new guarantee of the benefcent and patriotic power
of that democratic principle and policy in which not
only The peace of the Union but its prosperity and
| its good government, involved.
Washington Union.