Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-10-02

fair mind the facts on which they rely for proof OIL
Gen. Pieree's want of horsemanship prove him to
| be at least bold and dauntless horseman. 10
make merry over the accidentafall of his horse by
which this daring volunteer suffered so seriously,
marks an unfeeling heart and one which " loves It's
own bride and purposes more than the honor OF
its country or the fame of her sons
ABoLITIoSIsT.
| They say Gen. Pierce is an abolitionist. There
never would have been abolition political party
in this country but for the consolidation and free
construction notions of the Federal party. These
have given rise to the argument that we are one
entire nation each portion of which is responsible
for the acts of all the rest and therefore bound to
oppose in every way whatever their consclences
disapprove and even where constitutional re-
straints upon their doings too plain to be mis-
understood to override them by the higher law ana
by the general welfare, that standing argument for
a latitudinarian construction of the constitution.
The no-princpe- principle of availability of the same
party has enabled all the molly crew of tactionlsts
to gather under its banner in its crusades against
the only party which stands by the constitution IN
its simple purity. 1t is not abolltlonlsm to be
theoretically opposed to slavery for if that were so,
every thinking man we'll knows that all who live
beyond the limits of slave-holding States are aboli-
tionists But all who are disposed to understand
this question, know very well that the abohtlonist
is he Who regardless of the guarantees of our con-
/
ing States or of the will of that overruling Prori-
dence who has interviewer slavery with the whole
texture of our Southern life would actively inter
ere in the domestic relations of the Southern peo-
pie. BY the first test, have already said, 1t
is probable Gen. Percc, in common with every
other man North of Mason and DiNons line, is an
abolitionist. And if by this test, we are to ex-
cude al such men from our vote for the Presi-
dencv, is it not apparent that We place ourselves
{ :, ,noblo fya
never to vote for Northern men, it must then fol
low, as the night the day, that Northern men will
determine never to vote for Southern ones but
the political strength is in the slaveholdlng
States, and from henceforth man must be elected
from those States, in whose election will not
even have voice. The consequence is that we,
bv our own folly will deny ourselves even the poor
privilege of choosing the least among evils. And
when two Northern candidates for the
Presidency, the one perhaps but for the mere fact
Of his being Northern man every way worthy OF
our confidence, the other altogether unworthy, we
either refuse to vote at all or throw votes away
upon some Southern man, whom 1t Is impossible
to elect. In addition to this, is it not apparent
that we theTeby politically disfranchise ourselves
Is it to be expected that inefficient minority,
made SO perpctually BY a law of its own adoption,
will receive any consideration in public affairs or
share at all i'll the distribution of offices Will not
has the power of bestowing in the Southern States
be given to the men of mark from other States
who have made themselves known and felt, the
political working men, and not to the Southern
drones, who have pulled out their own stings and
disqualified themselves for usefulness How long,
under this system, would the Southern States re-
main in the L non And is it consistent with the
loud professions Of love for the Union which these
very make, as the very perfection of political
! hOl tO throw al as
pedient into the political strife which must ma
| turally lead to dissolution and that through the
political degradation of the South Can folly and
wickedness be greater? Gen. Pierce is guilty of
the sin of being a Northern man, and if for this
you discard him, you see to what it must lead.
But an abolitionst he is not. On the contrary,
he has been the champion of the constitutional
rights of the South, even in the very strongholds
of abolitonism. Read his letter to LalIy, South
ern ghts man, longer ago than the 2lst day OF
May last. Listen to his thrilling speech at Man
chester on the goth November. Mark his bold
stand against Mr.. Atwo0l. He had been nomi-
mated to the Office of Governor of the State of New
Hampshire, but on account of his hostility to the
fugitive slave law, Gen. Pierce active and sue
cessful in having his name withdrawn and man
with sounder views substituted. No authentic re-
cord be found against Gen. Pierce's loyalty to
the Constitution. On the contrary, he has ever
been of its most able fearless and disinterested
champions. Upon the election of General Pierce
depends the position of the Southern States in this
great confcderacy. If he is elected. they will be
fully restored to the honorable rank they have
heretofore occupied-to that consideration and in
fuence which loftiness of principle and signal vir-
tue ever command. The great Democratic family
is rallying upon its old principles, and our
brethren at the North are extending to the fra
ternal embrace, and pledging themselves to guar
rantee to us our threatened birth-right. Now is
our time to accept the offer. The nation has
passed through an alarming crisis, and every thing
is propitious to her restoration to constitutional
and fair basis But if, through our instrumentaity
Gen. Pierce is defeated, will sink into contempt
as the silly dupes of political intriguers-as too
weak to be feared and too much wanting in public
virtue to be respected. Why should men stand
forth any more, at every peril at home, to vindcate
the rights of those who not only refuse to aid them
in that vindcation, but with stupid and ungratefu
reconsideration assist i'll their political assassina
ton!
Think of these things, and let the month O
November, 1852, be month to be remembered
for the triumph of sound principles, for the election
of PIERCE and KING, and for the restoration O
the Southern States to their position in the Union
/ NORTH CAROLINA.
i POLITICAL VILLANY. One of the most disgrace
full features of the campaign is the abonina
BILE course of the Wing General Committee, in Wash.
lngton In sending cut mphlets &c., filled with the
most outrageous tdsehoods and misrepresen tons
we have before US a pamphlet OF fourteen closely