Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-11-09
VOICE CT THE DEMOCRACY.


Hillsborough, October 29th = 3.
q have just read with no little interest, assure
you the Editorial in your paper of to-day in regard
to Mr.. Venable and the press the prospectus of
which have just seen for the first time. Be assur
ed my sympathies are with you, andI know you are
right, and L cannot therefore willingly withhold the
expression of my feelings to you upon the subject.
am sincerely gratifed at the bold and noble stand
you have taken in the commencement of the war
fare, if such it is to be- asss,
The following extract is from a letter from cre of
the soundest and most influential Democrats in Hall
fax County, dated October s1st:
''No one has been panied more than have to
witness the disorganizng spirit manifested by some
who call themselves Democrats Long before you
came out against Mr. Venable / was opposed to his
election, because he was the advocate of dstribu-
ton, Whig measure and you deserve the thanks OF
every true Democrat for the you have pursu-
ed in the contest in your District In the contest
which is to come off next Summer, (Which will be
important one,) say let us stick to principle;
and if we fall by it we will nobly fall | class dis
tribution Democrats with the Wings. There is no
other place to put them; and the newspaper which
is to be established in Raleigh, class with the Wing
journals of the day. Sir, you are rght-"go ahead"
That sterling Democratic print, the Wilmington
Journal sounds its notes of warning to the Democra
cy as follows:
"BE PREPARED. 1t has never been our policy, as
organ of Democratic sentiment, sentinel on
the watchtower of public opinion to hold out false
lights conceal the real designs that might threaten
either the success unity of the party with whose
principles connect the true interests of the
try; and in pursuance of the same course now, we
deem it our duty to forewarn readers the friends
of the Democratic party and of the administration,
of the dangers which threaten its unity and its as
tendency alike in the State and the nation Against
open assaults from avowed opponents it is safe; its
ascendency is undoubted and unqueStioned and even
temporary defeat, in the election of Gen. Taylor,
has only deprived it Of executive patronage without
endangering its legislative ascendency the grand
distinctive measures of it's national policy. But
though impervous to attacks from without not even
the purcst cause or the strongest organization can
be freed from the necessity of vigilance against
the attempts of treason in their own camp The dis
appointed or reckless, the misguided or fanatical,
may be led to strive for private interest the
dress of personal neglect, by the advocacy of un-
sound principles, or dangerous courses, under the
sacred name of Democracy, and may thus secretly
undermine the solid edfce which would bid proud
defiance to open assault under the banner of direct
opposition.
Thus in New York-thus in North Carolina-thus
in the Third District, the standard of opposi-
ton has been borne forward by the hands of pro-
fessed friends as the August election showed-thus
in the Fourth Raleigh District the party strength
weakened and divided, and Whig forced into
COngress-thus arc we threatened with division in
the next August election for Governor and members
of the Legslature-thus we find an organization at
the Capital of the State, under the lead of one from
whom better things might have been expected-Mr
Venable-for the avowed object of carrying forward
isssuc-that of Distribution-ignored by every
Democratic constituency in the State is evidenced
by the fact that every Democrat returned to Congress
from North Carolina, was returned upon the old
Democratic platform ignored by the Baltimore plat
FORM which the party processes to stand, and diff
fering in nothing real and tangible from the policy of
Mr.. Clay, against which the Democracy so long
struggled and so struggling, triumphed We know
not what may be the exact course pursued by this
Ection-it must reveal itself, and it will do so.
1t is our duty to forewarn friends of the
real dangers to be apprehended, that no undue
feeling of security may lul the true friends of the
party into inaction any CLOSING pretensions lead
them to relax their vigilance The time is now ap-
preaching when some movements will be made for
a State Convention-when a candidate for Governor
will have to be nominated-and affirmation of
party principles presented to the world. Let know
where we stand-what have to do, and what to
prevent, that march may be stolen the party
by its domestic enemies those, at least whose
threatens all and more than all the evils to be
suspected from direct enmity."
TENNEssEE-Gov. JoHNsoN's INAUGURAL. The
Nashville TTnion oiyes the fnowinu svnonss of fhe