Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-26
VOICE OF THE DEMOCRACY.

VOICE OF The DEMOCRACY.
We invite attention to the following admirable ar.
ticle from the Salisbury Banner
'STAND SQUARE No matter what man under
takes we like to see him stand square up the point
and meet the issues boldly plumply and independent
ly A temporiZng policy can never obtain any thing
more than temporary triumph. A vascillating and
time-serying course may win a. momentary advan-
tage; but there will come reaction, and that re-ac
ton will be whitening in its effects The only per-
manent success that can be achieved principle
by standing square.
We hate policy men-men who will stihe their
honest convictions for momentary applause-men
who will bend to every preudice-men. who are
afraid to speak out their sentiments lest they should
run counter to some popular current-lnen who will
shuttle from platform to another, stand with
foot on each, or keep such skipping between the
two that you cannot tell which he is on and espe-
pecially and most cordially do we despise the man
who, unable to rise to fame in his party, seeks noto
rety by opposing measure of his party, and un-
der the livery of independence" becomes slave to
his own hate his envy, his vanity or other de-
grading passion. We have political love for the
Democrat who pretends to stand upon the platform
of his party and keeps calling to the Wings to let
him put one foot on their distribution plank He
don't stand square, and if he obtains triumph it
will be escent one and the reactionwi knock
him into the place of departed politicians,
"Unwept unhonored, and unsung."
There are some protested Democrats in North
Carolina who do not stand square. The head and
front of this faction is Abram w. Venabe,
that the Democratic party once admired and delight
ed to honor but who has latterly gone asray after
the strange gods of Whiggery, forsaking his good
old Democratic "penates, under whose tutelage he
arrived at distinguished hOnors. We regret that
this infatuation has over him, and that he has
departed from the faith he once embraced with so
much ardor, and which he adorned with so much
we'll, we guess will say, with so much talk
But he is doomed man. He has thrown himself
in opposition to his party, and must fall for his par
ty and the principles of that party stronger than
he Those true eternal
his combat against them will be attacking
an army. He may attach few followers to him,
but it will only be to pull them down with him. In
the throes ofdeSperaion he may establish an organ,
and bring to his aid that mighty engine, the press,
to bolster him up and stay his toterng steps but it
will all be unaValing, and when chrushed and pow
eress too weak to resist and too proud to repent his
deepest regret will be that he did not stand square
We have heretofore noticed the prospectus of the
n G. Statesman, to be published at Raleigh, the
distribution organ" of this faction of the Democrat
ic party land have marked the spirit with which
it has been received by the presses of the State The
Wing papers evidently delighted with the pros
poets afforded, and they speak in commendatory
terms of the aims and objects of the Statesman. Is
not this, of ITSELF enough to suspicion? How
long since the Wing papers of North Carolina took
it into their minds to greet with endearng words the
anticipated advent of Democratic paper?
What change has the spirit of their
Dreams" that they are thus delighted at the pros
pect of enemy? Is it not evident that they be-
hold in it ofthe aspect of the friend than of the
foe
On the other hand the Democratic papers speak
out against the protested ally. They turn the
cold shoulder to it, and while they speak well of the
gentlemen who to conduct it, they condemn it.
Is this usual thing? When before a Demo-
cratic paper proposed in North Carolina that the
tire Democratic press did not greet it with words of
encourag ement-did not extend to it helping hand
and bid it, GOD speed! Strange anomaly Demo-
cratic paper greeted by the Wing press and opposed
by the Democratic press!
We appeal to the gentlemen who have issued this
prospectus if they be the Democrats they profess to
be- and ask them if they do not feel ashamed of the
company in which they find themselves. Do they
not feel that they making upon and injurng
that party the good of which they profess to have
much at heart? Do they expect their paper to be
sustained by the Democratic party, when the tend
ency, not to say the object of that paper, will be to
distract and divide the party?
A few years ago the Democratic party in North
Carolina seemed to be hopeless minority Every
State election but added to the number of Wing vic
tories. From 1880, when the election OF Governor
was given to the people, to 1850 the Wings control
led the State elections. The Wing candidates for
the Presidency carried the State by thousands in
1910, in A and in 49, The gubernatoria election
in 1850 at length broke the spell and the Wing rule
and within three years we have achieved three spen
did victoreS-twO for Governor and one for PreSi-
dent. And shall we now by disscnsions in
ranks lose the advantages have obtained-lose
the prestige of success that now animates US? We
appeal to the true hearted Democracy of the State
and of the whole State say if these things shall be
so. When your principles in the ascendency-
when your State under the benign influence of those
principles, is in dourshing condition and making
rapid strides in the race of improvement-when the
future holds out to you every prospect of success
will you, you permit few disorganizng spirits
to seduce you from the true faith to embrace Wing
idol, thus insurng your own defeat and the triumph
of your enemies? VIII you sacrifice your princi-
pies to crafty the ambition of man? Do you pre-
fer man to your principLes9 We have confidence
in you that you will rally under the old banner that
has recently thrice waved in triumph your
heads-that you will stand square, and again rejoice
in victory.
Why is this redistribution" principle sought to be
interpolated into the Democratic creed? Is it to
strengthen or benefit that party? Not bit of it
Wings to reap the benefits. 1t is to be only
fre-brand in the Democratic ranks. Let stand
square, and quench it. If it calculated to bene
fit the Democratic party Wings would oppose its a
dopton by that party.
Our political enemies in condition from
which they know that they cannot rise by their
strength Their only hope of consists in the
division of our forces Let us stand square and dis
appoint them"
INDIAN SUMMER.
We do not know the author of the following plea