Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-01-05

him at any timsWhen could secure his election
viii not serye TO excuse him for taking. ground
gainst the nominee Of his partgof that party
which has conferred upon: him All the honofs he
has enjoyed, and ito whose organization and nn-
yielding desption tosprinciple ID the County Of
Wake he was Indebted for lis seat il the late AS
sembly. That Gen. Saunders has served his party
long and faithfully NE cheerfully admit that he
has given to its principles clear and powerful expo
stions before the people, and that he has reflected
credit upon it in representative capacity in pub
lie assemblies, we shall be the last to deny but
these considerations instead Of aording him JUS
tfcations of his late course actually imposed upon
him, in our Judgment heavier obligations than rest
npon most men to. be true to its organization and
is. usages We entertain the opinion, and We have
no hesitation in expressing it that.if Gen. saun-
ders had come, the outset to the support Of MI.
Dobbin, the moral force Of his example and his
vote would have brought in Others to the support
Of that gentleman, and he would have been
elected. j 49, s
1t is idle, at this time Of day. for Gen. Saunders,
for Mr.. Shepard, or for any Of those Democrats
who sustained them in opposition to Mr.. Dobbin,
to offer excuses for the course they pursued. This
IS free country, it is true, and they had right
to pursue this course but then the exercise Of this
right carries with it the responsibility for conse-
quences, whatever they may be. No party can
exist without organization without subsection
of the aspirations and ambition Of the few to the
win Of the many, without concentration Of its
power to the advancement Of the principles itpro-
fcsses Parties are formed to promote and estab-
lisll principles, not to honor or reward men and
that party which loses sight Of principles in con-
test about men, oreits for the time its claims to
public respect and degenerates into faction held
together BY the hope Of Offices and aspoils.".
It gives us no pleasure to pen this article. The
readers Of this journal will bear witness that we
have stood forward, for many years, as the fast
friend and supporter Of both Gen. Saunders and
Mt. Shepard. We desire to say nothing to wound
their feelings and it s far, very far from our inten-
ton to do them injustice. We are properly mind
full, we trust, Of the long continued and important
services which Gen, Saunders has rendered to the
cikfSSidtC pssItys AiiS1 u Si0 |ecA anu aai'Cy 49,
played by Mr.. Shepard during his public career
but principle and organization before men, and
therefore protest against their course in the lat
Senatorial struggle We protest against it because
their friends had labored for the nominee, will
their appreciation as they did for them, that nomi
nee would have been elected-becanse the resnl
ha. dissatisfied and disprited the Democratic part
4 Throughout the State because the Democrat
people have been disappointed in their just expec
tations, and because party organization, 50 essen
tia to party success aud the advancement Of grea
principles, has been dsfegarded and set at naugh
]. If their course, and the conduct Of Messrs Low
. Gotten, Christmas, and Watson should be appro,
ed BY the party, there will be an end to organic
) Etion and concerted effort, and two years hent
1--we shall witness the election Of two Wing Sem
tors. 1t IS Of the FIRST Importance, therefore, tn
: the Democrats Of the State should take this ma
ter into their own hands, and see to it that me
/ are sent to tlrenext Assembly who will stand firm
!. Eby the action Of the party in caucus assemble
!; and give no hearing to the schemes or propositio
Of disorganizers. The Democratic party is no
in the ascendant in this State, and that ascenden
!. can be maintained in no other way than by ARG
adherence TO the action Of q majority, BY, dol
Justice 10 all sections and by devotion to prnciI
Il: without regard to men s - S
= &. sit IS proper to zsstate that the Ser