Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-11-30
VOICE OF THE DEMO oGRACY
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8 80 3 STAND Sou ARE. No matter what man under%|
we like to see him stand square up to the point
and meet the issues boldly plumpiy and independents
y. tenlporzing policy can never obtain any hing
more than temporary triumph. A yascillating and
me-serying course may win a momentary adyan.
tage but there will come reaction, and that Teac
don will be withering its effects The only per-
manent success that can be achieved onsprinciple
by standing square.
We hate "policy" men--men who will stile their
honest convictions for momentlry applause-men
who will bend to every prejudice---ncn who are
afraid to speak out their sentiments lest they should
run counter to someSpopular current-nen who will
shuttle from one 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
rlety by opposing some measure of party and un-
der the livery of independence becomes slave to
his own hate, his envy, his vanity or other
grading passion We have no political love for the
Democrat who prctends to stand upon the platform
OF his party and keeps calling to the Wings to let
him put one foot on their "distT6stion" plank He
5 sans sssns soa if .ns hs nRpe ee
him into the place of departed politicians,
'Unwept, unhonored, aud<dnsung.' y
There arc now some professed Democrats in North
Carolina who do not stand square. The head and
front of this faction is Abram w. Venable, man
that the Democratic party once admired and delight
the 'strange gods of Whggery, forsaking his good
old Democratic "penates, under whose tutelage he
arrived at distinguished honors. We regret that
this inatuation has come over him. and that he has
departed from the faith he embraced with so
much ardor, and which he adorned with much
Swell, we guess we 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
y and the principles of that party are stronger than
he. Those principles Just, true and eternal and
his combat against them will be one attacking
an army. He may attach few followers to him,
but it will only be to pull them down with him. In
the throes ofdesperaton he may establish organ"
and bring to his aid that mighty engine, the press
to bolster him up and stay his tottering steps; but it
will all be unavang, and when chrushcd and pow.
erles 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. c. Statesman, to be published at Raleigh the
distribution organ of this faction of the Democrat
c party and we have marked the spirit with which
it has been received by the presses of the State The
Whig papers are evidently delighted with the pros
poets afforded, and they speak iA commendatory
terms of the aims and objects 1pthf Statesman Is
long since the Whg papcrs-ef>North Carolina took
it into their minds to greet with endearng words the
anticipated advent of a new Democratic paper?
| What "change has come the spirit of their
dreams" that they thus delighted at the pros
pect of enemy? Is it not evident that they be-
hold in it Of the aspect the friend than Of the
.Joes
| On the other hand the Democratic papers speak
out against the new professed 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 Demo.
cratic paper proposed in North Carolina that the
tire Democratic press Gid not greet it wt words OF
| encouragcment-did not extend to it helping hand
and bid it, GOD speed Strange anomaly! a 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 njurng
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 tie Democratic party in North
Carolina seemed to be hopeless minority. Every
State election but added to the number of Whig vic
tories. From 1885, 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 IA and,ip,4s. The gubernatorial election
in 1850 at length tSekc the spell and the Wing rule
and within three ys.s have achieved three splen-
did victories-two for Governor and one for Presi-
dent And shall we now, by disscnsions in our
ranks, lose the advantages we have obtaincd-losc
the prestige of success that now animates us? We
and of the whole State to say if these things shall be
so When your principles are in the ascendency-
when your State under the benign influence of those
principles is in fourishing condition and making
rapid strides in the race of improvemcnt-when the
future holds out to you every prospect of success
will you can you permit few disorganiaipg spirits
to seduce you from the true faith to embrace Whig
idol, thus nsuring your defeat and the triumph
of your enemies? Will you sacrifice your princi
pies to crafty the ambition of man? Do you pre-
fer man to your principles? We have confidence
in you that you will rally under the old banner that
has SO recently thrice waved in triumph over your
hcads-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 are to reap the benefits. It is to be only a
fire.brand in the Democratic ranks. Let us 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 now in condition from
which they know that they cannot rise by their own
strength Their only hope of success consists in the
division of our forces Let us stand square and dis
appoint them"
Extract from letter to the Editor, dated
= AsHE County, Nov 10.
eve send you 81, our subscriptions to the STAN
dard for the epsuing year. We have observed with
some anxiety the course you feel bound to pursue
towards Mr. Venable and the new paper But your
eLo,,3c borc oro ,p;tad ANIMATION of the fac