Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-01

power, look occasion reIer 10 1SoeS
tgencer in the following terms. The force and brev-
ity with which the history of the I'tettigencer IS
summed up could not be exceled. 1t is, in word,
faithful picture of the career of q journal when,
from being an exponent of great party, has de-
generated into the mere mouth-piece of faction and
tanaticism:
"The gentleman from Georgia, [Mr. Stephens]
remember, commented upon the course OF the Ma
tional Intelligencer. Now, think that journal is
faithful exponent of the party [ aude to. Its re-
gard for the Missouri Compromise has been assumed
only for the present occasion. 1 remember very
we'll that during the struggle up 1850, that paper
never came out for this Missouri line, although the
South battling for it for years nor did 1t once
assert right to occupy the Territory in common
with the people of the North clear and indlsputable
as that right was. Its whole weight and influence
were covertly but adroitly thrown against us, and
on the anti-savery side. 1 never attributed this
to any love of liberty the part OF the con-
ductors of that paper. On the contrary, IN every
struggle between liberty and despotiSm, 1T takes the
side OF despotism in every contest between the Uni
ted States and any foreign country, it takes ground
against the United States. 1t would be marvellous
if our government were, i'll fact always wrong on
every issue with foreign nation presume there
FORE that it is because is the rees government
upon earth that this journal is always found taking
sides against it, and for enemies AS to our IN
tcrnal policy it is the faithful organ of that party
which has labored industriously, you and l well
know sir destroy all the limitations of the feder-
al constitution and substitute an absolute central
government in it's stead. These people have taken
their OPINIONS mainly from the TORY press anu Tic
tory party of England; and those opinions happen
to be antslavery as well anti-republican. They
seem to desire no higher honor than to have the
privilege Of adopting and defending everything
which comes from these sources. ANY gentleman
will take the trouble to examine some OF the British
anti-slavery journals, he will see the whole pro-
gramme otour abolition countrymen laid down there
They praise and defend the British policy in all
things. A few years ago, for example, Great Brit
ain voted 500 900 600 iberate her negroes in ia
maca and them into sayages; and since that
event, two millions her white people at home have
persisted mserably by famine. 1t is dcmonstrable
that if that sum had been applied properly at home,
every of these unfortunate lriSh-lnen, women,
and children-might have been saved. Even if she
would devote the millions which are now expended
annually for the benefit of the negroes in Africa she
would save the lives of her white people. Still,
her policy in all things is defended by her allies
here
Great Britain is very sagacious power, and not
less selfish than sagacious. She knows well that in
the future she has more to dread from the United
States than from any other nation. She knows that
our people contesting with her now whenever
the sea rolls, and wherever mind comes in contact
with mind But she is too cautious and faI-Sighted
to assail us point where united. Hence
she attacks upon matters connected with slavery,
and stralghtway you the abolition party, headed
by such leaders as the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.
Gddings1 at once arising in her behalf and making
a terrific clamor throughout the land, and distract
ing the public mind and diverting it from the real
issue. And you see that larger antslavery party,
of which the Intelligencer is organ, at once like
wise taking sides with her upon all such questions.
The power of the northern enemies of the Union,
and their political and pecunary resources, may be
now fully realized when see how they have been
able to direct the course Of such paper as the Ma
tionaL InteUigencer.
On Tuesday last two months and half after Mr.
Clingman gave his opinions, in this pain-spoken
manner OF the of the Iteigencer, the latter
Undertook sort of reply. As might have been ex-
pectcd, this long lapse OF time did moderate the
Indignation which Mr.. Clingmans criticism had ex-
cited and there great deal of courseness in the
answer of that paper which is itself anxious to
condemn scurrility i'll others.
An amusing feature in this reply is the attempt at
special Indignation against Mr.. Clingmans repudia
ton of the IntelLigencer, when nearly the entire
whig party South had done the same thing. We
have seen every whig senator from the southern
States repudating it, backed also, by Mr.. Stephens
of the House, and number of the leading whig pa
perS in the southern Cities all uniting in denouncng
the course of the National Intettigencer, and in
all of which the InteUigencer could frame reply
NOT one word but seemed to content itself with
growing for the North, and for the abolition
lists of the North just as the South grew colder to
itself The Itetigencer cannot justify itself by at
lacking MIR. Clingmans speech, after IL is nearly
three months DID, for to give effect to its disclaimer
it should have answered the more grave and abSo-
lutte reputation of its policy by the caucus whg
senator's. Nor can it break the force of Mr.. Cling
mans rebuke by saying that he has left the wing
party, because there is not southern whig who
cannot see, does not admit that the wing party
has been swallowed up by the northern aboltionists,
and that no southern man can remain in it, without
first parting with all respect for himself and all
gard for the interests of his own people!
Mr. Clingman refers with great effect to the anti
American of the InteLtigencer, when that
journal tries to escape his argument by endorsing
the alusion of the Hon. John l.. Taylor, of Ohio,
to the fact that it true to the country in 1914
In that day, the HtetLgencer the organ of a
war administration, and in part, owed its subsst-
70 hofc do nntD md 70 otfri h1ta
it's course then to the fact that it enjoyed official
large recipient of congressional patronage but it
PEELED to go back forty gears to justify its persever
ing and present hostility to the best interests of the
country. The most odious traitor of the revolution
nigh now be justified to posterity on this same
ground. Original fidelity never render subse
quent treachery subject for forgiveness ap-
pause.
1t is fact somewhat memorable in the history of
American politics. that the modern WING party have
repeatedly been compelled to employ other papers at
Washington whenever they got into close contest,
simply because the abolition procivities and identity
Of the Intellgencer with the foreign enemy made it
too heavy burden for any party to carry Thus, in
$780, the wings established the I" Madsonan )" in
1884, The True Whig;" and in 184S, the &C Bate
terry" and subsequently "The Republic" Since then
the northern wings have gone over, body and soul
to the abotoniss, and the InteLLgencer has formal
ly made its peace with them, and is in kindred and
cordial association with the very who, in imita
ton of the British in 1914, propose to burn the
Capitol, and to bury its inmates under its ruins!
We ought to add, do add most sincerely,
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