Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-04-01
THE REG IsTER AND THE STAR.

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RddeI. W aacken. Tbos A Tobin and D A. Pcarce
THE REGISTER AND THE STAR
The hypocrisy of these two federal Wing journals
= most apparent in their in relation to the
Nebraska BILL Judge Douglas, and the administra-
tion Forced by the current of public opinion to go
far the BILL they nevertheless do so in manner
which is calculated to neutralize all the benefit which
an honest support of it might produce. The Regis
fer for instance, hardly knew what to do at first;
next it concluded as the question of the equal rights
If the slaveholding States with the non-slaveholding
had been raised it was well enough to settle it. then
# rather took ground for the BILL and published Mr.
Badgers and Mr. Kerr's speeches, though without
approving them; then it complimented Truman
Smith one of the vilest abotionists in the Senate
and the bitter opponent of the bill -whe from the
moment the bill was introduced by Judge Douglas,
that paper has been maligning him and impeaching
his motives and its Washington Correspondent has
been undertaking and Understanding the benefits
which must result from the measure The Star, it is
true, appeared to be more inclined at first than the
Register to favor the bills but its support of it is
evidently compulsory It goes against the grain.
The following extract from the New York Cores
pondence of that paper will afford specimen of the
cowa.dly manner, in which the measure is assailed
"The preliminary defeat of the Nebraska bill has
caused great chuckling among the abolition fac
tion-as great the modification among its profess
sed friends But nothing has knocked things so far
back as the defeat of the unterriied in New Hamp-
shire! Poor Piercel he may soon begin to pray to
be " delivered from his friends u / am more con-
irmed now than ever that he is and was and ever
will be wholly unfit for the station he now occupies
Such is the course pursued by two Southern Wing
journals towards measure which was offered with
no other view than to secure justice in the common
territories to the slaveholding States and towards
an administration eminenty sound on the slavery
question, and which has staked itself before the
country and the world for the Constitutional rights
of the South. These Journals prefer party to the
vital interests of North Carolna and hence their
luetance to admit the disruption and overthrow of
the Wing as a national party. They prefer party to
their State, because party with them implies Office
patronage and spoils the vision of future National
Conventions still dances before them, and though
Seward should be the nominee they would support
him, and endeavor to convince the people that the
Wing party was still national and to be relied in
struggles over the institution of slavery, seri
ously menaeed, and more seriously imperilled than
ever heretofore, mainly on account of Southern
Wing detection and treachery and the unanimous
voice against us of the Wh faction of the non-slave
holding States.
The Nebraska bill received in the Senate FOURTEEN
votes of the Democratic party from the free States,
and no Wing rote from that quarter; and in the
House. on the motion to refer it, which regard
ded as test vote, TwENTY-sEvEN Democrats from
the free States and Whig voted in the negative.
Here are FoRTY-oNE Democrats from the non-slave-
holding States standing up, in the face of the most
violent opposition for the Constitutional rights of the
South; Vhig be found acho goes acih them
and yet these papers, with full knowledge of these
facts-which they are careful, however, not to lay
before their readers-stiinsst that the Wing party
is national party and that neither the administra-
tion nor Senator Douglas, the Democrats of the
free States can be depended on as the friends of Sou
thern rights!
We have referred to this conduct on the part of
these journals, for two reasons First, owarn the
people against their misstatenents, their conceal
ments, their hypocrisy, and the AFFECT spirit they
evince under the encroachments and the insults of
the enemies of domestic slavery, and secondly, be-
cause they are understood to speak for Gen. Dock
cry the federal candidate for Governor, who has
Gently been in this City and in CONFERENCE.-THE these
Editors.
We repeat it. the great issues now before the peo-
pie of North Carolina are, E2uaz rights IN the Ter
ritOries and equal rights at the polls Suffrage
and Nebraska Those who are not heartily for these
measures are against them. Let the people look in
to the facts, and judge for themselves.