Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-03-22
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY, MARCH IL, ls'4'
THE NATIONAL PARTY.

There can be no doubt now, even In the mliids ol
tbe most ultra Wings, that the Democratic party Is
,be national party of the country. This fact is prov
ed BY its course for years past and especially shown
in the late vote in the Senate on the Nebraska BILL
Fourteen Northern Democrats voted to abrogate the
Missouri line, and consequently, to let in slavery to
Nebraska and Kansas provided the climate and soil
should be adapted to it and no Whig from the free
States so voted.
The Democratic party is, therefore, the national
and the Whig party is therefore, the sectional party
And now what do we deduce from this? We say,
FIRST the Whig party, being hopelessly sectionazed,
is broken in twain; secondly, it cannot unite in an
other general Convention to nominate candidate for
he Presidency; thirdly, these being the facts, the
Whig party is faction, is struggling merely for the
Offices in the different States, and entertain no
hope of being able to benefit the people by the &C
ton Of the general government. We say further,
thai the Democratic party cas is and shaU be; that
is party of progress of liked principles, of long
continued and of widely pervasive power; and that
the clements of its capacity for future usefulness and
benefcence as they gathered together in 1887,
and compacted so to speak, with the very life of the
common Constitution, can be subjected 20 no test
likely to diminish their force, or to cut asunder the
| Hgaments by which they bind man to man, locality
| to locality and State to State.
And now what is best in this crisis for the people
Of North Carolina? What have they gained, in the
past, by voting with this Whig faction! Have they
got any public lands or the proceeds of any? Have
they had their tariftaxcs reduced? Have they been
put in way to obtain greater or more essential ad-
vantages as Shareholders? Have they been aSlse-
cure under their State Constitution as they would
have been if this party or faction had had no exist
ence: On the contrary, have they not for fourteen
years. been tantazcd with the expectation, held out
to them by the leaders of this faction, that they
should have lands or proceeds? And did not these
very leaders, when they had opportunity, in 1s41,
toredeem their pledges first pass law 20 do So and
then repeal t?-and not only this, but did they not
at the time, increase the tarif-taxes for the
benefit Of the manufacturers of the free States
Certainly they did. And have not these leaders,
from the day Mr.. Jefferson and the Democratic par
acquired Louisiana to the present hour, opposed
all efforts, whether as the result of war or by nego
ua'lon to obtain more territory? And have they
not when it was obtained, and when, as they alleg
Gu great evil had been imposed on the country,
OnWlth gone to work, first to apply Missouri lines
anu "imot Provisos to these territories, so as to
eaeumScrlbe and starvc out slavery, and then to di
ue Out these very lands, or their proceeds, the ac
4u's'''0n OF which they so bitterly opposed and de-
pecated! Certainly they have And have they
nut mere at home, with zeal which could only have
''en aroused and infamed by love of power and
A@uea popular rights, resorted to every effort first
ueleat Free Suffrage, and then to unsette the ba-
's o representation so wisely adopted by the sages
VI 1000: Most assuredly they have; and yet these
M'a' .nus denationalized broken up, scattered and
ru'e0 m repudiated by the people by States indvdu-
"' s ana oy States collectively to the number of
."en'y seven out of thirty-one, now come forward
"asA that North Carolina shall abandon hef cher.
.sD.u pohcy and go with them! What can they Of
..l ner. Auaance soith party IN the free States
"'," IS utterlu a6olti0nized promises about the
@"as Or their proceeds schich they could not, iftheu
s'am, amt uhieh judging 6v the past, they seould
~ s"ey could redeen,-G Contention to effect {. a
'4age IN the Constitution bat deli6erate refusal
~ Wv me people mhat that change Is to be
s'. oan be possible that even the leaders of this
s'On can hope that the people of this State who
.on', 80 often evinced the best Judgment and the
ues' rS sense and who have 50 sgnalIy yindicated,
,,s ne'er the occasion required it. their capacity for
th.So hs.'ernment will heed such offers and go with
a,,a - f0r our part we indulge no apprehensions
Drss... .ne result North Carolina will occupy her
S,, rce"' position; she will remain, as aforetitne.
n,., ana active cooperator with the great national
=, ~ VI 'ae country and she will be careful, here
,o tnat no party or faction IS let 10 to the CON
h, W.. " ner affairs whose history has been marked
aaoers and abuses, and whose leading claim "a
''''' consists in It's unrelentins opposition q