Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-15
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES &c.


not to be expected that places so important and
commanding can be filed without some excitement
among the elective body and in the public mind.
Charged as the Democrats with paramount
control in this MATTER andresponsibe they must
be as party for whatever results may ensue, it be-
hooves them to cultivate towards another spir
it of kindness and concord but at the same time to
insist upon such organization, such rules of action
shall ensure the accomplishment of the wishes of
the constituent body. We speak not for our
selves but for the masses of the party. We know
what we say to have been conceived in the same
spirit of kindness and Cancellation which
commencing to our friends; we think we are not
mistaken in the ''signs of the times when we de-
clare that the Democrats of the next Assembly, if
they hope to strengthen and consolidate their infu-
ence mast unite an their consultations and IN their
efforts in the Senatorial elections. We have heard
rumors-indeed, we hear many rumors, and we at
tach to none of them much importance; but one
thing we know and that is, that two Senators can
be nominated in Democratic caucus, and elected by
Democratic votes in the two Houses; and we are as
confident as know this that if different result
should happen, the people will be well informed as
to the cause, and will themselves enter into judg-
ment with those who may lproduce the cause. Our
opponents are already busily engaged in endeavor-
ing to ALLEVIATE friends, to involve Democrats in
binations and to occasion discord and division in
our ranks. The true policy for every Democrat at
time like this is to adhere to party usage and to do
right without regard personal local sectional
considerations We owe it to ourselves-to
principlesto the rights ofthe States in greater peril
than at any former periodic the incoming
Governor and to our hopes of future trunphs at the
polls to avoid every movement and reject every over
ture calculated to embarrass disunite US, and to
stand together with one heart and one front,
organization competent to mature and adopt what
is best for the entire party, and with will to
do whatever is resolved upon in the councils of that
organization.
The next Assembly will also find in subjects of
purely Legislature character, much to occupy its
time and attention. The body of the statute laws
will have to be revised-the Common School sys-
will require, at former sessions, the careful
observation and consideration of members; and the
financial resources of the State generally, in
ton with expenditures for internal improvements,
will engage earnest and serious attention. Many
schemes of internal improvement will be submitted
for action-some of them of judicous and practi-
cable character, and others of nature less
visionary and impracticable These matters, not to
refer to Others render it certain that the ensuing
Assembly will be one of more than usual interest.
Congress will assemble for what is called the
short session " on the first Monday in December.
The recent elections in Northern and Eastern States
are portentous of stormy and angry session. Adolf
tionism, sectonalism opposition to the Constitutional
rights of the slaveholding States will be the promi
nent features of the next Congress Threats are
made by the fusionsts and enemies of President
Pierces administration, that the regular appropria
ton bills for the support of the government shall
not pass unless with clauses repeating the Nebraska
act and the fugitive-save law; and we know enough
of the vile and detestable nature and purposes of
these to be convinced that they will attempt to
execute these threats. Let them. Southern men
of both parties will meet them in struggle like
this, with sorrow, it is true, account of the ca
lamities likely to result from it, but with purpose
and nerve as fixed as fate. Let Northern men of
all classes and parties look now at the South, and
take warning by the calmness of her manner and
attitude. The day of concession, OF Illumination
has passed, never to return. She has already con-
coded all but the COasttution-upon that she stands
Nothing can move her from this position Her peo-
pie feel that they still have friends among portions
of their Northern feow-citizens but they feel also
that large majorites in many of the non-slaVehold-
ing States will not cannot understand their pur
poses and wishes on this question of slavery; or, if
ously distorted and perverted. The Southern peo-
pie do not wish the revival of the African slave
trade-they do not ask Congress to establish ex
tend savery-they do not expect that Northern men
will advocate slavery declare it desirable inst-
tuition What they ask is, that their slaves, when
they escape to the free States shall be restored to
them that the people of the Territories when they
come to erect governments and apply for admission
into the Union shall be allowed to say whether they
will have slavery and that the agitation of the
question in Congress shall Is not this
able? Is it not Constitutional When did the South
vote against the admission of free States into the
Union ?-and yet the great question which
pies the Northern mind is that slave
ry-of refusing to admit slavehoding States |
of starving out slavery in the old States to the ul-
innate and utter ruin of the white race! Weowe |
no man thanks for saying that he will not disturb
the institution it exists in the States. Were he
to declare or act otherwise, he would be- if mem
Der of Congress, perjured before God and man. |
LET Us ALONE that is what we demand let slave
ry alone, and let it extend itself if it can without
Congressional aid and when new States with slave
ry established by their fundamental law apply for
admission into the Union, admit them as the Southed
has heretofore voted to admit non-slaveholdng |
States; refuse to admit them, and yoU do aohat the
South a0aH resist eren to the disruption Of the bonds
"h'ch hold these States together The Southern 4
States will be the equals of the non-slaveholding
otates in the Union, independent of them out oft
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