Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-26
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of the coming election, not that have any personal
interest in it. I am not candidate nor would |
accept any political honor which will be bestowed
in the approaching contest Ifeel that concern only
which every friend of the Union feels in the rebuke
of Demdgogueism, the overthrow of chcanery and
deceit the correction of false pride and pretence,
and in the moral force and effect of standing by true
friends of the Constitution and the Union.
I conceive Mr.. Editor, that mere victory at this
juncture of affairs will not do for North Carolina De-
mocrats
In the contest upon the Nebraska Bill, the Demo-
cracy of the North triumphed over the Wing party
of the North not by mere majority. The three
Wings who in previous Congress represented the
conservation of Northern Whiggery by voting for
the fugitive slave law on this occasion were found
wanting, and not one-no not one Northern Wing
found ready to stand by bill deciding the sia-
very question on the principles of the Compromise
of $780, obliterating a sectional line against which
the Father of his country most solemnly warned u.s.
and doing tardy justice to the South and her inst
tutions.
Under such circumstances it needs no Solomon to
foresee what would be the effect of Wing victory
in North Carolina the Democratic party of the
North. Would not it's members as Mr. Webster
said of himself to his friend Stetson, feel chagrn
profound their nature, that their devotion to
the rights of the South should find record among
Southern people? Can North Carolina shareholders,
by sticking to old party organization, whence all
life and substance has long since fed, and ralyng
under old party cries long since meaningless and
false, afford to offend her only friends by showing
and heroism unappreciated?
Must Senator Douglas, the Administration, and
its friends meet with clerical denunciation, burning
in effigy, and take upon themselves the heavy task
of struggling against and correcting public opinion
in their section, and when we, for whom all
this is done and to whom they naturally look for
support, come to express i'll the most authoritative
manner feelings and opinions, wiz: at the ball
lot box) we greet them with defeat or a meagre
victory, which, like faint praise, only damns
l hold those Northern men who voted for the Ne
braska Bill to be the moral heroes of the age,
of nerve and courage, such animated the SignerS
of the Declaration of Independence and in compl-
ment to whom in Southern State, for time at
least ought to be heard the of Wing. 'Tis not
the of the British lion, said Hopkins he trac
ed his name upon the Declaration of Independence
in those tremulous lines which make it conspicuous
that makes my hand tremble." No. Nor could the
howlings of fanatcism, the blasphemous rawlings of
the sacred desk, the dread of temporary defeat,
deter those brave Northern Democrats from the sup
port of bill that recognized no North nor South,
but only the common interest of the common bro
therhood.
Cannot Wings exercising one hundredth part of
their moral courage, for at least break through
old party ties and associations and unite with the
Democrats to send out to friends and foes in the
thunder tones of an immense Democratic majority,
that we know friends and knowing dare sustain
them?
What should prevent the conservative, moderate
Wings of the State from associating in party action
with the Democrats? Is Gen. Dockery moderate,
conservative accent canQlQate, IN one Dfeatn
ing of his religion, the next using towards his op
ponent, whom every knows to be gentleman
and an honorable man, the language of bully and
a blackguard?
Scene IN Washington County:
Gen. Dockery, riding Good morning, sir. I
am General Dockery-Whig candidate for Cover
nor"
Farmer, in homespun walking along the road
1" Good morning General Dockery."
Gen. ID am going around sir, getting
quainted with the people. Wouldn't you like, sir to
have your share of the public lands? am in favor
of your doing so. The Democratic party opposed
Farmer" Well, but General the Constitution? "
Gen. D., striking his horse-"Ah! Good morn
ing sir"
Now, this call the veriest demagogueism. Gen.
D. thought by the mans plain homespun DRESS that
he could be bought by PROMISE not recognising
one who had been seated with him in the Legisla-
ture and who could probably in discussion have
made him as fletful and angry as his competitor is
said always to do. Now this repeat is demagogue-
ISN'T is appealing to what has always been consi
lered the lowest passion of nature, in case
when the theory of our government contemplates |
The exercise ofjudgment, educated and enlightened,
and guided by that most virtuous of all sentiments,
owe of country.
1t was on.y ir its latter stages that the Roman |
Republic put up the highest bidder but here !
n the very vgor and growth of puberty, the Wing |
Convention has sent around its crier to bid for the
State Government, not with ready coin and tang-
Die Quid pro quo, but with promises, which when
hey had the ability, they did not fulfil, and which
f they now have the will, they have not the way.
They have adopted the sentiment of the crafty Rich
eu:
"Moralists say Hope is sweeter than Possession.
FdUO'rS past do gorge
Our dogs; leave service drowsy-dul the scent,
Slacken the speed; favors to come, my Joseph,
Produce a lusty hungry gratitude
ravenous zeal that of the commonest cur
Would make a Cerberus"
The whole distribution cry is deception and a
is substance in tit is drawing
RATS on the moon and calling the people to hon
+ them. But the evils which such course must
ertainy :nfict the people far short Of those
1hich would follow the fulfilment of Wing promises,
y actual distribution of the public lands. So ad-
lirably does Mr. McDufie set forth this that here
ranscrbe and adopt his remarks:
SIR if the Union of these States shall ever be Sc
cred and their liberties subverted the historian who
ecords these disasters will have ascribe them to
leasures of this description. do sincerely believe
lat neither this government any free govern
lent can exist for quarter of century under such
system of legislation. Its inevitable tendency is
corrupt not only the public functionaries but all
hose portions of the Union and classes of society
lat have an interest real imaginary in the boun-
es it provides. What sir, is the essential charac-
ristics of a freeman? 1t is that independence
hich results from habitual reliance upon his
Tn resources and labor for his support. He is not
freeman in fact who habitually looks to the 60
eminent for pecuniary bounties And l confess i
lat nothing i'll the conduct of those who the
advocates of this system has excited
ore alarm in my mind than the constant efforts 4
ade by all of them, to impress upon the public
ind the idea that national prosperity and ndivid-
Al wealth are to be derived not from individual in