Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-03-18
THE NATIONAL PARTY.

THE NATIONAL PARTY.
There can be no doubt now, even in the minds Of
the most ultra Wings, that the Democratic party is
the national party Of the country This fact prov
ed by its course for years past respectfully shown
in the late vote in the Senate on the Nebraska BILL
Fourteen Northern Democrats voted to abrogate the
Missouri lne and consequently to let in slavery to
Nebraska and Kansas provided the climate and soil
should be adapted to it and no Wing from the free
States so voted.
The Democratic party is, therefore, the national
and the Wing party is therefore, the sectional party
And now what do we deduce from this z We say,
first the Wing party, being hopeessly sectionalized,
is broken in twain secondly it cannot unite in an
other general Convention to nominate candidate for
the Presidency thirdly, these being the facts, the
Wing party is faction, is struggling merely for the
Offices in the different States and entertain
hope of being able to benefit the people by the
ton of the general government. We say further,
that the Democratic party .oas as and shall be; that
it is party ofprogressof fixed principles of long
continued and of widely pervasiye power; and that
the elements of its capacity for future usefulness and
benefcence, they gathered together in 1887,
and compacted so speak, with the very life of the
common Constitution, be subjected 20 no test
likely to diminish their force to cut asunder the
ligaments by which they bind man to man, locality
to locality, and State to State.
And now, what is best in the crisis for the people
of North Carolina? What have they gained, in the
past by voting with this Wing faction? Have they
got any public lands, or the proceeds of any? Have
they had their tariftaxes reduced? Have they been
put in way to. obtain greater more essential ad
vantages as Shareholders? Have they been
cure under their State Constitution, as they would
have been if this party faction had had exist
ence? On the contrary, have they not for fourteen
years. been tantalized 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,
to redeem their pledges first pass law 20 do So and
then repeal it?-and not only this but did they not
at the time, increase the tariff 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
ty acquired Louisiana to the present hour, opposed
all efforts, whether the result of war by nego-
tiation, to obtain more territory And have they
not when it was obtained, and when, as they alleg
ed, great evil had been imposed on the country,
forthwith gone to work, first to apply Missouri lines
and Wilmot Provsos to these territories to |
circumscribe and starve out slavery, and then to di
vide out these very lands their proceeds, the
QUESTION of which they SO bitterly opposed and de-
precated? Certainly they have: And have they
not here at home, with zeal which could only have
been aroused and infamed by love of power and |
hatred of popular rights resorted to every effort first
to defeat Free Suffrage and then to unsettle the ba
sis of representation wisely adopted by the sages
of 1885? Most assuredy they have; and yet these
men, thus denationalized broken up, scattered and |
pealed repudiated by the people by States indvidu-
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