Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-11-15
Correspondence ofthe North Carolina standard.

Correspondence of the North Carolina Standard. !
Politics and the Pulpit-Intdetity encouraged |
Neso York Election 1Massae6G.etts Den.oeraey-
National party necessary for the satety of the |
Union-SSckles and Peabody-An Ansrioan fun |
key-fhe Secretary Of the Macy and The election |
Of Senat0r-NeD era in the NaVy-Csnsul at Pa |
ris. |
.....-. WASHINGTON d. c., Nov. Z, 1852
Ministers of the Gospel in the Northern States |
cannot even devote one day in seven to their holy
calling, but have turned the pulpit into stump,
s% Snsh snt to draoo s. politics I snsS It
score of political sermons were delivered in the
City of New York the subjects bearing upon the
election in that State to-day. The religious papers,
with one or two exceptions are also devoted to po-
tical discussions. Can be that pure religion has
any place in the bearts of the members Of these
congregations, when discourses pandering to fanat
csm and prejudces are demanded instead of those
breathing the precepts of the Bible? Will it not
preach nor practise what they pretend to profess!
The 5000 preachers are doing their work, and are
serving the devil and promoting the schemes Of dis
unionists at the same time.
While write the political contest in New York;
New Jersey, Massachusetts, and some other States
is being decided. There three candidates for Con
gress in nearly every District in New York and
Massachusetts,, and in the former State the candi-
dates for various Offices numbered by hundreds
| if not thousands. The press have requested the
holders of the election in New York to the
vote for Governor first and it is therefore possible
that the result may be known here some time to-
| night
The Boston Post of Monday contains resume of
the for members of Congress in that State,
examining the position of the various candidates in
every District 1t is indeed gratifying to observe the
attitude of the true Democracy of the State
pared with the aboltonism of all the other parties
and factions arrayed against it. BY all the nomnat
| ing Conventions resolutions adopted endorsing
the measures of the present administration, and in
| all but two endorsing the Nebraska Kansas
bill specifically, consistent with the doctrine of
non-interventon by Congress with the subject Of
slavery and Of the sovereign rights of the States
In the 9TH District the action of the Democracy was
perhaps the most significant A convention was
| held, in which were a majority of anti-Nebraska
| men and an anti-NcbraSka candidate nominated
The minority seeded held new convention, pass
| ed resolutions Of national character, and nomina-
ted candidate whose sentiments agreed with those
| expressed by the Convention. The Wings and Free
solers of all denominations have generally coalesced
throughout the State adopting an out and out abo-
liton platform, the principal features of which are
the repeal of the fugitive slave law, and the exclu-
sion of any more slave States from the Union There
are Know Nothing candidates in nearly every Dis
trict and it is possible that good and true
may be elected throughthc triangular contest. re-
fer to the election in Massachusetts, for the especial
purpose of disproving the allegation of the Southern
Wing press that all parties at the North occupy the
same pos,tion-that all are equally hostile to the
rights of the South Northern Wings are so COM
petely sectonalizcd that Southern Wings have been
compelled to discontinue all political association with
ship of Southern interests, and seek to build up q
sectional party by effecting the dissolution of the
only national organization of parties now existing.
The South cannot however abandon those sound
men at the North who recognize the equal rights of
all the States under the Constitution, with safety to
ITSELF its only hope to maintain the integrity of the
Union is by supporting the national party and those
true men.
The City papers contain correspondence between
Mr.. Sickes the Secretary of the American Legation
at London and Mr.. Peabody, the American London
banker, growing out of dinner given by the latter
individual on the 4th of July last in honor of The
Declaration of independence. The whole CORES
management of the dinner, shows up Mr.. Peabody
as one of those hunkeys who disgrace America
abroad by crnging to foreign nobility At the din
ner the health of the Queen was drunk before that
of the President of the United States, and all the
Amercanism of the Star Spangled Banner, which
sung on the occasion, was cut out so as to rem
der it palatable to the English guests present No
wonder that the management of the whole affair
gave great dissatisfaction to Mr.. Buchanan and his
Secretary and to every genuine American present
Mr.. Peabody's hunkeyism is even more disgusting
than Geo. n Sanders republican efforts in Europe
are ridiculous
The Union of this MORNING contains reference
to the election of U. S. Senator by the Legislature
of North Carolina, confirming the impression cur
rent in political circles for the last few days that Mr.
Dobbn had written to his friends in your State, de-
cliHing to be considered candidate for the Sen-
ate. Next to filling the Presidential Chair, no po
sition is more honorable than that of the Represen
tative of sovereign State in the United States Sen
ate; but the success which has attended Mr.. Dob
bins management of the Navy Department, and the
great degree of confidence he enjoys with the coun
try at large seemed to demand that he should con
tinue his present connection with the Admnistra
ton. His energy, industry and impartiality ART
gradually producing their legitimate effects upoI
the Navy. and raising it to degree of efficiency
which will mark this era in its history. Witt
Mr. Dobbin in the Cabinet, two Democratic Sena
tors and at least five Democratic members in th
House, in the next Congress, North Carolina vii
take her place a thorough Democratic State a
the National Capitol. ....
Our consul at Paris, Duncan r. McRae, Esqr., o
Wilmington, arrived in Washington on Saturda,
morning last and left on Sunday, flying visi
| to his friends in North Carolina 1t is whispered
that he brought important dispatches from variou
American Legations in Europe, and that he will re
turn his post in few days bearing dispatches
reply Of course their tenor has not been dvulget
to the public, and nothing is certainly known as T.
their contents. .- MECKLENBURG.
INTERESTING EXTRACTS.