Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-24
Feb. Z, 1855.
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
We published, a week or two since, the proceed
ings of the Democratic meeting held in Granville,
and we give to-day the proceedings of the Orange
meeting, appointing delegates to a Convention to
nominate candidate for Congress in the Fourth
Congressional District The Granville meeting
recommended Franklinton as the place, and the
third Wednesday in April as the time for holding
the Convention; and though some of the Counties
may have preferred another point for holding the
Convention, yet we have no dou they will cheer
fully acquieSce in the recommendation of our Gran
Vile friends both as to the time and place.
We learn that meeting to he held in Nash
this week, and that Johnston will h,d one next
week A meeting will be held here the week af
ter. and we presume one will be held in Franklin
the week succeeding. The Warren Democracy
have called meeting, to be held on Saturday
week next, the 3lst of March. SO, according to
this arrangement, delegates will have been appon-
ted in all the Counties of the District before the
time indicated, to wit, the 18th day of April.
We cannot doubt that the Convention will be
we'll attended, and that sound and reliable Dem
ocrat will be presented for the suffrages of the
people. "A DISLrltG so dTScty DcIHOcfitiC i[s LiIS
is, is entitled to a nominee, and such one will
naturally be expected to be made, who is right,
and true, and firm upon all the great issues of the
day; and who, when elected, as we take it for
granted he will be, will 60 to Washington prepar-
ed to stand by the administration of President
Pierce on the Cuban, Nebraska, and the public land
questions and who will cordially cooperate with
our Senators, Messrs. Reid and Bggs, in their eff
forts to protect the rights and maintain the charac
ter of North Carolina in the councils of the Union.
The party, we do not doubt, will also expect
that the nominee will occupy high ground in rela-
ton to that vilcist of all isms. Know Nottingham,
that he will meet and expose that organization
in all its dangerous aud secret wudngs and insist
as the Republicans Of the days of Jefferson and
Madison insisted, upon those great principles of
liberation aud justice which lie at the foundations
of onr federal and State Constitutions, and which
are a part now, as in 1900, Of the Democratic
creed
We have heard it intimated that the Know Moth
incs and Wings combined-not all the Wings,
however, to their credit be it said-wiii have
nominee, aChere hoo made may not be exactly
known; but they will come out, at time which
,they may deem propitious, from their dark hiding
places prepared to assaii the Democratic party and
its principles and ready to avail themselves Of any
aid which may promise them success. Now, as
aforetime the price of liberty is eternal vigilance"
We are gratified to observe the confident and elias
tic spirit with which the Democrats of the Dis
4rict are rising from the defeat which overlook
them in tic last contest; AID trust but one de-
termination will prevail-but one voice be heard
in the important campaign on which we are about
to enter The friends of Pierce and Douglas, and
Buchanan, and Cass, in New Hampshire, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, and Michigan, have been Frustrated
for time before the pcstilent isms of the day. on
account of the frmness and fidelity with which
they have stood by the Constitution and the rights
of the sIaveholding States; let of the South,
in whose cause they have suffered, and for whose
interests and security they have dared these disas
tiers and incurred this opprobrium, rally around
them, and while we maintain and re-assert those
principles so dear to them and to us all, give
them renewed assurance of our confidence, our high
respect and abiding gratitude
A,o Tho Now Nnrly Doy