Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-11
THE TNIoN-READ AND REFLECT,

We invite the serousand thoughtful attention of
our readers, Of all parties, to the following article
which we copy from the Augusta Consttutionalist
and Republic. =
That there are men in the free States protesting
to be Democrats who nevertheless hostile to the
Constitutional rights of the South, is not denied ;
out, the other hand, the history of parties and
of the country, especially for the last twenty years.
will most trqumphantly sustain the assertion that
the Democrats Of the'free States, as a party, ARE
true to those rights and that the Democratic party
of the United States, as organized in its national
Conventions, and holding the reins of federal adj
mlnisration, Is the only party which is national in
its principles and aims, and the only one on which
the people of the South rely for the faithful
ecuton of the fugitive-slave law, and the gradual
extension of the institution of domestic slavery.
The WING party of the United States, it is true,
embraced at one time many men in the free States
who disposed to do. justice to the South; but
these, together with many prominent Democrats
have been driven from public place by the abolition
lists and Know Nothings- The Wing party. in its
last national Convention, succeeded in adopting
sound resolutions on the question. of slavery; but
that party, informed by its leading men in
this State, as more and has given place to the
Know Nothing organization. 1t a corrupt par
pied and deserved to be abandoped and to die out
says Mr.. Miller Is this true? we shall not pause
to argue the question; but we may observe thatif
this be true, those gentlemen certainly had no small
agency in making 1T corrupt, for they have6aeH for
years among it's active and prominent leaders in
this section. Probably these gentlemen judge 9TH
ers by themselves But do not admit that the
party which Henry Clay established, and whose OBJ
jects and deStnies he fashioned and directed during
his life, was as corrupt describedby Messrs. Ray
ner and Miller. On the contrary We regarded it;
and still regard it. association of men actaated
in the main by patriotic-feelings and based well
known and well defined principles. These princi-
pies we believe erroneous, and we should apprehend
evil aud danger to the country from their prevalence
and long continued cotref in public affairs but the
great body Of the men who entertained those princ
Piles entertained them honestly, and were mot the
c6rript, hollow hearted pefseAsr Messrs Rayner'snd
Miller would have US BELIEVE they The
cid Yhig party, like its great Antagonist the Demo
cratic party concealed p6thiHgfrointh the public eyes
its principles were eln6lazoIed on all fssaags, seen
every where, known fall men, but voted down by
the country. IL did net acquire oaths from its men,
bers: anHex penalties to the free exercise of the
right of suffrage; did it ever--whether under the
lead, Of Clay, Webster, or Fillmore, or Scott
sluk in dark places, at midnight, to concoct plans
of persecution and of vengeance against any portion
of the people
AS long as the Wing party existed, the contests
for the Presidency not sectional btft national
and fits existence had been continued, the proba-
biIity is that in 1866 the>couutry would have been
saved from the bitterness and the danger Of a sec
tioHa struggle close upon US and so appa-
renriy inevitable. But Know Nothngisrn, which
r ! ~.
in that resieo for, the people of the South 0n the
contrary, it has elected Governors, Senators, aud
some fifty or sixty members of the House oERepre-
sentatives, All OF soh0H- abe9uiOn5stss and be-
fore its deadly~hatrsdof the institution of slavery
and of our rights under a common Constitution ev-
cry man has fallen in the free States whether Dem
ocrat or Wing, who had staksd himssf for the
Union and for justice to his Southern brethren.
This ists record thus far-what the future viii dis
close is not given to the most sagaeious among
to foretell. But that tie tnion Of tie Suites is in
greater peril than a'y Jeraier PERIOD a7s aHteel
and k7a0o and our honest conviction is, that the
great ground Of hope for its preserv alton, and for
protection at the time to vital interests and
rights as slaVeholdng people, as to be round iQ the
7aotional Democratic pQ7Ty. An II0ld, Line Geor-
ga Wing" has done justice to that party in the fol-
lowing article land wshavefuA Confidence that, in
the futare IN the past II win maintain it's high po-
sition of devotion The CONSTITUTION, and will adj
here to those rules Of consruins that instrument,
under wfich alone we hope for safety to cur
peculiar institution and FOR the prevalence Of those
sentiments of justice and fair dealing upon which
the Union founded. Let the cid Democratic
party be dissolved, as the Whfg party has been,
and darkness will oversphead Us all. But we are de-
taining odr readers from the article referredto.
From the Augusta Constitutionahst and Republicl
For the Consideration of my old Wing Friends.
Mr.. EDIroR-<Dear S!r: In my former conmdni-
cations yeu, among various reasons stated for
maintaining the DEMOCRATIC party against the Know
Eothjngs, have said that the Congressional record,
last year showed that the South had friends at
the North, except among the Democrats. not onl y
propose pr0Ue it in this article, but intend also
10 show that for the last ten gears while the North
ern Wings have been almost. unanimously against
us-aldoGjs a majority, and sometimes tooo-tAirts
and threetourths. of the Northern Democracy In
Congress, have UOtea Nth as
! But before proceeding farther, I viii say, that
while the Northern Democracy were thus slstani ng
Us, it is true the Northern Wing party was in eKs
tence. But where the members eft now?-'
! Ha wing themselves aground with the@people OF
| the South, upon the slavery question, un9er the
name of Wing, and especially having, last year, yo
ted na0eLSty against ON the Kansas and Ne
braska question, since they have disbanded, where
! have they gone :? They have>not gore to the Sound
Democrats, that's .certuin. Then a0here haze they
gomez? They roe become KIao~- Nothings.o or 4'eer-