Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-09
IErom the National Intellirencer-Whis. /

| TIE VIRGINIA ELEcr1oS-We really thought that
| the Democracy of the Old Dominion this time
! destined to bite the dust.-We had begun almost
to feel sorry for the impending doc !. of the "reso
lutions of '9S," but corisoled by the thought
! that the venerable statue in the vestibue of the
| najs0n cure on Shocco Hill would smile for the
! first time in many long years.
But it vas not so written. The Wing party of
| Virginia always present bold front, and battle
manfully, but they have never achieved success
worthy of their noble cause in the present contest
| the fates against the astrologevS. The Demo-
| crazy had for its champ ion man who to an un-
blemished private character, united unsurpassed,
if not matchless energy, ability, and endurance
! public speaker, and of great power the judy
ment and feelings Unpopular assemblies-of powers,
in short, preeminent for political canvass; and
these powers he exerted with consistency and We
hemence SO incessant and untiring to be almost
marvellous in one apparently so fragile What ADD
el-Kader in the field Henry A. Wise is on the
stump; and to his personal and powerful
ertions is he greatly, if chiefly indebted for his
triumph. But his party did not venture to rely
their leader alone. They evidently alarmed,
and all their distinguished were called out
and each labored as if he the fortunes of his
party in jeopardy and the issue depending his
single arm
The people of Virginia are peculiar in several re-
spects. They not only good takers, but they
equally good listeners; that is they delight in
public speaking; they expect their public men to
address them in public assembly, and they are
open to great influence from commanding oratory
They are moreover, a people of tradition they
are attached to their historical names, and
especially to what called the 'Virginia
DOCTRINES, to which many worthy citizen pro-
Claims his devotion with very little idea of what they
are. They only know that the resolutions of '9S
were passed by men whose names have come down
as household words; that their fathers voted for
them, and must they and, having taken their
side and publicly recorded their vote when first they
exercised the right the UiUG mode has great in
huence afterwards in preventing change. There
is responsibility in consistency, they think and so we
confess there is, however poor may be reason
FAMINE IN ALABAMA-Tn the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser, of recent date, appears appeal to the
Governor of Alabama for relief from the horrors of
starvation 1t is dated Delta, Randolph county,
April 28th and the following extract is impressive
cat meeting of the citizens of this beat and
vicinity, at this place. to-day it agreed by the
people to lay before your ExceIlency the
destitute and actually starving condition of many of
our neghbors at this time, hoping and confidently
believing that you, in your wisdom and clemency,
can devise some means to afford breadstuffs to the
needy, either by recommending aid to by general
subscription or by any other plan that your Excel
lency may deem sufficient to meet the exgencies of
our case. 1t is not considered by us necessary to
advise your Excellency that in consequence of a
three years drought, reduced to the point
(many of us) of extreme want and that some of
the citizens-indeed, many of them-of this COM
monwealth, are actually perishng for food, to say
nothing of the probability of short wheat CROP in
which event our condition is still deplorable"
The American Organ, OK. NJ complains of its
circulation in Virginia. Although published in Wash
Ingt9n on the very borders of the Old Dominion it
mas less circulation there than in North Carolina or
georgia. ms is not strange. Vespasian Ellis was
ior good w9lie citizen of Virginia, and they know
MN there: lie gets the best circulation where he
10 iease Aho"n- WI JatrnaI.
''The bosom of America is open to receive. not
only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the
oppressed and prosecuted of all nations and of all
religions. whom shall aoelcome to a. r,articinntio,
." G~ oar rights and priOileges "-Geo WasAiugton.