Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-31
Letter from Hon. Isaac T0ucey.

HARTFORD, sept ~ 1900
| thank you, gentlemen, very sincerely, for your
I" warm and cordial invitation to be present and
cept your Inequalities at Lexington on the 5tn of
October next, when the whole democracy Of Ken
tucky requested to meet in unsworn council, to
assist to save the Union from the attacks of ab iii
toniSm the side, and sectional and religion
bigotry on the other"
1t is no longer to be denied that the crisis has
arisen which vas viewed by Washington with seri-
Gus apprehension, and against which he took
sion, in his Farewell Address, to forewarn his coun-
trymen-whcn strictly sectional party has been
formed to agtate upon the subject of great local
interest which divides the States by geographical
line very nearly into two equal parts. We are now
in the midst of that criss-the only one which can
be at all formidable to the people OF this country
the only which is likely to endanger the great
est and noblest work which Providence has ever
permitted to come from the mind OF man-the oIly
one which threatens to over throw the common gov
eminent of these happy States, to deuge the fair
fields of America in of blood and to entail
upon the present generation, and upon posterlty,
series of disaster which man fully toresee
adeq uately appreciate. l meet the crisis without
fear for know that the great heart of the country
is sound-the heart of the North and of the South,
of the East and of the West, is sound-sound in its
love of liberty and equal laws-sound in its love of
the Union-soupd in its love Of that constitution
which untes in bonds of fraternal amity under
one constitutional republican government and has
carried Che American people forward with UMPIRE
cedented rapidity to the rank of the greatest and
most powerful natlOn Oh Tie WOTlu Lie AedTlS vi
the American people are right. They will not suffer
this government TO be overthrown, and all our ma
tional blessings and future hopes to be scattered to
the winds. They will never permit the gallant ship
which has borne us safely through many stormy
sea to be scuttled and sent down to the bottom by
the reachery of portion of the crew. They detest
the narrow illiberality which would sacrifice
to accident of BIRTH They dctest narrow bigotry
which would deny to others the religious liberty
which it claims for itself They detest the gross in
justice and seltshness which would challenge for
ourselves, for own people, or our own State,
greater rights and liberties than we are willing to
accord to other people of the other States. They
will permit the Union to be broken W because
we recognise in al-our policy the great instrument
tally by which the people of every separate COM
munity, both colonies and States have been
accustomed to be governed in their internal AFFAIRS
from the first settlement of the continent down to
the present time.
There is one grand army already in the field, we'll
organized and disciplined ready to do battle for the
constitution. 1t is the great national democratic
party of the country. 1t has never yet been dis
banded and it will be disbanded until the
government shall cease to exist. 1t has no sympa-
thy with warfare upon prosecuted class. nor
with reasonable designs of any sort, whether to
resist the execution of constitutional laws, or by
open force, by indirect means, to resist; render
practically null and void the plain provisions OF the
constitutions 1t does resist to the utmost the as
sumption by government of ungranted powers, and
will maintain to the last extremity the right of the
States and of the people the best judges of their
own social wants. and the exclusive repositories of
all sovereign power not clearly granted away, but
reserved in fact for the precise purpose of making
the wsest and best provisions for those very wants
There is also another class in the field not so nu-
merous but still large and powerful ready also to
do battle for the equal rights of the States under
the constitutions and to resist the aggressions of
bigotry and of sectionalism. It is the class of men
of liberal and national views, who spurrr the mad
ness of fanaticism and the treachery of midnight
cabal These men will not sacrifice race or country
to mere party ends 81
We enter the contest with sanguine hopes and
firm purposes, under the solemn conviction that we
are struggling the country from the greatest
calamity that could befall 1.-THE overthrow of the
constitution and the subversion of the government
From the Utmost recesses of my heart, bid you,