Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-03-28
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

We published, 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 a candidate for Congress in the Fourth
Congressional District. The Granville meeting
recommended Frankinton' as the place, and the
third Wednesday in April as the time for holding
the Conventions; and though some Of the Counties
may have preferred another point for holding the
Convention, yet we have no dou't they will cheer
fully acquiesce in the recommendation of our Gran
vile friends both as to the time and place.
We learn that meeting was to be held in Nash
this week, and that Johnston will hold one next
week. 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 appoin-
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 District so largely Democratic as this
is, is entitled to nominee, and such a one will
naturally be expected to be made, who is right
and true, and firm upon all the great issues Of the
dav: and who, when elected, as we take it for
granted he will be, will 60 to Washington prepar-
ed t., stand bv the administration Of President
Pierce on the Cuban Nebraska, and the public land
questions; and who will cordially cooperate with
our Senator's Messrs. Reid and Biggs, in their ef-
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 vileist of all isms. Know Nothingism.
that he will meet and expose that organization
in all its dangerous and secret windngs and insist
as the Republicans Of the days of Jefferson and
Madison insisted, upon those great principles ot
liberation and 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 intlmated that the Know Moth
ings and Wings combined-not all the Wings
however, to their credit be it said-will have &
known; but they will come out, at time which
they may deem propitious, from their dark hiding
places, prepared to assa the Democratic party anc
its principles, and ready to avail themselves Of any
aid which may promise them success. Now, a
aforetime the price of liberty iseternal vigilance.
We are gratifed to observe the confident and elias
tic spirit with which the Democrats of the Dis
trict are rising from the defeat which overtool
them in the last contest ard we trust but one de
termination will prevail-but one voice be heart
in the important campaign on which we are abou
to enter. The friends of Pierce, and Douglas ant
Buchanan, and Cass, in New Hampshire, Illinois
Pennsylvania, and Michigan, have been prostratet
for time before the pestilent isms of the day, O,
account Of the frmness and fidelity with whicl
they have stood by the Constitution and the right
Of the slaveholdng States; let US Of the South
in whose cause they have suffered and for who's
interests and security they have dared these disas
ters and incurred this opprobrium, rally arount
them, and while we maintain and re-assert thos
principles so dear to them and to us all. eiv,
them renewed assurance of our confidence, our higl
respect, and abiding gratitude.
Ex President Van Buren was in Paris at the la
test dates, and had had an interview and long con
versaton with the Emperor Napoleon.