Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-11-19
there were opposed to fusion, and that they were
induced, by false representations, to take part in

there were opposed to fusion, and that they were
induced by false representations, to take part in
that meeting:
The meeting of Americans at the Musical Fund Hall.
Kenneth Rayner Of North Carolina, attracted verv con-
Siderable consequence of the reports
published Of its proceedings appears that Mr. Rayner
after having made fusion speech in Philadepha and
having been announced for another regretted the position
he had TAKEN and signied disposition go farther
simply an America speech: Under such circumstances
AID with such understanding gentlemen induced
expressed by Ar. r. in relation local politics. We
append the following card from situated who acted
Secretary of the meeting Was the whole affair con-
cocton and deceit the part of those who the
meeting tor the paposas of entrappng the Americans
TO THE PUBLIC.
From the fact that acted Secretary of the Musical
Fund Hall Meeting Saturday evening" has been report
disabuse the minds of friends On this subject will saw
that ! accepted the appointment, because understood
from Mr. Rayner in the course Of interview which he
had with some friends of Fillmore and Donel-
son. during the that he proposed in his speech
to eonhne himself strictly to the discussion of American
principles, and not to aude to differences city,
cepng to correct unfair report of his speech of Friday
evening which he alleged had appeared in the Morning
that he intended favor the soclled Union Ticket had
learned that he to Philadelphia the invitation of
Fremont leaders, which am now assured he did, my
humble would have been connected with the
meeting in question
PHILADELPHIA, November Sd, 1856.
Philadelphia Itsrs-F7l!mors Paper.
The Observer alIudes to the ownership of slaves,
and states that Mr. Rayner is the of at least
ten times many slaves all the Democratic Edi-
tors in the State and that paper is also pleased
to charge "audacity and knavery" on the Enquirer
and Standard. The Observer, it seems, measures
mans patriotism by the number of his slaves We
subscribe to no such test as this Interest, we
&c of. -, -,
country yet it by means follows that because
owns one hundred slaves, he is more devoted to
the Constitutional rights Of the South than E, who
owns but four or FIVE or {, who owns none Patri
otisrn is not mercenary feeling. The Of
four or five slaves is much interested in them as
the owner Of hundred can be in his The small
farmer has, for example, negro man and negro
woman and children-hey are his all, and, next to
his land and his industry, they are his only re-
lance for support for his family and for the cduca
ton of his children. Who will dare to underrate
the patriotism of such a man?-or who will dare
assert, that a general thing the non slaveho-
ders of North Carolina not true to the Constu-
ton and the rights Of their section? The owner of
hundred slaves always has other property, and Of
ten in abundance. He has his houses and lands,
his Bank stocks and his State securities. But We
repudiatc all such tests these. They unwor.
thy of the press of Southern State-thcy are in
furious 10 our interests as people, and libel on
the South. We judge Of mans patriotism by his
scords and his acts, stopping to consider whether
he be rich poor-a STAKEHOLDER n-slaveholder.
Who fought the battles of the Revolution? Who
stood at Guilford Court House, at the Cowpens, at
Kings Mountain, for the rights of North Carolina,
o,l Il nl holl ali
as Shareholders. Those men who charged at Eutaw,
more than lfnaked their feet b!istcred by long
marches, and their bare shoulders by the KNAPP
sack and muskct-how many slaves did they own,
Mr.. Hale? Who fought our battles in Mexico p
Not your owners Of two hundred slaves
Some of them, confess, were officers but those
Southern who bore the brunt of that conflict,
and who went with their iron tramp from Corpus
Christi to Buena VISTA and from Vera Cruz to Mex
leo, fighting as they went, and dying by hundreds
at Contreras and Cherubusco, the owners Of
but few slaves-many of them owned none yet they
were the sons the brothers, the friends Of slaveho
ders, and they loved their country, and fought for
it gloriously and well.
We happen to own six seven slaves, the most
of whom we have earned by hard labor. We think
as much Of them the owner of hundred can
think Of his; yet we feel quite sure that We were
just much devoted to the rights of the South
der a common Constitution, and to the honor of
! North Carolina, before acquired this species of
! property we are now.
| Away with this odious and injurious distinction
between Southern men away with it! We are
one people, Together we must detend our rights
and 90 forward in the of prosperity and glory
which is set before u.s. together shall 60 down
under the aggressions the invasons, the contulne-
lies, the scorn, and the bitter hate of abolition
| hordes
The Observer speaks Of "audacity and knavery."
Such epithets-the offspring of passion of per-
verted feeling-have terrors for We shall
not characterize them they deserve, unless re-
peated by the Observer. The Senior Editor of that
journal knows that no good feeling has ever existed
between him and the Principal Editor of this paper
and he must know also that it would not add either
to his reputation to ours to engage in a bitter
newspaper quarrel. "a soft answer turneth away
wrath, but grievous words stir up anger" We can
be quite emphatic, quite as severe, quite as bitter
as he can but really, We prefer to avoid it
| The Oak.City Guards Lectures,
We are much pleased to be able to announce that
definite arrangements have, at length, been concu
ded for full of Lectures this winter before
the Oak City Guards and our citizens generally
The order and names of the Lecturers follows