Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-16
THE PETERSBURG 1NrELL1GENoER..

The Petersburg Intellicencer-a paper that is IN.
tensely Know Nothing, and goes for Fillmore, and,
of course, for Andrew jackson with the "donelson
an nexed had leading article in its issue of
few days since, in which it assails Gen. James Wat.
son Webb, of the N. Y Courier and Enquirer, about
| his political course, past and present We have
nothing to do with this family quarrel; but there
are some points about the matter worthy of notice.
The Intelligencer seems think that Mr. Webb
has been beating about for long time like ship
amidst troubled waters, in search of an anchorage"
and that he has at last found one by declaring his
opposition to the Kansas Nebraska BILL and his de-
termination to support the black Republican candi-
date, whoever he may be, for the Presidency
This may be news to the Intelligencer-it is hard.
~ SO to any one else. For months ago Mr.. Webb
declared in print that he would go for Garrison, or
any body else who vas for restoring the Missouri
Compromise line, in preference to Kansas Nebras.
la man.
Notwithstanding all this, after Mr.. Fillmore was
nominated the Know Nothings hoped to secure for
him the support of the Courier and Enquirer After
"beating about for some time," as the Inteisencer
says Mr.. Webb announces his determination not to
support the K. N. ticket. His support was expect
ed, and would have been very thankfully received,
notwithstanding his Garrison Pronunciamento, made
some months since.
Mr.. Webb, however, is an old stager in politics.
He looked around him, or in the words of the In
telligencer, "beat about" for while. The result
was that he could not 60 into such politically bank
rupt concern as Know Nothingism.
Then comes the attack upon him in the Intell-
gencer; and that paper at the time Tugs in his
opposition to the Kansas Nebraska BILL as if his OPP
position to that the cause of his opposition to
Mr.. Fillmore 1t is true: the Intelligencer does not
say so but the case so stated that it may be in
ferred. So far informed, Mr.. Webb has
given no such reason. And, moreover, so far
can gather from the past political history Of Mr. Fill
more, and the present position of his Northern
friends, he and they were as much opposed to the
repeal of the Missouri line and may be as strongly
in favor of it's restoration as Mr.. Webb. Who will
undertake to say what Mr.. Fimore's position is on
that subject?
In relation to the repeal of that line the Inteli-
gencer discourses as follows:
"And now few words in conclusion upon the subject
repeal Of the Missouri and against the Kansas
"niquity as the abolition presses call it, That repeal
ss ba e + Of
justice which lay at the bottom of institutions and
which had been ramped upon and crushed by the Worth
Will that journal deny that under Constitution, in its
and obvious interpretation the South has equal
interest in the Territory of Kansas and in every other Ter
ritory belonging the Union, with the North! After ALL
we must go the Constitution for Information to the
great fundamental rights of the States The Missouri Com,
promise nothing than of Congress and sub
iecf like similar modification repeal by subse
quent legislation Acquescence in for thirty did
not as it could change character so recognize
its authority give the force of Constitutional pro-
vision The South in submitting to it she did, submit
ted the fragrant wrongs that could well have
hpann ptr1tpN upOn her q hay ampd
worthy Of days Sa Longer than it
consider law of Congress which ovcrrdes the Consttu
ton equal to the Constitution itself We never did,
never will believe in the sanStty Of so,easd compo-
at the feet of the other halt in papabe violation of the
terms of the original compact"
Now, this is all very we'll and very true but how
does the Intelligencer reconcile it with the 18th
ton of the new platform, adopted at the late
National Council ofits party, declaring among other
things
Opposition to the reckless and unwise policy of the pre-
sent administration shown in re-openin aa
ton by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
By the way, we notice in the same paper from
which the above is extracted, that the Integencer,
it has repeatedly done before makes very coarse
fling at the Hon. John Kerr, and it would really
seem that the Editor had petty spite against
this gentleman. Because Mr.. Kerr would not sac
rifce his sefrespect, bend the knee and quiet
y submit to the behess of set Of political charla
tans, who declared that their immaculate party was
"6ui upon the ruins and in spite Of tile opposition"
of the Wing party, of which he was prominent
member, the Intelligencer denounces him as 'rer-
egade." A renegade" from what? Mr. Kerr was
never member Of their party, under any obi
cations to it Those who denounce him fed
from the party to which he and they belonged, like
rats from sinking ship. They burrowcd in secret
places and in midnight darkness plotted against
the civil and religious liberties of the country. Up
what principle, then, was Mr.. Kerr to follow them
and submit himself to the slavish rules and horrid
oaths imposed by the order? By doing so he could
have gone back to Congress without word said.
No body doubts this. He was too honest and inde-
pendent, however. to do it at the expense of his
conscience and what he considered the best inter-
ests of his country. Having been deserted by his
own former political friends he is doing what thou
sands of other honest Wings will do in the great
national contest now coming AS Southern
man and a patriot he fights under the Democratic
banner, against the combined hosts of black Repub-
licans and Know Nothngs
An ABoLITIoNIsT FlLTERED-NoTICE TO LEAVE |
We alluded yesterday to the Jim Grow movement of
Mr.. John Kedzie of this city, who is travelling in |
the South with his rain water filters and writing let
tiers on slavery. He is, and always has been, a |
rampant Aboitionist of the most impractcable Sort
and his first letters in accordance with his we'll
has thrown complete somerset and landed fiat up
tho patfnrm No halle |