Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-19
! KENnErHs RAINIER.

ed in Musical Fund Hall, philadelphia We do this,
FIRST as an act Of justice to Mr. Rayner rs public
man and secondly, that the people may read and
judge for themselves as. to Mr.. Rayners conduct
The speech which we publish was revised and cor
rected by Mr.. Rayner himself and he is, therefore,
responsible for all it contains It is not stated to
whom the letter, above referred to, was addressed
nor does Mr. Rayner his letter to tho last Raleigh
Register the subject enlghten the public in this
respect This letter Of October %, appeared in the
Times and Herald, New York-botb abolition pa
pers and Mr.. Rayner. was complimented for it at
the time by those journals. The inference, there
fore, s-and it is fair inference that the letter
was addressed to some Fremont aboitonist, whose
name is prudenty concealed.
We shall not enter into an argument with Mr..
Rayner nor is it necessary that we should notice
length his letter or his speech. The drift, the OBJ
ject, the leading purpose of both to induce the
Fillmore of Pennsylvania to unite with the black
Republicans SO to defeat Mr.. Buchanan, aohether
By Fillmore or Fremont, Mr.. Rayner being content,
SO "the common enemy" should be overthrown.-
; If Pennsylvania had voted against Mr.. Buchanan,
the election would have gone to The House of Rep.
resentatvcs, where as at present constituted Ere
mont has thirteen States and would have lacked but
three of an election There are but three States
which could have counted on for Mr. Fillmore, while
there are ten for Mr.. Buchanan-fve being in doubt
So far, then, the House of Representatives is
cerned Mr. Rayner's proposition was as follows: To
ask twenty-eigh States to yield to three and elect
Mr.. Fillmore; to put his section of the Union at
the mercy of black Republican House, Fremont
lacking but three States of an election, with the
moral certainty of success in the end, the result
of bargain intrigue, and corruption. This, charita
bly, stated was Mr.. Rayner's position; but we have
the testimony of the real Fillmore of Philadel-
phia to the fact that the ticket which Mr.. Rayner
supported sOas composed entirely Of Fremont men
and that if the vote of Pennsylvania had been cast
for this ticket the Electors scouM certainly hare gone
for John C. Fremont. Mr.. Rayner was, therefore,
laborng to swell the vote of John c. Fremont; and
if Pennsylvania had voted for him, he would have
lacked but eight votes of an election by the people
And if, in addition, Illinois, which has gone for Mr..
Buchanan by but 1000 majority, had voted for him,
he would have been this day the President elect of
the United States! What an escape from the hor-
rors of disunion and civil strife!
1t may be well here to explain the fusion ticket
of Pennsylvania. There Electoral ticket,
composed of the same men, all understood to be at
heart for Fremont. The plan was to print two sets
of this ticket, one headed Mllard Fillmore, and the
other John G. Fremont-that is, the same names of
Electors, but thus differently headed; and the Fill
more men to vote those headed with Fillmore,
and the Fremont men those headed with Fremont.
After the votes were counted, the understanding
was that the Electors were to cast their votes for
Fillmore and Fremont in proportion to the popular
vote-that is if there should be one-fourth of the
Fillmore tickets, and three-fourths of the Fremont
Mr. Fillmore was to have seven and Mr.. Fremont
twenty Electoral votes. That the bargain which
Mr. Rayner and his treacherous associates, Mllward
and Reed, had made with the Fremont leaders; and
hence Mr.. Rayner said in his speech, 81 woule vote
ticket which had not the name of MIllard Fillmore
at its head, and would advise no Fillmore man to
vote ticket with Fremonts name on it but would
vote for that ticket which would make my voice tell
at the polls"
more journal-thus characterized this fusion ticket
in its issue Of November 4th:
"How can any true unpurehasa6s American, then
be made the dupe of such an evident fraud as the
bogus Union Electoral ticket the real object of which
is to get enough votes for Fremont, to elect him
President? No American vote that ticket with
out violating his sworn obligations to prescribe
tionalsm in every form, and under every disguise
that it may present itself. No can be a true
friend Of tho Unia", and support TIC ct sehich pro-
poses to gice the geographical candidate, John c.
Fremont. share Of tho Electoral cote Of Pennsy-
loania Place the Black Republicans at the head of
the Federal Government, and the worst apprehen-
sions of Washington, to the formation and ten
denotes of geographical parties will be realized
bitter sectional conflict between the North and South
will follow to end in anarchy, civil war, and dis
union.
He who votes the Bogus Union Electoral ticket,
cotes aoih the ongrel horde Of AboLitionists dis.
unionists, and sectionalists that rally around it,"
90 The mercenary, fase.heartcd tools of Black Re-
publicanism. who are secretly conspiring the des-
the mongrel electoral ticket. The success Of that
ticket will be the death blow of Amricanism for
the darling aim of its projectors is the utter prosra
ton of the American organization, that of its
ranks an exclusively Northern Anti-savery party,
of the Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips order, may
be formed Already, the traitors to the American
cause avow that unless the Dis union Electoral ticket
succeeds, there is an end of Americanism They
dare threaten the patriotic cohorts that rally under
the standard of Fillmore and the Union, with SUBJ
lection to the traitorous designs of Black Republic
cansm Hurl back the menace in their teeth. Let
our reply be. 1--WE hold no communion with trail
tors. If unprinciped men, in the name of Amer-
cans, sell their faith and their country for filthy
lucre, they shall not sell u.s. Come what may, We
will stand by the Union and the champion Of the
Union, and vote for the pure, un;nixed Fillmore
ticket and that alone" No truce soith traitors Sec
tienalists, and A6olitiensts. No fusion with the
Woolly Horse!"
Nobly, gloriously spoken! The same paper, the
Philadelphia News of the 18th instant contains the
correspondence between Mr.. Rayner and the Mill
ward Chime who offered him a nnh]ic dinner inst