Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-12-03
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RALEIGH. SATURDAY. NOV. %. 1856.
The Charleston Mercury--' Hollow RejOicings.
L The Charleston Mercury of late date SAYS -

The Charleston Mercury--s Hollow Rejoicings.'
I The Charleston Mercury of late date says y
"HoLLow RrJoc1Nes.-Among the Democratic presses
of the South who have assumed the result of The late Pres
eutal election to be great and triumph of Const
tuiona principles, sorry to number the Raleigh a.
\C2 Standard II
We have objection to the expression of Abstraction at
the election of Mr. Buchanan. We rejoice in it ourselves
We are glad the high hnors the Conederacy
frred upon capable of wearing them with credit
to the country. We reoced to eminent and long
distinguished by popular approval We have done
ea@s to- the m The " We have doubt that
he Will do his utmost during his administration suppress
the dangerous questions that have gren such acrimon
Gus character this election We have doubt thah
saTe wf qe he @, Constio, @ and thereby the Unon ~
But when the Raleigh Standard assumes that 1t is the
devotion the Constitution has put him in position to
attempt these objecshas in short put him in the position
as what the results Of the election show coneusivelv
be untrue And we surprised that that JOURNAL in
the nt0xicaon of success, should shut its eyes the
Pyrrhc character of this vctury-One such and
are 1t is the South that has saved the Democratic par
N and not the party that has thrown its shield
\ over the South
In the Standards article, quoted by the Mercury,
we referred to those free States which had stood by
the South and thus for the present. saved the Union
and we added
but unknown dangers have been passed. and the
Union for tile present at least is safe. Our only hope for
future in the past in the national Democratic par
y If it should he destroyed, or even defeated in con-
test with the hosts of darkness-the black Repubcanswe
may bid farewell to peace to safety to the Constitution it
self "LEr Us THANK GoD He Re-
PUBLIC
Unquestonably, the people of the South aided
by portion of the people of the non -saveholding
States have for the present saved the Union; and
unquestonably, in our opinion, this has been
complished by and through the national Demo-
cratic party" That organizaton-the only national
and Constitutional organization in the country-was
the rallying point of Constitutional citizens in all
sections. If no such party had been in existence,
we should have been even now amid the unknown
perls of dissolution. 1t is no sufficient answer to
our view of the matter to state that the South with
the exception of one State was a unit in the late
election for the South is in minority in the Elec-
tora Colleges and could not, therefore, have achiev-
ed this result. 1t was portion of the patriotic and
Constitutional North, standing by the South that
saved the Union" for the present. at least we
wish we could say forever. We do not think, with
the Mercury, nlat Southern rejocings this re-
suit are I" hollow " empty. Nor do we concur
with Mr.. Rhett, of .he Senators from South
Carolina in the opinion that all true craftsmanship
in the South consists i'll forming combinations, and
shaping events, so to bring about speedily pos.
sible a dissolution of the present Union and Sou
thern Confederacy." True craftsmanship consists
in maintaining the federal Constitution intact, and
in perpetuatng the existing Union, according to that
Constitution. All ask is, that the views on the
question of slavery in all its aspects announced by
the Cincinnati Convention, and held by Mr.. Buch-
anan, shall be faithfully carried out. Upon this
common ground, Constitutional men in all sections
can safely stand and thus only can the Union be
perpetuated.
Our opinions, and, we believe, those of the
people of North Carolina, are we'll expressed in
the late annual message of his Excellency Gov
Bragg that we copy from that document, in lieu OF
further remarks of own, as follows:
Before touching upon matters concerning especial
ly State and polity, allow to congratulate you
upon the happy termination of the exciting poll c con
first time in our history we have seen an attempt seriously
made BY one section or more properly Speakns by po
departments of the general government, with the deern
nation expressed administer that strictly
sectional party grounds. 1t virtually al attempt
degrade one section and to endanger its institutions and to
aeny to 1T those equal rights and privileges to which all
he States in the Union are entitled and which hitherto
True is that all this was sought to be done accord ng
the forms of the constitution But the attempt
The less atrocous for that
The general government intended by its trainers to
administered Will only be felt in the most benefcent man
ner But whenever it is seized upon under the forms
the constitution by section of the countr, and
Trested and perverted from its legitimate purposes as
become instrument of oppression degradation to the
other he knows very little of the Southern people who be
eves that they would submit tamely and ignonnousy tc
such government and to such Union however one
different kind may be, and trust and believe is tt
AL Whatever may have been said to the contrary, we
e south have not sought to control the affairs of the
uy OF Its government, to advance peculiar
views and interests at the expense Of other section
All we have asked for is to be protected the rights
ed to us by the constitution be let alone in their
yment and to be treated equals among the States
~ The common Territories of the Union More than thi
We have not sought to obtain Less if true to ourselves
We will never submit to take.
Onited as we have been, mainly in the late contest
nave nothing to fear For time madness and fanaticsn
ued the day and the wises the best and most nafrot
rI .he land were filled with fear and msgvng But tn
nt shows that We have as friends large and Influential
OF patriotic conservative, national men at the North
, o, IN Crisis like the have passed. are ready a
very hazard to stand by the Union and the rights of eve
y section The task set before them regret to saw wa
lv not easy Of accomplishment But we'll and successful
b e thsy performed it, and entitled themselves to tn
Som ana paudts of all and the eternal gratitude of tn
be- fof 'he present the contest is ended perhaps
that e"eo In short time. Let us hope otherwise an
with Peace M order and good feeling may return and abid
VI the foremost statesmen of the land, a man EN-