Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-15

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disabuse the minds of friends this subject will say
that ACCEPTED the appointment, because understood
from Mr. Rayner in the course of interview which he
had with straightout friends of Fillmore and Donel
son. during the afternoon that in his speech
to eOnfne himself strictly to the discussion of American
principles, and not to aude to differences in our city, ex
ceptng to correct unfair report his speech Of Friday
Tmes Hsd Mr. mao sh n the
that he intended to favor the socaled Union Ticket had
that ne came to Philadelphia at the invitation Of
fremont leaders, which am assured he did my
humble name would never have been connected with the
meeting in question.
J. NJ CHURCH.
PHILADELPHIA, November Sd, 1885,
Philadelphia Mea0s-Fl7mos Paper.
The Observer alludes to the ownership Of slaves,
and states that Mr. Rayner is the owner of at least
ten times many slaves as all the Democratic Edi.
tors in the State "-and that paper is also pleased
to charge "audacty 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
know, is one strong bond of attachment to ones
country yet it by means follows that because
owns one hundred slaves he is more devoted to
the Constitutional rights of the South than B, who
owns but four or five, G, who owns none. Patri.
otism is not mercenary feeling. The owner 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-they are his all, and, next to
his land and his own industry, they his only re-
lance for support for his family and for the educa-
ton of his children. Who will dare to underrate
the patriotism of such a manor who will dare
assert, that a general thing the non slavehol-
ders of North Carolina not true the Constitu-
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
repudiate all such tests as these. They arc unwor-
thy of the press of Southern Sate-thcy are in
furious to our interests people, and libel on
the South. We judge of mans patriotism by his
acords and his acts not stopping to consider whether
he be rich poor-a stakeholder non-slaveholder
Who fought the battles of the Revolution? Who
stood at Guilford Court House, at the Cowpens, at
King Mountain, for the rights of North Carolina,
and died to protect them? Non-saveholders we'll
as Shareholders. Those men who charged at Eutaw,
more than hafnaked, their feet blstered by long
marches, and their bare shoulders worn by the KNAPP
sacl; and musket-how many slaves did they own,
Mr.. Hale? Who fought our battles in Mexico p
Not your owners of one or two hundred slaves
Some Of them, We confess, were officers but those
Southern men 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, were the owners of
but few saves-many of them owned none yet they
the sons, the brothers, the friends of slavehol
ders, and they loved their country, and fought for
it gloriously and we'll.
We happen to own six or seven slaves, the most
of whom we have earned by hard labor. We think
as much of them as the owner of a hundred can
think of his; yet feel quite that we
just as much devoted to the rights of the South
der common Constitution and to the honor Of
North. Carolina, before acquired this species of
property as we are now.
Away with this odous and injurious distinction
between Southern men away with it We are
one people. Together we must defend rights
and 90 forward in the of prosperity and glory
which is set before us or together shall go down
under the aggressions, the nvasions, the contume-
lies the scorn, and the bitter hate of abolition
hordes.
The Observer speaks of "audacity and knavery."
Such epthets-the offspring of passion or Of per-
verted feeling-have terrors for us. We shall
not characterize them they deserve, unless re-
peated by the Observer. The Senior Editor of that
journal knows that 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 or to Ours to engage in bitter
| newspaper quarrel. {" A soft answer turneth away
wrath but gri evous words stir up anger" We can
be quite as emphatic, qaite severe, quite as bitter
as he can but really, we prefer to avoid it.