Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-02

IHE PETERSBURG NrELLIeENcER AND Mr. KERR
The Petersburg Intelgencer seer,s to be possess
ed with spirit Of criticism and fanlt.finding in
relation to the political position and course of the
Hon. John Kerr. That paper cannot perceive how
Mr.. Kerr can still be Whig and on this head it
asks
" Now, what did he mean by Funning as Whig1
Certainly as of the Wing party, and not
only of the Wing party of his own District, but of
the United States, and this too after having
tanned that the Northern Whigs-the most numer-
GUS portion Of the Wing party Of the Union and
without whom no great end could be attained, were
untrustworthy on the slavery issue!'
1t certainly does not follow, because Southern
man is Wing the old issues, that he is United
States Whig-that is, Wing affiliated with the
abolition Wings of the free States If such were
the case, then the Intelgencer would be inst where
it says Mr.. Kerr is 4; but that paper is Southern,
constitutional paper as Mr.. Kerr is Southern con-
stitutiondt man; and it has, therefore, part nor
lot in the abolition movements of the Wings or black
Republicans of the free States. Divest the Editor
of the Intelligencer of his Know Nothing clothes,
and is he not Wing on the old issues? But these
issues are obsolete-no one now urges repeal of
the independent treasury system, the establishment
OF
law. Besides, Mr. Kerr, in common with the great
mass of the Southern people, regards the question
of slavery paramount to all mere party issues
party considerations and believing the Democratic
party of the country to be sound this question,
and the old Wing party North. and the X. N. party
national party, to be unsound upon it, he is
acting for the present with the former and he will
no doubt continue to do SO, inasmuch as it is not
probable, either that the old issues referred to will
be revived, Or that the Northern Wings the X.
Ms, national party will take better soundcr
position than they now occupy on the slavery ques-
ton. Mr.. Kerr might have been reelected to Con-
gross from the Guilford District and he would have
been, even if he had but sympathiscd with the Know
Nothings. and had labnred to conceal, as others
among us have dom, the abolition sentiments and
tendencies of the Order in the free States; but he
acted differently, and, think, honestly, and
lost thereby high place in the councils of the coun
try. 1.-The tree is known By its fruits and this
single movement Of his stamps him as fearless pat
riotic, honest man.
But aside from all this, with what sort of consis
tency the Editor of tho ntcgcnccr lecture 9TH
subject like thisy Did not the Intcgencer,
bat short time before the assembling of the last
Wing National Convention, express itself as deeply
dissatisfied with Gen. SCOTS position and ound-
gs:-tiid not that paper talk va!iantly for South
rights, and against Seward and declare it would
not support Gen. Scott and did it not character
ize Gen. $. the Seward candidate" and AFTER
ssards support him' The Editor TALKED like Sou
thcrn man, but he acted with these same Northern
Wings whom he then denounced, and still denoun-
Mr.. Kerr met the crisis bollly-took his stand,
and maintains it the Editor of the lntelligencer also
met it boldly, took his stand and then reiterated,
first into the Scott ranks and finally, by the light
Of dark lantern, into the Know Nothing culvert