Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-23
For the Standard.
Indianapolis, Ind, July 80, Is

Indianapolis, lnO, July oU, 1000.
MEssRs. EDITORS Il have concluded to address
you upon the subject Of politics, hoping what may
say will he interesting to you and your MANY read
ers in my native State.
1t is important for the people of the South to
know that MIR. Fillmore has been repudiated in the
North, and that abotionism has absorbed and swal-
lowed up nearly all the Know Nothings of the free
States. The great contest, SD far as the North is
concerned is to be between the national Democracy
and the old line Wings OH the hand and the
black Republicans the other. Henceforth the
North is to be Democratic or abolition. If the
tonal men of the North fail in this contest and FIRE.
mont is elected President, we may bid farewell to
the rights Of the people of the South and the Union
The great battle for State equality the Constitution
and the Unon is not to be fought in the South but
in the North. Yes, it is to be fought in the North
between the national Democracy the one hand,
and wild fanatical aboltionsn on the other. If the
black Republicans, from motives of sectional hatred,
succeed in electing Mr. Fremont, the South may pre-
pare for the worst yea, let her prepare to submit
or for separation and for war. L aarmst,
but allow ME to express the opinion that in my judi &
ment the seeds of hatred and of discerd are now
being sown in the American garden, which will,
sooner or later be the of destroying our glo-
rious and happy Union.
1t is an undcnable fact that there exists at this
time, as deep seated hatred in the minds of nearly
one half of the people of the North against the
South and her institutions, there ever existed at
power; and such being the case l can't see how so
much pcnt up malice, (Which is increasing every
day. is to escape be allayed without eruptions
and outbreaks of the most fearful character. 1t
seems that the Constitution, which guarantees equal
rights and privileges to the citizens of all parts of
the Union, is to be longer regarded but is to be
trampled under foot under the plea of extending
the borders Of freedom and staying "Southern
aggressions" Strange as it may appear, still it is
none the less true that large portion of the Nor
thern people, especially the abotionists, have per
shaded themselves into the belief that the Consttu-
ton made expressly and solely for the purpose
of extending the borders of freedom and for pro-
tecting the rights and interests of free Northern
men alone-hence they contend that "freedom is
national and slavery is sectional that all the ter
ritories belong to the people of the North.
If such men can only get control of the federal
government their first act, in all probability, would
be to pass law declaring in substance-First, That
all the national territories belong to the saints
Secondly, that they Ghe majority were the saints.
Thirdly, that there were no saints South of Mason
and Dixon's line Such in brief would be the ex-
tent of their charity.
1t may be well here to state that there are two
kinds of abotionists. First, there are the Greeley
and Seward Enthusiastically, the Know Moth
ing, sectional aboitionsts The first of these loves
negroes and believes in the unity and equality of the
human race. Such men are hard to please and are
such as would use the flag of the Union for wind
Ing Sneet LOT delunct negro. Inc latter are What
may be called Know Nothing abolitionsts who des-
pise negroes, foreigners and the South and her in
situations with most bitter and deadly Eatred.-
They are the most dangerous and fendish of all
men, and are, in my judgment, the very men tn at
will eventually destroy the Union. They envy and
hate the South from sectional and party prejudices
and because the Southern people are happy and
prosperous. Yes, they envy and hate the Southern
people from no better motives than those which
prompt beggars to hate the opuent. These two
kinds of abolitionists, although acting together,
agree only in three things 1st They agree in their
hatred to the Democracy--they call the Democratic
party the slave party, and say that Mr. Buchanan is
in favor of extending slavery, &c) End, They agree
and are alike as to their hatred of slavery and iea
ousy of the South. Sd, They agree as to their love
for Office which is very great.
There is nothing in natne-principles and justice
are everything. As an old Clay Wing, it does my
very soul good to see the unHnching Democracy of
the North. in the hours of the country's danger,
possessing the moral power and courage to stand up
boldly and fight for the Constitution, for equal rights
for truth and justice against the attacks of graceless
and powerful guilt.
Let not the South be deceived. 1t is time for the
Southern people to know the important fact that